Stuck in the Motherboard

Marisa Müsing

Marisa Müsing (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher and cybernymph exploring relationships between the body, digital identity and archaeological history, and expressing ethereal feminist ideals through digital and sculptural media. Their work explores blurred boundaries of the body, identity and digital space, fostering ethereal opportunities for growth.

They are currently pursuing a PhD in Architectural Research at the Royal College of Art that reinvestigates Pompeiian frescoes through a queer cyberfeminist lens.

Marisa has presented works at Royal Academy of Arts London, Salone del Mobile Milan, New York Design Week, Filet Space Gallery London, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Softer Digital Copenhagen and Maison et Objet Paris. They have been featured in Glitch Magazine, Hypebae, WGSN, Dezeen, Vogue, and the New York Times.

Marisa co-runs two design collectives, müsing-sellés (furniture & architecture) and mamumifi (objects & art)

Marisa is from Tkaronto/Toronto, and currently lives between London and Paris.

contact
email: marisa.musing3@gmail.com
insta: marisamusing
CV: click here

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film, Cloud Tales: Softer Digital, 2023

Stuck in the Motherboard, 8 min, 2023

The project Mimicry & The Villa of Mysteries is a cyborg re-analysis of ancient frescoes in Pompeii, Italy. Working with AI to generate new identities for characters painted in Room 5 of the Villa of Mysteries, the work aims to translate our patriarchal histories to build new queer cyberfeminist perspectives that can live beyond the walls of the ancient fresco. In the film, Stuck in the Motherboard, one of the women is an artist who is trapped inside of an egg-shaped computer that that she sees as her mother. She reviews her life as she speaks towards her mother in the computer womb, gazing at the fractal stream of screens surrounding her.

As a queer Asian woman, the designs take on elements from personal experience. The Kneeling Woman wears a cheongsam and exists in a hyper-real fluid dreamscape of screens showing different versions of herself reflects on personal experiences being mixed but wanting to find a sense of belonging to my asian heritage, and feeling more connected when existing online. The project explores the softscape of the digital and the opportunity to feel connected to all aspects of your identities on the internet. It is a visual investigation into how we can critically perceive our digital identities and design new spaces for our gender fluid, transversally thinking, physically-transcending bodies to exist.

Softer Digital, Cloud Tales, Copenhagen, 2023

MMMAD Arte Digital en la Ciudad, Santa Monica Films, Madrid, 2024

film still, 2023

presented for Softer Digital, Cloud Tales, Copenhagen, 2023
& MMMAD Arte Digital en la Ciudad, Madrid, 2024
Softer Digital London, 2024
Pasts to Come, Curiousity Cabinet, London, 2024
Èter Space, Etereal Maison, London, 2023
Urban Space Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2023
RCA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London, 2023