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Matthew Shanley

Sound / video / computer artist and software developer.

Boston, MA •
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Our Neighborhood Circa 1900

Last year I had the tremendous opportunity to collaborate with Laura Davidson — a friend and one of my favorite artists — on a video piece for Art on the Marquee. We explored the history

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Projecting Documentation

Below is video documentation of my artwork, Projecting. This piece debuted in the show Grounded at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery last year. Projecting by Matthew Shanley

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Wanderer

A p5.js sketch.

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New Artwork in Grounded Exhibition

Another announcement for folks in the Boston area. My piece Projecting will be on display starting this Friday as a part of the show Grounded at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. This is going

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Data Vis Talk Next Week

Quick note for those of you in the Boston area. I’ll be giving a talk next Tuesday the 17th at CASCADE BOS. The talk is title “Data Visualization with Vega, Vega-Lite, and

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Fort Point Windows documentation

A few documentation shots from my installation Fort Point Windows from the show Big Picture III at Atlantic Wharf Gallery in Boston.

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Lighthouse documentation

This is going back a little ways, but I've finally gotten my act together and assembled some video documentation of Lighthouse. This was a public art installation I collaborated on that included sculptures,

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Edge Cases in Fort Point Form show

A few pieces from my Edge Cases series are in the show Fort Point Form opening at the Boston Convention Center this week. The opening reception is this Thursday, April 9, 2015 from

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Walden, revisited

Jane D. Marsching with Matthew Shanley, Ice Out at Walden, 201015 x 25 inches, edition of 5; collograph, dry point, japanese woodblock, digital printcreated at Ningyo Editions, Watertown, MA with David Curcio and

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Andrea Polli's Particle Falls

Particle Falls in Detroit from Andrea Polli on Vimeo. Particle Falls by Andrea Polli is a digital waterfall projected on the sides of buildings. The piece uses a nephelometer which shoots lasers through

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Fenway's 30 Second Cinema

The Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Boston Art Commission recently announced “Fenway’s 30 Second Cinema”, a collection of video artwork presented on a digital sign next to

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Miraculous City

Miraculous City, a site-specific piano and video projection performance takes place at the Illuminus Festival tomorrow night in Boston’s South End. It’s been a great experience collaborating on this with Elizabeth

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L-system Sketch

Branching structure with variable lengths.

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L-system Sketch

Algae or a fern or something.

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L-system Sketch

A bush, of sorts. Made using Cinder

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OmniFocus Entry from GitHub Ticket

On my team we use GitHub for our ticket tracking system as well as our version control. I’m also a heavy user of OmniFocus for to-do management across all areas of my

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A Listener Tutorial from New American Public Art

The good gentlemen over at New American Public Art have produced an excellent maker tutorial based on our Listener project. LISTENER – An Outdoor Weather Proof Audio Responsive LED Installation – Maker Tutorial If a

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Listener

I recently worked with my friends Dan Sternof Beyer, Kawandeep Virdee, and Bevan Weissman of New American Public Art (NAPA), and Karen Stein Shanley of goodgood on a public art piece called Listener.

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Urban Screens: George Fifield at TEDxBoston

In this interesting TEDx video, Boston Cyberarts’ George Fifield discusses video screens at the Boston Convention Center and the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. He links these to a broader trend in art on

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Art on the Marquee on WGBH

Excerpt from WGBH’s Greater Boston.

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Building Boston documentation video

I shot some documentation of my Building Boston video, currently playing on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center marquee screens as part of the Art on the Marquee series. These screens are so

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Paste from CSV into Numbers

Update: Moved the code into a gist. (2013-07-05) I was shocked to realize that Apple’s Numbers app doesn’t properly handle it if you try to paste CSV data in. It seems

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Charles Sowers's Windswept

Beautiful sculpture here from Charles Sowers. It’s like a diagram from one of my old science text books come to life in a hypnotically dynamic way.

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Art on the Marquee

I’m delighted to be a part of second round of Art on the Marquee screening on the incredible marquee screens at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. I’ll have some documentation

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AppleScripting iTunes: View Artist on AllMusic

Update: Fixed the code to match the new AllMusic URL scheme. (2013-07-01) I spend quite a bit of time listening to music and, being the nerd that I am, I like to know

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