Melissa Ulto is an interdisciplinary artist who utilizes modern and
traditional mediums to create her works. Born in Los Angeles, she grew up in various cities and towns in Northern Ontario. Attending college briefly, Melissa moved to New York in 1991. She began integrating her computer skills with her creative skills and launched her first online exhibit in 1994, which often involved digital images, programming, video, paintings, photography and assemblage. Melissa found the web to be ideal in creating a time/space that engages the audience in both moving and still imagery presentations.

Melissa currently resides in New York, working professionally as a digital video specialist, filmmaker, VJ and artist, and continues to pursue her work with her online exhibit, ...unMade Movie... (http://unmade.thecataract.com), as well as her arts and experimental sites, http://www.thecataract.com and http://www.multo.com. She recently showed her work in New York, Chicago Toronto and Russia. Her work has gained international attention, and is featured on many online galleries, including Net_Working (University of the West of England), Net4Image, Loop Gallery, PODGallery and Erozuna, as well
as showing at several film festivals around the country. Her recent body of work, Women I Have Known, was shown at AugustArt 2002, as well as featured at the Woodhull Institute’s Shining Star Showcase – Winter 2003. Her work with Emerging Art’s Love Art War Show, (Feb ’03), featured assemblage pieces and small intense oil paintings on the theme.

Melissa performs as “VJ miixxy” at clubs, events and festivals in New York and across the country. She performed at Burning Man 2003, projecting 360 degrees around a geodesic dome. Other recent events include performances as part of Eye Wash, F:T:H and at various venues around the country. Melissa has also engineered events like the New York City Burning Man Decompression, for sound, lighting and video – installation and performance. Samples of her work and booking information are located on her VJ site, http://www.miixxy.com.
Melissa is also a curator, co-founding the SinCine Erotic Film Fest, and
acted as the curator of AugustArt 2002 Moving Image Genre. Melissa’s work is currently featured in "Women by Women" (Prestel, 2003), a book of women photographers on erotic themes.