Brian House is a bricoleur whose work has traversed locative media, experimental music, interactive narrative, and social practice. By constructing embodied, participatory systems, he seeks to negotiate between programmed constraints and the serendipity of everyday life.
Currently, Brian is Creative Technologist at the Research and Development Lab at The New York Times Company, where his interests include personal data, biometrics, and behavior mining. He is on the MFA faculty at Parsons Design and Technology, and previously he led technology at the award-winning design studio Local Projects. His project Yellow Arrow, a pioneering work in social locative media that involved stickers, mobile phones, and participants in 467 cities around the world, was included in MoMA's 2008 exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind and featured in Wired, PRAXIS, Metropolis, and The New York Times.
Regarding Knifeandfork, a collaboration with Sue Huang, Flavorpill writes, "the imaginative bicoastal duo's installations utilize unorthodox media, including text messages and video clips, in their expository repositioning of traditional art forms." Knifeandfork recently completed a series of residency projects engaging social practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles in 2009, including a reenactment of Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal from the 1986 World Cup and a remote control car race through the permanent collection. Other recent work includes The Wrench (2008), which recasts Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench as an open-ended mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially intelligent character; 5 'til 12 (2006), a nonlinear interactive installation utilizing a database of video clips to create a practically infinite number of narratives based on the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon; and Hundekopf (2005), a location-based narrative project utilizing SMS text-messaging to animate and recontextualize the experience of riding the Berlin Ringbahn. Knifeandfork has exhibited with Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; The Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine; Loving Berlin Festival, Berlin; and Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Additionally, Brian composes instrumental and computer music for solo performance, installation, his avant-punk band Multitudes, and electric ensembles. He has been a resident at STEIM in Amsterdam, has performed on either bass or laptop throughout the US, Europe, and Brazil, and has presented at Dorkbot twice. He holds an MSc in Innovative Design from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, and studied machine learning, electroacoustic music, and religion for his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. He comes from Denver and lives in Brooklyn.
Currently, Brian is Creative Technologist at the Research and Development Lab at The New York Times Company, where his interests include personal data, biometrics, and behavior mining. He is on the MFA faculty at Parsons Design and Technology, and previously he led technology at the award-winning design studio Local Projects. His project Yellow Arrow, a pioneering work in social locative media that involved stickers, mobile phones, and participants in 467 cities around the world, was included in MoMA's 2008 exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind and featured in Wired, PRAXIS, Metropolis, and The New York Times.
Regarding Knifeandfork, a collaboration with Sue Huang, Flavorpill writes, "the imaginative bicoastal duo's installations utilize unorthodox media, including text messages and video clips, in their expository repositioning of traditional art forms." Knifeandfork recently completed a series of residency projects engaging social practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles in 2009, including a reenactment of Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal from the 1986 World Cup and a remote control car race through the permanent collection. Other recent work includes The Wrench (2008), which recasts Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench as an open-ended mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially intelligent character; 5 'til 12 (2006), a nonlinear interactive installation utilizing a database of video clips to create a practically infinite number of narratives based on the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon; and Hundekopf (2005), a location-based narrative project utilizing SMS text-messaging to animate and recontextualize the experience of riding the Berlin Ringbahn. Knifeandfork has exhibited with Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; The Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine; Loving Berlin Festival, Berlin; and Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Additionally, Brian composes instrumental and computer music for solo performance, installation, his avant-punk band Multitudes, and electric ensembles. He has been a resident at STEIM in Amsterdam, has performed on either bass or laptop throughout the US, Europe, and Brazil, and has presented at Dorkbot twice. He holds an MSc in Innovative Design from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, and studied machine learning, electroacoustic music, and religion for his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. He comes from Denver and lives in Brooklyn.