Speculative Archivist
Zimmerman authors the world, builds its systems, fabricates its objects, and organizes its records.
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physical artifacts
sound
image / moving image
procedural code
installation / exhibition
human–AI systems
The project is built across media, then re-entered as evidence from within its own fictional archive.
The builder of MAGPIE is also one of its investigators.
Match Zimmerman works across physical artifacts, installation, sound, moving image, procedural code, narrative, and human–AI systems to construct—and then interpret—the archive.
Across Media
Objects, paintings, tarps, books, sound, animation, code, and exhibitions function as connected archive fragments.
Human–AI Collaboration
Artificial agents operate inside a directed production and research framework shaped by human judgment and revision.
Inside and Outside
The artist is both MAGPIE’s real-world creator and an in-world researcher confronting evidence he does not fully control.