Siobhan Coen creates an installation foe exhibition at Firstsite
(Artdaily.org)

Siobhan Coen’s artwork explores how the human mind works, examining the perception of reality, and how information is filtered by the mind as well as technology to suggest different meanings and relationships. She creates immersive installations by reworking elements of digital communications - such as RGB lights (the pixels that make up images) and spoken words - to examine how the manipulation of these elements, rather than the subject matters they communicate, can affect what we perceive to be true. Unknown Knowns features a monologue constructed from former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld’s self-narrated audiobooks Known and Unknown: A Memoir (2011) and Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life (2013). Rumsfeld’s time in office as US Secretary of Defense during the Iraq