Mike Leggett has been working across the institutions of art, education, cinema and television with media since the early-70s. He writes and speaks primarily about productions and exhibitions that extend the potential of the newer media technologies, has developed an interactive multimedia prototype on landscape and identity for the Australian Film Commission and is currently developing from the prototype, a proximity interactive installation Ð watch this space for more on thatÉÉ.
Currently he is the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award and works within the PhD program of the Creativity &Cognition Studio in the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney.
He has curated exhibitions of interactive multimedia for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (Burning the Interface<International ArtistsÕ CD-ROM> also seen in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne); the 1996 Brisbane International Film Festival; the 5th International Documentary Conference, Brisbane; and Videotage Festival of Video Art, Hong Kong.
Mike Leggett writes and lectures about media art, contributing to journals (Leonardo; Continuum) , magazines (World Art), online Ôzines (FineArt Forum), and is a regular correspondent for the Australian contemporary arts newspaper RealTime. Until recently he taught interactive multimedia subjects at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Enmore TAFE and recently he has been guest speaker and lecturer at College of the Arts, University of Sydney; University of Western Sydney Nepean; Key Centre for Cultural Policy Research, Griffith University; University of Technology, Sydney. He has a Master of Fine Art (1st Class Hons) from the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales.
He has undertaken consultations for the Australia Council, the National Association for the Visual Arts and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Cinemedia, Melbourne.
He has film and video work in archives and collections in Europe, Australia, North and South America and has practised professionally as an artist, curator, writer, director, producer, editor, photographer, teacher, manager, administrator and computer consultant. He was a founding member of the London Film-makers Cooperative workshop and the Independent Film-makers Association (UK) and was an active member of the British film and television union (ACTT), and until recently was on the Board of dLux Media Arts (Sydney).
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