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.

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.