Matthew Flintham

Position

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Research

I am an artist and writer specialising in the geographies of militarisation, information, surveillance and cinematic representation. I have a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, an MA in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, and a PhD in Visual Communications from the Royal College of Art. My work intersects academic, design and arts practices, exploring speculative relationships between architecture, power and place, and the possibilities for arts methods to reveal hidden or immaterial relations in the landscape.

During 2012-14, I was Research Associate at the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA) at Liverpool University, an Early Career Research Fellow at Kingston University, London, and a Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge researching relationships between architecture and film on the CineMuseSpace project. Between 2020-23, he was a Lecturer in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London). 

Teaching

Design historie og teori, Institutt for Design, Fakultet for Kunst, Musikk og Design (KMD)

Publications

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

  • Flintham, M (2021), Critical Airspace and the Creative Production of Non-Space, in Remote Sensing (symposium publication), Fusco. L., Taylor. R.E., University of the Arts.

  • Flintham, M (2019), Military Pastoral Incursions, in The Plain,  Friend, M., Dewi Lewis.

  • Flintham, M (Sept 19- Jan 20), Heathrow Volumetric Airspace, [art installation], in Air Matters exhibition at Waterman’s Arts Centre, London.

  • Flintham, M (April 19 - June 20), Nuclear Airspaces, [art installation], in Another Land exhibition at Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames.

  • Flintham, M (2019) Vile Incubator: A Pathology of the Cold War Bunker, Journal of War and Culture Studies, vol 13.

  • Flintham, M (2018) BatterCtrax: Observations of Sensory Dissonance, ‘Doubling’ and Other Residual Effect of Geolocative Media. Media Theory 2(1), pp. 57-78.

  • Flintham, M., Koeck, R (2017) Geographies of the Moving Image: Transforming cinematic representation into geographic information, in Cinematic Urban Geographies. Penz, F., Koeck, R. (eds), Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Flintham, M (2016) Torås Kommandoplass: A speculative study of war architecture in the landscape, in In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making, Bennett, L. (ed), Roman and Littlefield. 

  • Flintham, M (2016) Military-Pastoral Geometries (Photo series). Featured on Post Matter web platform.

  • Flintham, M (2016) Portfolio feature in Prefix Photo magazine, Autumn 2015 issue.

  • Flintham, M (2015) Deep Time of the Military Ruin. Review of Charles Stankievech’s exhibition, Monument as Ruin, in Forty-Five Journal, Issue 1.

  • Flintham, M (Sept-Dec 2015) AIR-TO-AIR (Pitched Formation), [art installation], in Unsensed exhibition at Hatton gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • Flintham, M (July-Sept 2015) STANTA (With Surface Samples) [art installation], in Ministries of Defence, Hungate Church, Norwich.

  • Flintham, M (Jan 2015) The Martial Heavens, [exhibition], at Ex Libris gallery, Newcastle.

  • Flintham, F (2016) Visualising the Invisible: Artistic Methods Toward Military Airspaces, in The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. Williams, A. J., Jenkings, N., Woodward, R. & Rech, M. F. (eds). Abingdon: Ashgate.

  • Flintham, M (2014) The Military Spatial Complex, in Emerging Landscape: Between Production and Representation. Deriu, D., Kamvasinou, K., Shinkle, E. (eds). London: Ashgate

  • Flintham, M (2012) The Military-Pastoral Complex: Contemporary Representations of Militarism in the Landscape, in Tate Papers issue 17.

  • Flintham, M (2010) The Shoeburyness Complex, Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, Pearson, C., Coates, P., Cole t. (eds), London: Continuum.