Suzanne Treister (°London - 1958). She was based in Australia from 1992 to 1998. Since then she has divided her time between New York, London and Sydney. Treister studied painting at St Martins and Chelsea Schools of Art in London and has shown in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia since 1981. From 1991 her practice incorporated digital imaging and since 1995 has expanded to include video, object based, multimedia and online projects. She was a founder member of several collaborative organisations, 1991: NIH ('Nothing is {Hidden}' ) London/New York based, 1992: PI ('Presumed Innocent') Adelaide/New York based, and in 2000 she founded the 'International Corporation of Lost Structures' with an international membership - www.icols.org (in development).
In 1995 Treister created the heteronymic identity, Rosalind Brodsky, whose history is explored in the CD ROM, 'No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky', which has been exhibited internationally at many new media festivals and was published with a book in 1999 by Black Dog Publishing, London. ISBN: 1 901033 66 X.
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"No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky" CD-ROM, published by Black Dog Publishing. ISBN: 1 901033 66 X.
This CD ROM is an interactive investigation into the life of Rosalind Brodsky (with whom I share similar Anglo/Eastern European/Jewish roots), a delusional time traveller who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality in the 21st century. Your journey takes the form of a tour organised by the Institute in memory of Brodsky's contribution to time travel research.
Starting at the Institute in 2058, the year of Brodsky's death, you are shown an introductory movie before entering Brodsky's study, concealed behind a memorial wall. From here you may travel to her home in Bavaria and journey to her Satellite spy probe, access her electronic time travelling diary and discover the time travelling costumes and attaché cases in her wardrobe, through which you take the lift down to the Clinics from where you time travel to the homes of Freud, Jung, Klein, Lacan and Kristeva with whom Brodsky has undergone analysis, paid for with the profits from sales of her feature vibrators, album sales of her band ('Rosalind Brodsky and the Satellites of Lvov') and her time travelling cookery TV show.
This work creates a space that negotiates issues of insanity and humour, fetishism and sexuality, identity and technology, in relation to personal histories/fictions and histories of the twentieth century.
In the process of making my work I use:
software; Photoshop, Director, Sound Edit, Premiere, Media 100, Peak, Player Pro, After Effects, Word, Dreamweaver, Gifbuilder, Flash and QuarkXpress.
I also use paint, metal, wood, clay, found items and other media in installations. 
