cmielewski & starrs
Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs are media artists whose long term collaboration has produced a variety of screen-based installations. Their work focuses primarily on the relationship between society, the machine and the individual, often using play as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary life. Their work has been exhibited in Australia, Europe, Asia and North America.
Cmielewski and Starrs’ past projects include Seeker, winner of an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2007, Plaything which featured video clips of young women responding to questions about game culture, Floating Territories, an installation combining distributed printed cards, swipe card reader and abstract screen based games, Dream Kitchen, an interactive stop-motion animation featured at Transmediale, Berlin and the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruk, Germany, and Trace, which used sensor techology to explore biometrics, installed at Sydney Records Centre, 2002. Bio-Tek Kitchen, a modified computer game was exhibited in Experimenta’s House of Tomorrow exhibition, Melbourne in 2003 and the Seoul New Media Biennale, 2004.
Both artists have been recipients of Australia Council New Media Fellowships. Cmielewski lectures at the School of Communication, Arts, University of Western Sydney, Starrs lectures at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
