Sean Lowry
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Dr Sean Lowry (born 1968) is a practicing visual artist, theoretician, electronic music producer and new media artist. Lowry’s model of “strategic concealment” (or “subliminal appropriation”) forms the cornerstone of both his visual art research and commercial music production. After achieving considerable commercial success in Australia, Asia and North America during the 1990s with electronic rock band Def FX, running a noise/performance night in London called Spasm during 1997, he later returned to Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney) to complete his PhD in 2003. As a consequence of the commercial application of ideas developed within his PhD dissertation, his latest musical production project, Celebrity Drug Disasters (in collaboration with Rob Taylor), was recently awarded the prestigious Commercial Radio Australia NA2R prize of $100 000.00. Sean is currently signed to Shock Publishing and Celebrity Drug Disasters was recently listed as fourth most added artist to Australian radio. Sean is also a frequent contributor to Broadsheet: Contemporary Art + Culture, an exhibiter and curator of contemporary art, and a current Board Member at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney. He is currently developing both a new body of experimental audiovisual work and a major written research project The Agnostic Model, which looks at attitudes to contemporary art in the wake of postmodernism.
