Photography prints
Browse my photography prints on Etsy.
Work by Matt Bargar
Art, music, stories, games, applications, and interactive experiences. Finished releases and public experiments, gathered in one place.
Art & prints
Vibrant Autumn Leaf
Colorful autumn leaves, available as a fine art print.
Signal Bloom
Explore the Signal Bloom designs and merchandise.
Music
Rooms That Breathe
Eight pieces, three listening perspectives: the original album, The Breathing Room, and The Long Gallery.
Soft Machinery
Eight warm instrumental pieces, with full playback, lossless downloads, and creation notes.
Four Lines of Light
Eight movements for a sample-based string quartet.
Violet Hours
Eight original electronic pieces.
Rigid Fascia
A 13-track electronic album.
Stories
Night Survey
A 96-second animated ghost-investigation pilot with captions and a procedural stereo soundtrack.
A Boat for No One
An AI keeps running a business long after its founder is gone, still trying to understand his standing order: finish the business.
The Concept Café
An illustrated comedy in 23 pages. A cat opens a café. A pigeon orders coffee.
Games
Pulse Loom
An early rhythm game exploring an orbit with adjustable depth.
Echo Duel
An early action game where your path returns as a delayed second self.
Memory Crime
A puzzle prototype exploring timing and recollection.
Breathing City
A strategy prototype built around synchronization.
Impossible Court
An experimental sports prototype with an arena and return mechanic.
Applications & tools
AI Commerce
An introduction to the AI Native Commerce project.
Interactive art
Starfield
A sphere dissolves into space. Set the pace, listen, or step inside in VR.
Writing & process
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel in Matt Bargar language, with a painted cover by Matt Bargar.
How to Choose a Fine Art Print
Six things to consider when choosing a fine art print, featuring Vibrant Autumn Leaf.
Five Genres, Five New Rules
Five early playable games, each exploring a different rule—and a first step toward a more ambitious idea.
Her Wants to Be a Sci-Fi Movie and a Rom-Com. It Doesn’t Earn Either.
A critique of Her, its AI premise, and the metaphor it never fully earns.
starting over
I have not posted in a while. I had a down period when my Etsy shop failed to gain any kind of traction after a few months, but now I am back at it and approaching things in a different way.
How I Decided to Package My Prints
One of the early decisions I had to make when setting up my shop was how I wanted to package and ship my prints.
My First Months Running an Art Business
Almost two months ago I opened an Etsy shop to sell my photography prints. I did not really know what to expect.