Suzanne Treister

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Suzanne Treister
Born1958 [1]
London, England [1]
NationalityBritish
Education Saint Martin's School of Art
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Known for Conceptual art, Internet art, New media art
MovementPost-surveillance art
Website www.suzannetreister.net

Suzanne Treister (born 1958) is a British contemporary artist based in London. Her works are known for being conceptually oriented around emerging technologies. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity. [2]

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Career

Initially known in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in digital/new media art from the beginning of the 1990s, creating work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organizations. Some of her early work is considered video game art. [3] Using various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolor, Treister has evolved a large body of work which engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity and knowledge. Her projects, which often span several years, reinterpret given taxonomies and histories to examine the existence of covert, unseen forces at work in the world, whether corporate, military or paranormal. [4]

In 1995 she created an alter ego, Rosalind Brodsky, a time travelling researcher from the 'Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality'. [5]

Treister's exhibition "Hexen 2.0" was shown at the PPOW Gallery in Chelsea, New York, in early 2013. [6] Her work is held in private and public collections including Tate Britain; Science Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland; and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.

Publications and works

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References

  1. 1 2 ID: 500330588: Treister, Suzanne (English graphic artist and painter, born 1958). The Getty Research Institute: Union List of Artist Names Online. Accessed April 2015.
  2. Treister, Suzanne (11 March 2017). "Suzanne Treister CV". Suzanne Treister website. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. Clarke, Andy, and Grethe Mitchell. 2007. Videogames and art. Bristol, UK ; Chicago: Intellect.
  4. Treister, Suzanne (11 March 2017). "Suzanne Treister CV". Suzanne Treister website. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. David Barrett (December 2006). Suzanne Treister. Art Monthly (302). pp. 209-10
  6. Ken Johnson (31 January 2013). Suzanne Treister: ‘Hexen 2.0’ (review). New York Times. Accessed April 2015.
  7. Rosalind Brodsky and the satellites of Lvov, S. Treister, 1 January 1998, OCLC   180753096
  8. Antin, Eleanor; Banner, Fiona; Hamilton, Ann; Hammond, Jane; Hiller, Susan; Kim, Helen; Knowles, Alison; Springfield, Molly; Treister, Suzanne (1 January 2011). It is almost that (box). OCLC   758891252.
  9. Pearson, Lisa (1 January 2011). It is almost that: a collection of image + text work by women artists & writers. Los Angeles: Siglio. ISBN   9780979956263. OCLC   762049082.

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