FEED.art Presents: Matthew Schlanger Video Screening and Artist Talk
Matthew Schlanger has been creating video art since the late 1970s. His distinctive visual language is at once electronic and tactile, with shifting abstractions that can feel organic, sensual, playful, or unsettling. Working in real time with custom-built analog and digital processors, Schlanger composes sound and image as parallel, intimately connected structures.
Schlanger is both an artist and a toolmaker. He has been building analog video and audio synthesizers since the 1980s.
Matthew will present a selection of his work, including a rare screening of Blowgun.
Lumpy Banger, 1985
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Blowgun
Based on a dream, Blowgun reveals a more psychological and explicitly narrative dimension of Schlanger’s practice. Created in 1990—without AI—the work was composited live in a blue-screen studio. Charcoal animations were downstream-keyed over actors, who were themselves matted against image-processed background footage.
Blowgun received its first public screening in April 2026.
Screening Itinerary -
9/18 at FEED MEDIA ART CENTER
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Video Screening (Center Gallery)
8:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Artist Talk & Discussion
About Matt Schlanger
Matthew Schlanger's video work exhibitions include the 1987 Biennial show at the Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Thread Waxing Space, TIbor de Nagy Gallery, The Kitchen, New Museum, PS1, AFI Video Festival, and Bronx Museum.
Matthew taught undergraduate and graduate video at the School of Visual Arts. He has also taught programming for SVA MFA Computer Art and game design and programming for Mercy College.
Schlanger started making video art in the late 1970’s and continues to create video in his home studio.
Matthew’s video hardware development work for himself, the Experimental Television Center, and for Dave Jone’s Design Lab, included a significant contribution in building the last generation of custom analog and digital image and sound synthesizers installed at the Experimental Television Center. Schlanger was an artist in residence at the Experimental Television Center from 1981 through 1987. He was introduced to the ETC while studying with Ralph Hocking and Ken Jacobs at Binghamton University.
Wrapture, 2021
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