Matthew Galea

www.matyougalea.com
Malta (citizenship)
research interests: Sculpture, Cross Media Systems, Mixed Reality Systems, Sound Art, Sound Sculpture, Social Sculpture, Hybrid Interfaces and Interaction Modalities, Interactive Art Practice, Artificial Consciousness, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Awareness, Alternative Platforms and Archives., Tattoo
affiliation: Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta
orcid: 0000-0002-0219-0974
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Matthew (matyou) Galea (b.1986), PhD, is a hypermedia sculptor currently based on the island of Malta. His practice and research revolve around the nature of sculpture together with sculpture’s roles and responsibilities in the 21st century. Based at the Department of Digital Arts within the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences at the University of Malta, Galea currently conducts research in the fields of expanded sculpture, tattooing, and system aesthetics, with a sustained interest in feedback, latency, and the poetics of technical failure.

 

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  • Territories :: Dialects (last edited: 2019) author(s): Otso Tapio Aavanranta, Matthew Galea This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Territories :: Dialects is a multifaceted research cluster converging at the third Research Pavilion in Venice. It brings together ‘Electronic Chamber Music’, a Helsinki-based live electronic quartet and Matyou Galea, a Maltese sculptor.The cell investigates zones of interface and interference between artistic practices, confronting the native territories of the cell participants with other forms of expression. While retaining each participant’s core activity and expertise, we collectively engage in a research process using, for instance, somatic techniques, sculptural and spatial approaches, conceptual framing as well as language-based processes. The background argument is that artistic research is recharged through a transdisciplinary component. As the research extends the ensemble’s scope from music and sculpture to a larger frame of expression, to other territories, layers of analysis, translation and communication are built upon the native craft of music-making. In this way, the inner dynamics of a specialist ensemble can become apparent and tangible to other artforms as common dialects to be shared, discussed and reformulated.
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