Matt Kenyon Explained

Matthew Kenyon
Birth Date:	1977
Nationality:	American
Known For:	New Media Art
Notable Works:	Consumer Index,^[1] Improvised Empathic Device (I.E.D.),^[2] The Notepad, Supermajor, Spore 1.1, Tardigotchi

Matthew Kenyon (born 1977) is an American new media artist and director of the art practice, S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production). Kenyon focuses on critical themes addressing global corporate operations, mass media, military-industrial complexes, and the liminal area between reality and artificial life.

Biography

Matthew Kenyon received his BFA from Southeastern Louisiana State University in 1999 and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. He is currently the director of the graduate program at the University at Buffalo department of art.^[3] He was previously associate professor of art at the University of Michigan's Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).^[4]

In 1999, Kenyon founded S.W.A.M.P. with fellow artist Douglas Easterly. The pair operated S.W.A.M.P. as a collaborative partnership until 2012, when Kenyon assumed full creative direction of the practice.^[5] Their work, The Notepad (2007) is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).^{[6] [7]}

In 2015, Kenyon was awarded fellowships at TED and the Macdowell colony.^{[8] [9] [10]}

Select exhibitions

• 2015: GLOBALE: Infosphere, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2015: TED Global, Vancouver, Canada
• 2015: Illusion, Science Gallery, Petrosains Science Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 2014: State of Emergency, Van Every Gallery, Belk Visual Arts Center at Davidson College, North Carolina
• 2013: (In)Habitation, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MoCAD). Detroit, Michigan
• 2012: Flash Crash, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.
• 2012: In Search of the Miraculous, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
• 2011: Talk to Me, The Museum of Modern Art, (MoMA). New York City.
• 2010: FILE Prix 2010, Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2009: End of Oil, Exit Art, A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), New York City
• 2006: FILE 2006 International Symposium of Electronic Language, São Paulo, Brazil

External links

• Official Website
• "A secret memorial for civilian casualties" TED Talk, March 2015.
• A Touch of Code, ed. Verena Hanschke (Berlin: Gestalten Press, 2011).
• DiSalvo, Carlo. Adversarial Design. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012.

Notes and References

1. Book: GAROIAN . CHARLES R. . Practice theory : seeing the power of art teacher researchers . GAUDELIUS . YVONNE M. . 2013 . National Art Education Association . 9781890160579.
2. Book: Pedersen, Isabel . Ready to wear : a rhetoric of wearable computers and reality-shifting media . 2013 . Parlor Press . 978-1602354005.
3. Web site: Kenyon, Matt . Department of Art - University at Buffalo . 7 April 2020.
4. Web site: Matt Kenyon to Speak at Global TED2015 Conference Stories Creative Work Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan . stamps.umich.edu . 2016-07-11.
5. Web site: Interview: Matt Kenyon . Nemec . Gaspard . December 3, 2012 . Coolhunting . 2016-07-11.
6. Web site: Matt Kenyon, Douglas Easterly, SWAMP. Notepad. 2007 MoMA . The Museum of Modern Art . 2016-07-11.
7. Web site: MoMA Talk to Me Notepad . www.moma.org . 2016-07-11.
8. Web site: Matt Kenyon to Speak at Global TED2015 Conference Stories Creative Work Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan . stamps.umich.edu . 2016-07-11.
9. Web site: The MacDowell Colony . www.macdowellcolony.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php . May 26, 2009 . 2016-07-11.
10. Web site: Meet the 2015 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows . December 17, 2014 . en-US . 2016-07-11.