MATTHEW MAZZOTTA matthewmazzotta.com
triangle@mit.edu 315 521 1399 WORK
Lecturer in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s program Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) EDUCATION
2009 Master of Science in Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning ­ Full Tuition Fellowship The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture ­ Fellowship Award BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago ­ Merit Scholarship 2009 2001 AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES
2015 Culturunners Residency in partnership with Art Jameel ­ Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Centre for Contemporary Art Residency – Singapore Headlands Center for the Arts Residency ­ USA Artplace America Grant 2014­15 2014 Architizer A+ Award – ‘Architecture and Urban Transformation’ – Jury Choice Americans for the Arts ­­ Public Art Network Year in Review Award for Public Art & Placemaking AZ Awards – ‘International Award of Design Excellence’ ­ Azure magazine Chamberlain Award​
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Headlands Center for the Arts Great Places Award – ‘Place Design’ ­ Environmental Design Research Association Architect's Newspaper – ‘Best Of Design Award’ 2013
The Santo Foundation: Individual Artist Award 2012 The National Endowment for the Arts: 2012 Grant The Visual Artists Network: Grant 2012 Musagetes Foundation Residency Rijeka, Croatia 2011 Americans for the Arts: Year in Review Public Art Award for community engagement and social activism ­ jurors Gail Goldman, Kendal Henry, and Richard Turner Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship award for Sculpture/Installation Cittadellarte­Fondazione Pistoletto – Biella, Italy Coleman Art Center ­ York, AL, USA Sculpture Space ­ Utica, NY, USA Musagetes Foundation Residency Rijeka, Croatia 2010 Peer Group: Portable Artist in Residency, Smalle Ee, Netherlands Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Gyeonggi Korea Smack Mellon Hot Picks, New York, NY, USA Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Program, Cambridge, MA, USA 2009 The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Award, Skowhegan, ME, USA Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award, Johnson, VT, USA Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Program, Cambridge, MA, USA 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Science in Visual Studies Full Tuition Fellowship 10th Annual Media Spectacle Honorable Mention/Best Documentary, MIT Comparative Media Studies Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Program, Cambridge, MA 2007 Americans for the Arts: Year in Review Public Art Award­ Jurors: Miwon Kwon and Larry Kirkland Honor Award for Landscape Art Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Boston, MA Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Program, Cambridge, MA 2006 Grant for Community­Building, Interactive Art Projects Black Rocks Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA Visiting Artist ­ Hyannis, MA ­ Invited by Hyannis local government to facilitate a public design charrette that formed the basis of the Hyannis Public Art Strategy, a multi­tiered approach to emphasizing the visual arts in Hyannis. Commissioned to create a Public Art Installation as the kick off for the public art program. Council for the Arts at MIT Grant Program, Cambridge, MA 2005 Berwick Research Institute Artists In Research Residency, Boston, MA Boston Redevelopment Authority and City of Boston, Department of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events 2003 South End Art Hop People’s Choice Award – Sculpture, Burlington, VT 2000 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Sculpture Magazine ­ May Issue ­ Living in Public: Conversation with Matthew Mazzotta Brack Magazine Singapore ­ Brackchat: Hello Session with Matthew Mazzotta THE Magazine ­ April Issue ­ Review of OPEN HOUSE and At Home In The World group show 2015
Nebraska's PBS and NPR ­ ​
Public Art Projects Aim To Create Community On Main Street​
(Radio piece) Grist ­ ​
The wacky, messy tale of the man who just wanted to make a dog poop lamp New Portable Architecture: Designing Mobile & Temporary Structures – ​
Wang Shaoqiang MATIÈRE GRISE matériaux / réemploi / architecture PAVILLON DE L'ARSENAL ­ ENCORE HEUREUX Flatlanders: Critical Dialogue for Nebraska’s Contemporary Art ­ Matthew Mazzotta's Storefront Theater NPR Nebraksa ­ In Lyons, Nebraska, A Big Art Project Revives A Small­Town Tradition 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Sculpture Magazine​
­­ Nov Issue ­ Review of OPEN HOUSE Artvoices Magazine Fall issue – (Cover and feature article) ­­ ‘​
The Architecture of Social Space​
’ Public Art Review Magazine ­ issue 49 – ‘Open House’ Architizer – ‘​
Artist Matthew Mazzotta on Reinventing Public Spaces Through Art & Architecture​
’ Huffington Post ­ 'Open House' In York, Alabama Turns Abandoned Home Into Pop­Up Theater 8/14/13 CNN International – The house with a secret transformation 8/15/13 Le Huffington Post­ La surprenante maison­thêatre de Matthew Mazzotta à York, dans l'Alabama 8/29 Dezeen Magazine – Open House by Matthew Mazzotta 8/18/13 Dwell Magazine – Watch an unassuming house unfold into a community theater 8/23/13 Make Magazine – Open House: No, Really 8/19/13 Inhabitat​
­Alabama Open House Theater 8/12/13 Designboom ­ open house a transforming public theater – 8/12/13 Podnikatel ­Czech Republic ­ Psí exkrementy 3/7/13 Edmonton Journal – Canada­ Volunteers hope to light a park with doggie doo­doo 4/5/13 Huffington Post ­ Dog Poo Power Goes Global 07/05/12 NHK Tokyo Japan ­ 'Shaneru’ (TV documentary) Trend Hunter: Art and Design ­ Unassuming Urban Seating 12/28/12 Collab Cubed​
Matthew Mazzotta: Social Space Architecture​
11/26/12 psfk.com ­ Coconut shaped building unfolds into social seating 11/22/12 MojaRijeka – Croatia ­ Održana manifestacija "Striženje lukobrana" (TV) 4/22/12 Novilist Newspaper – Croatia ­ Umjetničke instalacije na Molo longu 4/22/12 Kingo – Croatia ­ Kada na lukobran neće Ship, onda će Sheep 4/22/12 RadioRijeka – Croatia ­​
Čermak nudi 27 milijuna eura za Dinu i Dioki​
(Radio) 4/22/12 Vecernji – Croatia ­ Umjetnici strigli ovce na riječkom lukobranu 4/22/12 Teklic Magazine – Croatia ­ Striženje lukobrana 4/18/12 Planet Magazine– Croatia ­ Striženje lukobrana 4/21/12 Grad Rijeka – Croatia ­ Striženje lukobrana 4/21/12 Rijeka Klik – Croatia ­ Ovce na riječkom lukobranu 4/18/12 Riječki Internet Dnevnik ­ Croatia ­ Striženje lukobrana 4/23/12 E­Rijeka – Croatia – Instalacije Radionice I Ovce Na Strizenju Lukobrana 4/23/12 The Colbert Report ­ 8/18/11 Maxim Magazine ­ February Issue Agence Science­Presse ­ Une énergie qui a du chien! 9/13/11 Young Galileo Magazine (Israel) ­ May issue Modern Dog Magazine – Spring issue Sea Change Radio ­ Don’t Throw It All Away: Park Spark Project & American Wasteland 3/8/11 Miljö & Utveckling Magazine (Sweden) – February issue Dyrefondet Magazine (Netherlands) – January Issue Every Dog Magazine – Winter issue Family Dog Magazine – January issue Huffington Post ­ Matthew Mazzotta's 'Park Spark': Dog Poop Power Lights Up Lamp 9/22/10 BBC Radio News hour ­ The Park Spark project 9/13/10 NPR Radio Boston ­​
Artist's Poo­For­Fuel Project Gets Messy​
9/13/10 Harvard Crimson ­ Sparky Dumps a Load of Sunshine 9/29/10 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 TALKS
NPR​
Living on Earth ­ The Scoop on A Unique Dog Waste Digester​
9/24/10 CNN Headline News ­ Dog droppings light the way in park 9/23/10 Science Magazine – Poop Powered 10/1/10 Wired Magazine ­ Dog Poop Powers Park Lights 9/15/10 Discovery Channel­ Dog Park Lit by Dog Poo 9/16/10 Chelsea Lately ­ 10/2/10 Psychology Today ­ Dog Poop and the Environment: Art and Power 10/7/10 Science & Vie Découvertes Magazine (France) – December Issue G4tv ­ Solar Powered Planes, Park Spark Poop Energy & Other Green Tech 10/4/10 Boston Phoenix ­​
Dropping Science​
Hot shit 9/22/10 Associated Press ­ Dog poop has bright side: Powering Mass. park lamp 9/22/10 ABC Boston Channel 5 ­ Poop Power Lights Night At Local Park 9/22/10 NBC Boston Channel 7 ­ Dog poop powering Cambridge park lamp 9/22/10 USA Today ­ Big wag: Dog waste is lighting the way 9/14/10 Fast Company ­ Pooch Park Powered by Poop 9/13/10 P.M. welt des wissens Magazine (Germany) – December Issue PhyOrg ­ Dog park lit by dog poop 9/13/10 Noorderbreedte Magazine ­ Volume 34 no. 3 Also good for your hair 6/24/10 Treehugger.com ­ New Design Turns Dog Poop into Gold­Well, Methane 6/20/10 Metro ­ Using poop to get people thinking 4/22/10 Gatehouse Media National Newspapers ­ Peter Chianca: Power to the pooches! 4/20/10 Cambridge Chronicle ­ Dog poop to power Cambridge parks? Yes, if one artist has his way 4/13/10 Rural Sociology Wageningen Weblog ­​
Touching food and social relations through art​
3/29/10 Fryslan TV Netherlands ­ K­rûte: PAIR, keunst yn konteners yn Smelle Ie 3/21/10 Energyboom.com ­ Dead Batteries, Food Waste and Doggy­Doo Powered Street Lamps 2/24/10 ASPECT DVD Magazine ­ Volume 13: Public SBS Seoul, Korea Television Network ­ Human power: A Great Alternative (one hour documentary) Nation Magazine’s ­ The Nation Guide to the Nation 1/1/09 Scholastic Book Series ­ Saving Energy and Recycling EcoWorldy.com ­ 2/2/08 Treehugger.com ­ Zero Emission Urban Mass Transit ­ The Busycle, 7/4/07 ABC Radio Australia ­ Breakfast with Red Symons 6/13/07 Make: Magazine ­ Volume7 Power to the Pedal 8/17/06 Desert News ­ Powerful Pedaling 6/16/06 Jamaica Plain Gazette 6/09/06 The Chicagoist ­ Dazed and Confused 6/08/06 TimeOut Chicago ­ Get on the Busycle 6/08/06 The Boston Globe ­ On a Bicycle Built, and Run, By Many 9/26/05 Big, Red & Shiny – Busycle at Berwick 9/4/05 The Boston Phoenix ­ Busycle Project 8/14/05 Metro ­ Get on the Busycle 7/26/05 Boston Globe Sidekick ­ The Busycle 7/26/05 The Weekly Dig – The Busycle, 7/20/05 KPFT Radio Houston ­ Living Arts program 7/22/05 NECN Good Morning Live TV 8/17/05 The Houston Press ­ Temporary Insanity 3/2/04 2016 2015
2014 Critical Connections Mini­Summit with Creative Many ­ Detroit, MI ­ Artist talk TransCultural Exchange International Conference ­ Boston, MA ­ Workshop: The Art of Connecting Worlds
The Armory Show: MENAM Symposium ­ NYC ­ Culturunners Journeys and Collaborations Dar Al Hekma University ­ Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ­ Artist Talk Singapore Art Museum ­ Artist Talk: Love Difference & Matthew Mazzotta Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore ­ Pecha Kucha Nanyang Technological University Singapore ­ School of Art, Design & Media­ Artist Talk The Union for Contemporary Art ­ Omaha, NE ­ Artist talk and Culturunners Crocker Museum ­ Sacramento, CA ­ Artist talk Open Engagement/ Open Platform ­ Queens Museum – Queens, NY Americans for the Arts Annual Convention ­ Nashville, TN Public Space: Lost & Found – exhibition and symposium ­ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Musagetes book launch “Projects Along the Coast Line: Adriatic Identities” – Rijeka, Croatia Socially Engaged Art Practices and Educationin contemporary discourse – Cittadellarte ­ Biella, Italy RAP Artist Talk: Matthew Mazzotta​
­ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Culturunners – Monday Night Lecture Series ­ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artist Talk ­ University of New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM The architecture of social space – workshop ­ Cittadellarte­Fondazione Pistoletto ­ Biella, Italy Creating Vibrant Communities through the Arts – Keynote Speaker ­ Ball State University Munster, IN ​
Causeway Challenge Speaker Panel​
­­ Causeway Organization ­­ Chattanooga, TN Artist Talk – Bard College ­­ Hudson, NY Artist Talk – Lesley University – Boston, MA Artist Talk – Cosmic Films Studio ­­ Lyons, NE 2013 Open House: A house with a secret – Harvard University ­­ Cambridge,MA Refest: art and tech festival ­ CultureHub (Seoul Institute of the Arts/ La MaMa) ­ New York, NY 2011 Patching The City 2011 – Public L: International Architecture Workshop – Rijeka, Croatia Open Studios Talk ­ Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
Art, Community, and Technology Symposium – Keynote Speaker – SUNY New Paltz, NY Tactical Design and Ecology with Natalie Jeremijenko – The Cube, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2010 Greening Green ­ Arko Art Center, Seoul Korea Klimaforum10 System Change ­ Not Climate Change ­ Cancun, Mexico Steeped in Exploration ­ De Galerij Gallery, Drachten, Netherlands 2009 Om House” Waves & Signs Conference ­ Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA Where Art and Technology Collide: Examples from the Field ­ Lesley University 2008 Grad Arts Forum ­ Activist Art ­ Massachusetts Institute of technology 2007 Right idea. Real results ­ Continuum Boston SELECT PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS(*) AND GALLERY SHOWS 2016
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*CLOUD HOUSE ­ Springfield, MO USA By the People: Designing a Better America ­ ​
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum ­ New York USA At Home In The World ­ 516 Gallery Alburqurque, NM *STOREFRONT THEATER ­ Lyons, NE USA *RURAL LEGENDS ­ Decatur, NE USA Public Space: Lost & Found – exhibition and symposium ­ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grey matter – materials, architecture and re­use –Group show – Pavillon de l'arsenal Paris, France Reprogramming the City ­­ Danish Architecture Centre ­­ Copenhagen, Denmark Show Up Show Down ­ Albuquerque, NM Wayfinding Film Festival – ‘Open House’ video screened on a mobile film vehicle across the US Biennial Roadshow Marfa – Marfa, TX *OPEN HOUSE – York, AL USA Refest: art and tech festival ­ CultureHub (Seoul Institute of the Arts/ La MaMa) ­ New York, NY Reprogramming the City: Opportunities for Urban Infrastructure​
­ Boston Society of Architects USA *STRIZENJE LUKOBRANA / PIER SHEAR – Rijeka, Croatia Remediate/ Re­Vision: Public artists engaging the environment ­ Boyden Gallery ­ St. Mary's College of Maryland *DO NOT DISTURB – Biella, Italy *THE PARK SPARK PROJECT ­ Pacific St. Park Cambridge, MA USA *STEEPED IN EXPLORATION ­ De Galerij Gallery, Drachten, Netherlands Klimaforum10 System Change ­ Not Climate Change ­ Cancun, Mexico Remediate/Re­vision ­ Wave Hill's Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY I know what you did last summer ­ Saint Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn NY *LOOKING FOR A LANDSCAPE ­ Cambridge, MA USA Klimaforum09 ­ Climate Summit ­ Copenhagen, Denmark 2008
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…and things of that nature ­ The Mills Gallery, Boston, MA *INSERTION MODULE ­ Cambridge, MA *TUESDAY ­ Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Stata Center ­ Cambridge, MA Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities ­ University of Massachusetts Amherst University Gallery Amherst, MA *THE BUOY PROJECT ­ Hyannis, MA *THE BUSYCLE ­ Traveling Public Intervention 2006 ­ Current(Co­Artist Heather Clark) The Berwick Institute­Boston, MA Experimental Station­Chicago,IL Altered Esthetics­Minneapolis, MN Art Farm­Marquette, NE Cheyenne Depot Museum­Cheyenne,WY Salt Lake City Public Library­Salt Lake City, UT City of Reno Public Art­Reno, NV City|Space “Get on the Bus”­ San Francisco, CA *IN HEAVEN ­ Boston Art Windows, Street Seen, Boston, MA *ON N ON ­ The Orange show, Houston, TX *HOMELESS IN A GHOST TOWN ­ University of Vermont, Burlington VT *da tirst ­ 14th annual South End Burlington Art Hop, Burlington, VT *WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU LEMONS ­ 13th annual South End Burlington Art Hop, Burlington, VT *SNEAKERS AND CREATURES ­ Community College of Vermont, Burlington, VT *THE VILLAGE ­ Courtyard of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Counter Productive Industries ­ 1926 Gallery, Chicago, IL