Leah Heiss

Coming soon —-
IMEC presentation, Leuven
in.tangible.scape.s exhibition, Antwerp

liminal
An exhibition of jewellery + artefacts generated by Leah Heiss through the Subtle Technologies residency.

RMIT Gallery
Opening 6-8pm Thursday 6 November
RSVP 03 99251717/rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au
Exhibition Dates: Thursday 6 to Saturday 22 November 2008
RMIT Gallery 344 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000
Tel: 61 39925 1717 HOURS: Monday - Friday 11-5, Saturday 2-5
Closed Sundays and public holidays. Lift access. Free admission.
Email: rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au / www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery

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New Inventors

I will be on ABC’s New Inventors on Wednesday 5 November. The segment is called Designing the Future.

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ABC Radio National TRENDS on ByDesign

I will be on ABC Radio National By Design program, TRENDS segment.
Wednesday 5 November - approximately 3.30pm

My work was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald today - find link here

Am really pleased - it really contextualises my practice work leading up to the residency outcomes. Yay!

Well - I have basically, roughly, technically finished my residency. There are of course a few bits and bobs that still need to be tidied up - as ever - however, the bulk of the work has gone baby gone. On Wednesday one full set of prototypes were couriered to Sydney for the refashioning the Fashion exhibition which opens this Friday 20 June at Object Gallery. Another set of diabetes projects were taken to BIO2008 conference in the US (a huge biotech conference that gets around 20000 attendees).

Here are a few pics of the finished prototypes. Photography by Narelle Sheean - she comes highly recommended!

 
Images: Left - diabetes applicator + reloader necklace set
Right - stack of diabetes rings

Image: diabetes applicator necklace

 Image: diabetes 2-part ring 

Needless to say the past few weeks have been really chaotic - deadlines tend to bring about this kind of mayhem. I am really happy with the outcomes though and the experience of working with NanoVic and also Catapult Innovations (product engineers on the diabetes project) has been enourmously exciting. There are a whole range of project refinements that need to be thought about to bring these pictured prototypes to their optimum operational ability - however, for the time being I am going to slowly tidy things up and have some much needed time out. Hooray…

I am really looking forward to having all of my design registrations through so that I can publish some pics of the arsenic vessel - it looks quite extraordinary. In the interim I can publish a few pics of some new little chemical containers I’ve had prototyped in the same material. The arsenic vessel is a translucent pod that encompasses a water vessel, cup lid + a ‘leaf’ that houses electronics and electroluminescent cable. The cable is quite a muted blue and activates when the lid is removed. The vessel has a 0.45um membrane filter in it to remove the Fe2O3 particles. SLA printing has really been the way to go for this project although really costly. The outcome is almost like a glass - quite extraordinary.