“We Are Data II” by Sue Beyer

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We Are Data

Title:

We Are Data II

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Sue Beyer -
  • Griffith University

Symposium:

• ISEA2024: 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Venue(s):

• Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

Artist Statement:

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sue focuses on ideas relating to Instruction-based Art, and the in-between.

From a young age she has been fascinated with the ‘magic’ of computers, programming, and the internet. When Sue first became interested in computers, they took on a metaphysical aspect for her, hinting that all the answers were available if you knew the right question to ask. She has been using computers, microprocessors and programming as an interface or transformative space since 2007.

We Are Data II is a ‘digital combine’ that references information gathered from big data and the internet to talk about what it means to be human. Physical, digital and virtual mediums and objects are joined using instruction, housed in the metadata of an NFT, like a conceptual glue.

Examining digital combines through a Metamodern lens enables us to see how they work using a type of ontological oscillation, not only between mediums and objects, but between different points of time in art history, consecutively. It is in this oscillation that a structure of feeling, or affect can be found.