Mathew Kneebone is an artist based in Yelamu/San Francisco, on the unceded territories of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. His practice is founded on research into uncertainties surrounding technology, often combining different histories, myths, and folklore as a cultural response. His work touches on various media, including drawing, electronics, writing, sound, and performance, to reconfigure specific technologies through an ambivalent blend of past and present. He teaches design at Deakin University in Naarm/Melbourne and is a thesis writing advisor at California College of the Arts.
He has given talks and workshops at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco; V2_ Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam; Central Saint Martins, London; Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam; San Serriffe, Amsterdam; EKA Gallery, Tallinn; Sitterwerk, St. Gallen; UEL, London, among others.
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Current/Recent Exhibitions
- Pyramid Scheme 2.0, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco
- Het Zuid Manifest: I Love Carlos, Rib, Rotterdam
- From Ghosts to Glitches, Magic Lantern Society, Long Beach
- The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse, Volume III, Part 2: Errors, Rib, Rotterdam
- Wake Up, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland
- Promises, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
- Entrouverte, LLS Paleis, Antwerp
- The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse, Volume II, Part 3: The Visitor’s Phantasy of the Artist as the Absent Foreigner, Rib, Rotterdam
- The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse, Volume II, Part 2: The Ribbon-Cutting Approach, Rib, Rotterdam
- Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco
- The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse, Volume II, Part 1: The Tail’s Bend, Rib, Rotterdam
- Through the Electric Grid Promised Land, / (Slash), San Francisco
- Published Work
- Auras, Another World: Laboratory of Illusion and Fantasy, Museum Dr. Guislain/Lannoo
- Contemporary Relics: Transistions in Print Technology, OASE #100: Karel Martens and The Architecture of the Journal, NAI Publishing
- Crystal Radio Building, All Possible Futures: Unrealized Archive #3 Large Format, Stripe SF
- EB4747, Bulletins of The Serving Library
- Events of Significance, rekto:verso
- Headlines from The Story of a Disaster Foretold, Anything But Certain: S&D #24, Art Paper Editions
- Laboratory for Digital Virology, Between The Fiction And Me: Umwelten of Artists and Architects, Grafische Cel/Luca School of Arts
- Mathew Kneebone in Conversation with RH, Het Moordenaartje #1, Rib
- Mathew Kneebone in Conversation with Tim Hunkin, Signals from the Periphery
- Mechanical Systems Drawing Vol. 2, Dent De Leone
- Mirror Power: A Heliodyssey, Half Man Half Orange, Werkplaats Typografie
- Radio Diagrams, Phantom Radio in Los Angeles, Werkplaats Typografie
- Simulation of Electrical Reliance, rekto:verso
- Technological Life Cycles, Real-time Realist #1, J-LTF Press
- pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/, CLOSED NO POWER, Tracking, the-documents.org
- Vectors for Looking, with James Langdon, Bulletins of The Serving Library
- Visual Artifacts, Trigger #2: Uncertainty, FOMU/Fw:Books