Coby-Rae Crosbie
Coby-Rae Crosbie is an artist and researcher born in Australia who grew up in Belgium and France. She has a National Art Diploma from the École des Beaux Arts de Lyon and a Masters in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London. She is part of the digital research unit (Unité de Recherche Numérique) at the Beaux Arts de Lyon (France). She currently lives and works in London, and is a studio holder at Second Floor Studios. As of August 2023, she has been awarded a DYCP development grant by Arts Council England (UK).
Her multidisciplinary practice operates as a response to overstimulation on a global scale by engaging experiences and intimacy in individuality. She works with algorithms that produce computer-generated text and sound, performing computation as part of the language of ‘poiesis’, and exploring computerised random as a lens for human awareness.
Subtle gestures, sounds, linguistics, heuristics, patterns and details are brought into view, voiced and amplified, producing a reading of information and noise not as dichotomies, but as entangled in a quantum state. Using knowledge as information, understanding becomes a tool for observation and comprehension.