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.

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Contact house [at] knifeandfork [dot] org
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    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 →
    first day of Critical Urban Media Arts, a course I'm teaching with Jesse at Columbia's GSAPP
    08-05-07 →
    presenting TXTML at dorkbot
    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
    08-04-05 →
    talking about Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling with Johanna at FILMOBILE in London
    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 →
    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 →
    presentation titled Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling / video installation of Hundekopf at arte.mov in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    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 →
    showing Of Keeping with Dwayne at Glowlab's Conflux
    07-06-15 →
    Knifeandfork's The Wrench selected for a 2007/2008 commission from Rhizome.org