MSHR
www.mshr.info Contact: meMSHR at gmail dot comMSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble and flicker with a life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
Installations
“Index Network Entity”, Vašulka Kitchen Brno, Dům Umění, Brno, 2023 “Ripple Hinge”, GASBON METABOLISM, Yamanashi, 2023 “Field Transducer Circuit”, GAMeC, Bergamo, 2023. “Catacomb Generator,” Order of Sonic Chaos 2, curated by Jonáš Gruska, Teren, CED Catacombs, Brno, 2022. “Tomutonttu + MSHR in Collaboration,” Blank Forms, NYC, 2021. “Material Sentience Habitat Ring,” MIRA, Barcelona, 2020. “Frame Wave,” Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo, 2019. “Source Fold Compositor - Module Braid,”National Arts Festival, South Africa, 2018. “Swamp Matrix,” Sorbus, Helsinki, 2018. “Source Fold Compositor,” Double-Grass at Fenko Catalysis Chamber, Taipei, 2018.“Solar Helix,” Fukugan Gallery, Osaka, 2018. “Source Fold Compositor,”“MFA Late Night,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2018.“Lagos Presenta P.A.P.I. + UV,” Lagos, Mexico City, 2018. “Source Fold Compositor”, The Anderson, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 2018. “Source Fold Compound Generator,”“Situations #90,” Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2017. “Knotted Gate Presence Weave,”“Sonic Arcade,” Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, 2017. “Drift Iteration Paths,”“Converge45,” Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2017. “Times Square Midnight Moment,” Times Square, NYC, 2017. “Integrated Scape Transducer,”“Past Skin,” MoMA PS1, NYC, 2017. “Knotted Gate Chant Cycle,” Open Space, Baltimore, 2017. “Nested Transmuter Cycle,” Interstitial, Seattle, 2017. “MSHR.” Washington State University, Pullman, 2017. “Knotted Gate Chant Cycle,” Harvestworks, NYC, 2016 “Resonant Glyph Modulator,”“Time Based Arts Festival,” Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, 2014. “Resonant Hyper Symbol Modulator”“Megarave,” Kunsthaus Langenthal, 2014. “Ceremonial Chamber,” Cell Projects, London, 2014. “Ceremonial Chamber,” Two Queens, Leicester, 2014. “Ceremonial Chamber,” Exit, Maison des Artes Creteil, 2014.“Ceremonial Chamber,”“VIA,” Maubeuge, 2014. “Liquid Hand”, Upfor, Portland, OR, 2013. “Ceremonial Chamber”, “Binary Lore”, Three Walls, Chicago, 2013. “Liquid Vehicle Transmitter”, with Brenna Murphy, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2013. “Brenna Murphy”, with MSHR, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, 2013. “MSHR”, Yoga Center/Vita Rosen, Goteborg, 2013. “Solar Helix & Ceremonial Chamber”, “Binary Lore”,PNCA, Portland, OR, 2012. “Earthly Door”, Appendix Project Space, Portland, 2012. "New World", Le Dictateur, Milan, 2011.Videos
Material Sentience Habitat Ring, 22 mins, commissioned by MIRA.mov, 2020. Bloom Cycles, 20 mins, commissioned by Kraak, 2020. Mind Synthesis Hallway Reflector, 28 mins, commissioned by ARs, Baltimore, 2019. Convolution Weave~Lattice Domain, 2:55 mins, commissioned by Times Square Arts, NYC, 2017.Web Art
"Orbit Instantiator," comissioned by Liquid Architecture's Disclaimer Journal, 2022 "HOSHI Web Instrument," in collaboration with Tomutonttu, 2021 “Instance Terrain Spread,” Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles, 2021 “Instance Terrain Crawler,” Rewire Festival, Den Haag, 2021 “MSHR x Nyege Nyege,” Nyege Nyege Festival, Kampala, 2020 “cavrncode,” published by The New Museum, NYC, 2013 “Inward Conch ~ Upward Spiral,” , 2012Group Exhibitions
“Expanded Optics vol. 2”, JIKAN<space>, Osaka, 2023 “Open Digital Archive & Live Audience Test Laboratory,” Vašulka Kitchen Brno, Dům Umění, Brno, 2023 “Klang Moor Shopfe,” Gais, 2023 “A Leap Into the Void: Art Beyond Matter,” curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Domenico Quaranta, Bergamo, 2023 “Phenomenon: RGB,” Laforet Museum, Tokyo, 2019 “Sonice Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound,”, curated by Shannon Stratton, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, 2017. “Hallucinations,” Festival organized by Ben Russell at Documenta 14, Athens, 2017“The World is Sound,” The Rubin Museum, NYC, 2017. “Past Skin,”, curated by Jocelyn Miller, MoMA PS1, NYC, 2017. “Transmediale,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2014. “Qualia Cerasite,” organized by NP, Eyebeam, NYC, 2012“Techne Rendered Dawn”, curated by Wyatt Schaffner, Disjecta, Portland, OR, 2012“These Peanuts are Bullets”, Family Business Gallery, NYC, 2012.Performances
Mesh Manifold Europe Tour, Feb-March 2024 Mesh Manifold, Bastl Instruments, Brno, Dec 14, 2023 Mesh Manifold, Performensk, Stuttgart, Dec 9, 2023 Network Entities, Ostrava Kamera Oko, Ostrava, Nov 18, 2023 Mesh Manifold, The Lab, San Francisco, Oct 5, 2023 Mesh Manifold, Indexical, Sept 29 + 30, 2023 Klang Moor Shopfe, Aug 31- Sept 10, 2023 Japan tour May-June 2023 Europe tour, March-April 2023 MSHR + The Tenses in collaboration, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Portland, Jan 2023 North America tour, Fall 2022 Tomutonttu + MSHR in collaboration, Finland tour, August 2022 Europe Tour, June 2022 West Coast US Tour, April 2022 Tomutonttu + MSHR in collaboration , Blank Forms, NYC, Dec 8 + 9, 2021 Creative Music Guild's Improvisation Summit of Portland, October 14, 2021 Imaginary Network Topologies, April 16, 2021 Experimental Sound Studio, organized by Peter Burr, June 20, 2020 cyber SOTU festival, April 16, 2020 Duke University, Co-Lab @ home, April 9, 2020 Äänipäivät Online festival, March 28, 2020 SAIC and Columbia, organized by Peter Burr, Chicago, March 10, 2020 Various Artists Record Release, Printed Matter St. Marks, NYC, March 8, 2020 Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, March 5, 2020 Kedampunk (Ex Tuck & Trap), Denpasar, Bali, Feb 29 Ngajiswara, organized by Ruang Gulma, Yogyakarta, Jan 27, 2020 Bangkok Noise Festival, Dec 22, 2019 Jam Cafe, Bangkok, Dec 20, 2020 Neighbours 2.0, De Commune, Bangkok, Dec 19, 2020 Liquid Architecture / MONASH, Melbourne, 2019 Japan Tour, Japan, 2019 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco, 2019 Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, 2019 Canicas Festival, live improv collab with Makoto Kawabata, Oaxaca, 2019 Colexpla, Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto, 2018 HIAP 20th Anniversary event, Helsinki, 2018 Saturnalia Festival,Macao, Milan, 2018 MSHR Presented by Double-Grass at Fenko Catalysis Chamber, Taipei, 2018 Slow Life Avante Garde,DOMMUNE, Tokyo, 2018 Soup, Tokyo, 2018 Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2018. Black + Fog Show, CONPASS, Osaka, 2018 Namba BEARS, Osaka, 2018 Sonic Anchor,Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2018 KOTZKER volume 1. Sonidos y visuales en Oaxaca," La Locomotora, Oaxaca, 2018 P.A.P.I. presenta, LAGOS, Mexico City, 2018 El Nicho, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, 2018 Spittle of the Moon, MoMA PS1, NYC 2017. Moving Sounds, Austrian Cultural Forum, Roulette, NYC, 2017. Sight and Sound, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, 2017 Pop Rally, MOMA PS1, NYC, 2017 Hallucinations Documenta14, Athens, 2017 Veranda, Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki, 2017 KIILAN ÄÄNIPÄIVÄT, Kemiö Island, 2017 Rhizom, Zurich, 2017. Europe Tour with Max Eilbacher + Duncan Moore and Headband, May-June 2017 Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, 2017 “Attention! We’ve Moved,” organized by Constance Hockaday and The Lab for UNTITLED, San Francisco, 2017. Ant Farm / LST inflatable, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2017 LAMPO, The Graham Foundation, Chicago, 2016 Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, NYC, 2016 Tetraphonics,Pioneer Works, NYC, 2016 Tauba Auerbach’s Projective Instrument, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC, 2016 West Coast Tour with Max Eilbacher, Nov-Dec 2015 USA Tour, May-July 2015 West Coast Tour with The Tenses, April 2015 Europe Tour, Jan-April 2014 Ceremonial Chamber, Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2014 Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, 2013 The Lab, San Francisco, 2013 Skver, Mali Losinj, Croatia, 2013 Palazzo Peckham Opening, Venice Biennale, Italy, 2013 Qualia Cerasite, Eyebeam, NYC, 2012 Pro-Am, Western Front, Vancouver BC, 2012 New World, Le Dictateur, Milan Italy, 2011 Europe Tour with Sporay, Oct 2011Discography
"Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle", LP and CD, co-released by Ehse and Sonoscopia, Baltimore/Porto, 2021 "Circular Fruiting Events", digital EP, Krut Records, Antwerp, 2020 "Cybernetic Coil", lathe cut 7", Various Artists, NYC, March 2020 "MSHR Signal Hybrid Recursion", vinyl record + book, De Player, Rotterdam, Jan 2020 “Mind Synthesis Hallway Reflector”, VHS, ARs, Baltimore, 2019. “MSHR / The Tenses : Mental Formations with Juliette Amoroso and Jamie Potter,” CD, NEUREC, Osaka, 2018. “Phased Trance Constructions,” Cassette, Unifactor, Cleveland, 2018. “Emergent Knot Traces,” Cassette, Anathema Archive, 2017. “MSHR & KDLR- Simulated Mortar Array,” Cassette, Pleasure Editions / MSHR Media, NYC, 2016. “Resonant Hyperscape Modulator,” Cassette, MSHR Media, Portland, OR, 2015. “Time Blade Ceremony,” Cassette, MSHR Media, Portland, OR, 2014. “MSHR/The Tenses,” Cassette, Pigface Records, Portland, OR, 2013. “Liquid Hand ~ Time Blade,” Cassette, MSHR Media, Portland, OR, 2013. “Inward Conch~Upward Spiral,” Data disc with video game and album, MSHR Media, Portland, OR, 2012. “Nesting Face,” Cassette, MSHR Media, Portland, OR, 2011. “Inward Mountain/Nesting Door (New World),” Vinyl LP, Le Dictateur, 2011.Press
“Daydream - Segregation from Reality and Stream of Consciousness in Virtual Reality,” Domenico Quaranta, Resonant Realities, 2022 “Order of Sonic Chaos: MSHR”, Artycok TV, Brno, 2022. “Iterations and Improvisation: an Interview with MSHR”, Bana Bissat, Sound of Life, 2022. “MSHR build and explore sculptural electronic systems in Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle”, Henry Bruce-Jones, Fact Magazine, London, 2021. “Signal Hybrid Recursion Review”, Emily Pothast, The Wire, 2020. “Interview With MSHR”, Kazunori Toganoki, Massage, Tokyo, 2019. “MSHR hace escultura digital, circuitos analógicos y cibernética en vivo,” Hanna Quevedo, Vice, Mexico, February 2018. “MSHR-Knotted Gate Chant Cycle,” Intercourse, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2017.“MSHR's Nested Transmuter Cycle Is Sacred Art for a Virtual Era,” Emily Pothast, The Stranger, Seattle, March 2017.“Interview- MSHR,” Fields Magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2016.“MSHR,” Perfect Wave Magazine, Vol. 4, Fall 2016.“MSHR,” Alt-Esc, 9/2016. “Floating Noise and Drag Club Celebrates San Francisco's Lost Underground” Sarah Burke, Hyperallergic, Jan 19, 2017.“Live Report: MSHR and Max Eilbacher @ Hollow Earth Radio” Emily Pothast, Decoder, Dec 2, 2015.“MSHR Art & Muisc Collective Interview: Pathways In & Up,” Ian Paige, Redefine, Sept 19, 2014“Binary Lore,” John Motley, Art Forum, Jan 2013."MSHR 'bio-tech',” Maurizio Catelan, Muse Magazine, Milan, Dec 2011."New World," Paola Manfrin, Vogue Italia, Milan, Oct 2011.Workshops/Lectures/Teaching
FaVU Faculty of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist's Studio Lead Teachers, Winter Semester, Brno, 2023-4 Sarah Lawrence College, Moving Image Arts Department, Lecture, Bronxville, Nov 2022 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sound Department, Workshop and studio visits, Chicago, Sept 2022 Simon Fraser University, School for The Contemporary Arts, Lecture and performance, Vancouver, Sept 2022 The New School, Sound Studies Department, Lecture, NYC, May 2022 "Composing With Cybernetics," workshop, Indexical, Santa Cruz, Apr 2022 UCLA Design Media Arts, Lecture and studio visits, Los Angeles, Feb 2021 School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Film, Video, New Media and Animation, Lecture and Performance, March 2020 Columbia College School of Media Arts, Lecture and Performance, Chicago, March 2020 ArtCenter College of Design- Media Design Practices and Immersion Lab, Pasadena, Lecture, Oct 2019 Washington State University, Lecture and studio visits, Feb 2017 “Building and Improvising with Analog Circuitry”, 6 week course, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2017 Oregon State University, Lecture and Workshop, Portland, 2015 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lecture, 2014Residencies
The Guild Hall WPR AiR, East Hampton, 2024 Indexical, Santa Cruz, 2023 other, Fukuoka, 2023 GASBON METABOLISM, Yamanashi, 2023. LOM, Bratislava, 2023. Titanik, Turku, 2022. Cashmere Radio, Berlin, 2019. Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, 2019. AUX-AiR, Stockton-On-Tees, 2018. HIAP, Helsinki, 2018. LAGOS, Mexico City, 2018.Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2016-2017.Signal Culture, Owego, 2016.Sonoscopia, Porto, 2014 and 2018.Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, NYC, 2014.~~>Personal Timeline: HERE
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