SUE BEYER \\ VISUAL ARTIST
PAINTING . ELECTRONICS . NEW MEDIA . CURATION

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// WE ARE DATA
We Are Data is an ongoing project that began in August 2022  The project uses a mix of electronic, painting and new media works, that reference data I gather from the internet and the physical world. Using various techniques the data is transformed and presented, to tell a story.

This combination of mediums is presented as a ‘digital combine’, using different mediums including NFTs, layered on top of each other like a giant collage that can cover walls and floors. The installations are filled with information, and reference the overwhelming amount of data that can be accessed digitally and physically on any given topic on the internet or in real life.

My work is process driven and falls under the umbrella of Metamodernist theory, which includes post digital and post internet concepts.
We Are Data 2022
Self adhesive vinyl, synthetic polymer on board, powder coated alumninium frame, Raspberry Pi, RTC Hat, RGB LED Matrix, NFT, AR
size variable

Photography: Christo Crocker
We Are Data 2022
Self adhesive vinyl, synthetic polymer on board, powder coated alumninium frame, Raspberry Pi, RTC Hat, RGB LED Matrix, NFT, AR
size variable
Xanadu Story, 2022
MP4 looped on four digital displays
size variable
Pixie Foto 2022
Self adhesive poster
An image created by DALL·E using the term, ‘Sue Beyer’s family living in Wolvi, Queensland, Australia in the 1970s’ made on 2022-07-02 12.25.38


The Book of History, 2022
12 Volumes of printed books
The Book of History contains the browser history from 4 different computers I am using at the moment.


Binary Portrait, 2022
2 Volumes of printed books
Binary Portrait is the binary data extracted from a jpeg selfie.

Photography: Christo Crocker
Binary Portrait, 2022
2 Volumes of printed books
Binary Portrait is the binary data extracted from a jpeg selfie.
It’s like we could be twins, 2022
Self adhesive poster, sound
Made using Playform AI, this work started by introducing the AI to a self portrait of Sue Beyer. The AI then proceeded to create different versions of Sue Beyer by changing attributes of the person in the image. Some of the attributes edited include expressiveness, age, gender and attractiveness. I wonder what AI thinks is attractive.

Photography: Christo Crocker
CREEP (Looking at pictures of dead people), 2022
MP4, RGB LED Display, Sound
Creep is made using a selection of images made by the Playform AI. The image is made using a combination of 36 images found on Google using the search term ‘Sue Beyer’. 35 of the images were portraits and one was a grave stone for a Sue Beyer who has died. I find these images disturbing and grotesque. They remind me of rotting corpses or demons from a horror story and have a strong affect on me. AI simultaenously fancinates and repels me. This oscilation places the work firmly in Metamodernism.

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Photography: Christo Crocker
Tru Luv 4 Eva, 2022
Looped MP4, Raspberry Pi, HDMI display
Tru Luv 4 Eva is made using a set of images created by DALL·E that tells the romance story of Chris Callis and Sue Beyer.




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Xanadu Roller Party
This project is an investigation into metamodernism using instruction and transformation.
More details to come.
www.XanaduRollerParty.com
2022 - 2026
Website made using html, css, gifs, jpeg, fonts
Size variable




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Deep Story 1 + 2
Experimental AR that uses a mix of paintings, electronic and new media works that reference data I gather from the internet and the physical world. Using various techniques the data is transformed and presented, to tell a story.
Deep Story 1
2022
Story written by machine learing algorithm
Displayed on RGB LED matrix run by Raspberry Pi microprocessor

Deep Story 2
2022
Augmented Reality

To view, download the app app Hoverlay
Then scan this QR code.




// ARTIST STATEMENT
A series of new media works, that investigate ideas relating to sensory thresholds through the transformation of existing or created artifacts.
Untitled
2021
Physical computing
Raspberry Pi, Display, Camera

Photography: The artist
Early_Morning_Narcissus_River_Mt_Gould_Ducane_Range_Tasmania
_after_Haughton_Forrest_(1826-1925).html

2021
ANSI web art

Click here to view html file
Xanadu Stack
2018
Printout on A4 paper
(14,500 pages)
Dimensions variable

Xanadu Stack
2018
Printout on A4 paper
(14,500 pages)
Dimensions variable

Xanadu-the-movie-LIVE!
2018
Processing sketch
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Xanadu_Sequence
2018
Processing sketch
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Performance
2018
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
copyright 2023 Sue Beyer