Simon Lewandowski
- Position: Associate Professor
- Areas of expertise: artists' books: artists' publishing: multiples: kinetic Art: hypnosis as a medium: Artistic Collaborations: art and science links: altered states of consciousness: sonic art: theatre as art:
- Email: S.Lewandowski@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 7634
- Location: 2.05 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
- Website: lewandowski.lowtech.org
Profile
An artist who teaches. Lewandowski creates objects and assembles devices with electric mechanisms. He knows how to do many things and if he does not know he learns them, with confidence and the unshakeable positivist faith of the Great Nation of Self-Assembly. This nation which, with just a few taps on the keyboard, knows how to find the instructions on the net to assemble celibate machines and hifi systems with gold pins and thermionic valves of Soviet production, to hijack aircrafts and, essentially, to use objects designed for A for function B, awaiting somebody else to find the way to make them work also for C...." (Eugenio Alberti, Unknown facts from the biography of Elvis Presley: an essay on Simon Lewandowski, Milan 2011) Publishing as a way of distributing and a way of making; multiples and ready-mades; rules and the use of language in making art; hypnosis, automatism, extreme optical effects and other things on the margins... Helping students to use critical thinking and the written or spoken word as tools in making art alongside the more familiar crafts. First Year Fine Art Studio Module Leader, Study Abroad Coordinator.
Responsibilities
- School Study Abroad Coordinator
Research interests
www.lewandowski.lowtech.org
www.wildpansypress.com
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Studio practice teaching with overall responsibility for Level 1 studio Modules.
Research groups and institutes
- Artists’ Writings and Publications Research Centre (AWP)