Tom Leeser
Tom Leeser is a digital media artist, educator, curator and writer. He is the Program Director of the Art and Technology Program in the School of Art and the Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts.
A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Tom began his career as an "experimental" filmmaker- combining text, animation, found footage and diary based images into cinematic investigations of memory and narrative.
Tom's film and video work along with his interactive installations and public performances have been shown at Telic Arts Exchange, MassMoca, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Kitchen, The Millennium, The Knitting Factory, Siggraph and film and video festivals worldwide. Tom's projects have received support from Art Matters, Creative Time and the Daniel Langlois Foundation.
Tom's recent curatorial projects include the 'Future Imaginary' for the Ben Maltz Gallery at the Otis College of Art and Design, 'Underground Cinemamachine' for Machine Project in Los Angeles and 'Object Lessons' for Gigantic Artspace in New York. Tom is also an editor and producer with the web based journal and curatorial project, Viralnet.net.