The Samstag Alumni
The 1999 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Peter Alwast | Stephen Bram | Kristian Burford | Nicholas Folland | Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren
Matthew Warren is part of the emerged technopop generation that thrives on spectacle, fragmentary logic and altered psychic experience. In Warren's case, the rave aesthetic translates into a gothic multi-media production, ushering digitalized video and sound performance into a new Romantic age of self-inquiry. Romanticism, as we know, thrives best in brooding, primal landscapes and what could be more Ur than the Tasmanian wilds? In Warren's mind, Western Canada runs a close second and so we see his homage to TWIN PEAKS, THE X-FILES and to the dark, freaky spaces of imagination paved by the Kafkaesque Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg.
Hmm. A century of out-of-control art, an epoch of scientific revolution gone wild and science fiction still holds us in its charge. I'd say that's a pretty good guide to the future.
M.A. Greenstein
from her Samstag catalogue essay;
Back to the Future - From Wry to Rave
| Matthew Warren Born 1971, Burnie, Tasmania |
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| 1999 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada |
| 1995 | Graduate Diploma of Art, Craft & Design, University of Tasmania, Hobart |
| 1994 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart Awards |
Meditation 11 - Launceston 1998
stills from single channel video
© the artist
Nobody's Home 1998
stills from video documentation of sound and video installation
© the artist