Brian House
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Brian House
| image = Data Publics 2.jpg
| caption = Brian House speaking at Columbia University in 2019
| birth_name = Brian House
| birth_date = 1979
| birth_place = Denver, Colorado
| field = New media art, sound art
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| website = [https://brianhouse.net brianhouse.net]
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Brian House (born Denver, Colorado) is a new media and sound artist. His early projects were formative examples of locative media art and digital media in social practice.{{Cite book|last=Raley|first=Rita|title=Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres|date=2010-03-08|publisher=Transcript-Verlag|isbn=9783837612585|editor-last=Schäfer|editor-first=Jörgen |location=Bielefeld |pages=299–317 |chapter=Walk This Way: Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience|editor-last2=Gendolla|editor-first2=Peter}}
- {{Cite book|last=McCullough |first=Malcolm |title=Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information|date=2015-08-21|publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=9780262528399 |edition=Reprint|pages=126–130}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Jessica |date=2018 |title=Beyond Beyond Locative Media: Art, Data and the Politics of Place|url=http://drainmag.com/beyond-beyond-locative-media-art-data-and-the-politics-of-place/|journal=Drain|volume=5|issn=2469-3022}} His subsequent projects have focused on sound and data sonification in relation to nature and technology.{{Cite news|title=Sonification and the (re-)performance of data – an interview with Brian House |author=Greg J. Smith |date=December 7, 2013 |publisher=CreativeApplications |url=http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/sonification-and-the-re-performance-of-data-an-interview-with-brian-house/|access-date=2017-08-04 |url-access=subscription}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Ehrenfeld|first=Dan|date=2016-08-15|title=The Cloud and the Mine: A Conversation with Media Artist Brian House about Big Data and the Circulation of Digital Writing|url=http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/21.1/interviews/ehrenfeld/index.html|journal=Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy |volume=21}}
- {{Cite web|last=Kirn|first=Peter|date=August 12, 2012|title=In Percussive Harmonies, A Record of a Year of Travel – Literally, on a Record|url=https://cdm.link/2012/08/in-percussive-harmonies-a-record-of-a-year-of-travel-literally-on-a-record/|url-status=live|website=Create Digital Music|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910002003/http://cdm.link/2012/08/in-percussive-harmonies-a-record-of-a-year-of-travel-literally-on-a-record/ |archive-date=2016-09-10 }} His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica and ZKM Center for Art and Media.
Biography
House graduated with a degree in computer science from Columbia University, where he studied at the Computer Music Center. He subsequently received a master's degree from Chalmers tekniska högskola in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was active in the local experimental music scene. House formed the Knifeandfork media art collective in 2004 with classmate Sue Huang and became a member of the psychogeography collective Glowlab on returning to New York City.
Knifeandfork received a 2007 Rhizome commission and were artists-in-residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2009. House was a resident of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2012 and was concurrently a member of the Research and Development Lab at The New York Times. His work at the Times with personal data was featured in Time magazine.{{Cite magazine|url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/27/through-the-looking-glass-a-tour-of-the-mirror-thats-one-of-times-favorite-inventions/ |title=Through the Looking Glass: A Tour of the Mirror That's One of Time's Favorite Inventions |last=Carbone |first=Nick |magazine=Time|access-date=2017-08-04 |issn=0040-781X}}
House earned a PhD at Brown University in 2018, where he studied with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. He is currently{{when|date=March 2023}} a professor{{ambig|date=March 2023}} of art at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and is represented by Gallery Nosco in London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gallerynosco.com/portfolio/brian-house/|title=Brian House|publisher=Gallery Nosco|access-date=2017-08-04|archive-date=2017-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805020048/http://www.gallerynosco.com/portfolio/brian-house/|url-status=dead}}
Selected works
=Animas (2016)=
Animas is a reaction to the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill, where three million gallons of contaminated wastewater was released into the Animas River. House made an installation which transforms real-time data from water quality sensors into vibrations that activate metal panels and create an immersive sound environment.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/4/25/15419424/animus-river-art-installation-brian-house-pollution-sounds|title=This art installation creates sounds based on real-time data from a polluted river|work=The Verge|access-date=2017-08-04}}
- {{Cite news|url=http://www.westword.com/arts/storm-warning-offers-straight-talk-about-climate-change-at-vicki-myhren-gallery-8959705|title=Myhren Gallery's Storm Warning Heats Up the Debate Over Climate Change|last=Froyd|first=Susan|date=2017-04-11|work=Westword|access-date=2017-08-04}}
=Conversnitch (2013)=
House and Kyle McDonald converted light bulbs in public spaces into microphones that automatically tweeted overheard conversations.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/16/conversnitch-covert-surveillance-art-form-twitter |title=Conversnitch turns covert surveillance into an art form |last=Power |first=Mike |date=2014-05-16|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-08-04 |issn=0261-3077}}
- {{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/04/coversnitch-eavesdropping-lightbulb/|title=An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations|magazine=Wired|access-date=2017-08-04 }}
=Quotidian Record (2012)=
Quotidian Record is a vinyl record of one year of House's location data translated into music. One rotation of the record is one day. It comments on the physicality of data and the inherent rhythms of everyday life.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2013/07/a-years-worth-of-location-data-transformed-into-a-beautiful-record/|title=Artist Turns a Year's Worth of Tracking Data Into a Haunting Record|last=VanHemert|first=Kyle|magazine=Wired|access-date=2017-08-04}}
- {{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcodesign.com/1672727/soundtrack-of-your-life-get-into-the-groove-of-tracking-your-every-move-in-vinyl|title=Soundtrack Of Your Life: Get Into The Groove Of Tracking Your Every Move In Vinyl|date=2013-07-08|work=Co.Design|access-date=2017-08-04|archive-date=2017-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805060138/https://www.fastcodesign.com/1672727/soundtrack-of-your-life-get-into-the-groove-of-tracking-your-every-move-in-vinyl|url-status=dead}}
- {{Cite journal|date=Autumn 2013|title=Quotidian Record|url=http://neural.it/2014/03/neural-turns-20-and-celebrates-with-a-special-issue-46-unearthed-the-20th-anniversary-issue/|journal=Neural|issue=46}}
=Joyride (2011)=
In 2011, House used OpenPaths and Google Street View to track the location of a stolen iPhone and create a re-enactment of the thief's journey.{{Cite news|url=https://gizmodo.com/following-a-stolen-iphones-path-in-googles-getaway-car-5822768|title=Following A Stolen iPhone's Path in Google's Getaway Car|work=Gizmodo |author=Mat Honan |date=July 19, 2011 |access-date=2019-03-05 }}
=Trying the Hand of God (2009)=
In 2009, House and Huang (as Knifeandfork) were social practice artists-in-residence at MOCA in Los Angeles where they produced several projects. In Trying the Hand of God, they converted the sculpture plaza into a stadium with astroturf, goalposts and bleachers, and filmed 64 versions of Diego Maradona's famous "Hand of God" goal from the 1986 World Cup. Members of the audience played the role of Maradona.{{Cite book|title=Engagement Party: Social Practice at MOCA, 2008-2012|last1=Kester|first1=Grant|last2=Bluhm|first2=Erik|last3=González|first3=Rita|last4=Stang|first4=Aandrea|date=2013-01-31|publisher=The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|isbn=9781933751238|editor-last=Hamilton|editor-first=Elizabeth }}
=Yellow Arrow (2004)=
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Yellow Arrow was a street art project using stickers and text-messaging that took place simultaneously in 35 countries. It is an important early example of locative media and mobile phone art and draws concepts from psychogeography.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/making-connections-here-and-now.html|title=Making Connections, Here and Now|last=Todras-Whitehill|first=Ethan|date=2006-01-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-08-04 |issn=0362-4331|url-access=subscription}}
- {{Cite book|title=Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space|date=2011-02-18|publisher=The MIT Press|isbn=9780262515863|editor-last=Shepard|editor-first=Mark|location=New York }}
Yellow Arrow was included in the Design and the Elastic Mind show at MoMA curated by Paola Antonelli.{{Cite book|title=Design and the Elastic Mind|last1=Aldersey-Williams|first1=Hugh|last2=Hall|first2=Peter|last3=Sargent|first3=Ted|last4=Antonelli|first4=Paola|date=2008-03-01|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art, New York|isbn=9780870707322 }}
References
External links
- [https://brianhouse.net Brian House's personal website]
- [http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/sonification-and-the-re-performance-of-data-an-interview-with-brian-house/ Interview with Creative Applications]
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Category:American digital artists
Category:American sound artists
Category:Columbia University alumni