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  • Tags: Leon Cmielewski

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Artist StatementUser Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.Source of Artist Statement

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Artist StatementThe Paranoid Poetry Generator was a net.art piece which collected people's paranoid episodes and generated haiku-like poems from them.Source of Artist Statement

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Artist StatementIn the Fuzzy Love Dating Database people voluntarily photograph themselves and answer a series of questions as a kind of entry fee allowing access to the database of previous respondents, however access is limited to searching through…

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Bio Tek Kitchen takes the form of a first person role playing game, deploying both the pixelated aesthetics and simple but multiple narrative outcomes of early video games. The work playfully engages with many of the tropes of bio-art at the time,…

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A playful mixed media interactive installation that showcased biometric technologies, such as iris, palm and voice scanners, image capture and cumulative databases to engage visitors with everyday biometric technologies and the practices of biometric…

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Floating Territories uses both the site (non)specificity of a ferry in Baltic Ocean (the site of ISEA 2004 for which the work was devised) and video-gaming to explore issues around real and 'virtual' territories. Presented as a game, players were…

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Artist StatementThe Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. Seeker's interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family…

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Artist StatementA phone number is displayed on a large screen in a public space along with the instruction 'sms your family origins' Participants sms their own and their parents places of birth to this number and linked curved vectors are added to a…

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Artist StatementThis project will use the Rivercat Ferry Service as a moving platform to deliver a location sensitive audio and visual exploration of the river, it's people and their many stories The Parramatta River is also a living narrative, with…

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Artist StatementThis video by Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski embeds the words 'a living body' into an image of the Coorong, South Australia. This is how Tom Trevorrow, a Ngarrindjeri elder and custodian described the Coorong wetlands.Source…

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Artist StatementIncompatible Elements is an ongoing project that evolved during an artist residency at Performance Space, Carriageworks. The media art installation explores ways of representing the relationship between nature and culture, embedding…