19.07.22 - Last year I was appointed Course Leader for BA Fine Art: Computational Arts at Camberwell College of Art, UAL. The inagaural year of the course has been a success, doubling in size over the year from student transfers. The course focuses on the plurality of computational art practices from generative art to CGI to Worldbuilding with Game Engines. See our instagram .

08.04.21 - A new series of works called Cave Paintings can be found on the tezos-based NFT marketplace Hic Et Nunc.

15.01.20 - The magazine Art in America has a special on generative art for which I've written an article titled Bots vs AI.

11.07.19 - My PhD thesis is now public. The practice-based study, funded by AHRC, is titled The art of bots: A practice-based study of the multiplicity, entanglements and figuration of sociocomputational assemblages, and was conducted at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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British/Colombian artist Matthew Plummer-Fernández works across physical and digital media, critically and playfully examining the interrelation of algorithmic systems, popular culture, and contemporary issues. Their work is influenced by Generative Art, Critical Design, and Internet Art, and has been exhibited extensively, commissioned by institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, AND Festival in Manchester, and ZKM in Karlruhe. Several works of the artist are in the permanent collection of Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in 2014, they received an award of distinction at Ars Electronica. Plummer-Fernández received an MA from London's Royal College of Art in 2009, completed a practice-based doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019, and in 2021 was appointed course leader in BA Fine Art - Computational Arts at Camberwell College of Arts in London.

2021

Not Another JPEG, Self-published

2020

AI v Bots, Art in America, January issue

2019

PhD thesis - The art of bots: A practice-based study of the multiplicity, entanglements and figuration of sociocomputational assemblages. Goldsmiths, University of London.

2015

People of the 21st Century, Avant Magazine

2014

Popular Protest, Grafik Magazine

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Born in London, 1982
Lived in Colombia 89-99
Currently based in UK


Solo Shows

2019 Rozsirene Autorstvo, Bratislava, SK

2017 No Backups for 1909 days, London, UK

2017 Shiv Integer, with Julien Deswaef, iMal, BE

2016 Material Want, with JODI, at iMal, BE

2016 Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK

2015 Hard Copy, Nome Gallery, Berlin, DE

2015 Color Gamut, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, US


Group Shows

2019 Future Relics, Vector Festival, Toronto CA

2019 Artistic Intelligence, Kunstverein Hannover, DE

2018 Good Grief, Somerset House, London, UK

2018 York Mediale, York, UK

2018 kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE

2018 Spime, Museum of Art Nuoro, Sardinia, IT

2017 Materialising the Internet, MU Gallery, NL

2017 Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE

2017 States of Play, Humber St Gallery, Hull, UK

2017 HeK showcase, Liste, Art Basel, Basel, CH

2017 Prima Materia, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, NL

2017 Imprimer Le Monde, Pompidou Centre, Paris, FR

2017 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, NCCD, UK

2017 Objects of Transcendence, Watermans, UK

2016 Into the Wild, Somerset House, London, UK

2016 Art of Bots, Somerset House, London, UK

2015 Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Grizedale, UK

2015 Staying with The Trouble, Whitebuilding, UK

2015 Algorithmic Rubbish Stedelijk Museum Bureau, NL

2015 The Subterranean, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, NL

2015 Plastic, The Nieuwe Instituut, NL

2015 X+1, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal CA

2014 The Printed Object, Onassis Centre, Athens, GR

2014 Internet Yama-Ichi, Brussels, BE

2014 Cyberarts, Ars Electronica, Linz, AT

2014 The New Sublime, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK

2013 AND Festival, FACT, Liverpool, UK

2013 Bensimon Gallery, Paris, FR

2012 Coded Perceptions, Setup, Ultrecht, NL

2012 Generator.x 3.0, iMal, Brussels, BE

2009 Show 2, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2008 Crashland, Tokyo, JP

2008 Designersblock, Milan, IT

2007 Designersblock, Milan, IT

2007 Designersblock, London Design Festival, UK



Press and Publications

2018 Ian Youngs for BBC

2018 Cory Doctorow for Boing Boing

2017 Bob Dickenson for Art Monthly

2017 Paul Soulellis, Printed Web 5, Bot Anthologia

2016 Annalee Newitz for Ars Technica

2016 Nicolas Nova, Dadabots (book)

2015 Regine Debatty, interview for WMMNA

2015 Digital Handmade, Thames & Hudson (book)

2015 Anne Kohlick, Monopol Magazin, DE

2015 Katie Collins, Wired UK

2014 Printing Things, Gestalten (book)

2014 Madeleleine Morley for It’s Nice That

2014 Regine Debatty, Artists In Laboratories

2013 Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian, Podcast interview

2013 Greg Smith, Creative Applications, interview

2012 High Touch, Gestalten (book)

2008 Data Flow, Gestalten (book)


Curation

2018 My Wall is Your Filter Bubble, Arte Alameda, Mexico City, MX

2017 My Wall is Your Filter Bubble, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Peak District, UK

2016 Art of Bots, Abandon Normal Devices, Somerset House, London, UK


Awards

2014 Prix Ars Electronica, Award of Distinction

2009 FX Breakthrough Talent of the Year award

2009 Royal Society, Royal College of Art, award

2002 Kings College London Engineer’s Association Award


Collections

2017 Centre Pompidou, FR

2016 iMal, BE

2015 National Football Museum, UK



Funding and Grants

2020 Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Centre for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London


2014—2017 AHRC Design Star Centre for Doctoral Training, Funding Award

2016—2018 Somerset House Studios residency

2015 Innovate UK & Arts Council funding

2015 Whitebuilding residency



Lectures

2021 Tezos panel talk, Art Basel, Basel, CH

2019 The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

2018 Design Museum, London, UK

2018 Tentacular Festival, Madrid, ES

2018 St John’s University, York, UK

2017 Resonate Festival, Belgrade, RS

2017 Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

2017 London College of Communication, London, UK

2016 Carrol/Fletcher Gallery, London, UK

2016 V&A Museum, Botsummit, London, UK

2015 Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, NL

2015 Futureverything, Manchester, UK

2015 Transmediale, Berlin, DE

2015 Sculpture Network, Linz, AT

2015 The Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL

2015 The Story, London, UK

2015 Arts Council,Digital Utopias, Hull, UK

2014 Ars Electronica, Linz, AT

2014 Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2013 Parasol Unit Art Foundation, London, UK



Research

2020- Visiting Researcher Fellow, Centre for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London

2014—2019 AHRC-funded PhD, The Art of Bots, Goldsmiths, University of London

2018 Book contribution, Energy Babble (Gaver et al) Mattering Press

2015 Paper, Speculative Method and Twitter: Bots, Energy and Three Conceptual Characters (Wilkie, Michael, Plummer-Fernandez) (The Sociological Review, 63(1), 79-101)

2015 Paper, Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Energy Groups. (Gaver et al) (SIGCHI 2015)

2012—2019 Algopop (informal research blog and ongoing lectures) (algopop.tumblr.com)



Teaching and Workshops

2021-2022 Course Leader, BA Fine Art: Computational Arts, Camberwell College of Art, UAL, UK

2021-2022 Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, CCI Diploma, Creative Computing Institute, UAL, UK

2021 Research Assistant, Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, UK

2020-2021 Lecturer, School of Digital Art (SODA), Manchester, UK

2020-2021 Associate Lecturer, Creative Computing Institute, UAL, UK

2019-2020 Associate Lecturer, MA Interaction, LCC, UAL, UK

2019-2020 Associate Lecturer, BA UX Design, LCC, UAL, UK

2019 Workshop, School of Machines, Berlin, DE

2018 Lecture & Workshop, Arte Alameda, Mexico City, MX

2017 Lecture & Workshop, Fundación Telefonica, Lima, PE

2015 TA, Bartlett, School of Architecture, London, UK

2015 Lecture & Workshop, Hyperwerk, Basel, CH

2014 Lecture & Workshop, ECAL, Lausanne, CH

2013 TA, BA and MA Design, Goldsmiths, London, UK