Matt Heckert

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Matt Heckert

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The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
0h 45m
Movie 1989

The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted icons of cultural pride in two of Europes more allegedly libertarian democracies.

A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
0h 13m
Movie 1988

A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating consumption, and tragic recognition

Virtues Of Negative Fascination
1h 10m
Movie 1986

Virtues Of Negative Fascination

Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless punishments.

Biography

Matt Heckert is an American sound artist, born in 1957. He was involved in Survival Research laboratories in the 1980s before becoming a machine musical artist. Matt Heckert graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and joined the machine performance art group Survival Research Laboratories in 1980. Matt Heckert's main work in the group centered on the acoustic and musical parts of performance. He left the group in 1988 to follow his musical interests, developing the Mechanical Sound Orchestra (MSO). The MSO was awarded the Golden Nica at the Ars Electronica 1997 for Digital Musics. The collection of sound machines has toured the US and Europe extensively.

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