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Matthew Schlanger

Video still, 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

Video still, Matthew Schlanger

Video still, Matthew Schlanger

Matthew Schlanger

Solo exhibitions

  • 2011

    A History of Video, Société, Berlin

  • 2007

    Video Histories, Hopper House Art Center, Nyack

  • 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

  • 1985

    A screening and presentation by Matthew Schlanger, BFVF, Boston

  • 1984

    Anthology Video Program, Matthew Schlanger and Hank Linhart, Millenium, New York

Group exhibitions

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1991

    Checkerboard Foundation

  • 1990

    Electronic Arts Grants

  • 1986

    Jerome Foundation Grant

  • 1985

    NY Foundation for the Arts Grant

  • 1984

    NYS Council on the Arts Co-production Grant

  • 1984

    CAPS Grant Fellowship

Lectures and presentations

  • 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

  • 1986

    Lecture and tape show, City College, New York

    Presentation: Artist and the Computer, City College, New York

  • 1983

    Lecture and tape show: Innovations and Experimentations in Film and Video; Introduction to Cinema, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton

  • 1981

    The ETC Benefit: Demonstrated custom hardware, The Kitchen, New York

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