The Samstag Alumni
The 1994 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Lynne Barwick | Michele Beevors | Matthew Calvert | ADS Donaldson | Sarah Lindner | Anne Ooms | Robyn Stacey | Carl Sutherland | Paul Uhlmann | Anne Wallace
In cyberspace, the body disappears - duality is transcended. Whereas simulacrum substitute for reality deceptively, the "virtual" world engendered by computers is, in some aspects, already manifest. That science and technology are currently driving a momentous change in society - more significant than that of the industrial revolution - is of major interest to Robyn Stacey. Her large and spectacular computer-manipulated cibachrome prints have long demonstrated the distance travelled in photographic depictions of 'place'. These images have shown, for example, the 'nowhere' space of the anonymous city, made possible by the flattening out of unspecific events and images into a single object frame, presenting simultaneous points of view, from above and below.
Her very recent digital, cibafilm montages, produced in the USA during a
residency at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Chicago,
draw on images which refer to the evolution of scientific vision since the
Renaissance. These focus attention on history's big movements, as distinct from
its transience. Robyn Stacey reminds us that in cyberspace - the world inside
computers - you can become anything. That the future, perhaps, will be
innerspace, not outerspace.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Chaos in Heavean
| Robyn Stacey Born 1971, Adelaide, South Australia |
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| 1994 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
| 1993 | Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
Love fingers 1994
digital, cibafilm montage
120 x 135 cm
© the artist
Untitled 1994
digital, cibafilm montage
120 x 281 cm
© the artist