Bio & CV
Bio
Samuel Beilby (born 1997) is a multi-media installation artist and writer based in Boorloo. His practice and research interests address the sentience, softness and piercing brutality of contemporary digital and mechanical new media technologies, generative tools, materialism and labour. He currently occupies a committee member role at Cool Change Contemporary, a casual teaching role at the University of Western Australia's Fine Art Department and is a Masters of Fine Arts (by research) candidate at the University of Western Australia.
Education
2020-2022 - Masters of Fine Arts (University of Western Australia).
2019 - Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Fine Arts (University of Western Australia).
Awards
2019 - Artsource Industry Award awarded for "User-Friendly" at UWA 'FAM19'
2018 - Most Engaging Electronic Art awarded to Disrupture: an Exhibit at UWA 'FAM18'
Exhibitions
2020 - Familiar Objects & Feral Arrangements - group show at The Lobby
2020 - Goolagatup Heathcote Select 2020 - group show at Goolagatup Heathcote
2019 - UWA Fine Arts Major 'FAM19' Graduate Exhibition - group show at UWA Cullity Gallery
2019 - (cross)hatched - group show at YMCA HQ Gallery
2018 - Don't Let Me Sell Out - group show at Stable Hands
2018 - UWA Fine Arts Major 'FAM18' Graduate Exhibition - group show at UWA Cullity Gallery
2018 - Untitled (Surveyors) - solo show at Artlaab
Selected Writing
“Swarm Labour: The Aesthetics of Sentient Machine Collectives at Work.” xCoAx 2021 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (conference proceedings). Samuel Beilby, 2021.
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