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Marc Matter
Assistant Professor for Music and Text 

marc.matter(at)rsh-duesseldorf.de
institut-fuer-feinmotorik.net

 

Marc Matter, born 1974, studied from 1999 to 2004 at the Academy of Media Arts, his teachers included Valie Export and Siegfried Zielinski.

Marc Matter is a founding member of the group of artists known as Institut fuer Feinmotorik, with whom since 1997 he has published numerous sound recordings, an experimental film, a book and all manner of other trifles, as well as dozens of live performances. 2005 saw the publication of the anthology Feinmotorik Kompendium, an artist's book in the form of a lexicon. His work Radio-Imitat, produced exclusively for Radio Arthur, was released on CD at the end of 2009. For Die 50 Skulpturen des Institut fuer Feinmotorik [The 50 Sculptures of the Institut fuer Feinmotorik], he received the Karl-Sczuka Prize for Works of Radio Art in 2011.

He devotes intense research to artist publications (artist books, artist records etc.), acoustic art, Poesie Sonore and Visual Poetry. Together with Marcus Maeder and Bernd Schurer (domizil, Zurich), he has interpreted a dadaistic novel by Hugo Ball in the shape of an experimental radio play for Radio DRS2.

Marc Matter works as a media artist, musician and freelance curator. In 2012 he was a research fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL). In 2013 he was the Edith and Richard French Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Yale University (USA), doing research on the sound-poet and publisher Henri Chopin and his publication OU

Since 2010, he has been lecturing in the major Music and Text at the IMM. He teaches the students about working with a wide range of text formats relating to music, sound and acoustic arts.

Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf Fischerstraße 110, 40476 Düsseldorf

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