Leon Cmielewski
Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:
- University of Western Sydney, School of Communication Arts, Lecturer
Bio:
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
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.
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.
Current Location:
- Sydney, Australia
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Art Events:
User Unfriendly Interface
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Interactive Monitor-Based]
[ISEA95]
Dream Kitchen
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Interactive Monitor-Based]
[ISEA2000]
Floating Territories
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Games]
[ISEA2004]
incompatible elements: version 02
Categories: [Literature and Poetry] [Video Art]
[ISEA2013]
Dancing with Drones
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Video/Animation Installation]
[ISEA2015]
Presentations:
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Title:
Engagement and contemplation: communicating data in media art installations
Symposium:-
ISEA2009
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Title: Incompatible Elements
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ISEA2011
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Title: Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere
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ISEA2013
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Title: The Verdant Shed and Cloud Mapping
Symposium:-
ISEA2013
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Title: The Future Is Unmanned
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ISEA2015
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