Hedgework

Hedgework is an urban landscape intervention installed at the Brookyn Navy Yard in New York City that takes the form of a sentient hedgerow.

There Are No Facts

There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior, and colonizing everyday life.

Hedgerow Hyllie

Hedgerow Hyllie is a site-specific landscape intervention created for Agrikultura, an international exhibition of public artworks, installations, meals, performances, urban interventions, and events outdoors in Malmo, Sweden.

False Positive

A mobile performance and workshop engaging the public in an intimate, techno-political conversation with the mobile technologies on which they depend.

Venice Mussel Choir

A water quality monitoring system commissioned for the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale that “sang” daily water quality readings taken from a canal bordering the Giardini Publici.

Surviving in the Sentient City

Inscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Katja Schechtner, arose from the Sensing Place / Placing Sense symposium that took place during the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. I contributed an interview with the editors on the Sentient City Survival Kit

Open Source Architecture

An op-ed piece on open source architecture for Domus magazine organized by Carlo Ratti that I contributed to with Paola Antonelli, Adam Bly, Lucas Dietrich, Joseph Grima, Dan Hill, John Habraken, Alex Haw, John Maeda, Nicholas Negroponte, Hans Ulrich Obrist,…

Sentient City

Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of public space is an edited volume of case studies and essays that critically address the evolving relations between contemporary technologies and urban life.

Serendipitor

Serendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else.

Sentient City Survival Kit

The Sentient City Survival Kit probes the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environments. The project consists of a collection of artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city.

Toward the Sentient City

Toward the Sentient City was a major exhibition consisting of five commissioned projects and installations by teams of architects, artists and technologists that imagine alternative trajectories for how contemporary technologies might inform the architecture of urban space.

Hertzian Rain

Hertzian Rain is 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.

Urban Computing and its Discontents

The first pamphlet in the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, co-authored with Adam Greenfield, is an overview of the key issues, historical precedents, and contemporary approaches surrounding the design of situated technologies and inhabiting cities populated by them. 

Situated Technologies Pamphlets

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series extends a discourse initiated in the summer of 2006 by a three-month-long discussion on the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) mailing list, which culminated in the Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium.

Architecture and Situated Technologies

Architecture and Situated Technologies was a 3-day symposium convened in October, 2006 that brought together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary city.

MediaCity 4: MEDIACITIES

MEDIACITIES was an international conference, series of workshops and an exhibition that reflected on pluralities and globalities, on MEDIACITIES everywhere. Hosted by the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Tactical Sound Garden

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] is a mobile media platform for cultivating virtual public "sound gardens" within contemporary cities.

Rethinking the Highline

Rethinking the Highline: an infrastructure for wildlife is a proposal for an international architecture competition seeking new ideas for reclaiming New York City's west side highline as open public space.

Industrian Pilz

Industrian Pilz is a film that examines the culture of industrialization through the lens of mycology - the botanical study of fungi. 

Pilzcontainer

Pilzcontainer investigates the re-circuiting of industrial production and distribution networks via a site-specific, computer-driven installation that reacts in real-time to the flow of traffic on a nearby autobahn.