Jacqueline Eyers is an interdisciplinary, text-based artist exploring consciousness and the shifting boundaries of perception through spoken word, digital performance, and glitch-infused media. Her work draws on quantum theory and associative philosophy to ask: what does it mean to perceive and persist—to be both presence and witness, to move through time?

In alternative and experimental spaces, her practice unfolds within the architectures of thought, the textures of language, and the evolving forms of emergent technologies. Eyers delves into philosophical and speculative conceptions of civilisation, lingering at the thresholds between human and machine.

Drawing on unpublished manuscripts, she collaborates with engineers, composers, and scientists to create hypnagogic, layered experiences that interrogate the fragile theatre of being from both universal and anthropological perspectives. These works explore existential dissolution, surveillance, mind manipulation, and the human longing for meaning.

Inhabiting abandoned and liminal spaces, her spoken and written texts collapse past, present, and speculative futures into immersive, unsettling encounters.

Through ongoing research into quantum phenomena and associative philosophy, Eyers investigates the fluidity of consciousness, the dissolution of self, and the entanglement of human perception with technological systems. In an era approaching transhumanism, her practice continually returns to two questions: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be alive?

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Eyers returned after living in Sydney and New York between 1984 and 2019. She studied at the South Australian School of Art (photography, sculpture, education) and later gained scholarships to commence a BSpecEd at Flinders University and an MFA (Hons) at Western Sydney University.

Achievements

Recipient, ILA Inaugural Artists Fund, Centre of Immersive Light and Art, Adelaide.

Letter of Commendation, NSW Ministry of the Arts, Women in the Arts Fellowship.

Artist in Residence, Sydney University Computer Science Dept.

DBX (Digital Body Xchange) a digital media exchange across UNIX platforms prior to www. Collaborators included Sydney University, Gwent CAiiA (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts), Vienna, MIT, with Roy Ascott, Brian and Roger Eno

Founding member, Virtual Object, Art and Technology group, Sydney.

Lectured in New Art Studies, UNSW College of Fine Arts.

Active participant within ARI, the independent Artist Run Initiative sector.

Convened Endangered Spaces at Artspace the largest public forum ever held in Australia regards dwindling warehouse stock for artists spaces and the creative re-invigoration of Sydney.

Seconded to sit on a NSW Parliamentary sub-committee for the re-development of the Finger Wharf at Woolloomooloo as a cultural precinct.

Invited by the President of the Art Students League of New York to contribute her experience during an attempted hostile takeover of their 57th Street beaux arts property by developers while living in Manhattan NY.