Website: https://www.suebeyer.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sue_beyer/

I am most interested in the topic: 'what it means to be human'. I explore this area using an interdisciplinary approach that includes, Instruction Based Art and transformative mediums.

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

In my work, I use digital, electronic, and new media, that are joined with traditional media to create single works or installations. These are called 'Digital Combines', a new genre proposed by the artist Claudia Hart in 2021. Digital Combines consist of physical, digital, and virtual objects, like a 3D collage, that is joined together using instruction placed in the metadata of a blockchain smart contract (NFT). Things like electronics, programmed microprocessors, digital video, VR and found objects sit alongside paintings that vary in size, look pixelated and appear to be a close-up of a digital file. However, when you examine them closely, you can see that the lines aren’t perfect, and my hand as the artist is evident.

The themes I am looking at in my current work employ the idea of autofiction – a storytelling technique that merges fact with fictional elements. This is combined with an interogation of ontological connections between objects and mediums.

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