MIKE LEGGETT KEYWORDS: media art, media artists, CD-ROM art, interactive multimedia art, multimedia art, CD-ROM content, interactive CD-ROM, contemporary exhibition practice, contemporary art exhibition, exhibition curation, web art sites, hypermedia, cyber art, materialist film, structural film, structural/materialist film, structural/material film, artist film-makers, expanded cinema, film installation, video art, video artists, video installation, photographic installation, art photography, contemporary art photography, collecting photographs, contemporary art, systems art, systems music, contemporary art politics, contemporary art theory, contemporary art history, contemporary art writing, artists' organisations, arts advocacy, arts research, arts lobbying, arts administration, art education, arts funding, art distribution, art dissemination

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Recent Projects

• Principal artist and producer, funding development proposal to Australian Film Commission for ‘PathScape - pathways through an Australian Landscape’ for completion of SonteL project - see below.
  
• Recipient, curatorial research travel grant ($17,000), New Media Fund, Australia Council. Itinerary including - Invencao Sao Paulo (ISEA99) to present, ‘Media Art, Autonomy and Country’, joint paper with Ellen Pau (Hong Kong); Ars Electronica, Linz; Kiasma, Helsinki; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Smithsonian, Washington DC; ZKM, Karlsruhe and others in Philidelphia, New York City, London, Berlin and Amsterdam.
• Research, development and curation of Digital Hybrids for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney on the work of Natalie Jeremijenko and Perry Hoberman - exhibition to be mounted during 2001.
• Paper on curatorial research tour to NxT Symposium, Darwin.
• Panel member for Bug, multimedia exhibition at Melbourne Film Festival, with the assistance of travel grant from NSW Film & Television Office.
• Principal artist and producer, seed funding project investment by Australian Film Commission for ‘Strangers on the Land (SonteL)’, interactive multimedia CD-ROM prototype.
  
• Australia Council On-Line Forum; "Do We Produce too Many Arts Graduates"; consultant, moderator and evaluator.
• Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong: exhibition of contemporary artists' CD-ROM, as part of video screenings, conference and seminar, December 1997.
• The Cyber Frontier: the Digital Future: research and presentation for the 5th International Documentary Conference, Brisbane, November 1997.
•  BURNING the INTERFACE <International Artists' CD-ROM> exhibition curator for Tour to Ngapartji CMC, Adelaide (September '96); Experimenta Media Festival, Melbourne, (November '96); Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Western Australia (February '97); City Hall Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland (March/April '97). Tour sponsored by the Australian Film Commission.

•  Curator of BURNING the INTERFACE <International Artists' CD-ROM> : March - July 1996 exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. (Catalogue on-line). Exhibition sponsored by Apple Computers Australia. Project support by Australian Film Commission. Research support (1993-6) by College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
• VISNet proposal for National Association for the Visual Arts with Merlin Integrated Media to DoCA for Australian Cultural Network project.
• 'Figures on a Beach' CD-ROM production proposal to AFC
• Brisbane International Film Festival: 'From Silents to Cyber' : curator for CD-ROM and the Cinema exhibition 'Cynema - an Interactive Playground', at The Hub cybercafe, Brisbane, Queensland (August '96). 
• Chair of Panel session at the International Symposium for the Electronic Arts (ISEA96) in Rotterdam - 'Electronic Space & Public Space: Museums, Galleries and Digital Media'.
• Guest Lecturer at 'Art-Iculations' : Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of Western Australia : February 1997.
• Guest Lecturer at the Key Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Brisbane : 'Museums, Galleries and Digital Media' : March 1997 in modified form at the Design Centre, University of Western Sydney ; Fine Art Dept of the Northern Territory University; and (Cracking the) Binary Code' conference, Centre for Creative Photography at Interact97, Melbourne.
• Guest Lecturer at the Canberra School of Art Forum - 'Exhibiting Electronic Art', opening the exhibition, 'Digital Horizons' in the School of Art Gallery.
• Paper presented at ISEA95 in Montreal - 'CD-ROM: the 21st Century Bronze?'
• Researcher and Editor of 'Electronic Media: International Guide for Art Distribution', for the Australian Film Commission.
• 'Digital Media and the Visual Arts': discussion paper for National Association for the Visual Arts, January 1995.

Other information can be accessed from here:

• Research work at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Published articles bibliography 1989-1997
• Film, video and television 1970-86
• Screening venues of film and video work at exhibitions, cinemateques, festivals, colleges, universities and conferences throughout Europe, Australia and the Americas (1968-1985).