Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies. With Usman Haque, he is co-author of 'Urban Versioning System v1.0' (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, of 鈥楨vil Media鈥� (MIT), Editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' (MIT) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture. He is involved in a number of projects in art, media and software and is the author of the forthcoming, 'How to Sleep, in art, biology and culture' (Bloomsbury).
Teaching
Matt teaches the Digital Media: Critical Perspectives module and the option Media Philosophy. He is also convenor of the MA in Digital Media.
Areas of supervision
He supervises PhD researchers in: new media, art, software studies, cultural ecology, design, cultural theory, and related areas. Proposals are welcome from those planning diverse forms of research.
Presentations and exhibitions
Artists collective
Southend-on-Sea, UK Free Media Space
, Jamaica Free Media Space
1994-1997 Speculative software group
Software Art Repository
鈥�, the journal of new media鈥�
Publications and research outputs
Book
Fuller, Matthew. 2022. Analysis, Exposure and Addition: the Aesthetic and Ecological Logics of Joana Moll鈥檚 鈥楥arbolytics鈥�. Ljubljana: Aksioma 鈥� Institute for contemporary Art, ljubljana. ISBN 9789619543788
Fuller, Matthew and Weizman, Eyal. 2021. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth. London: Verso. ISBN 9781788739085
Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2019. Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781517905538
Fuller, Matthew. 2018. How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474288705
Fuller, Matthew. 2017. How To Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-509-51715-2
Fuller, Matthew and Goffey, Andrew. 2012. Evil Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01785-5
Fuller, Matthew. 2011. Elephant & Castle. Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570272257
Fuller, Matthew and Haque, Usman. 2008. Urban Versioning System v1.0. Architectural League of New York. ISBN 978-0-9800994-1-6
Fuller, Matthew. 2005. Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-56226-3
Fuller, Matthew. 2003. Behind the Blip: essays on the culture of software. New York: Autonomedia. ISBN 1570271399
Edited Book
Fuller, Matthew, ed. 2008. Software Studies: a lexicon. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 1-334. ISBN 978-0-262-06274-9
Edited Journal
Schindler, Juni; Klumbyt臈, Goda and Fuller, Matthew, eds. 2025. Computational Culture Special Issue: Situated Bayes, Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies, (10). 2047-2390
Book Section
Cheang, Shu Lea and Fuller, Matthew. 2026. Sleep Series: 鈥榓rt by sleepers, for sleepers and art as sleep鈥�. In: Bridget Crone; Bassam El Baroni and Matthew Poole, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 276-283. ISBN 9781399508452
Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Art as Metadiscipline (art/everything else). In: Goda Klumbyt臈; Rosi Braidotti and Emily Jones, eds. Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 217-236. ISBN 9781399512664
Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Truth by FRAUD. In: Francisco Gallardo; Audrey Samson and Michaela B眉sse, eds. Euro-Vision: undergrounding the critical mineral. Berlin: K. Verlag, pp. 8-17. ISBN 9783947858-651
Fuller, Matthew and Goffey, Andrew. 2024. Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems. In: Melanie Sehgal and Alex Wilkie, eds. More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 153-171. ISBN 9781529227789
Fuller, Matthew. 2022. Side Channel Attacks. In: Rosi Braidotti; Emily Jones and Goda Klumbyte, eds. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 133-134. ISBN 9781350231429
Fuller, Matthew. 2020. In praise of plasticity. In: Peter M枚rtenb枚ck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 34-53. ISBN 9780429196515
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. The Autonomous and the Enmeshed, Marko Peljhan's Theatre of Operations. In: Igor Spanjol and Marko Peljahn, eds. Here We Go Again, system 317. Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, pp. 65-80. ISBN 978-961-206-140-1
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Sonic Tensors and Mental Ears in Universes of Synthesis. In: Vanessa Joan Muller, ed. Florian Hecker: Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese. Berlin / Vienna: Sternberg / Kunsthalle Wien, pp. 7-14. ISBN 9783956794711
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Inhabiting High Density Realities, on Shu Lea Cheang's Artistic Language. In: Paul B. Preciado, ed. 3x3x6 Shu Lea Cheang. Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, pp. 15-68. ISBN 9789860588798
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Screaming. In: Steve Goodman; Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou, eds. Unsound : Undead. Falmouth: Urbanomic, pp. 43-46. ISBN 9781916405219
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Crawl, Map, Link, Read, Copy, Repeat. In: Michael Connor; Ariana Dean and Dragan Espenscheid, eds. The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology. New York: Rhizome / New Museum, p. 76. ISBN 9780692173084
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Intersubjective Silver. In: Marcel Rene Marburger, ed. Weiser. Cologne: Edition_ verlag, pp. 160-171. ISBN 9783981424638
Fuller, Matthew. 2019. Vulgar Data Structures, on some mathematical aspects of the Situationist Times and their present relevance. In: Ellef Prestaeter, ed. These are Situationist Times, an inventory of reproductions, deformations, modifications, derivations and transformations. Oslo: Torpedo Press, pp. 219-232. ISBN 9788293104230
Fuller, Matthew. 2018. Software Studies Methods. In: Jentery Sayers, ed. The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138844308
Fuller, Matthew. 2018. Figuring Ecologies. In: Pedro Gadanho, ed. Eco-Visionaries, art, architecture and new media after the anthropocene. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, pp. 130-147. ISBN 9783775744539
Fuller, Matthew. 2017. Half 10k Top-slice Plus Five. In: Jon K. Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison, eds. Fiction as Method. Berlin: Sternberg, pp. 103-120. ISBN 9783956793646
Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2017. Devastation. In: Erich Hoerl and James Burton, eds. General Ecology. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 323-344. ISBN 9781350014701
Fuller, Matthew and Harwood, Graham. 2016. Abstract Urbanism. In: Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng, eds. Code and the City. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138922112
Fuller, Matthew and Fazi, Maria-Beatrice. 2016. Computational Aesthetics. In: Christiane Paul, ed. A companion to digital art. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 281-296. ISBN 9781118475201
Fuller, Matthew. 2015. The Forbidden Pleasures of Media Determinism. In: Eleni Ikoniadou and Scott Wilson, eds. Media After Kittler. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 95-111. ISBN 9781783481224
Fuller, Matthew. 2014. Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity. In: Olga Goriunova, ed. Fun and Software Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 91-107. ISBN 978-1-6235-6094-2
Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2012. Phrase. In: Nina Wakeford and Celia Lury, eds. Inventive Methods, the Happening of the Social. London: Routledge, -. ISBN 978-0-415-57481-5
Fuller, Matthew. 2011. Boxes Towards Bananas. In: Mark Shepard, ed. Sentient City. New York: MIT Press / Architectural League of New York, -. ISBN 978-0-262-51586-3
Fuller, Matthew. 2010. The Cat Seemed to Think There was Enough of it Now in Sight. In: Andreas Broeckman and knowbotic research, eds. OPAQUE PRESENCE: manual of latent invisibilitie. Berlin: Diaphanes. ISBN 978-3-03734-108-7
Fuller, Matthew and Goffey, Andrew. 2010. On the Usefulness of Anxiety, two Evil Media Stratagems. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. Sarai Reader: Fear. Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, pp. 155-163.
Fuller, Matthew. 2008. Art for Animals. In: Bernd Herzogengorath, ed. Deleuze/Guattari & Ecology. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 266-286. ISBN 9780230527447
Fuller, Matthew. 2008. Art methodologies in Media Ecology. In: Simon D. O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke, eds. Deleuze, Guattari and The Production of the New. London: Continuum, pp. 45-55. ISBN 978-0826499530
Fuller, Matthew. 2008. Introduction, the Stuff of Software. In: Matthew Fuller, ed. Software Studies: A Lexicon. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, pp. 1-13. ISBN 978-0-262-06274-9
Fuller, Matthew. 2006. Freaks of Number. In: G. Cox and J. Krysa, eds. Data Browser 2: Engineering Culture: One 'The Author as (Digital) Producer'. New York: Autonomedia, p. 15. ISBN 1570271704
Article
Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang鈥檚 Film UKI and Nature鈥檚 Infestations of Technology. Theory, Culture & Society, ISSN 0263-2764
Schindler, Juni; Klumbyt臈, Goda and Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Situated Bayes 鈥� Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge. Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies(10), ISSN 2047-2390
Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Days Are as Grass. On Karel Miler鈥檚 鈥淔elt by Fresh Grass,鈥� Plant Intelligence and Expanded Aesthetics. INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries(7), ISSN 2813-2904
Blom, Ina and Fuller, Matthew. 2025. Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index. Critical Inquiry, 51(2), pp. 405-408. ISSN 0093-1896
Fuller, Matthew. 2024. National Word Inventory: Notes for a History. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 33(67), pp. 210-212. ISSN 2000-1452
Blom, Ina and Fuller, Matthew. 2024. A Filter Theory of Photography. Media Theory, 8(1), pp. 107-132. ISSN 2557-826X
Schindler, Dominik and Fuller, Matthew. 2023. Community as a Vague Operator: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Heuristics of Community Detection Algorithms. Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies(9), ISSN 2047-2390
Fuller, Matthew and Mazurov, Nikita. 2019. A Counter-Forensic Audit Trail: Disassembling the Case of The Hateful Eight. Theory, Culture and Society, 36(6), pp. 171-196. ISSN 0263-2764
Braidotti, Rosi and Fuller, Matthew. 2019. The Posthumanities in an era of Unexpected Consequences Editorial for the special issue on the Transversal Posthumanities. Theory, Culture and Society, 36(6), pp. 3-29. ISSN 0263-2764
Fuller, Matthew and Goffey, Andrew. 2012. Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction. Theory, Culture & Society, 29(4-5), pp. 311-333. ISSN 0263-2764
Feuz, Martin; Fuller, Matthew and Stalder, Felix. 2011. Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of personalisation. First Monday, 16(2), 0-0. ISSN 1396-0466
Fuller, Matthew. 2011. Faulty Theory. Fibreculture Journal(118), pp. 69-81.
Fuller, Matthew and Matos, Sonia. 2011. Feral Computing, from ubiquitous calculation to wild interactions. Fibreculture Journal(19), -.
Art Object
Fuller, Matthew. 2009. Digger Barley.
Film/Video
Fuller, Matthew and Harwood, Graham. 2010. Requiem for Cod.
Fuller, Matthew and Topuzovski, Tihomir. 2024. War on the Senses / War of the Senses. In: "War on the Senses / War of the Senses", Moseum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, 5 December 2024 - 5 March 2025.
Fuller, Matthew. 2024. 10x10x10. In: "10x10x10 of Media Art", Stadtwerkstadt, Linz, Austria, September 2024 - onwards.
Fuller, Matthew and Cheang, Shu Lea. 2023. Sleep Series. In: "Sleep Series", Stadtwerkstadt, Linz, Austria, 2018-ongoing.
Fuller, Matthew and Harwood, Graham. 2002. Text FM. In: "Text FM", Vienna Public Square, Mariahilferstrasse, Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna/Austria, Austria, 1/15/2002 - 5/30/2002.
