Auckland University of Technology

Faculty Member, Design And Creative Technologies

Senior Lecturer

School of Art & Design

About

Lesley Kaiser is an artist who has exhibited in a number of sites, e.g. TV, newspapers, electronic signs and supermarket rollouts. Current research interests include: art in public spaces, evolutionary origins of aesthetics, sustainability, and the erotics of image. Her most recent publication is ‘A Picture/A thousand words’ in Ka mate ka ora: a new zealand journal of poetry and poetics #7. (2009). Lesley Kaiser’s solo exhibition Preserve, Renew, Invent [Light Bytes], (2008), at MIC Toi Rerehiko (Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre), Auckland, NZ, is part of an on-going local and international project that involves disseminating and archiving philosophical texts in a range of public sites and media. An artist’s website (www.lesleykaiser.com) was launched in conjunction with the exhibition, and a related paper published in the International Journal of the Book, Volume 5, Issue 2.

Recent group exhibitions include OUTVIDEO 07 (in which 30-second video works were shown in the night programme on 39 screens in 16 Russian cities); Antipodes, LA VINGT-SEPT Gallery, Marc Bloch University Strasbourg, France (2006); and Art Now: The First Biennial Review of Contemporary Art at the Museum of New Zealand (1994). Publications, often in collaboration with John Barnett, include The Naughty Nineties: A Pop-Up Book (first edition 1982); The Penguin Book of NZ Jokes (1996) and Shark-infested Custard: A Kiwi Kids Joke Book (1997); and a number of one-off, or small edition, artists’ books, e.g. Where We Are Now (1994), Post Art (1994), The River Sticks (1994), and Like Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream (1993).

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