Matthew Fuller

Matthew Fuller is a writer, artist and Professor of Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London. He is known for his writings in media theory, software studies, cultural studies, and contemporary fiction. Until September 2006, he was responsible for the Media Design Research programme at Piet Zwart Institute along with Femke Snelting, and worked as Course Director for the Media Design programme. He has collaborated with a number of art collectives, including I/O/D (as a member), Mongrel, MediaShed, and The Container Project. He lives in London.

Works

Nonfiction

• editor, Flyposter Frenzy: Posters from the Anticopyright Network, Working Press, 1992, 104 pp.
• editor, Unnatural: Techno-Theory for a Contaminated Culture, Underground, 1994, 150 pp.
• co-editor, README! Filtered by NETTIME: ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge, New York: Autonomedia, 1999, 556 p.
• Behind The Blip. Essays On The Culture Of Software, New York: Autonomedia, 2003, 165 pp.
• Media Ecologies. Materialist Energies In Art And Technoculture, Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2005, 265 pp.
• Softness: Interrogability; General Intellect, Art Methodologies in Software, Huddersfield: Huddersfield University/Digital Research Unit, 2006; repr., Aarhus: Center for Digital Æstetik-forskning, 2006, 49 pp. Originally given as a talk at the ISEA in Helsinki in 2004
• with Usman Haque, Urban Versioning System v1.0, Architectural League of New York, 2008.
• editor, Software Studies: A Lexicon, MIT Press, 2008, 334 pp.
• with Andrew Goffey, Evil Media, MIT Press, 2012, 235 pp.
• How to Sleep, in Art, Biology and Culture, Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

Fiction

• ATM, London and Milan: Shake, 2000, 108 pp. [1] [2]
• Elephant & Castle, Autonomedia, 2011, 160 pp. [3]
• More, cont.

Papers, book chapters

• "It looks like you're writing a letter: Microsoft Word", Nettime, 5 Sep 2000.
• "Behind the Blip: Software as Culture", Nettime, 7 Jan 2002.
• "Freaks of Number", in Engineering Culture: On 'The Author as (Digital) Producer', eds. Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa, New York: Autonomedia, 2005, pp 161-175.
  • "Monstres mathématiques (Freaks of Number)", in Art ++, ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud, Orléans: HYX, 2011, pp 302-315. (French)
• with Andrew Goffey, "Towards an Evil Media Studies", in The Spam Book, eds. Jussi Parikka and Tony Sampson, Hampton Press, 2009, pp 141-159. Written Mar 2007.
• with Andrew Goffey, "On the Usefulness of Anxiety: Two Evil Media Stratagems", in Sarai Reader 08: Fear, eds. Monica Narula, et al., Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2010, pp 156-163.
• "The Cat Seemed to Think There was Enough of It Now in Sight", in Opaque Presence: Manual of Latent Visibility, eds. Andreas Broeckmann and Knowbotic Research, Zurich: diaphanes, 2010, pp 37-52. [4] [5]
• with Andrew Goffey, "Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction", Theory, Culture and Society 29:4-5, 2012, pp 311-333.
• with Andrew Goffey, "The Unknown Objects of Object Orientation", in Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion, eds. Penny Harvey, et al., Routledge, 2014, pp 218-227. [6]
  • "Die obskuren Objekte der Objektorientierung", trans. Heinz-Günter Kuper, Agata Królikowska and Jens-Martin Loebel, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 6, 2012, pp 206-221. [7] (German)
• "Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity", in Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing, ed. Olga Goriunova, Bloomsbury, 2014, pp 91-108.
• with M. Beatrice Fazi, "Computational Aesthetics", in A Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul, Wiley Blackwell, 2016, pp 281-296.
• with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills, and Stuart Sharples, "Big Diff, Granularity, Incoherence, and Production in the Github Software Repository", in Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social eds. Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo and Eivind Røssaak, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2016, pp 87-101.
• "Nobody Knows What a Book Is Any More", in Report from the Gutenberg Galaxy (Blaker), 3: Archive Has Left the Building, eds. Karin Nygård and Ellef Prestsæter, Blaker: Rett Kopi, 2017, pp 6-10.
• "Bookworms", in Report from the Gutenberg Galaxy (Blaker), 3: Archive Has Left the Building, eds. Karin Nygård and Ellef Prestsæter, Blaker: Rett Kopi, 2017, pp 16-21.
• Texts, cont., cont.

Interviews

• Interviews with Kate Rich, Ben Grosser, Sean Dockray, Annet Dekker, Olga Goriunova, Graham Harwood, Steve Goodman, Mark Fisher, Femke Snelting, Jussi Parikka, Luciana Parisi, a Photocopier, Rachel Baker, Bifo, Tom Betts, and 0100101110101101.ORG.
• Ryan Griffis, "Tandem Surfing the Third Wave with Matthew Fuller", Fall 2004.
• Simon Mills, "Interview with Matthew Fuller", framed, c2006.
• "Matthew Fuller in Conversation with Mark Marino", Journal of e-Media Studies 3:1, 2013.
• more

Links

• Home page (archived 2016)
• Home page (archived 2003)
• Profile at Goldsmith
• Profile at Piet Zwart Institute (archived 2008)
• Wikipedia