Kynan Tan is an artist working with code and digital processes to investigate digital systems: their networks, translations and multisensory media. These works take the form of audio-visual performances and installations, text, sound recordings and 3D-printed sculptures. Kynan is interested in closely examining the qualitative and quantitative properties of data, the internal relations of multisensory works, and the ways in which society is affected by imperceptible or immensely complex activities of computation.
In 2015, Kynan co-organised the Didactic Tools project which was exhibited at Fremantle Arts Centre (WA). He has been the recipient of a DCA Young People and the Arts Fellowship (2013), Australia Council Artstart grant (2013), and participated in the JUMP Mentorship Program (2012), studying with audio-visual artist Robin Fox. Kynan has performed in Japan, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, including events such as Test Tone (Tokyo), Channels Video Art Festival (Melbourne) and the NOW now (Sydney), and his works have been exhibited at MOCA (Taipei, Taiwan), NH7 Festival (Pune, India), First Draft (Sydney) and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Kynan’s writing has appeared in Un Magazine and Das Superpaper. Kynan is a PhD candidate at UNSW Art & Design.
