Matthew Woodham is an artist who works across disciplines. His practice explores system dynamics in nature through research and practical application. His academic background in cognitive neuroscience has informed an expanded study of the common dynamics and structures described by physical and mathematical principles.
He creates audio-visual works and interactive sculptural installations using a variety of processes such as: programming, electronic circuits and experimental physical techniques. He has a particular focus on spatial interactions, algorithmic models of nature and emergence, or simple components exhibiting complex behaviour.
He aims to create environments which synthesise the abstract and uncanny, appealing to, and provoking universal human intuitions. He uses live settings to create immediate, real-time experiences while integrating scientific theory and a critical approach to technology.
RCA IED 2022-2023 | Currently based between London & Nottingham | Studio member at Backlit & Near Now
Magicwire Paris Projections
Off-grid architectural projection in Paris for Gabriola - Believer EP marketing
Politics of The Machines Conference
Presentation of 'Lifelikeness in Adaptive Dissipative Structures' - short film featuring whirlpool machine & talk covering scientific concepts
Joey Holder - Cryptid at Two Queens
AV design & lighting intervention for solo show at Two Queens, Leicester. 2ch video, 4ch audio & 8ch synchronised LED lighting system
Joey Holder - Cryptid (2023)
6ch video installation design for Art Basel in Paris, 2023
V&A Digital Design Weekend
A network of two interactive installations, with conditions controllable with an iPad touchscreen. 'Emergent forms' reconfigured from 'Conditions', and a new, smaller whirlpool hourglass
Field Maneuvers Festival 2023
Main stage live visuals on Saturday, three 'Sputnik-1' inspired kinetic light sculptures and LED filament lighting additions to Laika tent
Royal College of Art Degree Show
A network of 3 interactive installations, a self-organising whirlpool machine, chaotic oscillating anemometers and continually transforming, computationally generated emergent 3D forms
Throwing Snow Live AV @ LEV Festival
Live AV performance of 'Dragons' album by Throwing Snow as part of LEV festival in Gijón, Spain.
IRCAM Conference, Centre Pompidou
Presented a spatial audio piece created in collaboration with composer, conductor & artistic Kate Milligan. Audio samples were moved in physical multi-dimensional audio and simulated 3D visual space, using an implementation of the paper 'Symplectic integrators for spin systems' (McLachlan, 2014)
Son Of Philip - Rain Music Video
Music video created in Touch Designer & VDMX for Son of Philip
TRADE
Art residency at The Lengths, Fort William.
Wigflex 24
24hr live visuals & real-time lighting for room 2 at Corsica Studios, London.
OTOKA
Website for arts space, residency and project by Candice Jacobs.
Sputnik 1
Kinetic light installation for Field Maneuvers festival 2022, inspired by the Sputnik 1 satellite.
Wars In The Workshop Exhibition
Online exhibition about the reign of Henry VI through genealogical rolls - in collaboration with NTU.
Ceremony of Obsolescence
Video installation for One Thoresby Street's 'Not Happy' closing exhibition.
Il·Luminar Exhibition
Exhibition at Artcore Gallery in Derby with Benjamin Shirley-Quirk - an interactive, mechanical lantern installation which projects the truth to any questions you might ask.
Re-Textured at Printworks
Live visuals for Rebekah's set at Re-Textured festival at Printworks, London
Punchdrunk 'Burnt City'
Lighting and electronics technician for the 'Burnt City' immersive theatre performance.
Lone Live AV
Live visuals and light installation at Village Underground, London for Lone's premiere live show for the album release 'Always Inside Your Head'. Live visuals for Amazon's 'Signals' online festival.
Wigflex City Festival 2021
Responsible for 5 stages across the festival in collaboration with Potential Difference. The Refinery stage in the BioCity car park included a custom-built scaffolding DJ booth, metal light sculptures and 5 modified 'high bay' industrial lamps suspended in ceiling of the marquee.
Gasleak Mountain 'Welcome To The Mountain'
Installation room in Gasleak Mountain space, featuring a collaborative audio piece with Kay Fabe. Lighting setup for outdoor set up in yard, for a 5hr Kay Fabe DJ set.
Lone - Coming Into Being and Passing Away
Generative music video for 'Coming Into Being and Passing Away' by Lone
Korean Cultural Centre Installation
3 channel synchronised 4K audio-visual piece directed by Park Jung-woo. Setup design and installation.
'Great Escape' Web Page Design & Build
Web page design for NTU Fine Art student project hosted by One Thoresby Street.
Throwing Snow Album Visuals
Video compositions for all album tracks, including album cover artwork and inserts.
Transference.TV
UI Design for online Interim show at Central St. Martins for MA Fine Art, MA Art & Science & MA Contemporary Philosophy.
Darkness Retreat by Flora Parrott
Web development for online 3D exhibition 'Darkness Retreat' by Flora Parrott. Built using A-Frame.
New Midland Group Website
Web design and development for New Midland Group - a consortium of 3 artist-led organisations in Nottingham; One Thoresby Street, Backlit and Primary.
Son Of Philip - Rubber Stamp
Music video utilising machine-learning synthesised video. StyleGan2 model trained on underwater creatures.
Interstitia
Web platform development and mentorship. NTU Fine Art 2020 graduate programme and exhibition. Six graduates were mentored through programming their own web art page for an online exhibition taking place on the One Thoresby Street website.
Fleximodal.TV
Four channel, 24/7 AV experience. Online project conception, design and delivery. Also produced 12 AV mixes for the site. Collaboration with Wigflex.
SPUR.WORLD
Online platform, social network and 'virtual residency' for fine art graduates who missed out on a final show due to COVID-19.
One Thoresby Street Website
Brand-new website for One Thoresby Street artist studio, gallery & fabrication space.
Kallida Festival
Collaborated with Rich Maskey & Benjamin Shirley-Quirk to build an interactive light & sound room for the festival. Composed music & built abstract interface to control the room.
Pint of Science
Collaborated with astronomer Dr. Meghan Gray to build an interactive AV installation for Pint of Science 'Creative Reactions' art & science event.
Wigflex City Festival
Multimodal stage at Nottingham Contemporary for Wigflex City Festival - comprised of large-scale sculptural light and projection mapped installation.
Africa Nouveau Festival, Kenya
Lighting design & art installation production for British Council supported project. Contributed artistic production for the festival in Nairobi, alongside Kallida festival team.
UKYA City Takeover
AV technician for Nottingham city-wide arts festival.
Wigflex x Multimodal NYE with Jane Fitz
Custom visuals and light sculptures for NYE event at The Brickworks, Nottingham
A Common Craft
Website for podcast series about the archetype of the Witch, Witchcraft and magic and how these subjects may affect our daily lives.
Randomforest.site
Research and publishing platform which investigates the construction of belief in online networks. For artist Joey Holder.
Field Maneuvers Festival
Reactive light towers, geodesic dome and seating area installation.
'Adcredo’ - Joey Holder
AV Installation for artist Joey Holder’s exhibition at QUAD gallery, Derby & Matt’s Gallery London.
One Thoresby Street Future Studio Production Space
Creative producer for ACE funded research project looking into the future of artist studio spaces.
'Adcredo’ - Joey Holder
Online platform and experience based on neural-networks for artist Joey Holder’s pseudo-brand.
Vice - ‘Reclaim The Club’
Collaborator for 5 min documentary series – filming interview, studio, Multimodal installation and creation of music.
Multimodal x Wigflex
Craig Richards at Nottingham Contemporary. Live, quadraphonic, ‘surround-scape’ AV installation performance.
Wigflex Rooftop Party
Helena Hauff at Saltwater, Nottingham. Live visuals, set-design and lighting.
Future Now
Live AV modular synthesiser performance.
Near Now Fellowship
Animations & synthesised brand promotional resources.
Thoresby Street Thursdays
Organisation and curation of 10 member-led exhibitions in the Attic gallery of One Thoresby Street for the 10 year anniversary of the building.
Playback festival at The ICA, London
‘Ident.Life’ screening as part of the Random Acts Playback Festival.
Borderlines Film Festival
‘Ident.Life’ cinema film screening.
Wigflex Basement Sessions
Jackmaster at Red Bar, Nottingham – Venue set design, interactive installations and live visuals.
Lace Unarchived at Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
Commissioned sculptural video piece responding to the lace archive. I designed a curved, CNC-cut cabinet for 24 CRT monitors which featured digitised, distorted and decaying archival items.
Light Night at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
Interactive light dome installation.
Explorers Fair 2018
Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. Gallery room takeover, interactive light installation.
Film Free and Easy: Up In The Air
A/V installation featuring a generative, modular synthesised audio and video patch, processed via VDMX then projected.
Wigflex Warehouse Party, London
Venue lighting design, visuals and installations, including projection-mapped ‘monster’ on an old furniture lift-shaft.
Starf*cker
Video design & live projection | R&D and scratch performance at Battersea Arts Centre, London for new theatre project by Shannon Sickels.
VDMX & MadMapper workshops
De Montfort University, Leicester | In collaboration with artist Dan Tombs.
WEATHER SYSTEMS
Interdisciplinary Art & Science project with artist Calvin Sangster | Web design & development.
Jane Fitz at The Pickle Factory, London
Assistant for LED reactive sculpture build throughout venue.
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
Live visuals in Blade Factory stage, in collaboration with artist Gareth Hustwaite.
Project Nottingham Rebrand
Nottingham electronic event promoter rebrand. Brand identity, marketing strategy and full redesign.
Wigflex - Tom Demac at The Columbian, London
Experimental live visual show combining found footage, live feed and analogue video synthesis.
Joey Holder – Ophiux
Projection mapped installation on large curved screen for “Would you like to come back to our hut?” Exhibition at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham.
Video Wall Workshop at De Montfort University, Leicester
Delivered a workshop using VDMX to arts lecturers and professors; exploring the live, performative and interactive techniques possible with the 3×4 LCD video wall.
Ross From Friends – Suzinak
Music video for Magicwire 012 release “The Outsiders” by Ross From Friends
NSFW
Artist residency within disused Dell office.
808
Installations for rooftop event. Saltwater, Nottingham
Wigflex – Space Dimension Controller
‘Intergalactic’ Projection mapped live visuals & installations
Multimodal #01
Multifaceted brand/platform | Event series exploring intersections between arts, science and technology | 4 wall immersive AV night
Project – Fritz Wentink & Jon K
Event graphic & poster design
Giles Peterson
Live visuals at Irish Centre, Nottingham
Wigflex NYE Cage Party
Visuals & DIY Lighting design for Wigflex cage concept party.
Gnork – Big Dipper
Music Video | Magicwire Recordings
OPHIUX
Online 3D experience project in collaboration with artist Joey Holder
‘Getting to know’ – Alice Gale-Feeny
AV tech concept & programming for solo Exhibition at Nottingham Castle
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
Live analogue visuals in collaboration with artist Gareth Hustwaite.
Wigflex x Magicwire
Promotional video & live visuals at The Yard, London
Alter Ego
Festival lighting/decor/artistic installations
Peckham Rye Music Festival
Visual loop competition winner
Signal-Cave.Path
AV installations within cave system utilising various analogue technologies for 'Wah Wah' at Malt Cross
Near Now Studio
Led project to build a prototype mobile application 'Unible' to help find meaningful collaborations.
New Midland Group
Website design for online delivery of Bloomberg New Contemporaries in Nottingham
Nottingham Contemporary
AV install for Sun Ra Exhibition, 'Alien Encounters'
CQNET | Creative Auarter
R&D Project for community website for creative businesses in the Nottingham creative quarter.
KNOW HOW PLACEMENT
Digital placement at Nottingham artist-led studio/gallery space One Thoresby Street. Website redesign, digital strategy & promotional content