Leah Heiss - Elastic Field

Elastic Field is a body of work that experiments with the expansion of traditional notions of space through the development of electronically enhanced garments and artefacts.

My practice operates at the nexus between electronics, design and spatial investigation - utilising technologies to create potent human scale projects. I am currently collaborating with Nanotechnology Victoria to develop jewellery which seeks to explore the emotional aspect of therapeutic technologies.

“The boundaries between things are disappearing, the subject and the
world are no longer separate, time seems to stand still.”

- Ernst Mach in Paul Virillio’s Vision Machine


Breaking News:::

9 May 2009: Leah presenting at Design Island Forum, Hobart, Tasmania

7 May 2009: Nano projects featured in ABC US article. Read here

11 March 2009: Levitas exhibition at fortyfive downstairs

5 November: "i love my device" presentation at AusMedTech

21 November 2008: in.tangible.scape.s presentation, exhibition + book launch, Belgium.

6-22 November: Liminal exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

5 November: Leah's residency work to be on ABC's New Inventors. Watch here

5 November: Leah interviewed on ABC Radio National By Design. Listen here

27 August 2008: Projects featured in Sydney Morning Herald - read article here

August 2008: $10,000 Australia Council Visual Arts New Work Grant for Material Poetic


Selected Projects