Sean Lowry

Sean Lowry (born 1968) is a visual artist, writer, theoretician, electronic music producer, and new media artist. Lowry’s model of “strategic concealment” (or “subliminal appropriation”) forms the cornerstone of his theoretical research, music and contemporary art production. After achieving considerable commercial success in Australia, Asia and North America during the 1990s with seminal Australian electronic rock band Def FX, organizing experimental interdisciplinary events such as King Prawn, Spasm & dada Spastic, and exhibiting as a painter and as a new media artist, Lowry 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 commercial music production partnerships Celebrity Drug Disasters and Brandeluxe (in collaboration with multi-Aria nominated Australian producer Rob Taylor), have achieved considerable success. Lowry is signed to Shock Publishing, is a widely published writer on and exhibiter of contemporary art, and is also developing a new body of experimental audiovisual work to be exhibited in San Francisco, Auckland and Sydney (under the moniker of Lapdancer), together with a research project titled The Agnostic Model, which looks at contemporary attitudes to cultural and artistic production in the wake of postmodernism. Lowry is a contributor to Broadsheet: Contemporary Art + Culture, was a panellist at “The Contemporary Collaborator In An Interdisciplinary World” (2008 Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Dallas-Fort Worth, USA), and is a Lecturer, Creative Arts/Fine Arts, School of Drama, Fine Arts and Music, University of Newcastle, Australia (where he was awarded 'Lecturer of the Year',2007). A new project, titled 'A Monument to Heroic Failure' will be released on DVD & CD in 2009.