Artist Talk: Matt Roberts

Matt Roberts is a new media artist specializing in locative media, physical computing, augmented reality, and real-time video performance.

His work has been featured internationally and nationally, including exhibitions in Taiwan, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Italy, Mexico and nationally in New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago. He was awarded the Transitio Award by the International Transitio_MX Festival in Mexico City, and the Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity at Stetson University. His work has been reviewed in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, and TVE Brazil. In 2015, his collaboration Dream Garden, with poet Terri Witek, was performed at Orlando’s Art in Odd Places, and in May 2016, Roberts was nominated for the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art by the Orlando Museum of Art, where his work was also on view. He is the founder of EMP: Electronic Mobile Performance, and an Associate Professor of Digital Art at Stetson University.

Matt’s work, Waves, is currently on view as a part of the exhibition, SOUND at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum.