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 nanotechnologists to develop projects which explore the emotional aspects of therapeutic technologies. I also work hands on with nano-engineered materials in my teaching and creative arts practice.

“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:::

November 2009: Drift (2009) featured in
Super Human exhibition at RMIT Gallery

November 2009: Leah finalist in RMIT International Stars of the Media Awards

August 2009: Nano projects exhibited in
Showing Off, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW

August 2009: Leah interviewed on Radio Australia 'Innovations'. Transcript here

July 2009: 'Luminesce' in
Convergence exhibition, State of Design, Melbourne

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

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

March 2009:
Levitas exhibition at fortyfive downstairs

November: "i love my device" presentation at AusMedTech


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

November: Liminal exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

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

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

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

 
         
Diabetes Arsenic Polarise Ether Beat Inner