HEXEN2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a genersl science of the workings of the human mind...HEXEN2.0 draws this material together in the form of alchemical diagrams, photo-text works, drawings and designs for 78 card Tarot deck. [Hexen2.0 is] based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future...Treister's art work is comarable to that of Mark Lombardi but with a more expressionistic style. Internet: Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982), and is now based in London having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Utilizing various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Treister has evolved a large body of work which deals with notions of identity, history, power and the hallucinatory. Her practice engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research, such as alchemy, extrasensory perception and 'conspiracy theory', to reveal the structures that bind power, identity and knowledge. Often spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies that suggest the existence of covert, unseen forces at work in the world, whether corporate, military or paranormal. A number of Treister's projects including "HEXEN 2039" (2006) and "Vesna" (2006) involve her alter ego and avatar Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional woman living between 1970 and 2058 who believes herself capable of time travel and of working at a fictional top-secret governmental organisation called the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality (IMATI). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.