Futuresonic 2008: Social Technologies Summit

I'm looking forward to being in Manchester, UK, this May for the Social Technologies Summit. Part of this year's Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas, the conference "brings opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art communities together around shared issues to do with technology, society, art and the city." I'll be talking about what I call "propagative urbanism", a way of thinking about shaping the experience of urban space in terms of a bottom-up, participatory approach to the evolution of cities.

MediaCity: Situations, Practices, Encounters - Bauhaus-University Weimar

I'll be returning to Weimar for this year's MediaCity Conference, where I've been invited to give a talk in the "Situations" session. The conference will investigate how the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media.

Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series Launch, The Urban Center, New York

This fall the Architectural League of New York launches a nine-part publication series to be published over the next three years. Born out of the three-day symposium, organized by Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz and I, and presented by the League, the Center for Virtual Architecture, and the Institute for Distributed Creativity in October 2006, the Situated Technologies Pamphlet series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, embedded computing, ambient informatics, and other "situated" technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities? How are these issues themselves situated within larger social, cultural, environmental and political concerns?

Adam Greenfield and myself, co-authors of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 1: Urban Computing and Its Discontents, together with Eric Paulos, director of the Urban Atmospheres group at Intel Research will consider these and other questions at a panel discussion and reception celebrating the launch of the series, to be held on Friday, December 14 at 7pm at The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York City.

TSG @ Arte.Mov, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

I'll be delivering an artist talk, conducting a workshop, and installing a version of the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] at this year's Arte.Mov festival for mobile media. This year's festival focuses on a commitment to the social use of technology for mapping public life and reinforcing a concern for aspects of the social fabric of cities pervaded by mobile technologies.

Smart City Radio Interview

Here's a link to an interview by Carol Colletta of Smart City Radio where I talk about the TSG and the influence of mobile and pervasive media on architecture and urbanism.

Conflux Panel Discussion with Adam Greenfield and Janet Abrams

I'm organizing a panel discussion with Adam Greenfield and Janet Abrams for this year's Conflux Festival. Titled "Toward a Schizogeographic Society?", the panel will attempt to re-evaluate the psychogeographic in terms of contemporary conditions of technology, subjectivity and urban space. 2pm, Luna Lounge, 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Locative Media Summer Conference, Siegen, Germany

I'll be presenting a paper on "Locative Media as Critical Urbanism" at the at the Locative Media Summer Conference, organized by the "Media Upheavals" research center at Universität Siegen and held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen.

TSG & iOrpheus, Brisbane, Australia

Bill Duckworth and Nora Farrel are deploying the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] as part of their transmedia performance iOrpheus in Brisbane, Australia. iOrpheus is a public opera based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and written for and with South Bank Precinct in Brisbane, Australia. Performed on iPods, mobile phones, and laptops, along with interactive installations and live performers, iOrpheus will take place on Friday, August 31, 2007 in the streets, parks, and promenades of South Bank.

TSG @ FILE 2007

FILE 2007, the Electronic Language International Festival, is holding its annual event this year at Cultural Center of SESI, in Sao Paulo City. FILE's mission is to promote, motivate and disseminate recent research and work in electronic languages, with a special emphasis on collective creativity, art-science collaborations, and networked language experiments. They've selected the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] to be part of this year's exhibition.

TSG @ SIGGRAPH 2007

Look for the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] at this year's SIGGRAPH conference in San Diego, CA. I'll be presenting documentation of the project as part of the Art Gallery and holding gardening hours for curious sound enthusiasts wanting to try it out!

Tactical Sound Garden | Zurich Edition

I'm giving a lecture at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich [HGKZ] and presenting the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit at dorkbot.swiss on Friday. On Saturday, I'm conducting a workshop on setting up a Sound Garden at the Kunstraum Walcheturm. All organized by the lovely and talented Monya Pletsch and Martin Feuz!

CELL PHONE: Art and the Mobile Phone

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is being exhibited at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, as part of CELL PHONE: Art and the Mobile Phone. I'll also be conducting a workshop on how to "grow your own" Sound Garden on April 14.

Interview by Régine Debatty

Being an avid reader of her blog for years, I was flattered when Régine Debatty asked me for an interview. I was doubly flattered when a friend told me it was also posted to worldchanging.com. She also mentioned the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit in her review of this past September's Conflux Festival, published in the January issue of Art Review, a London-based art mag. Thanks Régine! Best of luck in Berlin!

MEDIACITY @ the Bauhuas in Weimar

I'll be presenting a *digest* of sorts on the Situated Technologies symposium and participating on a panel discussion at the MEDIACITY conference at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The conference attempts a transfer of experiences and theoretical knowledge about opportunities to implement information and media technologies in an urban environment. MEDIACITY is an inter-disciplinary project shared across the departments of Architecture, Media and Urban Sociology, and is funded by the Marie Curie mobility programme "Transfer of Knowledge" of the European Commission.

Performing Places Seminar, Helsinki

I'll be presenting the TSG Toolkit at the Performing Places seminar organized by the m-cult center for new media culture, Helsinki, Finland. The seminar brings together researchers, artists and developers whose work touches on the experiential, affective and political aspects of urban and technological life, and who share an interest in inventive artistic and technical practices of the urban environment.

Architecture and Situated Technologies

I'm organizing a symposium on the confluence of Architecture and Situated Technologies together with Omar Khan and Trebor Scholz. We're bringing together a fairly diverse and interdisciplinary group of people - including architects, artists, historians, sociologists, technologists and theorists (some wearing more than one of these hats) - to examine, explore and enact ideas for a near-future world of networked "things" and other "situated" technologies.

TSG workshop @ CONFLUX 2006

I'll be conducting a workshop demonstrating how to "grow your own" TSG at this year's Conflux festival, organized by Glowlab. Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice.

TSG @ ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA 2006

Look for the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit in its first city-wide incarnation this summer at the ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA 2006 festival and symposium. More than 150 artists from more than 50 countries will present cutting edge work in more than a dozen exhibitions throughout San Jose and the surrounding Greater Bay Area.

Futuresonic 2006

Futuresonic, an Urban Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, is held in Manchester, UK. Organized by Drew Hemment, Futuresonic is now in its 10th year. The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is being exhibited as part of the Off The Map exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. Off The Map is presented in association with PLAN (The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network), and supported by EPSRC and University of Nottingham.

LEA Special Issue on Locative Media

The current issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is a special edition focusing on Locative Media. The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is part of the online gallery Locative Media, on and off the beaten track.

Sonar 2006

The Sonar Festival in Barcelona is one of Spain's largest music and media arts festivals. The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is being exhibited as part of the Always On exhibit, dedicated to mobile culture and location-based projects.

TSG @ Subtle Technologies Festival

Subtle Technologies is a four-day multidisciplinary event exploring the complex and subtle relationships between art and science. This year's theme for Subtle Technologies is Responsive Architectures, and will investigate how environments and systems can interact and respond to their occupants. I'll be presenting the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit at one of the panels.

Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival

I'll be part of a panel session for this two-day event aiming to "bring together new media scholars and practitioners to exhibit and discuss the roles of audiences, activists, and producers in maturing networked media ecologies." The event is organized by the Networked Publics fellowship program at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication.

Visiting Artist Lecture @ Purchase College

I'm giving a lecture on recent work at Purchase College in the School of Art and Design.

TSG @ Mobile Music Workshop 2006

The Third International Mobile Music Workshop explores how devices such as mobile phones, walkmans and iPods have aleady brought music to the ever-changing social and geographic locations of their users and reshaped their experience of the urban landscape. The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit will be presented as a work-in-progress as part of the Soundscapes & Mobile Music Listening theme.

TSG in 306090 09: Regarding Public Space

Volume 9 of 306090, an architecture journal published by Princeton Architectural Press, contains an essay situating the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit within the social and historical contexts of sound in public space. 306090 09: Regarding Public Space explores the conception, production, and operation of contemporary public space in the city from the vantage of its design, development, construction, and use.

Industrian Pilz @ Anthology Film Archives

Industrian Pilz examines the culture of industrialization through the lens of mycology - the botanical study of fungi. The film explores the flotsam and jetsam drifting in the wake of West Germany's absorption of a decaying East German state.

Screening April 20th, 6 PM, at Anthology Film Archives as part of the New Filmmakers Series.

TSG @ pixelACHE 2005 - particle/wave workshop

Components of the Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit will be presented as part of the particle/wave hybrid radio workshop at this year's pixelACHE festival, to be held at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop explores the interface between the creative traditions of terrestrial radio broadcasting and emerging practices of internet radiomaking. particle/wave rethinks community radio practices through distributed and participatory networks of sonic exchange, open content models and new radiomaking tools.

Mitosis opens at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine

Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells - a networked, computer-driven installation incorporating audio, video, motion sensors and stepper motors - explores conditions of a 'habitable cinema'. Developed in collaboration with A.M. Hoch and dotsperinch, Mitosis uses the coded, cellular memory of a family to explore the hidden mechanisms, both biological and social, that shape us.

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Crossing the BLVD Mobile Story Booth on view at the Queens Museum of Art

Crossing the BLVD is a cross-media project that documents and portrays the largely invisible lives, images, sounds and stories of new immigrants and refugees who live in the borough of Queens, New York - the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States. The Mobile Story Booth, designed in collaboration with dotsperinch, Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, provides a roving point of access to a living archive of first-person narratives recounting the immigration experience of new americans.

[ exhibit website ] [ about the project ]

Industrian Pilz screens at Viper International Film Video and New Media Festival

Industrian Pilz examines the culture of industrialization through the lens of mycology - the botanical study of fungi. The film explores the flotsam and jetsam drifting in the wake of West Germany's absorption of a decaying East German state.

[ festival website ] [ about the project ]

Designing the Highline exhibit on view at Grand Central Terminal, NYC

Selected entries for Designing the Highline, an international competition seeking new ideas for reclaiming New York City's west side highline as public open space, are on view at Grand Central. Our proposal posits a concept of 'addressable space' as a development strategy fostering new forms of social and cultural interaction. Public spaces for private exchanges, a meadow of micro properties, a new kind of real-estate supporting the mosaic of everyday living. With David Pysh.

[ project info ] [ competition website ]

re:production screening @ Jessica Murray Projects

A one minute info-mercial concerning smoking, sex, cinema, advertising and the reproductive habits of fungal matter.

Screening as part of the "Hard Times" exhibit at Jessica Murray Projects.

[ exhibit website ] [ about the project ]

SonicMemorial.org receives a Peabody Award

SonicMemorial.org received a Peabody Award for "capturing the voices of those whose memories of the World Trade Center present the September 11 losses in a new perspective. The outstanding Website continues to make those voices available and guides users to the rich significance within these recorded memories."

Produced in collaboration with dotsperinch, Picture Projects and NPR's Lost and Found Sound, SonicMemorial.org is an open archive and network audio experience dedicated to recording the 30 year history of life at the World Trade Center.

[ view website ] [ about the peabody ]

360degrees.org Featured in the National Design Triennial

The "National Design Triennial", a series of exhibitions exploring contemporary design in the United States, was inaugurated in 2000 by the Cooper-Hewitt to study and celebrate the technological innovations, artistic evolution and cultural impact of design. The exhibit is on view April 22, 2003 through January 25, 2004. The "Triennial" reviews new ideas and future horizons across the fields of current practice, from architecture and interiors to product design, fashion, graphic design and new media. It is the only exhibition of its kind in the nation.

[ view website ] [ press release ]