Martine Neddam is a French artist living in Amsterdam. Her work of art uses language as raw material: speech acts, modes of address, texts in the public space are embodied in objects, sculptures, installations and large scale public commissions. Since 1996 she created virtual characters on internet who lead an autonomous life: Mouchette, a young girl of 13, David Still who offers the use his identity to the visitors, XiaoQian, a Chinese artist who create virtual characters. She is also visiting professor in UQAM Montreal at the Department of Visual Arts, and professor in the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
