A Poetics of Infrastructure: Interview with Matt Coolidge

Matt Coolidge cofounded the Center for Land Use Interpretation (clui) in 1994 and serves as a project director, photographer and curator for the center. He has written several books published by the clui and others, including Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (2006); The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to America’s Nuclear Proving Ground (1996), and Around the Bay: Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region (2013). Matt received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2004 and the Smithsonian Institute’s Lucelia Artist Award in 2006. Matt spoke with Resilience coeditor Stephanie LeMenager in June, 2013, at the clui’s offices in Culver City, Los Angeles.