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MATTHEW SWARTS + BRANCHES BOOK PROJECT (2023)

BRANCHES (Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, 2021-2023). Inquiries with trees.   When the woodcutter enters the forest the trees all murmur the handle of the axe is one of us. — Aesop   I live in Somerville, Massachusetts, one of the most densely populated urban areas in New England. Most days during the pandemic I have calmed…

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MATTHEW SWARTS + INSTITUTE OF NETWORK CULTURES (AMSTERDAM) + 1974+PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot (2022)

I feel very fortunate to have my work published in the Institute of Network Culture’s PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT (2022) INC Zine #4 PRTSCN: THE LAZY ART OF SCREENSHOT Edited by Dunja Nešović The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the…

MATTHEW SWARTS MATTHEW SWARTS + DEAR DAVE, (ISSUE 28) DEAR DAVE 28 COVER FRONT v02

MATTHEW SWARTS + DEAR DAVE, (ISSUE 28)

MATTHEW SWARTS + DEAR DAVE, (ISSUE 28) “Matthew Swarts has engaged in the neurology of networked computing and photography, warping information and idling in digitized distortions and chromatic discord,” writes Stephen Frailey (EDITOR, DEAR DAVE,). “The work reveals a romanticism that seems atypical for an involvement with technology. The photographs are a lattice of powdery…