Image above: “Bhaktii, Path of Sants, Shiva Temple, Hampi,” Karen Knorr, 2012 Ethics, Excess, Extinction is an exhibition exploring the reality of endangered species and humanity’s responsibility to protect them. … Continue readingEthics, Excess, Extinction
The final project for the SVA Interaction Design course I co-teach with Chris Woebken this semester is going to be a workshop at the Queens Museum. Sunday, Dec 3rd, 2-5pm. … Continue readingWeather World’s Fair 2064
I will be co-convening a panel at the Climate Engineering Conference. Climate Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17): Critical Global Discussions Berlin, October 9 – 12, 2017 “Climate engineering is an increasingly … Continue readingClimate Engineering Conference, 2017
I will be taking part in Transpositions: From science to art (and back) which is the final research event of the project Transpositions: Artistic Data Exploration. I will be presenting … Continue readingTranspositions: From science to art (and back)
A Working Model of the World opens on Thursday 28 September 6-8pm. My project A memory, an ideal, a proposition is featured in the exhibition and I’m doing Cloud Tasting … Continue readingA Working Model of the World
Talking about this in-progress project at Lacuna Lab, July 9th 7pm. Science Salon #002 // Artist talk – Karolina Sobecka Jul 9, 2017 Owning the weather in 2020 Defining … Continue readingOwning the Weather in 2020
I’m prototyping Super Bestiary at the follow up to the crispr.kitchen event. Fablab, Berlin. July 7th, 8pm.
What can be gained by reframing our environments and examining social relationships anew? How can this introspection affect our experiences in virtual worlds? I’m teaching this course with Chris Sugrue … Continue readingCloser: teaching VR at School of Machines, Making and Make-believe
Excited for this iteration of presenting Cloud Services at Pareidolia curated by Dehlia Hannah. From the exhibition announcement (here in full): “Pareidolia is an art exhibition commissioned for the 4th … Continue readingPareidolia
Environmental Remediations is a second day of the Decolonizing the Anthropocene workshop conceptualized and organized by Maya Kóvskaya. This day of screenings and discussions explores prospects for remedying deleterious environmental … Continue readingDecolonizing the Anthropocene: Intersectional Knowledges for Ecological Justice
17.05.2017 – 31.05.2017 I’ll be in Madrid for a few weeks for Interactivos? at the Medialab Prado. This time in the role of a mentor (in 08 I was one … Continue readingInteractivos?’17 – Re-imagining movement in the city: citizen science for a sustainable present
10-14 of May, 2017 Really happy to participate in BioFabbing Convergence, a meeting of diybio practitioners and academics. “BioFabbing Convergence: Fabrications and Fabulations is an open event on the 10-14 … Continue readingBioFabbing at Cern
Wednesday, May 10 at 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Super glad to be part of this conversation on networks for the second meeting of Weedy Resistance. *6:30: join us at … Continue readingWeedy Resistance: Networks
Apr 30, 2017, 5:00pm – 7:30pm. Really happy to be part of this conversation with wonderful panelists. Gaia Summit is a panel series which brings together participants from various disciplines … Continue readingGaia summit
??April 9 2017 – August 27 2017 I have a new project in this exhibition of the Studio Program at the Queens Museum. The project is titled A memory, an … Continue readingNine: 2017 Queens Museum Studio Program Exhibition
In this project, three clouds that changed the world are re-assembled. The material composition of the original clouds is reconstituted and conditions necessary for the cloud formation are applied. Clouds … Continue readingA memory, an ideal, a proposition
Off to Munich to take part in crispr.kitchen: a retreat organized by KIT ITAS, Institute for Technology Assessment. “In the retreat (Klausurwoche 13-17th march 2017) we, KIT-ITAS, were looking for … Continue readingcrispr.kitchen
Cloud Services is featured at Emerge, a festival of the Futures at ASU. “EMERGE is an annual transmedia art, science and technology festival designed to engage diverse publics in the … Continue readingCloud Services at Emerge
Saturday, January 28th. 1-6pm. I will be on the Art As Service panel at the CUE Art Foundation presented in conjunction with the group exhibition, The Visible Hand, curated by … Continue readingArt As Service
My project Last Clouds was part of Eyebeam’s hackshop. The screenshots of the found clouds are posted to a tumblr. If you would like to name or dedicate a cloud, … Continue readingGifting Last Clouds
18 Nov 2016 – 21 May 2017 My project Medusa FPS is part of the Monsters of the Machine exhibition at Laboral Centro de Arte. Exhibition is curated by Furtherfield’s … Continue readingMonsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in 21st century
A Year Without a Winter: Fictions and Policy, EU Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy, 17-18 November 2016. A Year Without A Winter: Fictions and Policy Inspirational Workshop Series – organised … Continue readingFictions and Policy
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Anticipatory Governance meeting for Cloud Services. Click here to see the project.
I will be a Studio Resident at the Queens Museum. Here‘s a little more information about that program and the other residents.
I will be a resident at Eyebeam this year, along with Morehshin Allahyari, Nora N. Khan, Mimi Onuoha, and Macon Reed. You can read more about them all here.
July 7th, I’ll be talking to Colin McEnroe on his NPR show. This program is about clouds, with Gavin Pretor-Pinney – Founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society, author of The … Continue readingWNPR: A Nerding Out About Clouds
I’ll be speaking on a panel on civic society engagement with science at the SYNENERGENE Forum “Synthetic Biology – visions of the future.” June 24th and 25th, NEMO center in … Continue readingSynenergene forum on synthetic biology
A preview of the Cloud Services as an anticipatory governance meeting and cocktails will be part of Emergent Ecologies exhibition / series of events at Klory Metal Ceiling in Brooklyn, … Continue readingCloud Services release and New York Emergence
Clouds From Both Sides are in the Weather Or Not exhibition at the MU art space in Eindhoven, Netherlands from May 26th, 2016. While a satellite passes over our location … Continue readingWeather Or Not
I’m really happy to be part of the Anthropocene curriculum: the Technosphere campus in Berlin. Looking forward to meeting so many brilliant people and participating in the seminars. In an … Continue readingAnthropocene curriculum: the Technosphere Campus
Two new projects in the form of workshops, How To Watch The Sky and Nowheres were presented in Lima, Peru for the New Realities programming with Telefonica Foundation.
Presented in collaboration with Espacio Fundacion Telefonica in Lima, New Realities?is a touring project which aims to explore the relationship between technology, human behaviour and future identities, and how the … Continue readingNew Realities, Peru
All the Universe is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures is in the Extra Fantômes exhibition through July 31, 2016 at La Gaîté lyrique, Paris, France.
Medusa FPS is a variant of a First Person Shooter (FPS) game genre: the gameplay is a gun combat experienced through the eyes of the gun-holder. In this game, the … Continue readingMedusa FPS
CloudServices is a proposal for using the atmospheric clouds and the microorganisms in them as the material substrate for data transfer and storage. DNA is nature’s fundamental data storage mechanism, … Continue readingCloud Services
In September, Transitio Festival brings Picture Sky to Mexico City for an exhibition curated by Monica Bello and including some wonderful projects from Lisa Ma, boredomresearch, Paolo Cirio, Jason Rohrer … Continue readingPicture Sky in Mexico City
Picture Sky is part of the GLOBALE: Infosphere exhibition at ZKM. The theme of the exibition is quite aligned with many of the ideas I’ve been working with in the … Continue readingInfosphere at ZKM
In August I’m in Berlin, doing a precursor residency at the KN – Raum für Kunst im Kontext, continuing to develop the project we’ve worked on in Finland. KN is … Continue readingKN Residency
Between July and August I’m at the Ars Bioarctica Residency in the Finnish Lapland, working on developing a new project. The residency is organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart, … Continue readingArs Bioarctica Residency
In this project we create a crowdsourced image of the sky. Observers are positioned at GPS coordinates that form the points of a grid. At the moment of a flyover … Continue readingPicture Sky
In this project the clouds are photographed simultaneously from the ground looking up, and from a satellite looking down. While a satellite passes over our geo-location, we take a photograph … Continue readingClouds, from Both Sides
We are creating a crowdsourced picture of the sky for the Holon municipality during the Print Screen Festival, a digital arts festival in Tel Aviv. The crowdpicture is happening on … Continue readingPictureSky at Print Screen
Puff is part of the exhibition titled Breathe in Geneva. “BREATHE – an exhibition by visual and multi-media artists working at the intersection of the visual and design arts, sciences, … Continue readingPuff in Breathe exhibition for WHO
Karolina Sobecka // The Cloud Collection October 3-December 19, 2014 ZERO1 Garage “The Cloud Collection is an exhibition featuring three ongoing projects by Brooklyn-based artist Karolina Sobecka that explore connections … Continue readingThe Cloud Collection at Zero1
I’m participating in an expedition in the Peruvian Amazon, with support of V2_. The trip will result in an artwork concept and a voyage report for a forthcoming ebook. The … Continue readingThe Amazon
My work is in the New Realities exhibition – an international showcase of new trends in music, art and digital culture, curated by Alpha-ville. Presented across a central exhibition and … Continue readingNew Realities
Sniff is part of the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam. “Cinekid has been striving to promote the production of high-quality media for children, to ensure that special media productions are accessible … Continue readingCinekid Festival
“Climate engineering is rapidly becoming a contentious issue within political, scientific, and cultural discussions of climate change, in part due to a perceived lack of progress on crucial emission reductions. … Continue readingClimate Engineering Conference
I’m participating in the Strange Weather exhibition at the Science Gallery “We are obsessed with the weather. It is a powerful, shared daily experience, offering us an immediate talking point … Continue readingStrange Weather
I have two installations in thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014. “thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014” is the third edition following the internationally acclaimed Olympic … Continue readingthingWorld
Can humans acquire the art of the long view? We think so. Thinking Like A Cloud is a research project focused on developing a scheme to spark a (potentially radical) … Continue readingThinking Like a Cloud (Project Sky+)
We Make the Weather is an interactive installation created for New Cinema program hosted by Eyebeam and The Creator’s Project. Inspired by Hurricane Sandy, it uses seam carving, breath detection, … Continue readingWe Make the Weather
The Cloud Machine is a personal device for the modification of the atmosphere. It consists of cloud-making gear sent up in a weather-balloon payload. As it reaches specific altitudes it … Continue readingCloud Machine
FITC 2014 I’ll be speaking at FITC Toronto 2014, looking forward to seeing some great speakers there. Click HERE for more details. Artists Engage Design, a Liu Lecture Panel Discussion … Continue readingArchive
A large rock is placed in a gallery. Instructions for picking it up are posted next to it. When the viewer attempts to pull the rock away from the center … Continue readingNight-Day
It’s You is an interactive storefront-window projection that explores the mechanisms of public behaviors and social interactions. The installation is a rear projection on large storefront window. Human figures crowd … Continue readingIt’s You
In this interactive mirror, viewer’s movement and expressions are mimicked by an animal head which is overlaid on the viewer’s reflection. The resulting effect invites inquiry into issues of self-awareness, … Continue readingAll the Universe is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures
Forth is a public art installation commissioned by the University of Central Florida for the Institute for Simulation and Training. Forth is a seascape subject to the local weather conditions: … Continue readingForth
Puff, is a personal emissions visualizer: a lamp in the shape of a cartoon cloud that attaches near the exhaust pipe of one’s car, and dynamically changes color indicating the … Continue readingPuff
Sniff is an interactive projection in a storefront window. As the viewer walks by the projection a dog follows him, dynamically responds to his gestures and changes his behavior based … Continue readingSniff
STABILITY: disaster log The viewer in a gallery handles a small cube. A projection shows an animated world that is implied to exist inside the cube. The physics of the … Continue readingStability
At night a projection from a moving car is shone on the buildings. The car projects a video of a tiger whose movements are programmed to correspond to the speed … Continue readingWildlife
Animated cartoons keep pace with the car in a never ending chase. Their speed corresponds to the speed of the car. Infantilized representation of concepts of danger, violence, fear, persecution … Continue readingChase
The participant stands in front of a screen with a video of Marilyn Monroe. To advance the video the viewer has to run. The faster he/she runs, the closer to … Continue readingPornographic Pursuit 2