Professor Matthew Fuller

Matthew is involved in a number of projects in art, software and media ecology and has written on media theory.

Staff details

Position

Professor of Cultural Studies, convenor of the MA in Digital Media

Department

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

m.fuller (@gold.ac.uk)

Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies. With Usman Haque, he is co-author of 'Urban Versioning System v1.0' (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, of ‘Evil Media’ (MIT), Editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' (MIT) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture. He is involved in a number of projects in art, media and software and is the author of the forthcoming, 'How to Sleep, in art, biology and culture' (Bloomsbury).

Teaching

Matt teaches the Digital Media: Critical Perspectives module and the option Media Philosophy. He is also convenor of the MA in Digital Media.

Areas of supervision

He supervises PhD researchers in: new media, art, software studies, cultural ecology, design, cultural theory, and related areas. Proposals are welcome from those planning diverse forms of research.

Presentations and exhibitions

Mongrel
Artists collective

Media Shed Southend-on-Sea, UK
Free Media Space

The Container Palmers Cross, Jamaica
Free Media Space

I/O/D 1994-1997
Speculative software group

Run-me
Software Art Repository

‘Convergence, the journal of new media’

Computational Culture

Publications and research outputs

Book

Analysis, Exposure and Addition: the Aesthetic and Ecological Logics of Joana Moll’s ‘Carbolytics’ Fuller, Matthew. 2022. Analysis, Exposure and Addition: the Aesthetic and Ecological Logics of Joana Moll’s ‘Carbolytics’. Ljubljana: Aksioma – Institute for contemporary Art, ljubljana. ISBN 9789619543788
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth Fuller, Matthew and Weizman, Eyal. 2021. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth. London: Verso. ISBN 9781788739085
Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2019. Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781517905538

Edited Book

Software Studies: a lexicon Fuller, Matthew, ed. 2008. Software Studies: a lexicon. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 1-334. ISBN 978-0-262-06274-9

Book Section

Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems Fuller, Matthew and Goffey, Andrew. 2024. Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems. In: Melanie Sehgal and Alex Wilkie, eds. More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 153-171. ISBN 9781529227789
Side Channel Attacks Fuller, Matthew. 2022. Side Channel Attacks. In: Rosi Braidotti; Emily Jones and Goda Klumbyte, eds. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 133-134. ISBN 9781350231429
In praise of plasticity Fuller, Matthew. 2020. In praise of plasticity. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 34-53. ISBN 9780429196515

The Autonomous and the Enmeshed, Marko Peljhan's Theatre of Operations Fuller, Matthew. 2019. The Autonomous and the Enmeshed, Marko Peljhan's Theatre of Operations. In: Igor Spanjol and Marko Peljahn, eds. Here We Go Again, system 317. Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, pp. 65-80. ISBN 978-961-206-140-1
Sonic Tensors and Mental Ears in Universes of Synthesis Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Sonic Tensors and Mental Ears in Universes of Synthesis. In: Vanessa Joan Muller, ed. Florian Hecker: Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese. Berlin / Vienna: Sternberg / Kunsthalle Wien, pp. 7-14. ISBN 9783956794711
Inhabiting High Density Realities, on Shu Lea Cheang's Artistic Language Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Inhabiting High Density Realities, on Shu Lea Cheang's Artistic Language. In: Paul B. Preciado, ed. 3x3x6 Shu Lea Cheang. Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, pp. 15-68. ISBN 9789860588798
Vulgar Data Structures, on some mathematical aspects of the Situationist Times and their present relevance Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Vulgar Data Structures, on some mathematical aspects of the Situationist Times and their present relevance. In: Ellef Prestaeter, ed. These are Situationist Times, an inventory of reproductions, deformations, modifications, derivations and transformations. Oslo: Torpedo Press, pp. 219-232. ISBN 9788293104230
Screaming Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Screaming. In: Steve Goodman; Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou, eds. Unsound : Undead. Falmouth: Urbanomic, pp. 43-46. ISBN 9781916405219
Intersubjective Silver Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Intersubjective Silver. In: Marcel Rene Marburger, ed. Weiser. Cologne: Edition_ verlag, pp. 160-171. ISBN 9783981424638
Crawl, Map, Link, Read, Copy, Repeat Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Crawl, Map, Link, Read, Copy, Repeat. In: Michael Connor; Ariana Dean and Dragan Espenscheid, eds. The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology. New York: Rhizome / New Museum, p. 76. ISBN 9780692173084
Software Studies Methods Fuller, Matthew. 2018. Software Studies Methods. In: Jentery Sayers, ed. The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138844308
Figuring Ecologies Fuller, Matthew. 2018. Figuring Ecologies. In: Pedro Gadanho, ed. Eco-Visionaries, art, architecture and new media after the anthropocene. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, pp. 130-147. ISBN 9783775744539
Half 10k Top-slice Plus Five Fuller, Matthew. 2017. Half 10k Top-slice Plus Five. In: Jon K. Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison, eds. Fiction as Method. Berlin: Sternberg, pp. 103-120. ISBN 9783956793646
Devastation Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2017. Devastation. In: Erich Hoerl and James Burton, eds. General Ecology. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 323-344. ISBN 9781350014701
Abstract Urbanism Fuller, Matthew and Harwood, Graham. 2016. Abstract Urbanism. In: Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng, eds. Code and the City. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138922112
Computational Aesthetics Fuller, Matthew and Fazi, Maria-Beatrice. 2016. Computational Aesthetics. In: Christiane Paul, ed. A companion to digital art. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 281-296. ISBN 9781118475201
The Forbidden Pleasures of Media Determinism Fuller, Matthew. 2015. The Forbidden Pleasures of Media Determinism. In: Eleni Ikoniadou and Scott Wilson, eds. Media After Kittler. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 95-111. ISBN 9781783481224
Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity Fuller, Matthew. 2014. Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity. In: Olga Goriunova, ed. Fun and Software Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 91-107. ISBN 978-1-6235-6094-2
Phrase Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2012. Phrase. In: Nina Wakeford and Celia Lury, eds. Inventive Methods, the Happening of the Social. London: Routledge, -. ISBN 978-0-415-57481-5
Boxes Towards Bananas Fuller, Matthew. 2011. Boxes Towards Bananas. In: Mark Shepard, ed. Sentient City. New York: MIT Press / Architectural League of New York, -. ISBN 978-0-262-51586-3
The Cat Seemed to Think There was Enough of it Now in Sight Fuller, Matthew. 2010. The Cat Seemed to Think There was Enough of it Now in Sight. In: Andreas Broeckman and knowbotic research, eds. OPAQUE PRESENCE: manual of latent invisibilitie. Berlin: Diaphanes. ISBN 978-3-03734-108-7
On the Usefulness of Anxiety, two Evil Media Stratagems Fuller, Matthew and Goffey, Andrew. 2010. On the Usefulness of Anxiety, two Evil Media Stratagems. In: , ed. Sarai Reader: Fear. Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, pp. 155-163.
Art for Animals Fuller, Matthew. 2008. Art for Animals. In: Bernd Herzogengorath, ed. Deleuze/Guattari & Ecology. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 266-286. ISBN 9780230527447
Art methodologies in Media Ecology Fuller, Matthew. 2008. Art methodologies in Media Ecology. In: Simon D. O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke, eds. Deleuze, Guattari and The Production of the New. London: Continuum, pp. 45-55. ISBN 978-0826499530
Introduction, the Stuff of Software Fuller, Matthew. 2008. Introduction, the Stuff of Software. In: Matthew Fuller, ed. Software Studies: A Lexicon. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, pp. 1-13. ISBN 978-0-262-06274-9
Freaks of Number Fuller, Matthew. 2006. Freaks of Number. In: G. Cox and J. Krysa, eds. Data Browser 2: Engineering Culture: One 'The Author as (Digital) Producer'. New York: Autonomedia, p. 15. ISBN 1570271704

Article

Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index Blom, Ina and Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index. Critical Inquiry, 51(2), pp. 405-408. ISSN 0093-1896
National Word Inventory: Notes for a History. Fuller, Matthew. 2024. National Word Inventory: Notes for a History. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 33(67), pp. 210-212. ISSN 2000-1452
A Filter Theory of Photography Blom, Ina and Fuller, Matthew. 2024. A Filter Theory of Photography. Media Theory, 8(1), pp. 107-132. ISSN 2557-826X

Art Object

Digger Barley Fuller, Matthew. 2009. Digger Barley.

Film/Video

Requiem for Cod Fuller, Matthew and Harwood, Graham. 2010. Requiem for Cod.

Performance

500 Slogans Fuller, Matthew. 2009. 500 Slogans. In: "Moving Forest", Transmediale, Germany, 2009.

Show/Exhibition

War on the Senses / War of the Senses Fuller, Matthew and Topuzovski, Tihomir. 2024. War on the Senses / War of the Senses. In: "War on the Senses / War of the Senses", Moseum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, 5 December 2024 - 5 March 2025.
10x10x10 Fuller, Matthew. 2024. 10x10x10. In: "10x10x10 of Media Art", Stadtwerkstadt, Linz, Austria, September 2024 - onwards.
Sleep Series Fuller, Matthew and Cheang, Shu Lea. 2023. Sleep Series. In: "Sleep Series", Stadtwerkstadt, Linz, Austria, 2018-ongoing.