{"id":3123,"date":"2020-01-21T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metamorf.no\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T11:20:05","slug":"alexandra-murray-leslie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2020\/alexandra-murray-leslie\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Murray-Leslie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta.Morf X \u2013 Digital Wild \/ Dokkhuset, March 6 \u2013 7, 2020 \/ Curator: Zane Cerpina<\/p>\n

Alexandra Murray-Leslie <\/b><\/strong>[au\/no]<\/span>
\nDigitally Enhanced Foot-orthotics to Revolutionise Artistic Swimming<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Feet adorned or costumed as the object of visual and performance art have the power to explore and express socio-political and feminist concepts. Alex\u2019s ongoing artistic research into the liberation of the feet in theatrical contexts using computational footwear takes on a new dimension with her explorations into kelp based bioplastics for addictive manufacturing processes to produce underwater computational foot-orthotics. Her objective is to transform synchronised swimming into something messy, provocative, non-binary and pop, through the affordances of digitally enhanced foot-appendages on artistic swimmers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Alexandra Murray-Leslie<\/span>
\n<\/b>Dr. Alexandra Murray-Leslie is an academic pop-artist and co-founder of the art band Chicks on Speed. She is currently teaching at the faculty of Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts and is a member of ARTEC, Art and Technology Task Force, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her current artistic research focuses on transit design of algae-based bioplastics for the development of computer-enhanced foot devices for artistic swimming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex has worked in the worlds of on-body technology, computer aided design and manufacturing, sports, art, fashion, and entertainment. She was recently artist-researcher in residence at Autodesk, Pier 9 Technology Centre, San Francisco and held the positions; Artistic Director of Youth Mobile, Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2017 and Director of Entertainment at America\u2019s Cup world series 2013\/14 in Plymouth, San Diego, and San Francisco, where she worked closely on the America’s Cup Healthy Ocean Project outreach and education programs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo: <\/b>Alex Murray-Leslie performing in Chicks on Speed, \u201cNoise Bodies\u201d, (with high heeled shoe guitar and EMG BioMuse 4 ), exhibition vernissage \u201cUp to and Including Limits, After Carolee-Schneemann\u201d curated by Sabine Breitwieser, Museum Susch, 28.12.2019. Photo: Silke Briel.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

www.chicksonspeed.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n