Artist Statement
Andrew Newman is an artist from Sydney whose work connects the art forms of installation, new media and performance. His works, usually whole room installations, seek to create a virtual theatre that can stage mechanical and digital performances that play out in an infinite loop. He is currently completing his Master of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts researching love letters and communication technologies.
Newman's video work addresses the anxious in-between of what is communicated and what was meant to be communicated. This inarticulate in-between stutters and shakes on the screen as the artists body becomes cut-up and amputated from tangible existence. An extension of Lacan's 'Mirror Stage', the recognition of the self in the screen becomes compromised by the systems of language that the screen space adheres to. The self is bastardised from the body and the desire for the other becomes a scramble for the self.

Art Forms

• Conceptual
• Media arts
• Multimedia /hybrid
• Performance

State
New South Wales

Website
http://anewman.net

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