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.

Arrived in Rotterdam and settling in at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media where I'll be continuing development on the Survival Kit as part of their summer residency program. This follows six weeks at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center as the inaugural resident for a new international residency program between the two media labs.

Follow the developments here.

I'll be participating in Open Studios @ Eyebeam Art + Technology Center this Friday and Saturday, June 25 & 26, from 3-6pm. This is a great opportunity to get a glimpse of current research and works-in-progress by current residents and fellows there. I'm in residency at Eyebeam working on the Sentient City Survival Kit.

Just back from the Performance Studies International conference in Toronto where I was on a panel with Marianne Weems and Moe Angelos of the Builders Association, Rodolphe el-Khoury (was sick), and Omar Khan. The panel, titled Entr'acte, was organized by Jordan Geiger.

I have a short essay on the Survival Kit out now in Open: Cahier on Art and the Public Domain, published by SKOR and NAi Publishers. The main theme of Open #19 is privacy, a right that protects one’s private life, a right that is not only established by law but also has political and social significance. It can be experienced and observed differently by individuals and groups, depending upon their position in society and the desires and interests involved.

In this issue, the concept of privacy is examined and reconsidered from legal, sociological, media-theoretical and activist perspectives. The focus is not so much on deploring the loss of privacy but on taking the present situation of ‘post-privacy’ for what it is and trying to gain insight into what is on the horizon in terms of new subjectivities and power constructions. The issue includes contributions by Daniel Solove, Maurizio Lazzarato, Rudi Laermans, Armin Medosch, Felix Stalder, Joris van Hoboken, Oliver Leistert Martijn de Waal, Rob van Kranenburg, Mark Shepard and Matthijs Bouw and Gio Sumbadze.

I'm showing concept sketches and a video trailer for the Sentient City Survival Kit in the exhibition Habitar: Bending the Urban Frame @ LABoral Center for Art and Industrial Creation in Gijon, Spain. The exhibition, curated by José Luis de Vicente and advised by Fabien Girardin, explores the topography of new urban landscapes populated by "soft and invisible architectures" that "fashion sentient and reactive environments."

The exhibition opens Thursday, May 27 and runs through November 8, 2010 and includes work by Timo Arnall, Julian Bleecker, Ángel Borrego - Office for Strategic Spaces, Nerea Calvillo, Citilab-Cornellà, Pedro Miguel Cruz, Dan Hill, IaaC - Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña, kawamura-ganjavian + Maki Portilla Kawamura + Tanadori Yamaguchi, Aaron Koblin, Philippe Rahm architectes, Marina Rocarols, Enrique Soriano, Pep Tornabell, Theodore Mohillo, Semiconductor, SENSEable City Lab, Mark Shepard.

Update: the exhibition catalogue is now available as a PDF download.

I'll be participating in Discussions on Networked Publics, a series of panels examining how technology and social changes are transforming the public realm. This panel focuses on "Place" and includes: Amanda McDonald Crowley, Douglas Gauthier, Christina Ray, Kevin Slavin, and Tim Ventimiglia. Kazys Varnelis, director of Columbia University's Network Architecture Lab will moderate.

Thursday, March 25 @ 6:30pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York City.

This event is free and open to the public.