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.”
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Ernst Mach in Paul Virillio’s Vision Machine
Breaking News:::
5 November: Leah's residency work to be on ABC's New Inventors, 8pm.
5 November: Leah interviewed on ABC Radio National By Design. Listen here
6 November: Liminal exhibition opens - solo show of Leah's residency work. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Opening Thursday 6th + running until 22nd November.
19 November 2008: in.tangible.scape.s exhibition, Belgium. Heiss will be travelling to Belgium to exhibit her work in the in.tangible.scape.s exhibition and present her research at the launch of the in.tangible.scape.s book.
Recent Developments:::
October 2008: Heiss to present paper Therapeutic Collaborations at the ArtsHealth symposium, Newcastle University.
27 August 2008: Projects featured in Sydney Morning Herald - read article here
August 2008: Heiss received $10,000 Australia Council Visual Arts New Work Grant for Material Poetic project.
