A fluid, highly collaborative practice reflects our contemporary restlessness, blurred boundaries and expanded definitions of art. I am particularly drawn to projects that fuse physicality and time with technology, connecting what we hold onto and what we let go. Sculptural objects, live performances, installations, video portraits and social orchestrations explore vulnerability and amplify humanity through technology. A machine wants to be a priority in someone’s life; light is drawn on a dancer's body; portraits reveal enduring age; light becomes a rain shower of memory. Artists and technologists speed date; shadows fill an empty space; and a social app brings civilized flirting to the dating space. Each work begins to shape the ephemeral and intimate energy between people in a voice that is introspective, conceptual, and relentlessly generative.
Susie Lee is a visual artist and the CEO of Siren. Her work explores intimacy and connection through technology, fluidly embedding new media across many platforms. Recognized as Emerging Artist of the Year for the “intelligence, emotion and sensuality” of her work, Lee was also named “Artist to Watch” by ARTnews. Her work has been exhibited and commissioned in the US and abroad, in such venues as the Mitchell Center for the Arts, Denver Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Blanton Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art and is included in notable public collections. A graduate of Yale, Columbia and UW with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, science education, and fine arts, Lee shapes technology to amplify connections, and her recent endeavor, Siren, has gained significant momentum in the public imagination and press, including The Guardian, front page of the Seattle Times, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Geekwire, The Stranger, Engadget, The Washington Post, and ThinkProgress.
