Mathew Kneebone is an artist based in Yelamu/San Francisco
whose practice examines technological systems at moments of
uncertainty, failure, and breakdown. Working across drawing,
electronics, text, sound, and performance, he reconfigures everyday
infrastructures—such as electrical networks, communication
systems, and broadcast media—to reveal how technical
operations intersect with cultural belief, myth, and collective
memory. His projects often translate abstract or invisible processes
into perceptible forms, using malfunction, latency, and interruption
as compositional tools. He is currently 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
- Mean Time Between Failures Neighbor at 019, Ghent
- Vestigial Limbs La Mofeta, San Francisco
- 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
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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
- Shadow Drums, Human Powered I–V La Mofeta
- 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