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
CV
Portfolio
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
2018 "What's behind a screen?", essay featured in
i/C/U
publication curated by Hiba Ali / home school, (print only)
2016 "Rituals Are Important", Mrrranda L Tarrow, Freeform Portland (print only)
2015
"Using Virtual Reality To Archive Art Installations", Kent Bye, Voices of VR
2015 "
Virtually Real: ntvty vi", Paul Wolfe, Wolf Shrine
2015 "
Xhurch
", Kazunori Toganoki, Out Music Magazine, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “
MASS X” preview, Robert Ham, Portland Mercury
2014 “
Meanwhile… Elsewhere Vol. 3”, Matthew Sweeney, Foreign Accents
2013 “
MASS IX” preview, Wyatt Schaffner, Portland Mercury
2013 “
Xhurches Travelogue”, Guru Rugu’s Experimental Meditation Hour, KCHUNG
2013 “
ONN/OF Retrospective”, Raya Leary, 4Culture
2012 “
Episode 34: Princes Dies IV…”, Experimental Half-Hour
2012 “
Temporarily Inducted at Xhurch”, Alieta Herrera-Train, Into The Woods
2011 “
Bizarre Nativity Scene Using Aliens Instead of Wisemen”, Craig Mckenzie, Daily Mail
2011 “
Only In Portland: Alien Nativity Scene”, Claire Evans, IFC
2011 “
Space Christ: Alien Nativity Is Out Of This World”, Ben Waterhouse, Willamette Week
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