Matthew (they/he, Scotland) works mostly with camera-produced content, especially moving image. Matthew embodies cameras and interrogates physical and digital topographies. Cultivating a gap, they work in-between individual and device, hill and signal, loaded with the desire to inhabit the other.
They are currently in residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, were recipient of the Margaret Tait Residency and received their MFA from the Glasgow School of Art.
Matthew reintroduces the amorphicity of the network to its structure, holding technological infrastructure to the logic of its content. They have worked with cruise ships, true crime, gambling, and karaoke as empty vessels re-performed by us, circling travel as an expansive metaphor for digital experience and moving image and increasingly arrive at work addressing technological and actual death.
Utilising ad-hoc, intimate, methods arising from Scotland’s folk tradition they produce music for their work informed by Scotland’s environment of extraction, capital, industry, and tourism. Their work frequently employs wider installation, especially with expansive and specific display technologies. They frequently work with and extract from specific imaging devices, like thermal cameras or extreme zooms, inverting and mobilising desire and power embedded in device.