A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski has worked as a composer,
performer and installation artist, exploring work with music, multimedia, video and
theater. Using digital tools and formalist techniques to engage with quotidian
materials — sonic, physical, and cultural – Ostrowski’s work explores the liminal
space between the virtual and phenomenological worlds. His work ranges from live
electronic performance to installations incorporating video, multichannel sound, and
computer-controlled objects. He is a freelance developer of interactive technology
for artists, and teaches at New York University and Ramapo State College of New
Jersey.
Educated at at Oberlin College and the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, Ostrowski
has collaborated with a large number of artists in the US and abroad, including
David Behrman, John Butcher, Diamanda Galás, Nicolas Collins, Anne LaBerge, The
Flying Karamazov Brothers, and many others. He was composer-in-residence for the
MacArthur-award winning choreographer Elizabeth Streb, and has designed interactive
technologies for performing and fine artists ranging from Laurie Anderson to Martha
Rosler. He regularly performs in the duo KRK, with Prague-based contrabassist George
Cremaschi, and with Andrea Parkins in the duo Elective Affinities.
Ostrowski’s productions have been seen or performed on six continents, including the
Wien Modern Festival, Transmediale and Maerz Musik in Berlin, the Kraków Audio Art
Festival, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, PS 1 and The Kitchen in New York, the Rencontres
Internationales video festival in Madrid, and Yokohama’s dis_locate Festival. He has
received numerous awards, including a NYFA Fellowship for Computer Arts.
