Matthew Gingold’s work in audio/visual installation and performance has largely focused on perception, the body and the various meanings ‘live’ and ‘alive’ can have within these contexts. Usually this is explored through multiple differences and repetitions, and through these, our connections to identity, the everyday and the sublime. Gingold is interested in processes, both physical and algorithmic that playfully ‘overcode’ meanings or meta-structures. That is, he likes to create rules, many, many rules that by the very nature of complication become obsolete, renewed, changed, unexpected, beautiful, intuitive and generally unruly.
Matthew will present recent works including ‘Flying Falling Floating’, a dance-on-video installation presented at Carriageworks (Sydney, 2008) and MAPFEST (Malaysia, 2009); and ‘Circuit’, an interactive, networked auto-product-generating, video installation presented at 8 artist run galleries during the Melbourne Fringe (2009).
Matthew is currently a CIA artist in residence ( www.ciastudios.com.au ) and he will talk about his current project ‘The Perfect Artist’ (forthcoming, National Portrait Gallery 2010), including an insight into what, where and how the portraits will be processed and presented in the final installation. He will also discuss the recurrent themes of difference, repetition, humour, maths, beauty and making machines behave badly in his work.
If you'd like to be IN the Perth Edition of the ‘Perfect Artist’, please email Matt at
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