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Why You Belong

I’ll be showing work in …

Why You Belong
An Exhibition of Photographs from Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China and
The University of Minnesota, Department of Art.

Curated by Jennifer Phelps, Chambers Art Director &
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, University of Minnesota

Friday May 9, 2008 6-9PM
Exhibition runs through July 6th, 2008

More information @ http://chambersminneapolis.com/hotel-events/

Wishes for the Sky, 2008

Wishes for the Sky, 2008

I’m working with Marcus Young and Mary Ellen Childs again this year on the Wishes for the Sky event. The event is tomorrow, 20 April, at Harriet Island in St. Paul, Minnesota. Go here for more information.

I’ll be running the Promises Sound Collage recording station. Stop by!

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Hello World! or: How I Learned To Stop Listening and Love the Noise

Hello World! or: How I Learned To Stop Listening and Love the Noise
Thesis Exhibition: April 2 – 24, 2008 at the Nash Gallery
Click here for more!

Upcoming Events …

A few upcoming events …

27 – 29 March, 2008 : Design, Art and Technology Symposium, Greensboro, NC

  • Presentation and Panel “Words in Freedom: Interactive Text” with Graffiti Research Lab; Evan Roth and James Powderly, Seth Ellis and Dr. K. Porter Aichele;
  • Urban Echo on the Streets, Friday Night

31 March – 10 May 2008 : W(e are) here: Mapping the Human Experience, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN

  • My Map on display in the Sandy Agustín Gallery with work by artists such as Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar, Christian Nold, Scott Nedrelow and many others.

2 – 24 April, 2008 : MFA Thesis Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

20/20 Talk at AIGA Conference 2007

I’m at the AIGA Design Conference in Denver this weekend. Tonight I will be sharing my 60 second vision of what is coming “Next”. Simply put, I think it will be Architecturally-integrated urban screens.

Daytime FaçadePlanning and SketchesInstallation, Projector StitchingDirectFaçadeThrough a Window

Here are links to projects referenced in the talk.

Urban Echo (Past Iterations, Other Facades, etc) by Christopher Baker, J. Anthony Allen and Laura Baker
Duality by ART+COM
de Pong Game™ by BNJMN™ GAULON
Light Sculptures by ANTIVJ
Interactive Architecture by Graffiti Research Lab
Augmented Sculpture v 1.0 by Pablo Valbuena
Kunsthuas Graz by Realities:United Architects
TXTual Healing by Paul Notzold
Pixile by ENESS

Here are some links to my other recent projects …

Every Toy

Patent Database Visualization

Hvad hører du nu? : Urban Echo in København

Composer J. Anthony Allen and I are currently showing the latest edition of Urban Echo in Copenhagen for the ICMC conference. While our original desire to creatively reflect and transmit the desires and thoughts of local city-dwellers has remained, each new location has suggested a different approach. The installation in the courtyard of Huset i Magstræde in downtown Copenhagen is no exception. In this latest installment, J. Allen and I have tightly coupled the audio and visual components and worked to make the projections more “sensitive” to their façade. For example, when text and images are moving about, they respond to the presence of architectural features such as doors and windows by avoiding or bouncing off of them. A quick look at the images or video will make this a bit clearer.

We will be showing this through the end of the week. The sound components run all day and the video components run from dusk until around 10pm. If you want to participate, respond via voice or text message to:

+45 50 50 44 08

It’s a Danish number, but international text messages are pretty cheap. So go for it!

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Urban Echo in Copenhagen

CopenhagenJ. Anthony Allen and I just received an invitation to install Urban Echo in Copenhagen, Denmark during the International Computer Music Conference in late August.

Each time we have shown this piece (we’re currently on number three at the MMAA), it has taken a different form. We look forward to reimagining the piece for a new audience in Copenhagen.

We are also investigating sources for travel funding. If anyone knows of any sources, let us know. More later …

Duet No. 3 Exhibition

Announcing a new collaboration by Christopher P. Baker and R. Justin Stewart

Opening 18 May, 2007

Go to http://christopherbaker.net/projects/duet for more info.

Sound in Art | Art in Sound Family Art Day

Sound in Art | Art in Sound Family Art Day @ the MMAA
Sunday, May 20, 2007, 1-5pm
Free Admission

Play a theremin, interact with sound, and hone your listening skills! Join exhibition artists J. Anthony Allen, Christopher Baker and Jack Pavlik, and circuit bender Scott Deyo for an afternoon of sound exploration.

More info here.

Wishes for the Sky – Earth Day Celebration

The Wishes for the Sky Earth Day celebration will be occuring on Sunday 21 April 2007, Earth Day. Come visit. I’ll be working on the live sound collage. Previous info here.