Dr Donna Leishman

Dr Donna Leishman (6amhoover.com) is a media artist and researcher; her work is a combination of critical writing and practice-led research in digital art. Her research career began in 1999, and has seen her cross disciplines such as electronic literature, ludology (the study of games), digital media and more recently human computer interaction, sociology and psychology. She investigates a variety of subjects such as social and literary identity, immersion and interactivity. Research themes include contemporary human activity within digital media: exploring how digitally mediated narratives extend authorship, reception and presence, what role media technologies have in forming or disturbing social identity and ultimately what art and design practices can offer to current debates and societal challenges.

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• Empathy Mapping Ghosts Of The Past: Participatory Workshop, Leishman, D. 10 Jul 2025, 2025 Annual Conference For The Electronic Literature Organisation
• From Resistance to Revenue: Co-Commodification of Counterculture in Audio- Visual Festivals, Leishman, D. 18 Nov 2025, Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image , London, Routledge
• Hauntings and Imaginaries: Foregrounding the Relational in Electronic Literature: Hauntology and Relational Aesthetics Panel, Leishman, D. 10 Jul 2025, 2025 Annual Conference For The Electronic Literature Organisation
• Marrying Realities, Leishman, D. 27 Jun 2025, CONFIA 2025: 12th International Conference on Illustration and Animation, Barcelos, Portugal, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave
• Marrying Realities Installation, Leishman, D. 11 Jul 2025, The ELO25@2025 Juried exhibition
• Illustration as Social Semiotics, Leishman, D. 4 Jul 2024, CONFIA 2024, Barcelos, Portugal, IPCA
• Hope Is A Group Project: Chester Contemporary: Public Art Installation & Co-Creation Creative Workshop, Leishman, D. 19 Oct 2023
• Impossible Stairs: Chester Contemporary: Public Art Installation & Co-Creation Creative Workshop, Leishman, D. 20 Oct 2023
• Social Semiotics, Leishman, D. 19 Apr 2023, Illustration Studies: New Approaches, New Directions Conference

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• Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Empathy Mapping Ghosts of the Past: Designing Beyond the Rational 2023
• Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Live Visuals Theory and Practice 2022
• Organising a conference, workshop, ...: PDC 2022: Participatory Design Conference 2022 2022
• Invited talk: Front & Data 2019
• Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Symposium: Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media. In: Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media 2014
• Organising a conference, workshop, ...: ISEA 2011 Istanbul 2011
• Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: CHI 2011 2011

• Victoria Frith Unpicking the climate agenda: creating a shift in design practice through shared definitions of future change in the UK Visual Communication Design sector. Start Date: 01/10/2023
• Victoria Frith Unpicking the climate agenda: creating a shift in design practice through shared definitions of future change in the UK Visual Communication Design sector. Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025

Design Studies PhD June 01 2014