matthew levinson

I live in Sydney, Australia, and spend a lot of time writing and talking about cities, science, art and music. I present the art/ideas show Canvas on FBI 94.5, Sunday mornings from 10am to 12noon in Sydney (podcasts here). I blog at fortunegrey.com, darlinghurstnights.com and cyclicdefrost.com/blog. I edit Cyclic Defrost magazine.

I write and talk here and there:

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Backgrounder

I started fortunegrey.com in July 2004 with no clear idea where it was headed. It still changes direction from time to time, but it’s helped me connect with loads of like-minded people in Australia and elsewhere. It’s also been a first draft on ideas that I’ve ended up publishing elsewhere.

As well as Cyclic Defrost, I’ve edited magazines for Reed Elsevier.

I’ve written for Artlines, Ecos, Hot Press, inthemix.com.au, Mess + Noise, Oyster, New Matilda, Nylon, Riot, Spinach7, stylusmagazine.com, The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and street press (FPC Courier, 3D World, BMA, Inpress).

Before my current show on FBI 94.5, I presented music program Join The Dots on FBI for over two years. Even earlier than that, I presented and produced Therapy, a weekly music program, on 2XX FM Canberra and syndicated nationally via the CBAA community radio network.

I’ve organised events at Newcastle’s This Is Not Art festival, the National Museum of Australia, the Metro (Sydney) and others. I’ve talked in public at Creative Sydney, the Sydney Writers’ Festival (interviewing Christos Tsiolkas, online at The Monthly’s Slow TV), Sound Summit, the Gold Coast City Council Cultural Summit and Vibewire’s New Connections conference.

I’m on the ARIA Awards, FBI and Time Out SMAC Awards and Dance Music Awards judging panels.

I have DJed on and off for the past 13 years. Most recently, the Sydney Festival Beck’s Bar in 2008 and 2009 (download here), Apres (Tilbury Hotel, Sydney) and at magazine launches for Cyclic Defrost (Seymour Centre, Sydney) and Oyster (Oxford Art Factory, Sydney). I’ve recorded DJ sets for Triple J, PBS FM, Triple R, FBI and 2SER.

I’ve been a geologist, geophysicist and seismologist, and am now working in urban sustainability and communications.