M. E. H.
Artist, educator, worldbuilder | Official Website: Matthew E. Henderson

Contact

email: matt@xhurch.net
X H U R C H: www.xhurch.net
v i r t u a: www.xhurch.net/virtua/
P.I.M.G.: www.pdximmersive.media
M.A.S.S.: www.mass-series.info
Magisterial: soundcloud/magisterial
xhurches.org www.xhurches.org

Portland, Oregon
USA

Curriculum Vitae

Projects

  • v i r t u a (arts center, founder), 2024-present
  • Xhurch (venue and residence, founder), 2010-present
  • NTVTY (installation art series), 2010-present
  • Portland Immersive Media Group (artist group, co-founder), 2015-2018
  • M.A.S.S. (music/performance & poetry series, co-host & co-curator), 2013-2014
  • Digital Twin TM / Magisterial (midi music duo), 2013-present
  • Liminal Passage (multimedia environment), 2012-2017
  • Xhurches (online archive - adaptive reuse of former religious spaces), 2011-present

Shows/Exhibitions

  • 2024 [upcoming] “Nothing Rendered, Nothing Gained" at Virtua, Portland, OR
  • 2023 “NTVTY" at Lloyd Center Mall, Portland, OR
  • 2023 “House of Moire” European XR Awards, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2023 “House of Moire” Viborg Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Denmark
  • 2023 “House of Moire” Psych.e, 23 degrés, Paris, France
  • 2023 "House of Moiré" @ FIVARS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 2023 "House of Moiré" @ Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  • 2023 "House of Moiré" @ MUTEK, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • 2023 "House of Moiré" @ Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2022 "House of Moiré" @ MUTEK / Beyond The Frame, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2022 "House of Moiré" @ Magnetic Fields Festival, India
  • 2022 "House of Moiré" @ FilmGate, Miami Arts Week, Miami, Florida
  • 2022 "House of Moiré" MUTEK, Immersive Collection Debut, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • 2022 "Flux Emanation" performance, MUTEK, Play 1, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • 2022 "Forgotten Portland," State of Being, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
  • 2021 Local Cinema Online, Portland, OR, curated by Theresa Sweetheart
  • 2020 Pink Noise V, quarantine edition, Portland, Oregon
  • 2020 [cancelled] “Moirés”, featuring Chloe Alexandra, Hellerau, Dresden, Germany, curated by Mutek
  • 2019 NTVTY X, Xhurch, Portland, Oregon
  • 2019 send + receive festival of sound, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • 2019 MUTEK Festival, Les 7 Doigts/Studio 1, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • 2019 “Undertones II", Portland Art Museum, Whitsell Auditorium, Portland, OR
  • 2019 "Pink Noise iii", Boathouse Studios, Portland, OR
  • 2019 “Un-learning The Future”, Spinning Beachball of Death, MoHA/Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX
  • 2019 “Democratizing VR for More Livable Cities”, Design Week Portland, Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2019 “Moirés”, featuring Chloe Alexandra, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
  • 2019 “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space”, Spaceness Festival, Sou’wester, Seaside, WA
  • 2018 "NTVTY IX" feat. Craig Dorety, Daniel Smolentsev, Rachel Hibbard, Xhurch, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "S.E.C.R.E.T.S.: Prince Romeo The Crow", immersive set design, Time-Based Art Festival, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Fin de Cinema", live film score for Jiri Barta's "The Pied Piper", Holocene, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Holocene 15-Year Anniversary", custom visuals, Holocene, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Matter-Time Vortex", custom visuals for Golden Retriever, Holocene, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Infinitely Possible", collaboration w. students at Open School, Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Immersed Conference", Design Reality inaugural conference, OMSI, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Triad Exhibition", curated by Sam Klickner & Andrew Auble, Grapefruits Art Space, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Matter-Time Vortex", custom visuals for Golden Retriever, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2018 "Matter-Time Vortex", custom visuals for Golden Retriever @ Rewire Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2018 "Static Passenger", Spaceness Festival, Sou'wester, Seaside, WA
  • 2018 "Temple IV/Hedge Maze", custom visuals for Dolphin Midwives, Holocene, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Ontology of PIMG", Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
  • 2017 "A/V Party", curated by Sarah Turner, Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2017 "SPAM'S - The Internet: The Restaurant", curated by Rachel Stuckey & Zac Traeger, Tacheles, Marfa, TX
  • 2017 "Unity Gain: VOL I", curated by Jesse Mejía & Sarah Turner Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2017 “YOU ARE HERE”, Houseguest Residency, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR
  • 2017 “Liminal Passage”, multimedia environment, Upstream Music Festival, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
  • 2017 “Echo Chamber", Art Hack Day Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland, OR
  • 2016 “Chat Room: Politics of Resistance”, curated by Minh Nguyen, Seattle, WA
  • 2016 “VR Spa”, Open Signal (formerly Portland Community Media), Portland, OR
  • 2016 “Portland Retro Gaming Expo”, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
  • 2016 "Crossover: Multithreaded Grief Ritual", The Art of Dying, Dream Logic, San Fransisco, CA
  • 2016 “VR Spa", official Nominees for IndieCade 2016, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2016 “Out of Sight”, curated by Greg Lundgren, Sierra Stinson, Minh Nguyen, Julia Fryett, Seattle, WA
  • 2016 “Habitats”, curated by Jeremy Swartz and Jeff Jahn, Portland, OR
  • 2016 “Felt Book”, curated by Institute for New Feeling, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2015 “Coaxial Opening”, curated by Experimental Half-Hour, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2014 "Meanwhile, Elsewhere", curated by Kieran Mckeon, Portland, OR
  • 2013 “Xhurches Symposium”, M.A.S.S. performance series, Alberta Abbey, Portland, OR
  • 2013 “ONN/OF”, curated by Susan Robb and Sierra Stinson, Seattle, WA
  • 2012 “New Years No Age”, Seattle, WA
  • 2012 “Episode 34”, Experimental Half-Hour, Portland, OR
  • 2012 "Fertility 2.0" alien nativity installation, Burning Man, Black Rock Dessert, NV
  • 2012 "Contact", curated by Chloé Womack, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
  • 2012 “Signify, Sanctify, Believe”, Open Engagement, Portland, OR
  • 2011 “Xhurch: Residential Residency”, Open Engagement, Portland, OR

Awards/Grants

  • 2023 European XR Awards Nominee, “House of Moire”, Stereopsia, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2023 'Winner' Black Swan Film Festival for “House of Moire”, Kolkata, India
  • 2017 Houseguest Residency, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation/Oregon Community Foundation/PCS Inc.
  • 2016 Official nominee for “VR Spa”, Indiecade
  • 2016 Precipice Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art/PICA/Calligram Foundation
  • 2016 Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council
  • 2014 Precipice Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art/PICA/Calligram Foundation
  • 2013 Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council
  • 2012 Black Rock Arts Ticket Gift (Burning Man)

Residencies

  • 2018 Open School North, Portland, OR
  • 2018 Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
  • 2017 Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2016 Laboratory Residency, Spokane, WA

Talks/Appearances

  • 2022 Mutek Immersive Collection, Beyond The Frame Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2022 Mutek Immersive Collection, Mutek Forum, Montreal, Canada
  • 2022 "Realtime 3D for Musicians" workshop, PATHWAVES, Mutek, Montreal, Québec, Canada
  • 2021 "Unity for Artists" workshop, Worlding Protocol, Grey Area Festival, San Francisco, CA
  • 2020 "Xhurch NTVTY Retrospective Mix", Lost Discoveries Radio, Belfast, Maine
  • 2018 "Real-Time Technology Integrations for Community Media", presentation, Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Mixed Reality Futures: How Real-Time Technology is Transforming Creativity", artist talk, NewRelic, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "Access The Future", panel discussion @ Alliance Community Media conference, Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2018 "URL Lecture Series", Transmedia artist talk, University of Texas, Austin, TX
  • 2017 "What is Virtual Reality?", artist talk, Willamette University, Salem, OR
  • 2017 "You Are Here", artist talk, Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2017 "Studio Visit", Freeform Portland (KFFP 90.3 FM), Portland, OR
  • 2017 "The Evolution of Portland Immersive Media Group", New Social Entanglements, University of Oregon
  • 2016 "Who is OMGv6?: Social Experiments in Second Life", Xhurch, Portland, OR
  • 2016 "The Spectacle, Unleashed", Labratory Residency, Spokane, WA
  • 2016 "Exhibiting Virtual Reality", Upfor AR/VR Artist Research Residency at Oregon Story Board, Portland, OR
  • 2016 "Introducing VR Spa", Echo AiR student talk at Open Signal, Portland, OR
  • 2016 "What is Xhurch?", Art In Context at PNCA Intermedia Department, Portland OR
  • 2015 "Xhurch VR", PIGSquad Talent Talks, Portland, OR

Selected Bibliography

Skills/Proficiencies

Virtual Reality
  • Unity / Unreal
  • Immersive UI/UX
  • 360º Video
  • Oculus / SteamVR
  • Perception Neuron
3D Pro Tools
  • Maya
  • Substance
  • Polycam
  • Metahuman
  • DAZ
Development & Coding
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Javascript/JQuery
  • C#
  • A-Frame/WebVR
  • Git Hub
Adobe Suite
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Premiere Pro
Music Production
  • Ableton
  • Pro Tools
  • Roland Synths/Drums
  • Audio Hijack
  • MIDI/OSC
Videography
  • Hitachi Z-HD5000
  • Canon C100mii
  • Canon 5D/7D
  • Panasonic G-series
  • VR Panorama 360
Technical Direction
  • Chroma key
  • Studio switching
  • Sound mixing
  • DMX lighting
  • Xpression CG
Theory
  • Richard Rorty
  • Michael Foucault
  • Judith Butler
  • Mircea Eliade
  • Walter Kauffman

Education

  • Portland State University, 2000-2003

Continuing Ed.

  • Grading for Equity, Portland Community College, 2020
  • Developing Inclusive Practices, Open Signal, 2019
  • HD Studio certification, Open Signal, 2017
  • Augmented Reality Development, Oregon Story Board, 2016
  • Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2005

Virtual Reality

Environments

Portland Immersive Media Group

Performance

Web