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| Dr Donna Leishman | ||||
| Design-as-method, Interaction, Narrative, Netart, Folklore | ||||
| My work is a combination of critical writing and practice-led research in digital art with a particular interest in the intersection of narrative with internet based interactivity. Themes in the research include developing and exploring the role of the participant in these exchanges, developing a canon of practice that questions standard paradigms of behaviour. Others are: the avant-garde nature of the Net practice and how this holds forth in the ever-increasing commercialisation of the internet. What stories are being told and what possibilities digital literature offers us culturally; reframing history, using folkloric traditions, global and meta archetypes. My doctoral thesis (2004) explores and illustrates the particular resonance found when teaming this folkloric content with contemporary technologies. | ||||
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| Current Academic Post | ||||
| Course Leader BA (Hons) Illustration, PhD and Masters supervision at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee. | ||||
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| Activites | ||||
| Upcoming 2010. Co-Chair, 'Transdisciplinarity' strand at Digital Art Weeks 2010 Symposium in Xian. http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/ | ||||
| (Pending) 2009 By Invitation. ETC press to publish Doctoral Thesis:'Creating Screen-Based Multiple State Environments: Investigating Systems of Confutation'. ETC is a publishing imprint affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and in partnership with Lulu.com. http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress | ||||
| Aug 2009. Submission of AHRC grant proposal 'Gesture based dual interaction for Narrative in digital media'. | ||||
| May 2009. Invited ‘expert reader’ for Neil McLeod’s (Falmouth MA Authorial Pracice) forthcoming practice-led PhD submission'Narrative in the Margins'. Others in the pre viva thesis feedback group are Russell Mills / RCA, Dave Davis /Kingston and Johanna Drucker / Stanford. | ||||
| March 2009. By Invitation. Speaker on 'Interaction and Narrative'. First 2 day symposium in a 2 year series, in an AHRC funded Collaborative Research Training project on research development, digital media art and curating. This training initiative is a collaboration between CRUMB University of Sunderland and CultureLab Newcastle University. | ||||
| Feb 2009. By Invitation from author NormaVToraya. Contribution'Not Love Birds', 3 images, I A4 page, 500 words. Paper Puppet Palooza Publication by Quarry Books. ISBN 9781592534845 | ||||
| Nov 2008. Invited Speaker: 'Dissonance in Multi-Semiotic Landscapes' Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies and Digital Culture Research Group at The University of Bergen. Not Published. http://huminf.uib.no | ||||
| Nov 2008. Invited Guest Blogger. CultureNet, Capilanou University British Columbia, Canada | ||||
| (Pending) Submitted August 2008. Contemplating Flight. Submitted for the Electronic Literature Organization's Volume 2 Cd-Rom & Online Anthology. | ||||
| 2008. Invited Speaker. English Literature Dr Andrew Roberts (Digital Poetry module), University of Dundee | ||||
| 2008. Invited Speaker and Participant at Interactions Symposium (DJCAD & Computing University of Dundee), Dundee Contemporary Arts. | ||||
| Aug - Sept 2008. ALT-W Retrospective, Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw (Installation), CCA Glasgow. Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture, presented a selection of work from Scottish based artists whose practice has been supported by the Alt-w Fund. These works have been brought together for the first time in an exhibition curated by New Media Scotland in collaboration with CCA. | ||||
| May 2008. Contemplating Flight Launch, Media Arts Show, Visionary Landscapes, Electronic Literature Organisation, Vancouver USA. | ||||
| Jan 2008. The Fairy Tale of the Wise Old Man by Eugen Lewin Dorsch (1923) for a Jack Zipes collection of fairytales from the Weimar Republic, edition by Caseroom Press | ||||
| May - Aug 2007. Avis Ana Six Cities Design Festival Keynote exhibition, by invitation longlist of 104 to 34. The Lighthouse, 70 Mitchell Street, Glasgow Music by Daniel Padden | ||||
| Dec 2007. Matryoshka: Revisiting Rosebud Series nesting dolls. Invited group-show with David Sherry, Kate Davis, Swedish Design collective DEFRYA, and the Belfast based product designer Johanna Van Daalen.The Lighthouse, 70 Mitchell Street, Glasgow | ||||
| Dec 2005. Commissioned digital Illustration ZOOROOM - A room with a zoo. Curated by the Randy Knott of the IAMSTATIC collective. The exhibition showcases the print work of over 40 international designers and artists thematically linked around entrapment and extinction. Resistor Gallery, 284 College St. W2nd PL, Toronto | ||||
| Feb
- Mar 2005. Deviant:
The Possession of Christian Shaw, Scottish Show Comes Home, group show, The
Lighthouse, 70 Mitchell Street, Glasgow.
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| Oct - Nov 2004. 6amhoover.com
solo installation of online artworks, public launch of Deviant:
The Possession of Christian Shaw
at The
Lighthouse, Glasgow
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| April - Sept
2004. The
Bloody Chamber & Deviant:
The Possession of Christian Shaw (Work
In Progress) The Scottish Show supported by The Lighthouse & the
Scottish Executive, DesignersBlock , New Oxford Street London, also ,
Studio Zeta, Via Friuli, Milan.
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| May 2003. The Bloody Chamber PlayEngines: streaming worlds, Digital Arts & Culture conference 2003, Melbourne, Australia. | ||||
| May 2003. The Bloody Chamber Finalist in The Barcelona OFFF Film Festival: Interactive | ||||
| Apr - May 2003. Boston Cyberarts Festival: Linear Quicktime Edit of he Bloody Chamber M.I.T Media Wall Boston MA , USA | ||||
| Sept 2002. Red
Riding Hood Re-Animate Web Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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| Apr - May 2002. Hypnogogia: Two Waking Dreams> Interactive Art by Crankbunny & 6amhoover. Glasgow Art Fair - CCA: Music by Stuart Braithwaite and John Cummings of Mogwai, | ||||
| Jun - Sept 2002. Red Riding Hood Web Racket, DeCordova Museum Boston, USA. | ||||
| Feb 2002. Red Riding HoodTechnopoetry Festival, Georgia Tech, USA. | ||||
| Oct 2001. Angel Interceptor Meta Metier UKINNY Festival, Parsons New School, New York, USA | ||||
| Apr - May 2001.Angel Interceptor Boston Cyberarts Low Bandwidth Festival, Boston MA, USA. | ||||
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| Papers /Publications / Conferences | ||||
| May 2008. The
Aesthetic of Dissonance in 6amhoover.com &
Artist Talk. Electronic Literature Organisation: Visionary Landscapes
Conference. Vancouver
USA.
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| 2008 forthcoming. Will
Internet Art Ever Grow Up? Essay
in Cross Media Communications: an Introduction to the Art of Creating
Integrated Media Experiences. New York: Delmar Cengage Learning.
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| April
2007. Harnessing
Disorder and Disaster in Reponsive Narrative Systems. EDA2007 7th
International Conference of The Design Academy, Izmir University
of Economics, Turkey. 3650 words paper [undelivered due to bereavement]
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| Spring 2007. TIRWEB Vol 9. No1 Multimodal writing. Online publication specialising in electronic literature and experimental writing. | ||||
| April 2005. What Is Interactivity? Flash In The Can [FITC] presentation / paper. Design and Technology conference, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| May 2004. Invited Panelist on Narrative FITC, Design and Technology conferemce, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| May 2004. On The Horizon Journal, special issue on Games, Simulations and In teractove Media in learning contexts. Paper: Visual literacy and learning: finding some online territories for the slow learner. ISSN: 1074-812 | ||||
| Oct 2004. Textual Play: Woman's Work In Literary Hypermedia. Presented by Strickland & Luesebrink, virtual content collaboration. Society for Literature & Social Science Annual meeting, Duke University, USAAug 2003Invited Chair, Readings session ACM Hypertext 03 conference. Curated artists: John Cayley. Simon Biggs, Talan Memmot, Noah Wardip-Fruin. Nottingham Trent University. | ||||
| Jan 2001. Presentation. Hypertext, Narrative, Flash, Time, Boston MA, USA. | ||||
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| Awards / Honours | ||||
| May 2008 | Media Arts Show ELO bursary. Visionary Landscapes, Vancouver, USA. | |||
| 2007. Avis
Ana Media Arts & Imaging
Research Development Fund, Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art & Design, Dundee University.
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| May 2003 | Streaming media section winner (The Bloody Chamber) Australian Centre for Moving Image Prize. PlayEndgines Exhibition. Acquisition to the public programs permanent collection. | |||
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| 2003 | Full Alt-W Scottish Arts Council Production Grant. | |||
| 2002 | New Project Bursary - CCA for Hypnogogia: Two Waking Dreams Scottish Arts Council. | |||
| 2000 - 4 | Full PhD Stipend The Glasgow School of Art. | |||
| 1998 | Group Exhibition Bursary, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Scottish Arts Council. Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh. |
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| Education | ||||
2001 – 2004
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Ph.D.,
Department of Visual Communication, The Glasgow Schol of Art Glasgow
University. Thesis: Creating
Screen-Based Multiple State Environments: Investigating Systems of
Confutation. [Director: Paul
Stickley MPhil RCA, Examiner
Dr Drew Davidson Carnegie Mellon]
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| 1998 (Sept) – 1999 | MDes,
Department of Visual Communication, The Glasgow Schol of Art Glasgow
University. Thesis: Does
and Click Interactivity Point Destroy The Story? [Supervisior:
Nicholas Oddy RCA]
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| 1994 (Sept) – 1998 | BDes
(Hons), Illustration & Printmaking, Duncan of Jordanstone College
of Art, Dundee / Dundee University. Thesis: Fitter
Happier More Productive: Primitivism and Graffiti [Supervisior: Richard
Carr]
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| Features | ||||
| CIAC's
Electronic Magazine,
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| Design Week, The Herald, Create Online, Computer Arts, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Desktop Magazine (AUS), The List. | ||||
| 'If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. Donna Leishman's sly, modern fairy tale is a delicious mix of deceptively simple animation with trippy interactive sequences. Like Red Riding Hood, take a little time and wonder off the story path, to discover the cunningly hidden pockets of interactivity which hold secret diaries and moody dream sequences. Leishman strikes just the right balance between plot and charming distractions, packing enough secret scenes under the skin of her story to make a repeat viewing a must.' By Kate Stables - The Guardian Online Mar 2001 | ||||
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