My name is Matthew Prebeg, and I am an artist, designer, researcher, and storyteller. 

About / Services / CV

There’s this old saying, “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” (1) This can mean something positive or negative, depending on who you ask. See, my dilemma is that I like gathering moss, but I also like rolling. I have moved around a lot, currently residing in Toronto, ON. My practice dynamically weaves disciplines and constantly changes, depending on my current interests or the direction the wind is blowing. I am a lifelong learner. You can think of me as a rolling stone in a moss garden.

Currently, my art practice explores technology, nature, and people. My professional practice is centred on designing services and translating knowledge in health research. These, too, are bound to change.

I am open to chatting and collaborating—you can contact me at [email protected].

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Read my blog here.

Say hi on Instagram, Are.na, TikTok, LinkedIn, or Chess.com.

Writing




 Time passes differently online, and I think we all kind of feel that. In 2009, “platform studies” really took speed as a field that explores the computer systems that support creative work.1 In other words: how do digital platforms (like social media) shape the conditions for how we think, act, create, and relate to others? This begs the question: How does this shape our sense of time?

Read the full essay here.



 “How can sharing your work online feel less scary? We explore how to navigate social media as part of a wider creative practice in ways that feel authentic, energising, and meaningful.”

In this article commissioned by It’s Nice That for their 2025 Forward Thinking series, I wrote about how creative people can foster positive relationships with social media. I illustrated a set of diagrams to break down material, and interviewed Hayley Mortin and Ali Sheikh to share their thoughts and experiences on the topic.

Read the article here.

Speaking




 Sharing Screen is an internet home tour series hosted by Matthew Prebeg and Kristoffer Tjalve. Each episode welcomes us to step into the landscape of a designer or artist who makes the internet blossom.

In Sharing Screen, we browse together and explore the work, open tabs, and personal archives of artists and designers to trace a picture of the online world through their eyes. It is an invitation inside the communal computer room to share space, screen, and stories.

* PROGRAM *

📅 May 26th, 12pm EST → Laurel Schwulst
📅 June 4th, 8pm KST → Jisu Lee
📅 June 11th, 11:30am PST → Chia Amisola

* WHAT'S INCLUDED *

The Full Pass will grant you access to all three virtual sessions, which you can join live (hosted on Zoom) and access the recordings after. You may also purchase access to an individual virtual session. Each one-hour session will include a virtual home tour and interview with the artist and an audience Q&A.

Following the session(s), you will receive a thank you message with a list of the websites and other digital ephemera shared by each artist.

* ABOUT THE GUESTS *

❇️ Laurel Schwulst is an artist, designer, and educator. She is interested in ambient forms of design and literature, public works, and the poetic potential of the world wide web.

🐦‍⬛ Jisu Lee runs Birdcall, a space and a community for artistic research. Jisu keeps Birdcall open and participatory, referencing the World Wide Web. She writes codes and archives them on websitesite.xyz.

☁️ Chia Amisola is an artist devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation. They create ambiences, performances, and tools that explore third world infrastructure, intimacies, and identities through spaces domestic to divine.

* ABOUT THE HOSTS *

🪨 Mathew Prebeg is an artist, designer, researcher, and technologist. His creative practice explores digital culture and techno-ecology. His professional practice focuses on participatory design and meaningful community engagement.

📙 Kristoffer Tjalve is the owner-operator of Cloudlord.management, an internet surreal estate holding company. He works as an independent organizer from his studio in Athens, Greece.



What happens when we let digital matter die? This participatory session explores the practice of digital composting—a ritual for facilitating the decomposition of digital objects, ideas and identities. By acknowledging the impermanence of online material and rejecting the pressures of preservation, we will allow them to become fertile ground for something new to grow.

This 30-min participatory session explored the practice of digital composting, featuring a collaborative Digital Compost Bin on Are.na.

Read more on my blog, Dig.site, here.



The internet is an ecosystem—living and evolving, shaped by both decay and regeneration. In this lecture, we’ll explore how digital spaces function as habitats that grow and persist, and how hidden networks sustain and shape our digital world. As “digital field researchers,” we’ll uncover what resilience looks like in the age of tech giants and algorithmic sameness. We’ll map our own digital biomes and forge a path to a softer, brighter internet. 𖠰𖥧˚෴

In-person (hosted by NITESKÜL)
Date: 3 March 2025
Location: Apt 200, Toronto ON

Online
Date: 23 March 2025

Digital




 The Living Web Institute is a collective for internet artists, designers, and digital practitioners cultivating an internet filled with life. We are committed to uncovering the vibrancy that exists across the span of the digital ecosystem, and fostering public spaces that are experimental, inspiring, and resistant.

In collaboration with many, including Kristoffer Tjalve, Elliot Cost, Chia Amisola, and Jisu Lee.

Visit at https://livingweb.institute/
This website is updated every so often. Last updated on 3 June 2025. All contents are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Thanks for visiting :)