Matt Roberts

Matt Roberts is a new media artist and photographer whose work has been featured internationally and nationally, including shows in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Scotland, Taiwan, and nationally in New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, TVE Brazil and he was awarded the Transitio Award by the International Transitio_MX Festival in Mexico City. He lives in Florida where he is a Professor of Digital Art at Stetson University.

ARTWORK

Invasive Species Archives (Installation)
A series of 35mm slides, presented as a continuous slide show. This series reimagines the Library of Congress’s daguerreotype archive as a speculative and near-future archive. A near future that hybridizes both human and microplastics. Invasive Species is an ongoing series of photographs, animations, and augmented reality created from plastic debris along the Florida coastline. These works symbolize our interspecies entanglements with plastics, human activity, and the environment, and considers these entanglements as both highly problematic and rich in possibilities.

ARTWORK LINK
https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCMNee

TALK

Invasive Species Archive

Artist Matt Roberts will discuss his ongoing project Invasive Species and the Invasive Species Archive, which is part of the 404 exhibition. Invasive Species is an ongoing series of photographs, animations, and augmented reality created from plastic debris along the Florida coastline. These works symbolize our interspecies entanglements with plastics, human activity, and the environment, and considers these entanglements as both highly problematic and rich in possibilities.

WEBSITE
Matt Roberts