Alex Murray-Leslie is an artist/researcher and curator, working in the areas of computational foot-wearables, digital music instrument design, Pop Music & Live-Art. She is founder of Chicks on Speed, an internationally renowned art band.
Alex is currently PhD candidate in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Creativity and Cognition Studios, The University of Technology Sydney and research fellow at Art and Design Research Incubator, Department of Sports Science, The Pennsylvania State University and Music Technology Group, University Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona.
Alex is currently PhD candidate in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Creativity and Cognition Studios, The University of Technology Sydney and research fellow at Art and Design Research Incubator, Department of Sports Science, The Pennsylvania State University and Music Technology Group, University Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona.
She worked as Entertainment Manager at The 34th America's Cup World Series sporting event in San Francisco, her current curatorial project: Curator of the worlds first wearable technology in Fashion Film competition, Diane Pernet presents ASVOFF 9, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Nov, 2016.
Alex performs, curates, lectures & exhibits internationally, along side writing for scientific journal and book publications.
Photo (Top): E-Shoe, A High Heeled Shoe guitar, (Chicks on Speed, Alex Murray-Leslie and Max Kibardin)
Computer Enhanced Foot-Wearable by Alex Murray-Leslie, 2016. Developed in collaboration with Jeff Hong, ADM, Nanyang Technological University, Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, 2015 and Dr. Sam Ferguson, Creativity and Cognition Studios, The University of Technology, Sydney, kindly supported by The Australia Council for the Arts.
Alex Murray-Leslie, performing with Chicks on Speed, Isle of Wight, 2015
Chicks on Speed ARTSTRAVAGANZA for Karl Lagerfeld, “Modemethode”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 13t Sept, 2015