Matthew Gingold’s work in audio/visual installation and performance has largely focused on perception, the body and the various meanings ‘live’ and ‘alive’ can have within these contexts. Usually this is explored through the multiple – it’s differences and repetitions – and through these, our connections to identity, the everyday and the sublime. Gingold is interested in processes, both physical and algorithmic that playfully ‘overcode’ meanings or meta-structures. That is, he likes to create rules, many many rules, that by the very nature of complication become obsolete, renewed, changed, unexpected, beautiful, intuitive and generally unruly.

Working across artforms and media, Gingold’s practice spans installation, exhibition, performance, public and community outcomes. His most recent work, Circuit, a Made by Melbourne Fringe commision that networks and transforms photographs of gallery visitors was simultaneously shown at 8 independent and artist run initiatives across Victoria, including Allen's Walk (Bendigo), Arc Yinnar (Yinnar), Westspace, Seventh, Kings, Yarra Sculpture, Off the Curb and Bus (Melbourne).

Other projects have been presented at CarriageWorks during the Sydney International Festival (2008), Northcote Town Hall 2008, Melbourne University Theatre 2008, Bus Gallery 2006, Tap Seac Square, Macau 2007, BlackBox 2006/07, ACMI Memory Grid 2004/5, the State Library of Victoria 2004 and as part of the Nextwave 2004, Melbourne International 2006, Melbourne Animation 2005, MAPFEST Melaka International 2009, Dance Massive 2009 and Gertrude Street Projections 2009 festivals. 

Gingold was the Director of Seventh Gallery from 2005-2008 and is a founding member of the audio-visual jam collective Outpost. In 2008 he received an ANAT Professional Development grant to attend a masterclass with the founders of openFrameworks at the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media, and in 2009 is the inaugural recipient of the Aphids Tactical Media Residency at CIA Studios in Perth.

Forthcoming works include The Perfect Artist, a mass video portrait project documenting Australian creative culture to be presented at the Australian National Portrait Gallery in 2010.

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