Large scale prints from Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise will be a part of an exhibition entitled Hybrid Geographies at SUNY Stonybrook, in New York. From the exhibition prospectus:

Hybrid Geographies is a series of events exploring the transformation of space in the digital era. It examines an era of ubiquitous screens, a globalized, hybridized media environment often termed a “convergence culture.” This is a world of light-weight laptops and handheld devices that can be connected to wireless networks at the library, coffee shop, or university in order to send text, audio or video to friends or strangers across the globe. It’s a world where driving on the interstate highways, one can increasingly see glowing screens through the windows of passing cars. It’s also a world of cell phones, sending data voice, image and video. Fundamentally, these many devices are all computers—and as such, capable of a wide range of tasks and applications which have yet to be developed.

The exhibition runs Oct 22nd – Dec 11th, 2009 at the Stony Brook SAC Gallery.

Over the past several months I have been working on a project with my colleagues at Kitchen Budapest called Datafizz.

The project focuses on the continuous flow of social data fragments that herald our transitions between online and offline worlds. Each time a person goes comes online or goes offline, servers all over the world are alerted and these simple messages are transmitted to that person’s friends. While most of these transitions are ignored, the project (an interactive sculpture) captures this data in order to expand and dwell within the liminal spaces between our real and virtual worlds.

The sculpture will make its debut at the Tent London Design Festival this week and its virtual and mechanical components are powered at their core by a custom Adium plug-in I recently wrote.

You can become friends with the Datafizz project on Facebook and have your activity incorporated into the exhibit.

There will be more photo and video documentation shortly, as well as access to the open source Adium plug-in I wrote. Stay tuned.

In the mean time, you can find more photos of the development process here.

Liz Miller and I are in the process of planning a two person show at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado next fall. Liz is an an exceptional artist, known for her spectacular installations and drawings. Check out here website. More details to follow of course …

I am making final arrangements for an exhibition at the Museum of Communication in the beautiful city of Bern, Switzerland. Exhibition runs March 23rd, 2010 – June 23rd, 2010. More information to follow …

Some of my new work will be a part of a group exhibition at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The exhibit, entitled “Open Book”, will feature artists exploring non-traditional book-art and design such as Brian Dettmer and Noriko Ambe

My work is a part of the group exhibition POKE!: Artists and Social Media at FotoFest in Houston, Texas. Opening party tonight, September 10th from 6-9pm. The show runs through October 24th, 2009.

The show also includes great work by:

Curtis Mann (Chicago, IL), David Oresick (Chicago, IL), Marivi Ortiz (Chicago, IL), Brian Piana (Houston, TX), Jon Rafman (Montreal, Quebec), Penelope Umbrico (New York, NY) and Lee Walton (Greensboro, NC).

My work will be a part of a three person show at the GAGA Arts Center in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley. The show will include work by sculptor R. Justin Stewart and painter daniel Baltzer. The show will run during April and May, 2010.

Regroup (The Ex-Googler Universe) by Justin Stewart: 2008, 8 1/2′ by 21′ by 13′, Fleece, Rope, Paint, PVC Caps, Hose Barbs, Metal Hardware

broadcast 35 by daniel Baltzer, oil paint, spray paint, and resin on wood panel 3/09, 36″x48″

More information to follow …

On October 3rd, 2009, Urban Echo will be featured at Nuit Blanche, a massive sunrise to sunset city-wide arts event in Toronto, Canada. Urban Echo will be accessible via SMS and Twitter. The exhibition is being produced in collaboration with curators at the Drake Hotel and Cultural Center. More information soon …

I’ll be presenting new work at a solo exhibition scheduled for April, 2010 at the Visual Studios Workshop in Rochester, New York. More information soon …

In January, 2010, my work will be a part of an exhibition entitled Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous From Folk Art to Facebook. at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota. More information soon …