diy, Cyane Tornatzky

​Cyane Tornatzky

Inspired by her previous research on Robert Owen’s New Lanark Mill in South Lanarkshire, Cyane Tornatzky examined the lives and working conditions of historical and contemporary female textile workers during her residency at ISIS Arts. She looked for present-day corollaries to the disenfranchised of the historic Luddite movement. The historical/contemporary duality of the subject matter was underscored through the use of old and new medias in the construction of her work. Examples of old technologies include: camera obscura; stereoscopes; mutoscopes, new technologies include digital fabrication techniques coupled with video projection.

Conceptually Tornatzky's work centres around explorations of gender and female socio-political identities. To provide a closer look a the true nature of her subject’s experience, Tornatzky often inhabits her subjects worlds through performance – courting bathos as a tool to reveal the underpinnings of our cultural interactions. The output of her work utilises hybridised technologies that combine old and new.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Cyane Tornatzky is an artist using digital mediums for creation, documentation and output of her artwork. Tornatzky is a currently based in Colorado as Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.

10 hour day performance, Cyane Tornatzky

Move (installation), Cyane Tornatzky

Community, Cyane Tornatzky