Matt Kenyon

Matt Kenyon is a new media artist and designer. Kenyon’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, MOCAD Detroit, Science Gallery Dublin, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, and the International Print Center. He is a TED Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and his work has been awarded the FILE Prix Lux. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Wired, and Gizmodo, and has also appeared in edited volumes such as A Touch of Code (Gestalten Press) and Adversarial Design (MIT Press). He lives and works in Buffalo, New York, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, and part of PLATFORM, UB's socially engaged design studio. Visit www.swamp.nu for more about Matt Kenyon and his work.

Art + Science + Mass media + Cultural Critique

My favorite quote is by punk rock musician/activist Jello Biafra. "Don't hate the media, become the media" There is a fantastic RE-Search interview with Mark Pauline from several years ago. In it he discusses how his passion for hacking industrial technologies is to ensure that artists have their hands on them—that they aren't simply used for utility. I investigate digital technologies in a similar way. These things are out in the world and it is up to artists to usurp them as needed, whenever possible.

Handling rattlesnakes