Sean Snyder

Artist Cv

Sean Snyder takes the global circulation of information as the operating ground for his work. His videos, texts and images data presented in the form of installations or publications, are the material evidence of a systematic research into the intrinsic codes of technologically produced and processed imagery as well as overt montage and propaganda techniques, exploring ideas of accessibility, transparency and the manipulation of information. Snyder draws his material from a variety of sources, being official news channels, information databanks, press agencies such as Reuters, The Associated Press, Governmental bodies as well as personal homepages, digital and material archives and clandestine websites. Through case studies, which have examined the world of urban planning, architecture and the news media, Snyder retraces the strange and often surprising shifts in meaning that information undergoes in the process of translation from one ideological system to another, while avoiding any definitive interpretation.

Sean Snyder lives and works in Berlin and Kiev.

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Artist News

8 Panama Biennale
9 September - 21 October 2008
Panama Biennale

3 interventions: Luca Frei, Marine Hugonnier & Sean Snyder
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
20 June - 6 September 2008
Grazer Kunstverein

Artist Exhibitions

Sean Snyder February 2 - March 10, 2007
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'I really should…' July 13 - August 27, 2005
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Artist Images

<i>A broken piece of raw optical glass from the Carl Zeiss Archive,</i> 2007
Installation view
Lisson Gallery 2007

A broken piece of raw optical glass from the Carl Zeiss Archive, 2007 Installation view Lisson Gallery 2007

Sony DCR-PC120E (Disassembled), 2007
DVD displayed on monitor, 1 min, no sound

<i>Sony DCR-PC120E (Disassembled), </i>2007
DVD displayed on monitor, 1 min, no sound

Sony DCR-PC120E (Disassembled), 2007 DVD displayed on monitor, 1 min, no sound

Apparatus (Sony DCR-PC120E), 2007
LightJet print
90.5 x 60.5 cm

Apparatus (Sony DCR-PC120E), 2007 LightJet print 90.5 x 60.5 cm

Optics. Compression. Propaganda, 2007
Installation view
Lisson Gallery 2007

Optics. Compression. Propaganda, 2007 Installation view Lisson Gallery 2007

Sequence No. 77, 25 frames (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), 2007
LightJet print
69 x 82.5 cm

<i>Sequence No. 77, 25 frames (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), </i>2007
LightJet print
69 x 82.5 cm

Sequence No. 77, 25 frames (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), 2007 LightJet print 69 x 82.5 cm

Sequence No. 77, 1 frame, Time Code: 06.58.03 (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), 2007
LightJet print
69 x 82.5 cm

<i>Sequence No. 77, 1 frame, Time Code: 06.58.03 (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media),</i> 2007
LightJet print
69 x 82.5 cm

Sequence No. 77, 1 frame, Time Code: 06.58.03 (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), 2007 LightJet print 69 x 82.5 cm

Sequence No. 77, 1 frame, Time Code: 06.58.03 (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), 2007
LaserJet print
42 x 59.7 cm

<i>Sequence No. 77, 1 frame, Time Code: 06.58.03 (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), </i>2007
LaserJet print
42 x 59.7 cm

Sequence No. 77, 1 frame, Time Code: 06.58.03 (Al Qaeda/As Sahab Media), 2007 LaserJet print 42 x 59.7 cm

Schema (Televison), 2006-07
Single Channel DVD projection on suspended screen
Dimensions variable

<i>Schema (Televison), </i>2006-07
Single Channel DVD projection on suspended screen
Dimensions variable

Schema (Televison), 2006-07 Single Channel DVD projection on suspended screen Dimensions variable