Marc Matter
Assistant Professor for Music and Text
marc.matter@musikundmedien.net
Marc Matter, born 1974, studied from 1999 to 2004 at the Academy of Media Arts, his teachers including 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. For his performances and workshops, he has travelled half of Europe, South America and the USA. 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.
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, and lives in Düsseldorf and Brussels.
He has been teaching at the Institute For Music and Media at Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf since 2010.