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 as an undergraduate at Columbia University.
He comes from Denver and lives in Brooklyn, where he plays bass in a band called Multitudes.
