Department of Modern Culture and Media

Maralie Armstrong-Rial is a Brooklyn based intermedia artist working primarily in performance, sound, and video. Her/their work practices the refraction of self through various media as a corollary to the refraction of light/sound through water/glass. She performs and records solo as VALISE, and collaboratively as Humanbeast with Eli V Manuscript.

Maralie holds a BFA in Sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Digital + Media from RISD. As an educator, Maralie is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Modern Culture and Media Department, Critic in Digital + Media and Lecturer in the Film/Animation/Video Department at Rhode Island School of Design.