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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Mike Leggett
| Mike Leggett Email: legart@ozemail.com.au |
Mike Leggett has been working across the institutions of art, education, cinema and television with media since the early '70s. Currently his practice-based research explores the precept of visual mnemonics in the development of tools for the storage and retrieval of audio-visual digital media, within the PhD program of the Creativity & Cognition Studio in the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney.
Initial outcomes include the collaborative preparation of software tools intended for the creative management of video files by specific communities of users. Several tools were seeded to preliminarily evaluate five models, using schemas of gesture navigation and non-text-based relational linking in the information space of the video file database. The outcome was a preliminary understanding, based on practice, of a viable meta-design method for sharing expert knowledge using iterative methods, to be applied in the development of similar tools for a video KMS in other domains and contexts. He has curated exhibitions of interactive multimedia for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (Burning the Interface, Mike Leggett writes and lectures about media art, contributing to journals (Leonardo; Continuum), magazines (World Art), and online zines (FineArt Forum), and is a regular correspondent for the Australian contemporary arts newspaper RealTime. He has taught interactive multimedia 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 film and video artwork 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 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 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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