Sue Beyer. Juried Artist
Griffith University
Grey Street Gallery
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.
About the artists
Sue Beyer is currently Doctoral candidate in Visual Arts at Griffith University and holds an MFA from the University of Melbourne. She has exhibited internationally and received support through cultural agencies such as Australia Council, Creative Victoria, University of Melbourne and the Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation.
Sue has been a finalist in multiple prizes, was the winner of the Emerging artist category in the Stanthorpe Art Prize (2014) and awarded the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award (2018) for work created as part of her MFA. Her work is part of numerous corporate and public collections including the Australian Government’s Artbank.
Beyer has curated exhibitions across Australia over the last 10 years. The most recent, Digital, shown in Melbourne in 2022, included 30 international artists working with a variety of different mediums to highlight how artists reference the digital to talk about being human.
In late 2023 Sue was a recipient of the NARS Foundation International Residency in New York and the Mark Rothko International Painting Symposium in Daugavpils, Latvia.
Beyer is a Sessional Lecturer with the School of Design at RMIT in Melbourne and is based in Melbourne and New York.
Credits: Sue Beyer