Matthew Fuller is an author and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths, University of London. He is known for his writings in media theory, software studies, critical theory and cultural studies, and contemporary fiction.
Work
His book ''Media Ecologies'' examines the interactions of complex media systems in current art practices. Drawing on the theories of
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media studies, media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridg ...
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Félix Guattari
Pierre-Félix Guattari ( , ; 30 April 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and ecosophy with Arne Næs ...
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William Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...
, Fuller explores unorthodox and non-traditional uses of media. The book analyzes interventionist art projects by BIT (Bureau of Inverse Technology), Irational.org, pirate radio projects, surveillance video projects, and the work of conceptual artist
John Hilliard. According to WorldCat, this book is in 890 libraries In ''Evil Media'', Fuller and co-author Andrew Goffey examine media power in the form of information systems, addressing, as the book states, "the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques."
Fuller is also a media artist. He has collaborated with a number of art collectives, including I/O/D, Mongrel, MediaShed, and The Container Project. Along with Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Fuller co-founded the MIT Press book series ''Software Studies''.
See also
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Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media studies, media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridg ...
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Gilles Deleuze
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Félix Guattari
Pierre-Félix Guattari ( , ; 30 April 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and ecosophy with Arne Næs ...
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Friedrich Kittler
Friedrich A. Kittler (June 12, 1943 – October 18, 2011) was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.
Biography
Friedrich Adolf Kittler was born in 1943 in Rochlitz in Saxony. His ...
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media ecology
Media ecology theory is the study of media, technology, and communication and how they affect human environments. The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964, while the term ''media ecology'' was first formally introduced b ...
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Internet art
upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the phy ...
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software art
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software studies
Software studies is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, which studies software systems and their social and cultural effects. The implementation and use of software has been studied in recent fields such as cyberculture, Internet st ...
Bibliography
* ''Flyposter Frenzy: Posters from the AntiCopyright Network'' (Working Press, 1992)
* ''Unnatural: Techno-Theory for a Contaminated Culture'' (Underground, 1994)
* ''ATM'' (Shade Editions, 2000)
* ''Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software'' (Autonomedia, 2003)
* ''Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture'' (MIT Press, 2007)
* ''Urban Visioning System 1.0'' (Architectural League of New York, 2008)
* ''Software Studies: A Lexicon'' (MIT Press, 2008) According to WorldCat, this book is in 1000 libraries
WorldCat Book listing
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* ''Real Projects for Real People'', with Anne Nigten, Kristina Andersen, Sam Nemeth (NAI Publishers, 2010)
* ''Elephant and Castle: A Novel'' (Autonomedia, 2011)
* ''Evil Media'', co-authored with Andrew Goffey (MIT Press, 2012)
* ''How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness'' (Bloomsbury, 'Lines' Series, 2018)
* ''Bleak Joys, aesthetics of ecology and imposisbility'', co-authored with Olga Goriunova, (Minnesota University Press, 2020)
* ''Investigative Aesthetics, Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth'' co-authored with Eyal Weizman, (Verso, 2021)
References
External links
Matthew Fuller site
Official web page at Goldsmiths, University of London
Mongrel
MediaShed
The Container Project
I/O/D Speculative Software Group
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Living people
Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London
Year of birth missing (living people)