Tom Leeser is a media artist, curator, educator, and writer. He is the Founding Director of the Art and Technology Program and the Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Tom received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). His film, video, online work, interactive installations, public lectures and performances have been presented at Navel, Harvestworks, Eyebeam, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Echo Park Film Center, The Alabama Center for Contemporary Art, Machine Project, The Mount Wilson Observatory, MassMoca, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, The Redcat Theater, The Kitchen, The Millennium, Siggraph, and film and video venues worldwide, with support from the CalArts Faculty Development Grant, Art Matters, Creative Time, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation.
Projects include: Tech/Know/Future/ From Slang to Structure at the University Galleries at Montclair State University, Heard in LA: The Release Project at the George J. Doizaki Gallery at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Heard in LA: The Scream Project at Navel, Heard in LA: Imagining Tellus # 28 at the Electronic Arts Festival at Harvestworks, DryRun, a public art and sound/poetry project for the City of Santa Clarita, History Refused to Die and The Futures Project at the Alabama Contemporary Center for the Arts and the Los Angeles Filmforum, Artist Resident for a Day at Machine Project, Radical Cosmologies at ISEA2012, Indirect Intention—A Home and Garden Intervention at the Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Future Imaginary at the Ben Maltz Gallery of the Otis College of Art and Design, The Lament Project at the Manual Archives, Underground Cinemamachine at Machine Project and Object Lessons for Gigantic Artspace in New York City.
Tom Leeser founded the Provisional Collective in 2012 to explore the intra-action between art, life and media in a technological age. The Provisional Collective’s intent is to explore collaboration through temporary experimental and networked based projects that can occur in public media spaces and alternative cultural and educational institutions. As a multi-relational practice, the collective has engaged in topics such as climate change, radical pedagogies, cultural memory and speculative futures.
He is an editor and producer for the web-based journal and curatorial project viralnet-v4.net
