William M. Byrne - New York City

Cell Procession, 20 x 30, Epson 9500, 2001

Artist Statement:

All of my montages, including Cell Procession come from digital photographs of objects that
were once functional technology that has broken down and discarded to the curbs of city streets. I use the idea of a digital montage to give these discarded objects a second life, to take their image and place them as part of a fictional biology. I want to use digital tools to make machine-beings; somewhere between the science based bio-morhpic abstraction of Roberto Matta and the comical contraptions of Rube Goldberg.

William M Byrne
sirwildbill@rocketmail.com
http://www.billbyrne.net

Recent Exhibitions / Awards:

• Digitalis 2:The Spiritual in Digital Art, The Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, British Columbia, February 23rd-March 29th, 2003
• Digital DUMBO 2002, M3 Projects, Brooklyn, New York, September 19th-22nd, 2002
• Digital 2001, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, December 8th-January 25th, 2002
• Digitalis, Moon Base Gallery, Vancouver, BC, November 23rd-December 16th, 2001
• Digital 2001, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, September 29th-November 16th, 2001
• Rhizome Openmouse, FUN, New York, NY, July 27th 2001