Sean Lowry

Sean Lowry (born 1968) is a contemporary visual artist, writer, theoretician, electronic music producer and new media artist.

Lowry’s model of “strategic concealment” (or “subliminal appropriation”) forms the cornerstone of both his visual art research and commercial music production.

After achieving considerable commercial success in Australia, Asia and North America during the 1990s with electronic rock band Def FX, running experimental events such as Spasm and Dada Spastic in London during the late 1990s, 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 production project, Celebrity [...] Disasters (in collaboration with Rob Taylor), was awarded the Commercial Radio Australia NA2R prize of $100 000 in 2006. Lowry is currently signed to Shock, and is a published writer on and exhibiter of contemporary art. Lowry is also developing both a new body of experimental audio-visual work (under the moniker of Lapdancer) and a major research project "The Agnostic Model", which looks at contemporary attitudes to artistic production.