Mat Wall-Smith is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts and Humanities at the University of Wollongong, where he designs and coordinates subjects in immersive media and collaborative production. His research concerns the relation between affect, technics and ecology, and the conditions under which living and technical systems remain vital or otherwise. He draws on Simondon, Stiegler, Massumi and Whitehead.

He is completing a PhD, A Translation of Energies: Ecological Vitality in the Context of the Human. From 2009 to 2020 he was Journal Manager and later Editor of The Fibreculture Journal, contributing to the production of twenty issues. He has published in Fibreculture Journal and First Monday and presents regularly to the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association. He came to academic work from screen sound and interactive media, and between 2015 and 2018 co-founded Polygon Door, a creative technology start-up that designed and brought to market Pablo, a drawing robot, and the platform and program built around it for schools and teacher development.