Brian House is a bricoleur interested in art, code, and cognition.
Currently, he is Creative Technologist at Local Projects, a design studio in New York working primarily with museums and public spaces. Additionally, he is one-half of Knifeandfork, an art group investigating algorithmic narrative and everyday performance. In 2008, he designed and co-taught a course, Critical Urban Media Arts as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Previously, Brian co-created Yellow Arrow, a seminal project in locative media that involved cities, stickers, and mobile phones and included participants in over 450 cities in 39 countries.
Brian's work has been presented by the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Beall Center, Stockholms Kulturhust, Art Interactive, Glowlab Conflux, STEIM, and Dorkbot, and has been featured in the New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, Metropolis, and Wired magazine. He holds an MS in Innovative Design from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, and studied computer science and religion for his undergraduate degree at Columbia University.
He comes from Denver and lives in Brooklyn, where he plays bass in a band called Multitudes.
Currently, he is Creative Technologist at Local Projects, a design studio in New York working primarily with museums and public spaces. Additionally, he is one-half of Knifeandfork, an art group investigating algorithmic narrative and everyday performance. In 2008, he designed and co-taught a course, Critical Urban Media Arts as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Previously, Brian co-created Yellow Arrow, a seminal project in locative media that involved cities, stickers, and mobile phones and included participants in over 450 cities in 39 countries.
Brian's work has been presented by the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Beall Center, Stockholms Kulturhust, Art Interactive, Glowlab Conflux, STEIM, and Dorkbot, and has been featured in the New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, Metropolis, and Wired magazine. He holds an MS in Innovative Design from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, and studied computer science and religion for his undergraduate degree at Columbia University.
He comes from Denver and lives in Brooklyn, where he plays bass in a band called Multitudes.
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demoing interactive video forum in the studio
armory show
goodbye wburg; just moved to Clinton Hill / BedStuy. who's my neighbor?
Liz Rhodes kicking ass
2up @ printed matter
armory show
goodbye wburg; just moved to Clinton Hill / BedStuy. who's my neighbor?
Liz Rhodes kicking ass
2up @ printed matter
10-01-31 →
Knifeandfork in LA, performing visuals with Live Footage @ Echo Curio
10-01-30 →
Knifeandfork in LA, performing visuals with Live Footage @ Fais Dodo
10-01-19 →
Make History in the Times
09-09-11 →
Launch of Make History, a site Ive been developing at Local Projects for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. 300k visitors and counting!
09-09-03 →
Visuals with Live Footage at The Stone
09-08-26 →
Im performing on visuals with Live Footage at Monkey Town
09-08-21 →
In Chicago for Local Projects installing Talk to Me, an interactive at the Museum of Science and Industry
09-08-13 →
Sue made a beautiful Multitudes video, Thick Thick Curtains
09-07-01 →
Jesse and I have an article in Urban Omnibus: Designers and Citizens as New Media Artists
09-06-14 →
David made a new video for Multitudes from found NASA footage, Renegade
09-06-03 →
Nathan & Joe internet comedy show; I'm engineering a phone piece
09-05-07 →
Knifeandfork's MOCA Grand Prix at MOCA, Los Angeles
09-04-02 →
Knifeandfork's Trying the Hand of God at MOCA, Los Angeles
09-03-16 →
Guest lecture and workshop at RISD at the invitation of Lalya Gaye
09-03-05 →
Knifeandfork's Emptiness is Form (Golf and Donuts) at MOCA, Los Angeles
09-01-21 →
Coverage of the first work I've done with Local Projects, at the NYC visitor's center, by NY1
08-11-16 →
Cabin Campaign meeting in Denver
08-10-27 →
my first day at Local Projects as Creative Technologist
08-10-11 →
soft launch of The Wrench, txt your name to 646.920.2156
08-09-11 →
Conflux Festival. I'm a curator, moderating BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and premiering/previewing a new piece, Today is OK
08-08-22 →
final review for Critical Urban Media Arts! congrats to all our students, great work. Introducing Periplurban.org
08-06-11 →
08-04-27 →
week long tour of the south with Multitudes (grits and collards)
08-04-22 →
Writing Cities conference at MIT/Harvard; presenting paper with Jesse, A Retroactive Manifesto for a Critical Urban Media Arts
08-04-04 →
opening, London Gallery West, preview exhibition of The Wrench
08-03-27 →
invited by Mark Shepard to speak at his class at SUNY Buffalo
08-02-24 →
Yellow Arrow in Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA
07-11-26 →
presentation with Jesse at the Knowledge Lab in Odense, Denmark titled The Mixed-Reality City: Narrative, Play & Learning in Multimodal Environments
07-11-15 →
07-11-15 →
performance of The Weather Or Your Memories at Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
07-11-10 →
presenting TXTML at MobileCampNYC2
07-09-15 →
07-06-15 →
Knifeandfork's The Wrench selected for a 2007/2008 commission from Rhizome.org
