the collaborative collage laboratory of allison anne + Jeremy P. Bushnell
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ABOUT
Morphic Rooms is a collaborative collage laboratory founded in 2021 by allison anne (they/them) and Jeremy P. Bushnell (he/him).They produce layered, abstract work that utilizes systematic parameters, creative rulesets, chance operations, and collaborative interplay as tools for radically reimagining a collection of images, texts, ephemera, and detritus, drawn from centuries of cultural accretion and mechanical reproduction.allison & Jeremy share a commitment to social equity, community empowerment, and creative reuse. Together, they support the expansion of the public domain, cast a critical eye on the mechanisms of capitalized acquisition (including refusing to participate in the NFT marketplace), aspire to produce convivial tools for the making of art, and work to make these tools accessible to all. They are the producers of products designed for creative re-use such as two series of ADDITIONS, each one being a 96-card deck of public domain images and textures. From November 2021 to October 2022, they produced twelve issues of Parameters, a monthly broadsheet coupling creative prompts with a supply of raw imagematter.Their work has been published widely, including publications such as Streetcake Magazine, petrichor, Defunkt Mag, Cutbow Quarterly, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, Sleepingfish and more. In January 2023, collaborative work by allison & Jeremy was exhibited in Kolkata, India as part of the international collage exhibition Unconnected Yet, curated by Todd Bartel, Daniela Esponda, Teri Henderson, and Talin Megherian. The show was exhibited in early 2024 in Lorne, Australia. Work by allison & Jeremy has also been shown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Together they run NONMACHINABLE, an organization that publishes and distributes optically interesting zines and artist’s publications. NONMACHINABLE is committed to equitably promoting and disseminating creative publications with an emphasis on work made by trans people, artists of color, and women.Questions, comments, collaborations, commissions? Send an email to morphicrooms (at) gmail (dot) com!
LET'S WORK TOGETHER
Morphic Rooms is available for commissioned work, various print projects, editorial work and more, including:• Art commissions
• Licensure of existing work
• Editorial illustrations
• Album and book covers
• Flyers, posters and other materials
• Publication design and managementWe'd love to hear from you--drop us a line via email at morphicrooms (at) gmail (dot) com!
PROJECTS
ADDITIONS: “collage cards” featuring images and textures laid out in formally elegant arrangements, available in quantities of 8, 48 and 96 cards in the Morphic Rooms shop and at NONMACHINABLE. There are two series of cards--the first was released in December 2021, and the second in January 2024.EXTENSION SERVICE: an ongoing zine series of collaborative aesthetic investigations, ultimately seeking to extend the total amount of available information on aspects of our sensual world. Available in the Morphic Rooms shop and at NONMACHINABLE.ZINES: We've produced a variety of other zine projects as part of our practice, including further collaborations with artists such as Billy Mavreas.PARAMETERS: a monthly subscription-based broadsheet of instructions and textures for collage published digitally and in print from November 2021 to October 2022.ORBITAL NOTATION: a quarter-size zine compiling work from the first half of 2022 that is uncollected elsewhere. Delectable geometries and disintegrating grids—this collection showcases cutting edge work from our evolving partnership. Available through NONMACHINABLE.NONMACHINABLE: our distribution & publishing wing, specializing in zines and artist publications featuring collage, visual poetry, abstract comics, stamp art, mail art, asemic writing, and other optically interesting material with a focus on work made by trans people, queers, artists of color, and women, founded in March 2022. Shop the catalog here!
PORTFOLIO
Clifton (Elsie), shown in an i nternational group exhibition of collage at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, India, January 2023 and Lorne Community Connect in Lorne, Australia, January 2024
Spatial Consequences I, 2022, published in Hazey vol. 3 by Fifth Wheel Press
Speculative editorial work, 2023
fritillary edge, 2023, published in Cutbow Quarterly, June 2023
Revolution Celebration I, published in Anamorphoesis, February 2023
Inference I, 2022
Orbital Notation, design & artwork by Morphic Rooms, chapbook published by Paper View Books, 2022
Orbital Notation, design & artwork by Morphic Rooms, chapbook published by Paper View Books, 2022
Orbital Notation, design & artwork by Morphic Rooms, chapbook published by Paper View Books, 2022
Cover illustration, published in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, November 2023
passing things i, published in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, November 2023
passing things ii, published in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, November 2023
passing things iii, published in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, November 2023
passing things iv, published in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, November 2023
passing things v, published in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, November 2023
Excess Affect, cover illustration for Cutbow Quarterly, September 2022
Arbuscule 5, published in Sleepingfish, 2022
this sediment ii, published in Cephalophore: Mastodon, 2023
Spatial Consequences II, 2022, published in Hazey vol. 3 by Fifth Wheel Press
articulation point ii, 2022
Sharp Pictures I, published in Photo Trouvée Magazine, June 2023
Sharp Pictures II, published in Photo Trouvée Magazine, June 2023
Sharp Pictures III, published in Photo Trouvée Magazine, June 2023
Speculative editorial work, 2023
Personal work, 2023
temporary spring, published in The Thalweg #3, December 2023
accomplished filer ii, published in petrichor magazine #21, October 2022
PDF curriculum vitae + portfolio available by request.
CALL FOR WORK: EDITIONS
We are seeking collages that make creative reuse of the cards in the ADDITIONS deck. Work received will be considered for inclusion in EDITIONS, a full-color zine to be released in the summer of 2022.Submissions are open January 15-March 30, 2022.We accept submissions of up to ten collages at a time.To be eligible, each piece you submit must use imagery taken from at least one card from the ADDITIONS deck of “collage cards.” (A variety of card sets are available at shop.morphicrooms.com, and a digital edition is available at morphicrooms.itch.io for $5.) You do not need to limit yourself to using only ADDITIONS cards–we designed them to “play well with others,” so you may combine them with a variety of other source material. Use of mixed media, similarly, is fine, as long as you would still describe the completed work as a “collage.” Free theme and size, but note that the final zine will be printed in a portrait (vertical) format.Send your completed pieces to morphicrooms@gmail.com. Please use [your last name]-EDITIONS submission as a subject line. Include a short bio, including links to your social media information, if applicable.Please send your work as .png, .tiff, .jpg, or .pdf files, and be sure that the file is 300dpi or higher. A high resolution is necessary to ensure that your work looks great in print! We can accept Google Drive links if your files are large. Title each individual file [your last name]-EDITIONS-[title of piece].We don't accept pieces previously published in a zine, journal or magazine, either in physical form or online–though pieces which have been previously shared on social media are fine. We ask for first print publication rights on the work(s) we accept, and the rights to share the work(s) on social media platforms non-exclusively, with artist credit, in conjunction with this project. All other rights revert back to you upon publication, though we hope you will credit Nonmachinable as first publisher should your piece(s) be published elsewhere in the future. You will retain ownership and copyright of your work.We can decline work for any reason, and we will automatically decline work that strikes us as sexist, racist, ableist, homophobic, or transphobic, or that otherwise violates our license governing the use of the ADDITIONS cards (available here). We do not provide feedback on declined work.We accept simultaneous submissions, but please contact us to withdraw pieces if they are accepted by another publication.We hope to provide a response before April 30, 2022. Feel free to send us a query if you haven't heard back from us by then.Contributors selected for publication will receive one copy of the zine at no cost, and additional copies will be available at a discount.
