Brian House
Brian House is a bricoleur whose work has traversed locative media, experimental music, interactive narrative, and social practice. By constructing embodied, participatory systems, he seeks to negotiate between programmed constraints and the serendipity of everyday life. Currently, he is a member of the R&D lab at The New York Times and teaches at the Parsons Design and Technology MFA program. His project Yellow Arrow, a early work in social locative media that involved stickers, mobile phones, and participants in 467 cities around the world, was included in MoMA's 2008 exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind and featured in Wired, PRAXIS, Metropolis, and The New York Times. He holds an MSc in Innovative Design from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, and studied machine learning, electroacoustic music, and religion for his undergraduate degree at Columbia University.
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Brian House is a bricoleur whose work has traversed locative media, experimental music, interactive narrative, and social practice. By constructing embodied, participatory systems, he seeks to negotiate between programmed constraints and the serendipity of everyday life. Currently, he is a member of the R&D lab at The New York Times and teaches at the Parsons Design and Technology MFA program. His project Yellow Arrow, a early work in social locative media that involved stickers, mobile phones, and participants in 467 cities around the world, was included in MoMA's 2008 exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind and featured in Wired, PRAXIS, Metropolis, and The New York Times. He holds an MSc in Innovative Design from Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, and studied machine learning, electroacoustic music, and religion for his undergraduate degree at Columbia University.
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Sue Huang
Born in Saudi Arabia, 1979, Sue currently lives in Los Angeles. She is currently teaching as a Lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona and has previously taught as a Lecturer in Drawing at UCLA and UCLA Extension. She is also currently working at Vasa Studio and developing new work in her own studio and with the collaborative Knifeandfork. Her recent solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Beall Center for Art and Technology, the Greater LA MFA Exhibition, and Nevin Kelly Gallery. She holds an MFA from UCLA Design | Media Arts, and is a graduate of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Phillips Exeter Academy. She has also studied previously at Chalmers University in Sweden and Waseda University in Japan. She was a recipient of the Edna and Yu-Shan Han Endowed Award for her MFA studies and of the Beall Center Artist Honorarium. [site] [cv]
Born in Saudi Arabia, 1979, Sue currently lives in Los Angeles. She is currently teaching as a Lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona and has previously taught as a Lecturer in Drawing at UCLA and UCLA Extension. She is also currently working at Vasa Studio and developing new work in her own studio and with the collaborative Knifeandfork. Her recent solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Beall Center for Art and Technology, the Greater LA MFA Exhibition, and Nevin Kelly Gallery. She holds an MFA from UCLA Design | Media Arts, and is a graduate of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Phillips Exeter Academy. She has also studied previously at Chalmers University in Sweden and Waseda University in Japan. She was a recipient of the Edna and Yu-Shan Han Endowed Award for her MFA studies and of the Beall Center Artist Honorarium. [site] [cv]
CORE COLLABORATORS
David Feinberg (5 'til 12, documentation for Hundekopf, The Wrench)
David Feinberg is a film/video editor and documentarian based in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a staff editor at VBS.tv, an IPTV and documentary production company by the founders of VICE Magazine. He was co-editor of The Slacker Uprising, a forthcoming documentary about the 2004 election. Recent feature-length credits as assistant editor include Blackout, In the Footsteps of Orpheus, Life on the Edge, Fahrenheit 9/11, and The Forgotten. He has a BFA in Film/TV Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and academic semesters at PUC-Rio (Brazil) and La Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile).
David Feinberg is a film/video editor and documentarian based in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a staff editor at VBS.tv, an IPTV and documentary production company by the founders of VICE Magazine. He was co-editor of The Slacker Uprising, a forthcoming documentary about the 2004 election. Recent feature-length credits as assistant editor include Blackout, In the Footsteps of Orpheus, Life on the Edge, Fahrenheit 9/11, and The Forgotten. He has a BFA in Film/TV Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and academic semesters at PUC-Rio (Brazil) and La Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile).
Johanna Linsley (The Wrench)
Johanna Linsley is currently doing postgraduate work in Performance at the University of London. Her performance, text and audio projects have been presented by the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NY), the Volksbuhne (Berlin), Humboldt University (Berlin), Queen Mary, University of London (London), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill), and on WKCR 89.9fm. In New York, she helped to found the non-profit documentary arts organization UnionDocs, and is currently on the board of directors. She graduated from Smith College. [site]
Johanna Linsley is currently doing postgraduate work in Performance at the University of London. Her performance, text and audio projects have been presented by the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NY), the Volksbuhne (Berlin), Humboldt University (Berlin), Queen Mary, University of London (London), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill), and on WKCR 89.9fm. In New York, she helped to found the non-profit documentary arts organization UnionDocs, and is currently on the board of directors. She graduated from Smith College. [site]
Nathan Phillips (5 'til 12, The Wrench)
Nathan is a writer and improvisationalist, copywriter and SMS innovator who has worked with Joe Schiappa, Penn and Teller, Blue Man Group, Lars Jan and Hal Hartley. His pilot "Hollywood, ME." was a finalist at the NY TV Festival in 2008, and "One Nation Under Todd" a pilot written with Joe Schiappa was produced by Crossroads Films. His own work has appeared on the BBC, NY1, CBS, CNN, and in NYC at The Kitchen, The Flea, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, MOMA, The New Museum, The Whitney Museum and the PIT. Nathan has a BFA from Emerson College. [site]
Nathan is a writer and improvisationalist, copywriter and SMS innovator who has worked with Joe Schiappa, Penn and Teller, Blue Man Group, Lars Jan and Hal Hartley. His pilot "Hollywood, ME." was a finalist at the NY TV Festival in 2008, and "One Nation Under Todd" a pilot written with Joe Schiappa was produced by Crossroads Films. His own work has appeared on the BBC, NY1, CBS, CNN, and in NYC at The Kitchen, The Flea, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, MOMA, The New Museum, The Whitney Museum and the PIT. Nathan has a BFA from Emerson College. [site]