Interlace (2011) Single-Channel HD Video Live Audio-Visual Performance / Release Open-Air Improvised Recordings
PROGRAMS (2011 ~)
Mute City Dreemz (2010)
Single-Channel HD Projection, 16:9, Loop
Noumina (2010)
Multi-Channel Sound, Single Channel HD Projection, 16:9, Loop
Airfield (2009)
Multi-A/V Release – Audio Album + HD Video
Beat Projections (2009)
Open-Air Audio-Visual Event @ Footscray Community Arts Centre
Death To Yevgeny Nourish (2008)
Mixed-Media Installation, Dimensions Variable
Sinuso Dial (2008 – 2009)
Studio + Live Processed Guitar / Abstract Video Project
Cacophony (2008)
International Sound Art Improvisation via Skype
The Min Min Lights (2007~)
Nawlz (2006~)
Sound Design for Online Interactive Graphic Novel
For a Full Archive of Video Works from 2002 – 2011 (excl. Noumina)
Please visit my Vimeo Channel
Bio:
Matt Tierney is an Australian guitarist and artist working across cinema, sound and software, pursuing an unflitching dedication to audiovisualism for over 10 years.
Matt exhibits and produces under a range of monikers, more often credited as m. Leaf-tierney, Matt Leaf, and the more recent audio-visual outfit PROGRAMS.
His works take the form of installation, screening and performance, and have been presented in Vancouver, Melbourne, New York, Utrecht and Tokyo.
Matt has been selected to participate in the 2012 JUMP Mentoring Program with artist and researcher Ollie Bown. He has also received 2012 funding from CAL Australia and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, to support conference, presentation and networking opportunities in the USA.
In 2011, Matt was awarded an Australia Council ‘Artstart’ grant, and was Artist in Residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center in New York City. In 2010, Matt was a participant in a Full Dome cinema residency with the Australian Network for Art & Technology in Perth, W.A.
Audio releases also published as ‘The Min Min Lights’ (since 2007), ‘Sinuso Dial’ (since 2008) and as sound designer for the screen-based graphic novel ‘Nawlz’ (2006 – 2008).
Based in Melbourne, Australia.
CV:
EDUCATION:
2008 BFA, RMIT, Melbourne, AU
2008 (Jan – June) BFA (abroad), HKU – KMT, Utrecht, NL
2003 Dip. Visual Art & New Media, Swinburne, Prahran, VIC AU
2001 Cert IV, SAE, Prahran, VIC AU
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES:
2012 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2012 Creative Industries Career Fund Grant, CAL Australia
2012 JUMP Mentoring Program, Youth Arts QLD / Australia Council
2011 Harvestworks Artist in Residence, New York City
2011 Artstart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2010 Domelab Residency, ANAT, Perth, WA AU
EXHIBITIONS:
Current:
2012 Noumina, Austhetic: Federation Square Big Screen, Melb, AU
Re-runs:
2011 Noumina, Design Festa Gallery, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Mute City Dreemz, BYOB : Setup Media Lab, Utrecht NL
Group:
2011 BYOB Melbourne: Tristian Koenig Gallery, South Yarra, AU
2010 Celluloid Cave: Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, AU
2010 Semantic Clutter: Westspace, Liquid Architecture 11, Melb, AU
2008 Under The Gun, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Curatorial:
2011 Hyperspace Gallery, Development & Curatorial, Melbourne, AU
2008 Beat Projections, Audio-Visual Event, FCAC, Footscray, AU
2008 STEM, Live A/V event, Parnassos Cultural Centre, Utrecht, NL
Screenings / Presentations:
2011 Artist Talk @ Harvestworks, NYEAF, NYC, USA
2010 Noumina, CINESONIKA Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Airfield, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy, Australia
2010 Airfield, Rainbow Serpent Festival, Beaufort, Australia
LIVE PERFORMANCE:
2012 SOUND PARTY, Live A/V: PROGRAMS, Dawson St., Melb, AU
2011 IN/OUT, Live A/V as PROGRAMS, Knitting Factory, NYC, USA
2011 WARPER, Live A/V as PROGRAMS, Zamaan Bar, NYC, USA
2009 Sense, Live A/V as Sinuso Dial: Surface, Glitch Bar, Melb, AU
2009 The Min Min Lights, Live Score to Kwaidan (1964), RSF, AU
2008 Outset, Live Sound, The Toff in Town, Melbourne, AU
2008 Multiple Mono, Live Sound, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, AU
2008 FAVSC, curated by Emile Zile, Sinuso Dial: Biology, FCAC, AU
2008 STEM, Live A/V, Sinuso Dial: Biology, Parnassos, Utrecht, NL
AUDIO RECORDINGS:
2011 The Min Min Lights – Secret Sessions EP, Web Release
2010 Dreaming of Summer in Winter compilation, on EAR
2010 The Min Min Lights – Pre-Historia EP, Web Release
2010 / 2007 The Min Min Lights – Fireflies EP, Web Release
2009 AMP 004 compilation, on amp bit if go recordings, UK
2009 Sinuso Dial – Airfield EP, Web Release
2008 Sinuso Dial – Live in Melbourne EP, Web Release
2008 Sinuso Dial – Anigma EP, Web Release
2008 Sinuso Dial – Biology EP, Web Release