"An epoch can be characterized by its games. It does not seem senseless to us to begin diagnosing a civilization by asking what games especially prosper in that civilization."
[Roger Caillois, 1967]

--- artist, musican, media critic

Mathias has pioneered in the field of artistic use of game engines in various game art installations. He started the first European Masters Programme in Creative Games at the School of Art & Design at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester. Creative Games is a discipline on the borderline of games, art and critical discourse. (http://creativegames.org.uk)

He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford and Programme Leader in MA Creative Technology and MSc Creative Games. He has had sound and media installations in Vienna, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Norwich, London, Cairo, Vancouver, Paris, and Providence. Commissioned work for ISEA94 and ISEA2004, resfest, ars electronica, PSi #11, futuresonic, EAST, the Greenwich Millennium Dome. Creative games for museums, urban planning and theatre performances.

"Studies in computer science and electronic music triggered my interest into electronic arts, especially computer mediated sound generation and manipulation. I currently work on games engines as creative tools for performers." [Fuchs, performance shot at pergames/ Salzburg, 2007]

1978 - 1984 Studies in computer science at Technical University Vienna
and of Electroacoustic Composition at Music Academy Vienna.
1988 - 89, 2 years research fellowship at Electronic Music Studios in Stockholm.
1989 - 2001 Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the University of Music and the University for Art & Design in Linz.
2001 - 2002 Visiting professor for music and media at Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Finland.
2002 - Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for MA Creative Technology at Salford University in Manchester.
2005 - present Programme Leader for MSc Creative Games at Salford University.

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List of Publications:

Monster
In: Sampling (ed. Thomas Feuerstein)
medien.kunst.tyrol Innsbruck 2001

Transformierende Spiegel, autonome Spiegel, Trickspiegel, verhüllte Spiegel
In: Ohne Spiegel Leben. Sichtbarkeiten und posthumane Menschenbilder (ed. Manfred Faßler) FINK Verlag München 2000
ISBN 3-7705-3414-X

Disembodied Online
In: Interpassivität. Studien über delegiertes Genießen (ed. Robert Pfaller) Springer Verlag Wien New York 2000
ISBN 3-211-83303-X

ParaReal
In: Wunschmaschine Welterfindung (ed. Brigitte Felderer) Springer Verlag Wien New York 1996
ISBN 3-211-82872-9

Hot oder Cool
In: Musik.Labyrith.Kontext (ed. Utz) Linz 1995
ISBN 3-85307-003-5

Sampling (eds. Hans-Ulrich Reck and Mathias Fuchs) Wien 1995
ISBN 3-85211-044-0

Are you sure you want to do this?
In: Mediamatic Vol.8#1 The Storage Mania Issue. Amsterdam 1994
ISSN 09 207 86 4

Hausmusik
(Thomas Feuerstein, Mathias Fuchs, Klaus Strickner, Mia Zabelka eds.) Triton Verlag Wien 1993
ISBN 3-901310-08-8

Total Recall - Erinnern und Vergessen in der Musik
In: Kunstforum Köln Band 127, Juli - September 1994, pp. 170

currently working on a PhD- thesis on "Sinn und Sound" at Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne (Prof. Hans-Ulrich Reck) and Humboldt-Universität Berlin (Prof. Thomas Macho)

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