Leon Cmielewski
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ISEA2017
Leon Cmielewski is an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Humanities and Communications Arts at Western Sydney University, Australia.
ISEA2015
Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski are Australian artists who produce media art installations situated at the juncture of cinema, mapping and sublime landscape. Their project Incompatible Elements, focusing on landscapes in crisis has been shown in Australia, USA, Taiwan, Korea, NZ, and the Maldives Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2013. In their current work they use a drone to record a dancer’s site-responsive performances in several locations. The result is a video artwork that encourages contemplation about our relationship to nature and technology. Cmielewski is a Senior lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.
ISEA2013
Leon Cmielewski (University of Western Sydney, AU) & Josephine Starrs are Australian artists whose long term collaboration produces hybrid media art installations that often use play as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary life. Their work is situated at the juncture of cinema, information visualisation, and data mapping, playing off the tensions between the large and small screen, and between information and sublime landscape.
ISEA2011
Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs are Australian artists whose video and new media works have been shown extensively in Australia and internationally. They have created numerous projects including Seeker an installation that explores issues of migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. Seeker won an Award of Distinction in Interactive Art from the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria. Cmielewski and Starrs have been invited to participate in several international residency programs including Banff, Canada 1998, Sarai, New Delhi, India, 2006 and Future Lab, Linz, Austria, 2009. Cmielewski lectures at the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Starrs is a Senior Lecturer and Chair of Film & Digital Art at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
ISEA2009
Leon Cmielewski, Lecturer, School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia
ISEA2004
Leon Cmielewski (AU) and Josephine Starrs (AU) have produced a range of video and media art projects which have been widely exhibited. Cmielewski lectures at the College of Communication, Design and Media, University of Western Sydney.
ISEA1995
Leon Cmielewski has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Animation at the Victorian College of the Arts and a Certificate in Graphic Design. He has been active as a graphic designer in several events in Australia and has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. His personal work has been shown recently at the Experimental Art Foundation, the OZCHI Conference and the Underdale Art Museum.
