Robyn Backen

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• University of Sydney, Australia, Senior Lecturer

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2024

  Robyn Backen is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and an artist working across disciplines to create artworks that generate collaborative engagement with communication technologies, science, and philosophy. She has shown extensively in national and international exhibitions and has completed many large public commissions. Robyn has a history of awarded residencies worldwide, most recently in Rejmyre, Sweden, and Beijing, China.

  Over the past two decades, her artworks have evolved from a deep intrigue into communication and telephonic systems. Drawing upon research into technology and materials, investigating patterns and systems within her practice, like language, nature, and remembering. Her body of work is not bound by medium or scale, with large public commissions contrasting against smaller sound and light works. Recent works have evolved from research into message exchange patterns (MEP), broader notions of sending and receiving, sound wave patterns, and sound within parabolic forms. Her practice is a multi-faceted conversation between space, context, and audience. The site provides the structural and associative framework for formal and conceptual elements, whether gallery, digital landscape or building.

  ISEA2013

  Robyn Backen, artist, Australia

Website:

• https://robynbacken.com/

Last Known Location:

• Australia

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