Matthew Schlanger
Video still, Matthew Schlanger
Matthew Schlager uses custom-built analog and digital processors to create his image processed video works. His practice revolves around an exploration of what Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski calls “the imponderabilia of actual life”: human interaction, time, physical and psychic space, and memory. As with social and biological processes, Schlanger’s videos appear in a state of near constant flux. He deploys cyclic electronic waves as a visual source to generate rhythmic combinations of amorphous, abstract images that unfold in reaction to an electronic soundtrack. The work’s content hones in on the most primitive and elemental social and biological functions, often becoming schematics of moods or psychic states through its transitions between shapes and segments.
Matthew Schlanger (b. 1958, Brooklyn) is a video artist who lives and works in New York. His video hardware development work for the Experimental Television Center, and for Design Lab, included a significant contribution in building the last generation of custom analog and digital image and sound synthesizers. He has had solo exhibitions at Hopper House Art Center, Nyack; Time Based Arts, Amsterdam; Donnell Library, New York; and Millennium, New York. His work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions at venues such as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; PS1, New York; New Museum, New York; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Sonic Lights, Amsterdam; Fukui Fine Art Museum & Phoenix Plaza, Fukui City; and EyeBeam Art and Technology Center, New York.
Video still, Matthew Schlanger
Video still, Matthew Schlanger
Matthew Schlanger
Solo exhibitions
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2011
A History of Video, Société, Berlin
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2007
Video Histories, Hopper House Art Center, Nyack
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1990
More Than Blood, Galerie Rene Coelho, Amsterdam
The Old Becomes New With Use, Tape and print show, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam -
1987
Meet the Makers, Donnell Library, New York
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1985
A screening and presentation by Matthew Schlanger, BFVF, Boston
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1984
Anthology Video Program, Matthew Schlanger and Hank Linhart, Millenium, New York
Group exhibitions
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2011
A Tribute to the Experimental Television Center, Anthology Film Archives, New York
A Tribute to Steve Rutt, SVA Theater, New York
Hopper Re-imagined, Hopper House Art Center, Nyack -
2008
Video as an Instrument II, Supreme Trading Gallery, New York
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2007
Brother Islands (performance), EyeBeam Art and Technology Center, New York
Analogue of No Return, ZKM, Karlsruhe -
2006
Flipped Chips, Ocularis, Galapagos Art Space, New York
Sun Khronos, Millennium Film Workshop, New York -
2005
Video Twilight, Analog of No Return, OASIS/ ZKM, Karlsruhe
Xfilm festival, Sofia
Synaesthesiologists, Test-Portal 2005, Amsterdam
GAGA Arts Festival, GAGA Gallery at Garnerville Arts and Industrial Complex, New York
HHORRRAUTICA, various screenings including: Participant, Inc. through Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema and at the 12th Annual
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Video as an instrument, THE TANK, New York -
2003
De Balie, Sonic Lights, Amsterdam
WORM, Rotterdam
ICON at REOMOTE X, Fest X/AniMate Festival, REMOTE Lounge, New York -
2002
The Resurrection Bus: Work from the Experimental Television Center, Apexart, New York
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2000
The 100th Turn, Digital Video Wall at 1251 Avenue of the Americas, Rockefeller Center Pedestrian Concourse, New York
Video Art at Lowlands, Lowlands Pop Festival, Netherlands
D.U.M.B.O short film and video festival, D.U.M.B.O art under the bridge festival, New York -
1999
Motion: An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica
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1992
The Interactive Show, ThreadWaxing Space, New York
Mixed media video sculpture, Palm Beach Community College Museum, Palm Beach -
1991
Infinite Window, Mixed medium video sculpture shown / Webo, New York
De IJsbreker, Amsterdam -
1990
Stereo Imaging / 3D Viewing & Virtual Realities, NYC ACM/SIGGRAPH, Flat art work shown, New York
Aeschatological Assumptions, The Cafh Foundation -
1989
After Collapse: Post Currents 1989, Buffalo
NCI, Lisbon
Video Is, The Rotunda Gallery, New York -
1988
Digital Explorations: Emerging Visions in Art, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Fukui International Video Biennial 88, Fukui Fine Art Museum & Phoenix Plaza, Fukui City
Computers and Art, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami
Untamed Video, University Art Gallery, tate University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton
Videoville, “Dreamscapes,” The Learning Channel, National Cable Network, New York
Post-Currents, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock
Space for Contemporary Art in Video in Lyon, Elac, Lyon
Video Jamboree, Locus Communications, New York -
1987
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
American Pop Culture, Laforet Museum Espace & Harajuku, Tokyo
New Works, AFI Video Festival, Los Angeles
Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and the Computer, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Techno Bop 87, The Kitchen, New York
Artists in the Electronic Age, Aaron Davis Hall, New York
Eye Media / Chicago
Artists’ Video and the Experimental Television Center, The Neighborhood Film, Philadelphia
The Other New York: Regional Reflections, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Refuses, Squiggle Gallery, Artists’ Television Access, PCTV, Cable Channel 25, San Francisco -
1986
Videonale, Bonn
National Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA (1986), The State Museum in Albany
A Video Primer: Electronic Art from the 80’s, Katonah Gallery
NO-TV , Greater Rochester Cablevision, Rochester
New Works, AFI Video Festival, Los Angeles
Views, The New Museum, New York
Video on Paper, Film/Video Arts, New York
Artist and the Computer, City College of NY (1985, 1984, 1983), New York -
1985
ETC Anthology, The Kitchen, New York
NYC Experimental Video and Film Festival, BACA Downtown, DCTV, Global Village, New York
Locus Focus, Manhattan Public Access, New York
Video in the Boroughs, Fashion Moda, Snug
Harbor Cultural Center, New House Gallery, New York -
1984
Videoville, WNYC-TV, New York
Romance and Mystery, Global Village, New York
Abstraction and Image Processing, PS1, Flushing, New York
Video as a Canvas, Pyramid Club, New York -
1982
Image/Process, The Kitchen, New York
The Center for New Television, Chicago
The Festival of Alternatives in the Arts, Binghamton, New York -
1981
The ETC Benefit, The Kitchen, New York
Grants and funding
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1991
Checkerboard Foundation
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1990
Electronic Arts Grants
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1986
Jerome Foundation Grant
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1985
NY Foundation for the Arts Grant
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1984
NYS Council on the Arts Co-production Grant
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1984
CAPS Grant Fellowship
Lectures and presentations
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1989
Lecture and tape show, New York State Summer School of the Arts, New York
Visiting Artist, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY (1989)
Lecture and tape show, Ramapo College, New Jersey
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1986
Lecture and tape show, City College, New York
Presentation: Artist and the Computer, City College, New York
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1983
Lecture and tape show: Innovations and Experimentations in Film and Video; Introduction to Cinema, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton
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1981
The ETC Benefit: Demonstrated custom hardware, The Kitchen, New York