and | mark shepard

I'm at the DAC 09 Digital Arts in Culture conference, held this year at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts. I'm participating on a panel titled After Mobile Media.

I'll be in Rotterdam the first week in November to deliver a keynote lecture (Thursday, November 5), conduct a workshop and open an exhibit of my work (Friday, November 6), as part of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). This year's theme is Open City: Designing Coexistence and it looks like a great lineup of speakers and exhibitions.

Thanks to Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange of The Mobile City for the invitation!

I'll be delivering a lecture at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands on Wednesday, November 4. Thanks to Frans Parthesius for the invitation and Patricia Schraven for the introduction!

I'll be in Chicago this Saturday, October 24, delivering a paper on Hertzian Space and Urban Architecture at ACADIA 09, held this year at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects. This conference has come a long way in the past few years thanks to the efforts of people such as Omar Khan, Philip Beesley and Tristan d'Estree Sterk. Looking forward to a weekend in the windy city mapping new trajectories for the intersection of architecture and computing.

As part of this year's Conflux Festival, I'll be presenting the Sentient City Survival Kit, a sub-project of the Toward the Sentient City exhibition.

Friday, September 18 @ 6:30pm at NYU's Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, NYC.

It is with great pleasure that I announce the opening of Toward the Sentient City, an exhibition I've curated that aims to critically explore the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture and urban space. Organized by the Architectural League of New York, the exhibition is based on five newly commissioned projects distributed throughout the city.

Opening Reception:Thursday, September 17, 6-9pm @ The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York City

Exhibition on view September 17 – November 7.

I'm in Belfast for ISEA 2009. I'll be giving two talks - one on Thursday morning addressing the Hertzian Space of cities as a context for the projects Hertzian Rain and the Tactical Sound Garden, the other on Saturday presenting work-in-progress on the Sentient City Survival Kit.

I will unfortunately miss the opening and panel discussion in Dublin on August 31st for Space is the Place at the National College of Art and Design (bad scheduling on my part). It's an exhibition curated by Conor McGarrigle and John Buckley for ISEA 2009 in which the Tactical Sound Garden is included. Both the exhibition and panel discussion are not to be missed if you are in town!

Here's an interview with me posted by Martijn de Waal on the Mobile City blog.

Presenting the Survival Kit as a talk for this year's Subtle Technologies symposium, June 11-14, 2009, in Toronto.

Concept sketches for preliminary items in the Sentient City Survival Kit are included in the exhibition The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures, curated by Nader Vossoughian and organized by the Center for Architecture.

Opening: Friday, May 15 @ 6pm at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York City. I'll also be participating in a workshop that afternoon from 1-4pm on Energy Infrastructures with what looks to be a great group of people.

Eyebeam's quarterly event series dedicated to showcasing leading artists in the fields of live audiovisual performance, interactive and participatory art, will present its fifth iteration on Friday, March 6 - Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 9pm–2am @ Eyebeam: 540 W. 21st, NYC. Using the World's Fair as the framework, Eyebeam will transform its rugged warehouse space into a temporary village of utopian pavilions for a two-night extravaganza called MIXER: EXPO. (Tickets are available here).

I'll be presenting a new project called Hertzian Rain, a variable event structure designed to raise awareness of issues surrounding the wireless topography of urban environments through telematic conversations based on sound and bodily movement. This iteration will be performed in collaboration with G. Douglas Barrett, Al Laufeld, Dan Perlin, Craig Shepard and others.

I'll be participating on a panel discussion Thursday, March 5, 6:30pm @ Studio X reassessing the idea of the Commons in light of contemporary economic conditions. Panelists include Nora Libertun De Duren, Director Of Planning, New York City Parks And Recreation Department; Olympia Kazi, Executive Director, Institute For Urban Design; Michael Mandiberg, Artist and Senior Fellow, Eyebeam; and Brooke Singer, Artist and Assistant Professor, Purchase College. Moderated by Gavin Browning, programming coordinator, Studio X.

The panel is organized by Studio X and Eyebeam as a prelude to the performance of Hertzian Rain at Eyebeam's MIXER: EXPO, March 6-7, 2009.

Studio X is located at 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York, NY.

Now here's something exciting from Mimi Zeiger that I'm (peripherally) involved in, thanks to Kazys:

A Few Zines: Dispatches from the Edge of Architectural Production is an exhibition that examines '90s architecture "zine" culture and its relation to contemporary architectural publishing. To launch this exhibit, curator Mimi Zeiger has published a new issue of her zine loud paper and organized a party and panel discussion on Thursday, January 8, 2009, 6:30 pm @ Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York, NY. Free and open to the public.

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] is included in Tourism: Spaces of Fiction, the inaugural exhibition at the new Design Museum in Barcelona. The exhibition explores the relationship between design and tourism and is on view from December 3, 2008 - May 24, 2009.

Off to RISD to give a talk on sound, architecture, urban space and participation. The lecture takes place Wednesday October 22nd 2008 at 11 am (CIT/Mason Building 413). This is a public lecture - all are welcome. The lecture is part of the seminar Sound, Media & Urban Space and is sponsored by Digital+Media. Thanks to Frauke Behrendt for the invitation!

It's September, and that means Conflux again... This year's festival is moving back across the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and is hosted by the Center for Architecture. I'm moderating a panel discussion bringing together Natalie Jeremijenko (xClinic) and David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (The Living) to consider new interaction partners for environmental governance and different approaches to working with (and within) urban ecosystems assembled by both human and non-human social networks.

Off to Copenhagen for a pair of talks. The first is on Thursday, June 26 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, for the EAAE/ARCC 2008 Conference on changing paradigms in architectural research. I'll be speaking about Situated Technologies together with my colleague Omar Khan.

The second talk is on Saturday at Thinking Metropolis, part of Copenhagen International Theatre's ambitious decade-long program aimed at creating an international platform where artists, architects, city planners and theoreticians can meet a common challenge: how to create more living, fair, inspiring and cohesive cities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!