NETWORK ENTITY - Artist Talk and Performance with MSHR
| Date | 05.01.25 |
| Doors | 6:30pm |
| Time | 6:30pm–9pm |
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| Admission | $10 |
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| Associated Program | CATS+ |
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Thursday May 1st, 2025
The Museum of Human Achievement, 3600 Lyons Road, Austin, Texas 78721
6:30pm - Doors
7:00pm - Artist Talk
8:00pm - Performance
Join us for an artist talk and performance by MSHR. The artists will share about their creative practice and the processes behind their body of work, with room for questions and discussion. Following a brief intermission, they will present a performance of NETWORK ENTITY.
MSHR’s audiovisual performance, NETWORK ENTITY, is an ever-mutating composition of sculptural and sonic shapes. The video projection and 4-channel audio are created with handmade instruments including sculptural electronic interfaces and open source software paths which allow for real-time improvisation.
If you’re into or curious about creative collaboration, electronic music, digital fabrication, custom-made instruments, video synthesis, or open source softwares Blender and Supercollider, come hang out!
MSHR 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 with 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. 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.
Presented by the Museum of Human Achievement for the Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+).
The Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+) is a program for artists interested in expanding their work in digital and new media. The CATS+ Residency Program brings cohorts of artists and tech wizards together to learn and collaborate on new work. CATS+ promotes troubleshooting, curiosity, and critical thinking around emerging and ubiquitous technologies. We host artist-led workshops, gatherings, mentorships, public showcases, a media art studio, an online wiki to remove the mystery from tech by foregrounding human connection, process, and experimentation.
