CURRICULUM VITAE


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
  • Klein Kunst Party, Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul, 2011
    Live Footage, live visualization for cello + drums + electronics (with Topu Lyo and Michael Thies)
  • Poetic Urbanisms, Arts @ 29 Garden, Harvard, 2011
    Release of Periplurban, printed experimental dictionary (with Jesse Shapins and Greg Mihalko)
  • *Relay Drawing, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, 2010
    Participatory, psychogeographical investigation of the Hollywood Strip
  • Osmotic Imagination, Issue Project Room, New York, 2010
    2-channel live-processed montage with photographer Syeus Mottel and performance by Matt Mottel
  • Live Footage, Monkeytown and The Stone, New York, 2010
    4-channel live visualization for cello + drums ensemble (with Topu Lyo and Michael Thies)
  • Megapolis Audio Art Festival, Baltimore, 2010
    Pull My Ears, text-message listening interventions
  • *MOCA Grand Prix, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, 2009
    Live video-game racing featuring the permanent collection
  • *Trying the Hand of God, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, 2009
    Participatory reenactment of the infamous play by Diego Maradona
  • *Emptiness Is Form (Golf and Donuts), Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, 2009
    Architectural appropriation
  • Rhizome Commissions, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2008
    The Wrench, text-message based narrative
  • Glowlab Conflux, Center for Architecture, New York, 2008
    Today is OK, public space intervention via Bluetooth video
  • FILMOBILE, London Gallery West, London, 2008
    The Wrench, text-message based narrative
  • Design and the Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2008
    Yellow Arrow, mobile social software (with Jesse Shapins and Christopher Allen)
  • Arte.Mov, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, 2007
    Hundekopf, locative narrative
    The Weather or Your Memories, processed video
  • Glowlab Conflux, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, 2007
    Of Keeping, processed video (with Dwayne Wilson)
  • Sónar, Barcelona, 2006
    Yellow Arrow, mobile social software (with Jesse Shapins and Christopher Allen)
  • Zero One Festival, ISEA, San Jose, 2006
    The Drift Relay, 24-hour drift (with Glowlab)
  • *5 'til 12, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, 2006
    Interactive video installation
  • Glowlab Conflux, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, 2006
    Sign, video (with Jesse Shapins)
  • Glowlab Open Lab, Art Interactive, Cambridge, 2005
    Boston by Chance, urban algorithm installation (with Jesse Shapins)
  • Loving Berlin Festival, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin, 2005
    Hundekopf, locative narrative
    Berlin by Chance, urban algorithm installation (with Gesa Henselmans)
  • Certain Movement, The Tank, New York, 2005
    Agree Sorry Away, algorithmic dance performance (with Megan Metcalf)
  • Glowlab Conflux, Participant Inc, New York, 2004
    Yellow Arrow, mobile social software (with Jesse Shapins and Christopher Allen)
  • *The Case at Kulturhuset, Stockholms Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2004
    Site-specific participatory installation
  • Art and Technology, Stadsbiblioteket, Göteborg, 2004
    Prototype, series of software-generated images and text
  • Master's exhibition, Mölndals Museum, Göteborg, 2003
    Turbin, site-specific sound and light installation
  • Music and Motion Festival, Williamsburg Arts NeXus, Brooklyn, 2003
    Monologue, dance-generated sound system and performance series (with Megan Metcalf)
  • The World, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, 2003
    Elastic Interval Cinema, algorithmic video and sound performance
  • Peace Kitchen, PostCrypt Art Gallery, New York, 2001
    A Closer Look, interactive video installation in response to 9/11
  • Showcase, Columbia Computer Music Center, New York, 2000
    Serotonin, audio process piece
* denotes solo show as Knifeandfork with collaborator Sue Huang

RESIDENCIES & COMMISSIONS
  • Residency and Commission, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, 2009
  • Commission, Rhizome at the New Museum, 2007
  • Commission, Beall Center for Art and Technology, 2006
  • Commission, Stockholms Kulturhuset, 2004
  • Residency, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), 2003

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
  • Creative Technologist, New York Times Company, Research & Development, New York, NY, 2010-present
    Primary research areas include natural user interfaces, personal data, biometrics, and behavior mining
  • Creative Technologist, Local Projects LLC, New York, NY, 2008-2010
    Led technology for major projects including the National American Jewish History Museum and the community archive for the National 9/11 Memorial Museum
  • Software Developer, Diversion Media Inc, New York, NY, 2006-2008
    Designed speculative interfaces for IPTV and community outreach
  • Director of Research & Development, Counts Media Inc, New York, NY, 2004-2006
    Primary architect of a platform for new media entertainment with clients including The Blue Man Group, Ericsson, Voodoo Music Festival, and Lonely Planet
  • Publicity Director, WKCR-FM, New York, NY, 2000-2002
    Oversaw the transition of the station to digital studios and received Columbia's Silver Crown award for leadership following 9/11

TEACHING POSITIONS
  • Adjunct professor, Parsons the New School for Design, 2011
    Lecturer, Major Studio I, Design + Technology MFA program
  • Adjunct professor, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 2008
    Designed and taught a new course, Critical Urban Media Arts, and led student project Periplurban

EDUCATION
  • MSc, Innovative Design, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, 2006
    Thesis: Mixed-Reality Narrative with Mobile Phone Text-Messaging
    Advisor: Mats Nordahl
  • BA, Computer Science / Religion, Columbia University, 2002
    Senior research: Realtime Neural-Network Classification of Musical Gestures
    Advisor: John Kender

PUBLICATIONS
  • Brian House, Jesse Shapins, "Designers and Citizens as Critical Media Artists", Urban Omnibus, July 1, 2009
  • Knifeandfork, "Hundekopf", Vague Terrain 06: Locative, June 2007

CURATION
  • Curator, Glowlab Conflux, 2008
  • Reviewer, Mobile Music Workshop, 2008

CRITICAL WRITING FEATURING WORK
  • Mark Shepard, "Toward the Sentient City", in Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space, ed. Mark Shepard, The MIT Press, Feb 2011
  • Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva, Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World, Wiley, March 2011
  • Mattia Casalegno, "The Research of Knifeandfork: In Between Technology and Participation", Digicult: Digimag, March 21, 2010
  • Rita Raley, "Walk This Way: Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience", in Beyond the Screen, eds. Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla. Transcript Verlag, April 2010
  • Britta Timm Knudsen, Re-investing authenticity: tourism, place and emotions, Channel View, January 2010
  • Graham Coulter-Smith, Deconstructing Installation Art, Brumaria, April 2009
  • Christine Nippe, "City Representations in Net Art", in The Electronic City, eds. Ulrike Bucher, Maros Finka, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, January 2008

SELECTED PRESS

Print
  • TIME, "The 50 Best Inventions of the Year", November 28, 2011
  • Harvard Gazette, "Poetic Urbanisms", February 15, 2011
  • The New York Times, "In Your Palm, Memories of Horror and Valor", September 12, 2010
  • The New York Times, "Online, It’s the Mouse That Runs the Museum", January 19, 2010
  • The New York Post, "Dad Finds Tragic Son in New Web Archive", November 9, 2009
  • Associated Press, "Museum Scours World for New Videos of 9/11 Attacks", September 10, 2009
  • PRAXIS 10: Urban Matters, "MAAP-making", 2008
  • SPIN, "Yellow Arrow — Capitol of Punk", May 2006
  • Taiwan Daily News, Article about Yellow Arrow, April 2006
  • The New York Times, "Making Connections, Here and Now", January 25, 2006
  • NY Arts Magazine, "What the Situationists left behind: Psychogeography", October 2005
  • The Washington Post, "Targeting the 'Art' Around Every Corner", July 2, 2005
  • Berliner Zeitung, "Make a Connection", June 2005
  • The Boston Globe, "The Art of Mobile Technology", April 18, 2005
  • Newsweek, "PUBLIC ART: House Haiku? Just dial", March 14, 2005
  • Metropolis, "Sticker Talk", February 2005
  • WIRED Magazine, "Text in the City", September 2004
  • Dagens Nyheter (Swedish), "Visitors solve 'The Case at Kulturhust'", April 27, 2004
  • Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish), "The Case at Kulturhuset", April 15, 2004
  • Göteborgs-Posten (Swedish) "Art and Technology Go Hand in Hand", December 19, 2003

TV and Radio
  • WNYC, Radio feature on Make History, September 10, 2009
  • KMEX / Univision 34, TV segment on Trying the Hand of God, April 2, 2009
  • WNBC, TV segment on Yellow Arrow, July 2005
  • Weekend America, Radio feature on Yellow Arrow, June 2005
  • Rocketboom, interview, December 2004
  • NY1, TV segment on Yellow Arrow, October 2004

Online
  • Infoaesthetics, "NYTLabs Magic Mirror Reveals News and Health Statistics", November 28, 2011
  • Engadget, "New York Times' magic mirror helps you get dressed, puts the 'wall' in 'paywall'", September 5, 2011
  • Popular Science, "NY Times' Kinect-Assisted Mirror Delivers News, Coupons and Fashion Tips As You Brush Your Teeth", September 2, 2011
  • Slashdot, "NYT Working On 'Magic Mirror' For Bathroom Surfing", September 2, 2011
  • Nieman Journalism Lab, "Mirror, mirror: The New York Times wants to serve you info as you're brushing your teeth", August 31, 2011
  • Flowing Data, "Data Reenactment via Stolen iPhone", July 21, 2011
  • Gizmodo, "Following a Stolen iPhone's Path in Google's Getaway Car", July 19, 2011
  • Rhizome.org, Post on Trying the Hand of God, July 2, 2010
  • Locally Toned, Interview and post on Pull My Ears, June 18, 2010
  • The Huffington Post, "How Art Museums Are Striving to Stay Relevant for a New Generation", March 28, 2010
  • Information Aesthetics, "Make History: Aggregating Experiences", September 15, 2009
  • Core77, "Make History Gathers Stories Over Streetviews", September 11, 2009
  • NBC Los Angeles, "MOCA Becomes a Mini Golf Course. Plus: Donuts", March 5, 2009
  • LA Times, "Art Meets Sport at MOCA", February 23, 2009
  • We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Post on 5 'til 12, January 16, 2006
  • We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Post on Placing Voices, April 5, 2005

INVITED TALKS
  • Tribeca Cinemas, Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, December 2011
  • Hunter College, guest lecture: "From Psychogeography to Rhythmanalysis", December 2011
  • Conflux Festival, flash lecture: "From Psychogeography to Rhythmanalysis", October 2011
  • OpenPlans, guest speaker on behavior mining, August 2011
  • Harvard, guest speaker, "Poetic Urbanisms", February 2011
  • UCSB, guest speaker, round-table talk on digital humanities, September 2010
  • RISD, guest lecture: "Subversive Mobile Storytelling", September 2008
  • MIT, participant: "Writing Cities" conference with Richard Sennett, April 2008
  • Dorkbot NYC, presented TXTML, April 2008
  • University of Westminster (UK), invited speaker: "Subversive Mobile Storytelling", April 2008
  • SUNY Buffalo, guest lecture: "Nonlinear Narrative in Urban Space", March 2008
  • University of Southern Denmark, invited keynote: "The Mixed-Reality City: Narrative, Play & Learning in Multimodal Environments", November 2007
  • Arte.Mov (Brazil), artist talk: "Subversive Mobile Storytelling", November 2007
  • MICA, guest lecture: "Interactivity and Nonlinear Narrative", November 2006
  • Yahoo!, guest artist for Time Capsule project, November 2006
  • UC Irvine, guest lecture: "Interactivity and Nonlinear Narrative", January 2006
  • UCLA Design | Media Arts, guest lecture: "Mobile Social Software", January, 2006
  • Harvard GSD, guest lecture: "Borders/Edges/Divides", December 2005
  • IT University of Copenhagen, Living Lab Conference panelist, June 2005
  • Dorkbot NYC, presented Yellow Arrow, May 2005
  • NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, guest critic in Dennis Crowley's "Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices" class, April 26, 2005
  • MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, presented Yellow Arrow, November 2004

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
  • Twelve Branches, Multitudes, Palanquin Records, 2011
  • Ontogeny, Multitudes, Palanquin Records, 2010
  • Blueberries LP, Gateway Evening Colours, Mountain Landis, 2009
  • Fell Upon Stone EP, The Shot Heard 'Round the World, Mountain Landis, 2008
  • How Things Fall, Multitudes, Palanquin Records, 2008
  • Multitudes, Multitudes, Palanquin Records, 2007
  • Domestic Mosquitoes, Domestic Mosquitoes, Palanquin Records, 2006
  • The Trace, Brian House, Palanquin Records, 2006
  • No Knorr for Christmas, Flexing Swine, 141:an, 2004
  • Six Scenes, Brian House, Soundtrack to the film Postcards from the Plague by Tze-ngo Chun, 2002
  • Outhouse, House-Mellia Duo, WKCR, 2002

BIO
  • Born 1979, Denver, CO