Digital

Supersystem Concept for 5 Products 2005, 1000 Eventi, Salone del Mobile Milan

How do a bed, timepiece, light, kettle and purse relate and why does Simone LeAmon kiss motorbikes when she is Milan? A Supersystem Concept for 5 Products is a design proposal, which explores the notion of lifestyle products in the company of general human affections such as desire, comfort, disappointment and love. Working in collaboration with digital artist Daryl Munton and photographer Liz Looker, LeAmon uses digital technology, performance, photography and text to construct a suite of narratives titled Post Object Confessions in which motorbikes and kissing, headlights and bikinis, freeways and kangaroos come together to inform designs for a light, daybed, timepiece, purse and kettle.

Moto Showroom: The Return of Desire 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

MOTO Showroom: the return of desire is an adventure emerging from a dialogue between desire and design. Conceived through the exploration of a design methodology MOTO Showroom attempted to construct the world of the artist/designer’s practice. A strategic organization of ideas on gender and design are woven though a schema of works transfixed on the image of the motorbike and notion of the artist/designer as ‘racer’. MOTO Showroom embraced the expressive capacities of digital technologies in order to conjoin the modes of art and design practice and reveal design process within a fantastical narrative.

Heartland 2003, computer animation

Heartland is a 3minute computer-generated animation built with Maya software. Including live video and custom artwork the narrative follows the adventure of a female ‘Superbike racer’ enmeshed with her motorcycle in a process of reconfiguring the physical/psycho space of her world - a world in which the motorcycle eventually dissolves leaving behind a trail of ephemera. Heartland explores the ‘dissolving object’ of the post object age. It converses with the theoretical language of the cultural frame of design and enriches the debate on manufacture and serial production.

Candle Light 2007
Digital animation,
Production team Simone LeAmon and Daryl Munton

If you want to spare your eyes and your mind, follow the sun from the shadows behind.

Friedrich Nietzsche To a Friend of Light

Candle Light is a digital animation featuring LeAmon’s design for a small portable lighting product. Drawing on the image of the candle and accompanied with words by Friedrich Nietzsche, the product aspires to be an intermediate agent for expressing things we hold dear to each other.

Bodywork is a 3D digital model of the artist/designer Simone LeAmon’s body sporting a custom designed exhibition suit styled in the fashion of motorcycle leather. Exploring the categorisation of creative practice and production, Bodywork uses the space of the practitioner’s own body to speak of the disciplinary and corporate cultures of art and design.