Mathias Fuchs
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Mathias Fuchs is an artist, musician, media critic. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc in Creative Games and the MA in Creative Technology at Salford University. In former years he was active as Visiting Professor for Music and Media at Sibelius Academy Helsinki and as a Lecturer at University of Applied Arts and at Music Academy Vienna.
He conceived and presented Sound- and Media-Installations in Vienna, Helsinki, Stockholm, Mexico City, Cairo, Norwich, Tokyo, London and elsewhere. Commissioned work for ISEA94 and ISEA2004, ars electronica, PSi #11, futuresonic2004, EAST, and the Millennium Dome in 2000. In 2005 Mathias Fuchs co-edited a double issue of German Art magazine KUNSTFORUM on the topic of Art and Games.
Currently working on Creative Games for various festivals, a game for a haunted Tudor House in Manchester, for the City Council of Bradford, for Urban Planning, for communities like the Liverpool based Dark Horse Venture and for individual DJs and musicians.
http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk

email:m.fuchsATsalford.ac.uk
website: http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/
Articles/Reviews by Mathias
 The Ultrasound of Therapy

released 8/9/06
Staalplaat Soundsystem, Sound/performance collective, uses personal sensory experience in The Ultrasound of Therapy. Inspired by the French hospital 'La Salle des Malades" mimicing a clinical environment.
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 Kill Yourself

released 19/6/06
Kill Yourself is a playable prototype mobile Java game, designed for people who are so bored they'd rather be dead. Mobile games, are after all, a catharsis for transient boredom.