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Visiting Artist Series

Matt Nish-Lapidus

EVENT LOCATION:
Academy Campus (Room 208)

EVENT DATE & TIME
May 19, 2026 7:00 pm

Courtesy of Matt Nish-Lapidus.

Artist Statement

My practice is a hybrid—piecing together words, sounds, images, and technologies both created and found using methods including historical and theoretical research, bricolage, improvisation, synthesis, and iteration. I look for the poetics in the everyday, in hidden infrastructure, in forgotten technologies and alternate presents and futures.


I draw influence from the history of conceptual art, including proto-computational practices of artists like Sol LeWitt, Agnes Denes, Tony Conrad and the experimental improvisation practices of groups like The Nihilist Spasm Band. My research is broad and eclectic, including major influences from science-fiction writers Ursula LeGuin and William Gibson, as well as theorists including Jane Bennett, Alexander R Galloway, Kathleen Stewart, and more.

About The Artist(s)

Matt Nish-Lapidus is an artist and musician based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Matt’s varied practice probes the myth that computers should be useful rather than beautiful through examining contemporary technoculture, its histories, and its impacts on society, people, and his own life. His work results in diverse outputs including publications, recordings, installations, performances, software, and objects. Matt has performed and exhibited locally and internationally including MOCA (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), INDEX Biennial (Braga), ACUD Macht Neu (Berlin), Electric Eclectics Meaford), InterAccess (Toronto), ZKM (Karlsruhe), and more, including many DIY community spaces. He holds a H.BFA in New Media from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art from The University of Toronto. You can find Matt online and away-from-keyboard under various aliases and collaborations including emenel, New Tendencies, and Blink.