Matthew Dixon
Digital Direction MA
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Creative Direction / Digital Arts / Storytelling
Location: London, United Kingdom
Matthew Dixon
First Name: Matthew
Last Name: Dixon
Specialisms: Creative Direction / Digital Arts / Storytelling
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Digital Direction MA
About
Matt (he/him) is an Artist, Designer and Educator, sharing important stories via new technologies. Formerly a Creative Director for the arts and culture sector, he has lectured extensively in the UK and is a practising artist with work held in private collections in the UK and U.S. His current research explores the facilitation of a dialogue between ecosystems, with the aim of making the invisible visible, and providing a catalyst for empathetic engagement with urgent stories. Matt is particularly interested in how the absurd and disorientating can heighten questions of meaning in a universe increasingly separate from our conscious experience of it.
Where There Are Edges is a site-specific immersive experience which relays audio accounts from residents of Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, an area noted as suffering severe coastal erosion due to rising sea levels and worsening weather conditions. Despite the dramatic loss of land and an ongoing threat to homes, The Environment Agency has made clear it would not act to stop the cliffs eroding because of a long-standing policy of non-intervention in the area. This work is the start of an archive and the beginning of a journey from the ethereal toward an engagement with the materiality of the world.
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