and | mark shepard

On my way to Rotterdam where I'll be exhibiting the Sentient City Survival Kit @ the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF), which opens Wednesday, May 16. I'll also be participating in a debate on Augmented Society, Saturday, May 19.

I'm in Buffalo on May 4 & 5 installing a new version of the Tactical Sound Garden, part of the Fluid Culture arts & media series of the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute.

Come celebrate the publication of the final pamphlet in the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects, by Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys Varnelis. Bringing together contributors to the Situated Technologies Project throughout its first six years, this half-day event will address current issues surrounding situated technologies and the increasing entanglement of data, technology, and the built environment, and attempt to identify future trajectories for their evolution.

Situated Technologies: Beneath and Beyond Big Data
A symposium with Philip Beesley, David Benjamin, Laura Forlano, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Omar Khan, Laura Kurgan, Helen Nissenbaum, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard, and Kazys Varnelis
Saturday, April 28, 2012
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square, NYC

I am off to Minneapolis for Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street, April 12-14 @ The Walker Art Center.

I'm participating in a performative conversation titled Structures for Discord with designer Carl DiSalvo, artist/educator Marisa Jahn, and media theorist Warren Sack, for which I choreographed the lighting and and stage configurations based on George Balanchine’s ballet Agon.

update: a video recording of the event is archived here.

Jordan Crandall and I will be hosting an informal public conversation on new urban ontologies at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center on Thursday, March 22 from 6-8pm. The event is part of the Urban Research Group conversation series, which aims to address the underlying issues, ideas and interests that drive the research of Eyebeam's current fellows.

Looking forward to an informal conversation tonight with Dennis Crowley, founder of foursquare, as part of SVA's spring lecture series for the MFA program in Interaction Design.

I'll be participating in Open Studios @ Eyebeam Art + Technology Center this Friday and Saturday, December 16 & 17, from 3-6pm. I'll be installing a live version of the CCD-me-not Umbrella, part of the Sentient City Survival Kit. This is a great opportunity to get a glimpse of current research and works-in-progress by current residents and fellows there. Come by and say hello if you are in New York!

I'll be heading to Brazil for this year's Festival CulturaDigital.Br, from December 2-4th at MAM-Rio and Cine Odeon in Rio de Janeiro. I'll be talking about Serendipitor and other forms of alternative urban navigation techniques.

I'm facilitating a workshop at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York on Friday, December 2. We'll be developing ideas (and an action plan) for rolling out an open sensor network in NYC next spring. Organized together with Pachube and the NYC Internet of Things Meetup.

I'll be giving a talk on the Sentient City at Stroom Den Haag on Thursday, October 27 at 8 pm. The talk is part of Stroom's The Knight's Move lecture series, which aims to "cut across all disciplines and thus stimulate rethinking the city." Excited to be a part of this excellent series!

I'm on a panel at the Expanding the Documentary conference at Purchase College, organized by Brooke Singer and Michelle Stewart. The conference is accompanied by an exhibition of expanded documentary works, in which Serendipitor is included, on view in the Passage Gallery, October 13 till November 6.

I'm in Louisville, Kentucky for the Idea Festival where I'm presenting with Shih Chieh Huang, Richard Pell, Julie Wyman, and Pamela Z during the Creative Capital session moderated by Ruby Lerner. I'll also be conducting a walk with Serendipitor on Friday, September 23 @ 5:30pm, starting at the entrance to the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts.

I'm heading to the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam where I'll be moderating a session titled From Database Cities to Urban Stories with Saskia Sassen, Marc Tuters, Martijn de Waal, Beth Coleman, Nerea Calvillo, Eymund Diegel, Romano Gallo and Mirko Lorenz. Thursday, September 15 from 1:30 - 5:15pm at the NDSM warf.

I'm off to Linz, Austria to exhibit the Survival Kit as part of this year's Ars Electronica festival, August 31 - September 6.

The project is included in the CYBERARTS 2011 exhibition, which includes a selection of projects that received an award in the Prix Ars Electronica 2011 competition.

I'll also be conducting walks with Serendipitor throughout the weekend.

I'll be in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Saturday, May 14 for a Serendipitor walkshop during the day and a book launch event for Sentient City in the evening @ V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, together with Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange. Thanks to the organizers of INDESEM 2011 for the invitation!

I'll be speaking at the MIT Media Lab as part of Upgrade! Boston next Tuesday, April 26 @ 7pm, and conducting a walk with Serendipitor on Wednesday @ 5pm.

I'll be in Prague from April 14-17 for Enter:datapolis, the 5th incarnation of this art and technology festival. I'll be giving a talk on the Sentient City, presenting the Survival Kit, and organizing walks through the city with Serendipitor.

This spring I'll be performing Hertzian Rain at the Birchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. These performances as part of the exhibition Eyes of the Skin: Art and the Senses, featuring installations by Alexandra Spaulding and JT Rinker. Curated by Stefani Bardin.

February 13 and March 27 at 3pm, and April 8 at 7pm.

Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of urban space is now available for purchase from the MIT Press and Amazon.com.

Case studies by David Benjamin, Soo-in Yang, and Natalie Jeremijenko; Haque Design + Research; SENSEable City Lab; David Jimison and JooYoun Paek; and Anthony Townsend, Antonina Simeti, Dana Spiegel, Laura Forlano, and Tony Bacigalupo

Essays by Martijn de Waal, Keller Easterling, Matthew Fuller, Anne Galloway, Dan Hill, Omar Khan, Saskia Sassen, Trebor Scholz, Hadas Steiner, Kazys Varnelis, and Mimi Zeiger

A few things happening in the first half of February:

From Feb 1-6 I'll be in Berlin for Transmediale. Serendipitor is up for an award, and will be on exhibit at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

On Feb 10 I'll be participating on a panel titled Responsive City: Fact or Fiction? at this year's CAA Conference in New York. Chaired by Steve Dietz, the panelists include: Barbara Goldstein, Public Art Program Director, City of San Jose, Cameron McNall of Electroland, and Ben Rubin of Ear Studio.

On Feb 11 we're celebrating the publication of Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture and the Future of Urban Space, the book I've edited based on the 2009 exhibition I curated at the Urban Center in New York. Paola Antonelli, Hadas Steiner and I will discuss the architecture and design exhibition’s historical relation to architectural production and its influence on contemporary design discourse. Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:00 p.m. @ McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York City.

Off to São Paulo, Brazil for Vivo arte.mov/saopaulo Festival for Mobile Media Art, November 30 - December 5. I'll be installing a new version of the Tactical Sound Garden, exhibiting the Sentient City Survival Kit, and participating on a panel discussion at the symposium.

Presenting the Sentient City Survival Kit at Ignite Amsterdam 2 @ Mediamatic.

Serendipitor is exhibited as part of Sm_Art Mistakes, an exhibition at the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali as part of the Share Festival in Turin, Italy from November 2-7.

Serendipitor, one component of the Sentient City Survival Kit, is included in the exhibition Borderless Reality organized by V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media together with Art Center Nabi in Seoul, Korea as part of the 2010 International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). The exhibition opens Wednesday, October 13 and will be on view through November 12.

October is shaping up to be a busy month.

I'll be at the Conflux Festival on Saturday, October 9 for a "long table discussion" with Eve Mosher, Sal Randolph, Bettina Johae, and Ricardo M. Zuñiga.

On Tuesday, October 26th I'll be speaking at a one-day conference in Budapest, Hungary at the Traflo House of Contemporary Art titled The Architecture of Survival, Learning from Yona Friedman. I'll be visiting Kitchen Budapest the next day for a public lecture and discussion.

Then it is on to Germany, for a keynote lecture and panel discussion at the MediaCity 2010 conference at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on Saturday, October 30. I'll also be participating in the Lift Workshop @ Weimar on Sustainable Interaction with Food, Technology, and the City.

Finally, on Sunday, October 31, I'll be delivering a public lecture in Berlin (venue TBA) at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) and visiting the Physical Interaction Design course at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam the following day.

Make contact if you want to connect at any of these events!

I'm pleased (and humbled) to be able to announce that Serendipitor has been nominated for the 2011 Transmediale Award.

From the announcement: "In a session lasting several days, the internatinal jury nominated the most outstanding works from an impressive pool of more than 1000 submissions. The jury selected seven submissions in their search for innovative, original and visionary art works and projects that address, question and artistically contribute to the technological society."

Serendipitor is one component of the Sentient City Survival Kit.

I'll be exhibiting new work related to the Sentient City Survival Kit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery as part of Beyond/In Western New York, an international contemporary art biennial produced through a unique curatorial collaboration between twelve of Western New York's museums and galleries. The exhibition opens Sunday, September 26, 4pm at the Albright-Knox.

Back in Rotterdam for V2_'s Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2010, presenting work by Anouk Wipprecht, Joachim Rotteveel, Ivan Henriques and myself developed at V2_ during this year’s summer residency program.

Thursday, September 2 @ 8PM, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

After some back and forth with Apple, Serendipitor – an alternative navigation app for the iPhone – is now available as a free download from the App Store.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with the beta testing! Keep the comments/suggestions coming…

Off to Dortmund, Germany where I'll be exhibiting the Survival Kit @ ISEA2010 RUHR. The exhibition opens Thursday, August 19 in the RWE Gallery.

I'll also be presenting as part of the V2_ Summer Session Test_Lab @ ISEA on Friday, August 27.