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Robert Burnier
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When Robert Burnier was a child, he was immediately hooked on his Commodore 64 computer and the binary world that it opened up to him. It led him to study computer science and become a software engineer. But ultimately, he was just as fascinated by how the systems he created, acting as their own micro-cultures, inherently had their own dilemmas. Today, his multimedia work work is driven by the possibilities of how a system or structure can be pushed to the point of contradiction or collapse. He still uses existing software as a source, taking what he refers to as a ‘stressed virtual configuration’ and manifesting it as a physical object. He uses technology as a medium with its own idiosyncrasies and malfunctions. The material choices he makes for a work are informed by the terrain of shapes and data from the broken source system.
Burnier was included in the Evanston and Vicinity Biennial 2012, curated by Shannon Stratton, and Some Dialogue, curated by Sarah Krepp and Doug Stapleton, at the Illinois State Museum, Chicago, 2012. Recently, he was included in Ghost Nature at Gallery 400, Chicago, IL and La Box, Bourges, France. He also showed at the Hyde Park …
When Robert Burnier was a child, he was immediately hooked on his Commodore 64 computer and the binary world that it opened up to him. It led him to study computer science and become a software engineer. But ultimately, he was just as fascinated by how the systems he created, acting as their own micro-cultures, inherently had their own dilemmas. Today, his multimedia work work is driven by the possibilities of how a system or structure can be pushed to the point of contradiction or collapse. He still uses existing software as a source, taking what he refers to as a ‘stressed virtual configuration’ and manifesting it as a physical object. He uses technology as a medium with its own idiosyncrasies and malfunctions. The material choices he makes for a work are informed by the terrain of shapes and data from the broken source system.
Burnier was included in the Evanston and Vicinity Biennial 2012, curated by Shannon Stratton, and Some Dialogue, curated by Sarah Krepp and Doug Stapleton, at the Illinois State Museum, Chicago, 2012. Recently, he was included in Ghost Nature at Gallery 400, Chicago, IL and La Box, Bourges, France. He also showed at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. His work has been exhibited at art fairs in Miami, Mexico City, New York, and Chicago. He is included in numerous private and public collections.
Courtesy of Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Born 1969
Lives and Works Chicago, Illinois
Education
MFA, Painting and Drawing, SAIC, 2015
B.S., Computer Science, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Works Available for Purchase
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