Matt Heckert

Matt Heckert

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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Matt Heckert Movies

  • 1984
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    Maimed Artist

    Maimed Artist

    1 1984 HD

    Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of...

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  • 1986
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    Virtues Of Negative Fascination

    Virtues Of Negative Fascination

    1 1986 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain

    A Scenic Harvest from the Kingdom of Pain

    1 1984 HD

    Documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories events, 1983-1984. Meet Stu, the SRL guinea pig, and see him training to operate the 4-legged...

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  • 1988
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    A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief

    A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief

    6 1988 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

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

    1 1989 HD

    The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...

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  • 2004
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    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    8 2004 HD

    1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 The Pleasure Of Uninhibited Excess 5 A Scenic...

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  • 1988
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    A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief

    A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief

    6 1988 HD

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  • 2004
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    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    8 2004 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

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

    1 1989 HD

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