Matthew Buckingham (born 1963) is an American filmmaker and multimedia
artist.He is a full-time faculty member at Columbia University and is
the chair of the visual arts department.Buckingham studied at the Art
Institute of Chicago, the University University of Iowa, Bard College
and the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.Utilizing
photography, film, video, audio, writing and drawing his work
questions the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. By
examining ways that the past appears in the present Buckingham also
scrutinizes the power and effects of historical representation. His
projects work with space, real and imaginary, to create physical and
social contexts where viewers are encouraged to question received
ideasâ€"often the things that are most familiar. His works have
investigated the Indigenous past and present in the Hudson River
Valley; the ‘creative destruction’ of the city of St. Louis; the
inception of the first English dictionary and the effects of radical
Mary Wollstonecraft’s thoughts in our own time.
artist.He is a full-time faculty member at Columbia University and is
the chair of the visual arts department.Buckingham studied at the Art
Institute of Chicago, the University University of Iowa, Bard College
and the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.Utilizing
photography, film, video, audio, writing and drawing his work
questions the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. By
examining ways that the past appears in the present Buckingham also
scrutinizes the power and effects of historical representation. His
projects work with space, real and imaginary, to create physical and
social contexts where viewers are encouraged to question received
ideasâ€"often the things that are most familiar. His works have
investigated the Indigenous past and present in the Hudson River
Valley; the ‘creative destruction’ of the city of St. Louis; the
inception of the first English dictionary and the effects of radical
Mary Wollstonecraft’s thoughts in our own time.
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