- City
- London, UK; French Pyrennes
- Artistic Residency
- Collide
- Year
- 2018, 2022
Treister’s work explores the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.
Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, Suzanne Treister became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Treister’s work has engaged with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity and knowledge. Often spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert forces at work in the world. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.
In 2018, Suzanne Treister was awarded the Collide Award. Following her residency, Treister has continued her engagement with CERN in 2022
Commissions and Awards include:
Digital Commission, Serpentine Galleries, London, England (2019); COLLIDE International Award, CERN Geneva/FACT UK (2018); The Spaceships of Bordeaux, Public art project – Commande artistique Garonne, Bordeaux, France (2013-21)
