Brian House




Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Assistant Professor

Other Affiliation(s):


  • Brown University

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2024

    Brian House is an artist who investigates the rhythms of human and nonhuman systems. Through sound, subversive technology, and multidisciplinary research, he makes our interdependencies audible in order to imagine new political realities. His current project, Macrophones, explores atmospheric infrasound as a means of listening to the climate crisis. House is a Creative Capital awardee and has exhibited at MoMA, Los Angeles MOCA, Ars Electronica, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and Eyebeam, among other venues. House holds a PhD in Computer Music from Brown University and is Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College.

    ISEA2022

    Brian House is an artist who investigates the rhythms of human and nonhuman systems. Through sound, custom technology, and multidisciplinary research, he makes our interdependencies audible in order to imagine new political realities. House has exhibited at MoMA, Los Angeles MOCA, Ars Electronica, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and Eyebeam, among others. The New York Times Magazine, WIRED, The Guardian, and TIME’s annual “Best Inventions” issue have featured his work, and his academic writing has been published in Leonardo, Journal of Sonic Studies, and e-flux Architecture. House holds a PhD in Computer Music from Brown University, was Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research, and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

    ISEA2018

    Brian House, USA, is an artist whose work explores the interdependent rhythms of the body, technology, and the environment. His work has been shown by MoMA (NYC), MOCA (LA), Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ZKM, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Tel Aviv Center for Contemporary Art, and Rhizome, among others, and has been featured in publications including TIME, WIRED, The New York Times, Neural, Metropolis, and on Univision Sports. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Brown University.

    ISEA2013

    Brian House was Creative Technologist at the Research and Development Lab at the New York Times Company, 2010-2012. The views expressed here are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the New York Times Company.

    ISEA2006

    Member of Glowlab


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Last Known Location:


  • Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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