Susan Collins (b. 1964 London) is one of the UK’s leading artists working with digital media. Collins works across public, gallery and online spaces. Her recent works mainly employ transmission, networking and time as primary materials, often exploring the role of illusion or belief in their construction and interpretation. Works include In Conversation; Tate in Space (a bafta nominated Tate netart commission); Transporting Skies which transported sky (and other phenomena) live between Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance in Cornwall and Site Gallery Sheffield in Yorkshire; Fenlandia and Glenlandia - live year long pixel by pixel internet transmissions from remote landscapes, and The Spectrascope, an ongoing live pixel by pixel transmission from a haunted house.
In 2009 she exhibited Seascape , a solo show at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the De La Warr Pavilion and recently completed Love Brid, a short film for Animate Projects.
Susan Collins is currently Reader in Fine Art, Head of Undergraduate Fine Art Media and Director of Studies, Undergraduate Programmes at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, and has been Head of the Slade Centre for Electronic Media (SCEMFA) since 1995. She completed a PhD on ‘The role of the viewer in the realisation of In Conversation and other works’ in 2001.
