Mat Brinkman (b. 1973) is an artist and electronic musician from Texas. He was a creator of the Fort Thunder

Fort Thunder

Fort Thunder was a warehouse on the second floor of a pre-Civil War former textile factory in the Olneyville district of Providence, Rhode Island. From 1995 through 2001, the space was used as a venue for underground music and events, as well as a living and working space for the artists...

 artist live-work space in Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

, RI. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer

Mindflayer (band)

Mindflayer is a noise rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, made up of Brian Chippendale and Matt Brinkman which was formed out of Fort Thunder....

 and Forcefield

Forcefield (art collective)

Forcefield was a noise band and art collective closely associated with Fort Thunder in Providence, Rhode Island. Known for performing in colorful full-body knit-wear of their own design, the band rarely played outside of Rhode Island but did one US tour with their Fort Thunder roommates Lightning...

, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial

Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...

. In 2000, his Teratoid Heights comic was published by Highwater Books

Highwater Books

Highwater Books was a small but influential independent comic book publisher based in Somerville, Massachusetts, noted for its arty editorial direction and production values under publisher Tom Devlin...

. Through his anonymous and pseudonymous works, he, like Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines.-Early life:...

 and Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...

 before him, seems to be concerned with issues of artistic credit and its relation to artistic output. His musical performances have incorporated aspects of circuit bending

Circuit bending

Circuit bending is the creative customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators....

 and drum and bass

Drum and bass

Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...

.

Albums

• "Transmittens" (Vermiform, CD) (1999)
• "Brinkmangler 2000" (CDr) (2000)
• "Scenes From A Posthuman World" (Cdr) (2000)
• "Steps In Defecation" (Bonescraper, Cass) (2000)
• "Nung" (Animal Disguise, LP.) (2003)
• "Untitled" (Cass) (2004)
• "Ashz/Arcs/Azes/Etc" (Animal Disguise, Cass.) (2005)
• "Farther Down The Road To Ecological Collapse & The Fucking Apocalypse Featuring DJ Mad Lion Disease Etc." (Cass) (2006)
• "Kreemy F.F.U.P." (Dolor Del Estamago, CDr) (2007)
• "Drobomatic Drobulations Vol. 1" (Audio Dregs Editions, CDr) (2007)
• "SYNB / HSDOM" (Phaserprone, CDr) (2007)
• "Channel 10" (CDr)
• "Orange Muss Tape" (Dolor Del Estamago, CDr)
• "Recordings From The Secret Room" (Dolor Del Estamago, CDr)

External links

• Retard Riot #19 (On Being God) - with Mat Brinkman
• Retard Riot #16 (Get money! Kill!) with Barry McGee and Mat Brinkman
• REAL SLOW RADIO # 4/3 Country Western a.k.a. mmmmmmmmmm 8
• Mr. Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, Matt Brinkman , SYNB , Monstrocity Brinkman , Mystery Brinkman , ZZ Pot @ Discogs