BRIAN HOUSE | CURRICULUM VITAE

EXHIBITIONS

*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, Brazil, 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, Spain, 2006
Yellow Arrow, mobile social software (with Jesse Shapins and Christopher Allen)
Zero One Festival, ISEA, San Jose, CA, 2006
The Drift Relay, 24-hour drift (with Glowlab)
*5 'til 12, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA, 2006
Interactive video installation)
Glowlab Conflux, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, 2006
Sign, video (with Jesse Shapins)
Glowlab Open Lab, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, 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, Sweden, 2004
Prototype, series of software-generated images and text
Master's exhibition, Mölndals Museum, Göteborg, Sweden, 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
Showcase, Columbia Computer Music Center, New York, 2000
Serotonin, audio process piece

* denotes solo show as Knifeandfork with collaborator Sue Huang

TEACHING POSITIONS

Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 2008
Designed a new course, Critical Urban Media Arts, and led student project Periplurban

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Creative Technologist, Local Projects LLC, New York, NY, 2008-
Software Developer, Diversion Media Inc, New York, NY, 2006-2008
Director of Research and Development, Counts Media Inc, New York, NY, 2005-2006
Board of Directors / DJ, WKCR-FM, New York, NY, 2000-2002

OTHER CLIENT PROJECTS

Mobile interactivity for selected exhibits, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2008
Mobile phone experience at the Statue of Liberty, National Parks Service, 2007-2008 (w/ Local Projects)
Workflow software for video editing, VBS.tv (Vice), 2008
Database and web-based mapping interface for community-gathered pollution data, Health and Environmental Action Network, 2007-2008
Mobile phone system for stadium audience participation, Blue Man Group, 2006
Interactive website, DJ Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid, 2003

CURATION

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

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Residency, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, 2009
Commission, Rhizome.org, 2007
Commission, Beall Center for Art and Technology, 2006
Commission, Stockholms Kulturhuset, 2004
Finalist, Fulbright Scholarship, 2004
Residency, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), 2003
Silver Crown Leadership Award, Columbia University, 2002

EDUCATION

MS, Innovative Design, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, 2006
Thesis: Mixed-Reality Narrative via 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

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

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
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, presented Yellow Arrow, November 2004

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The New York Times, "Online, It’s the Mouse That Runs the Museum", January 19, 2010
Digicult: Digimag, "The Research of Knifeandfork: In Between Technology and Participation", March 21, 2010
Urban Omnibus, "Designers and Citizens as Critical Media Artists", July 1, 2009
Deconstructing Installation Art, Chapter: "Artificial Identity, Synthetic Creativity", by Graham Coulter-Smith, Brumaria, April 2009
Univision, TV segment on Trying the Hand of God, April 2, 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
Vague Terrain 06: Locative, "Hundekopf", June 2007
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
WNBC, TV segment on Yellow Arrow, July 2005
Weekend America, Radio feature on Yellow Arrow, 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
Rocketboom, interview, December 2004
NY1, TV segment on Yellow Arrow, October 2004
Wired Magazine, "Text in the City", September 2004
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), "Visitors solve 'The Case at Kulurhust'", April 27, 2004
Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), "The Case at Kulturhuset", April 15, 2004
Göteborgs-Posten (Göteborg) "Art and Technology Go Hand in Hand", December 19, 2003

SELECTED ALBUMS

Ontogeny, Multitudes (bass, electronics), 2010
Blueberries LP, Gateway Evening Colours (bass, electronics), Mountain Landis, 2009
Fell Upon Stone EP, The Shot Heard 'Round the World (bass), Mountain Landis, 2008
How Things Fall, Multitudes (bass), 2008
Multitudes, Multitudes (bass), 2007
Domestic Mosquitoes, Domestic Mosquitoes (electronics, percussion), 2006
The Trace, Solo (electronics, percussion), 2006
No Knorr for Christmas, Flexing Swine, 141:an, 2004
Postcards from the Plague, Soundtrack to film by Tze-ngo Chun (bass, electronics), 2002
Outhouse, House-Mellia Duo (percussion), WKCR, 2002

BIO

Born 1979, Denver, CO