{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Tega Brain","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com","description":"Tega Brain","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:59:39 +0000","generator":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com","language":"en","item":[{"title":"about","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/about","pubDate":"Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:34:29 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/about","description":"\n\t\n\n\tTega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer born when atmospheric CO\u2082 was below 350 ppm. Her practice examines ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure through dysfunctional devices and experimental systems, including digital networks driven by environmental phenomena, schemes for obfuscating personal data, and a wildly popular smell-based dating service. Framing her work as Eccentric Engineering, Brain critiques technological solutionism while exploring ecological and infrastructural alternatives.\n\n\nHer work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian (Arts and Industries), the Whitney Museum of American Art, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Haus der elektronischen K\u00fcnste. She has received awards, fellowships, and residencies from Ars Electronica, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, Data & Society, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and was a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee for a body of work developing alternative carbon offsetting methodologies.\n\n\nBrain is an Industry Associate Professor of Integrated Design and Media at New York University and serves on the board of the School for Poetic Computation. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University and a BE in Environmental Engineering from the University of New South Wales. She is based in New York and maintains an ongoing collaboration with artist Sam Lavigne.Short biographyTega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer, born when atmospheric CO\u2082 levels were below 350 ppm. Her work examines ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. She is an Industry Associate Professor of Integrated Design and Media at New York University and her first book, Code as Creative Medium was published by MIT Press. ContactEmail: tega dot brain at gmail dot com\nInstagram\nMastodon\n To hear occasional updates about shows, talks and new work subscribe to my studio newsletter here:\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n"},{"title":"Exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Exhibitions","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:01:47 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Exhibitions","description":"EXHIBITIONS \/ TALKS \/ PRESS\n\tEXHIBITIONS: Current and Upcoming\nSlop Evader\nCONTENT MACHINES \u2013 Jouissance\nUpstream Gallery, Amsterdam\n Mar 20 - May 9\n\nSolar Protocol\nHere Comes the SunElektron, Cercle Cit\u00e9 LuxembourgFeb 6 - Apr 5\n\n\nSolar Protocol\nAI and the Paradox of AgencyBildmuseet at Ume\u00e5 UniversityMar 13 - Jan 17\n\n\nPerfect Sleep\nConnected Earth\nArs Electronica Center\nLinz, Austria\nRECENTHow to Get to Zero (Solo show with Sam Lavigne)Pioneer Works, BrooklynSept 12 - Dec 14OffsetMediaLive: Data Rich, Dirt Poor\nBolder Museum of Contermpoary ArtSept 12 - January 11, 2026\n\nOpen Orbit, Being Radiotropic\n\nEsoteric Algorithms and Re-enchanted TechnologiesPanke Gallery, Berlin, Germany16 October\u2009\u2013\u200908 November 2025\n Asunder\nEmerging Exits \nDiogenes BunkerSeptember 12 - November 2, 2025\nSolar ProtocolReciprocityUniSC Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia16 August\u201425 October 2025Synthetic MessengerScopitoneNantes, FranceSep 18 -28 2025 \nSoleil.s: Solar Biennale 2mudac - Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied ArtsLausanne, SwitzerlandMarch 21 - Sept 21, 2025 \nPlanetarische BauernKunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, GermanyMay, 23rd \u2013 Sept 4th, 2025\nSolar Protocol\nFixing FuturesMuseum Giersch der Goethe-Universit\u00e4t\nFrankfurt, GermanyApr 5 - Aug 8, 2025\nArtist Feature: Cold Call and Solar Protocol\nArs ElectronicaLinz, Austria September 4-8, Nov 17th, 2024 Solar Protocol \nTools for ChangeHeK, Basel, SwitzerlandAug 31 \u2013Aug 17 2024Solar Protocol\nAlt NetsPanke Gallery, BerlinSept 6 - Oct 19 2024New Organs\nSurveillance: From Vision to DataThe Collection of Historical Scientific InstrumentsHarvard University, BostonSept 21 - Jun 23 2024\n\nAsunderin There is No Planet B,Ars Electronica Museum, LinzSeptember 2021 - Present\n\nSynthetic Messengerin The Irreplaceable HumanLouisiana Museum of Modern ArtNov 23 2023 - Apr 1 2024\nPerfect Sleepin Catalyst LabEuropean Patent Office, Munich5 October - 15 June 2024\nAsunder\nLast Snow\nSapporo International Festival of Art, JapanJanuary 20\u2013February 25, 2024\n\n\n2023Solar Protocol\u00bbRenaissance 3.0\u00abZKM | Center for Art and Media KarlsruheMarch 24 \u2013 February 25, 2024\nAsunder\nSurreal FuturesMax Ernset Museum, Br\u00fchlAugust 27 - January 28, 2024\n\nGet Well SoonBeard & Weil GalleriesWheaton CollegeOctober 20\u2013December 13, 2023.Synthetic Messenger\nTaoyuan Art x Technology Festival Taoyuan Arts Center, Taiwan September 22 - October 29\nUnfit BitsUnreal Data: Mine, Yours, Ours, Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka, March 30 - April 28, 2023.\nCold Call: Time TheftSTRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands.12 April \u2013 16 April, 20232022\nOffset and Synthetic MessengerData Relations10 Dec 2022\u201319 Mar 2023Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.Perfect SleepBeyond Borders and Binaries16 December 2022 - 19 March 2023MU, Eindhoven Netherlands.Being Radiotropicin the Earth Heat Cloud exhibitionat the Beijing BiennialDecember 9th 2022 \u2013 February 12th 2023Deep Swamp\nEarthbound \u2013 In Dialogue with Nature HeK, BaselOctober 25 - November 13, 2022Solar ProtocolAula Magna Silvio Trentin: Ca' FoscariUniversity of VeniceOctober 6 - 7, 2022, Synthetic Messengerin Distant Early WarningsGray Area Festival, San FransiscoSeptember 29 \u2013 October 30thAsunderEverything Will be FineOutside the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin14 Sep - 4 Oct 2022New York ApartmentPerforming Documents: Modes of AssemblingCenter for Book Arts, New York CityJul 15\u2013Sep 24, 2022Deep SwampEarthbound \u2013 In Dialogue with Nature Esch2022\u2014European Capital of Culture, LuxembourgJune 4\u2013August 14, 2022AsunderSeeing Stones and Spaces Beyond the ValleyBiennale WarszawaJune 3rd - July 17th, 2022\n\n2021Coin Operated Wetlandin FUTURES,Smithsonian Museum, Washington DCLate 2021 \u2013 Summer 2022\nDeep Swamp\nTi Zero Exhibition Palazzo delle Esposizioni, RomeOctober 12, 2021 - February 27, 2022Asunder\nBiennale des Arts Num\u00e9riques N\u00e9moLe CENTQUATRE, ParisOctober 1, 2021 > January 2, 2022\nSleep Studyin Tempo,Sinclair-Haus, Bad HomburgSeptember 26th, 2021Asunderin Fotograf Festival,National Museum of Agriculture, PragueSept 2nd 2021 - October 17th, 2021\nSolar Protocolin 3rd Asian Digital Arts Exhibition,Beijing Times Art Museum, BeijingJuly 23 - October, 2021AsunderYou and AI: Through the Algorithmic LensPedion tou Areos Park, Athens, Greece25 June - 18 July, 2021\nSynthetic MessengerSTRP Festival, EindhovenJune 3-6, 2021New York Apartment\nSpatial AffairsThe Ludwig Museum & ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe29th April \u2013 27 June 2021Asunder\nShaping the Invisible World \u2013 Digital Cartography as an Instrument of KnowledgeHouse of Electronic Arts (HEK), Basel03 March \u2013 23 May 2021\n\n2020Smell Dating\nFar Away and So CloseThe Gallatin Galleries, New YorkDecember 2, 2020 \u2013 January 20 2021Data CTRL CentreM17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev30 October \u2013 22 November 2020Unfit BitsWellness - Participate, Tend and BefriendKristianstads Konsthall, Sweden3rd Oct 2020 \u2014 28th Feb 2021Sacrifice Zone\nAI Lab Journeys, Ars Electronica Festival, LinzSep 10, 7:40 am - 8:00 am, 2020Asunder\nHow To Make a ParadiseFrankfurter Kunsverein, Germany27 Mar \u2014 16 Aug 2020New York ApartmentArtportWhitney Museum of Art, New YorkLaunched March 6th, 2020.Asunder\nSurvival of the FittestKunstpalais, Erlangen29 Feb - 24 May 2020\nDeep SwampThe Question of IntelligenceAnna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery | Parsons School of DesignFebruary 07 - April 08, 2020The New OutsideNew York ApartmentUpStream Gallery1 - 17 May 2020, view online.AsunderThe Eternal Network28 Jan \u2013 01 Mar 2020HKW, Berlin\n \n\n2019New Organs Fun PalaceC2 Space, OCT-LOFT, ShenzhenDec. 9th 2019 - Mar. 2020Unfit Bits 24\/7Somerset House, London31 Oct 2019 \u2013 23 Feb 2020Being Radiotropic\nThe Glassroom, San Fransisco838 Market St.Oct 16 to Nov 3, 2019AsunderVienna Biennale for ChangeMuseum of Applied Arts, ViennaMay 29 \u2013 October 6, 2019\nUnfit BitsFuture of PrivacyAccenture The Dock, Dublin.June 8th - Sept 3rd, 2019Unfit BitsSystem FailureMinnesota Street ProjectMay 4\u201325, 2019The New OrgansIs the internet listening in on you?Contribute your story at neworgans.netCommissioned by MozillaBeing RadiotropicDevice Art TriennaleZagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, CroatiaDecember 18th - February 15th 2019Deep SwampThe 6th Guangzhou Triennial: As We May Think- FeedforwardGuangdong Museum of Art.December 21st - March 10 2019\n\n2018Deep SwampAs We May Think- FeedforwardThe 6th Guangzhou TriennialGuangdong Museum of ArtDecember 21 - March 10, 2019Being RadiotropicNeon Digital Arts Festival \nDundee Botanic Garden, Dundee6 \u2013 11th Nov, 2018.\nDeep SwampMachines Are Not Alone, Device Art Triennial\nChronus Art Center, Shanghai July 21 - October 21, 2018Sept 8th - Oct 15th, 2018. Keeping Time, Systematic, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart.July 22nd: Talk at Field Remediations workshop with Karolina Sobecka, Chronus Art Center.March 10 & 17: Algorithmic Disobedience Workshop, Hunter College, NYC.April 11-13: MUTEK_IMG Conference, Montreal.March 7: Art, Activism and Algorithms: Aesthetic Interventions in Machine Bias at Hunter College (postponed).January 16 - March 4: Exhibition, Stream Capture, MCAD, Minnapolis.2nd February: Participant in Research Values Workshop and Panel, Transmediale Festival, Berlin.20th January: Organizing Learning to Teach, IDM NYU. Tickets on sale here.201715th December:Organizing Learning to Teach, Day for Night Festival, Houston. RSVP here.2nd December:Speaker at Art and Science: The Two Cultures Converging conference, The Helix Center, NYC.29th November: Talk, Design Research, Writing & Criticism, SVA, NYC.26th October: The Quantified Self Davies Forum, University of San Fransisco.23rd October \u201315th November: Exhibition - The Glass Room London, with Tactical Tech.21st - 29th October: Smell Dating in Internet of Women Things (part of Manifestations Veemgebouw), Dutch Design Week.6th October: Making Natural Language, A Evening with the Enron Email Archive, the New Museum.September: The Good Life exhibited in First Look, New Art Online, the New Museum.24th September: Speaker for Adweek Art Panel, Whitney Museum.June 1st: Tega Brain in conversation with Alexander Scholz, Node Forum, Frankfurt.June 26th \u2013 July 2nd: Being Radiotropic exhibited at Node Forum, Frankfurt.April 28th: Friday Late, Victoria And Albert Museum, London.April 28-29th: Interrupt 4, Brown University, Providence, RI.March 9th - May 14th: Internet of Women Things, Tetem Gallery, Enschede, Netherlands.March 25th - July 16th: No Secrets, Eres Foundation, Munich.April 17th: Media and Thermodynamics, Media Studies Lecture Series, New School, NYC.March 26th: Ten Days on the Island, Glenorchy Public Art Park, Hobart.March 9th - April 9th: Working Promesse, Biennale Internationale Design, Saint-Etienne.September - January 8th: Smell Dating in The Life Fair, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.January 23rd: New project exploring art forms funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Made in its defense.January 15th: Organizer of Learning to Teach Conference II, with Processing Foundation and School for Poetic Computation.2016November 30th: Learning to Teach: A Panel on Learning, ICP, NY.November 29th - December 16th: Unfit Bits and Smell Dating in the Glass Room, NYC.November 16-27th: Smell Dating, Doclab, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam.November: The Good Life, launched on Rhizome front page.October - April '17: Futurs Non Conformes, a virtual exhibition by Jeu de Paume.October 28th: Speaker at ITP, NYU guest artist series.October 6th: Speaker at Weird Reality Art and Code, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh.October 1st: Lecture at After 9 Evenings: Object Field, A Symposium on Current and Historical Experiments in Art and Technology.September 24th: Speaker, Better World by Design conference, Brown University.September 17th-22nd: Unfit Bits exhibited at Sleep Center, NYC.August 15th-27th: Workshop at Code Subversions, School for Poetic Computation.July 25th - 29th: Workshop: Eccentric Interfaces, Environmental Interventions Workshop, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Course materials.June 18th: Opening of Beasts of Alderley, a new public artwork commissioned by Brisbane City Council.June: Smell Dating Shanghai, hosted by Chronus Art Center. Sign up is here.6-9th June: Speaker at the Eyeo FestivalMay 4th: Speaker at Republica, Berlin.April 19th\u2013 May 13th: Exhibition: Geek Girls, The Block, Brisbane.April 15th: Speaker at Mistakes Were Made, NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.12-24th March: Research residency at GASP, TasmaniaMarch 11th - May 9th: Exhibition: Unfit Bits in Nervous Systems, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.Feb 29th: Lecture at Hacker School, NYC.January 9th\/10th: Co-organizing the Learning to Teach Conference at SFPC, with Taeyoon Choi.2015December 13th: Eccentric Engineering Panel, South Street Seaport, Eyebeam.December 5th: Speaker at Software for Artists, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.19 November - 20 December: Exhibition: Inside\/Out, Eyebeam Artist Showcase, South Street Seaport. Open Tues-Sun 12-7pm.October 24th: Speaker at Radical Networks, NYC.September 12th \u2013 November 7th: Exhibition: Design Thinking: Experimental Practice, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane.September 29th: Speaker at Obfuscation Book Launch, NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.April-September: Residency: Spring\/summer at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, NYC.August 27th \u2013 October 10th: Exhibition: Future Nature, Object: Australian Design Centre, Sydney.September 19th: Speaker at Open Hardware Summit, Philadelphia.September 12th: Internet Yami-Ichi, NYCMay 25th - 31st: p5.js Contributers Conference, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University.May 21st: Speaker at TEDx, Sydney.April 27th: Lecture at Magnet, NYU Poly \/ School of Engineering.\n\n\n...\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"Talks","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Talks","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Jun 2023 09:58:40 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Talks","description":"EXHIBITIONS \/ TALKS \/ PRESS\n\n2026\n\n\nPlanetary Media SymposimColumbia GSAPPApril 8th, 2026\n\nExperiments in RefusalBeyond the Prompt Speaker Series\nMedia Lab, Faculty of Arts\nUniversity of Manitoba\nMarch 6th, 2026\nStop Making Sense\nRISD (Art and Computation) Speaker Series\nRhode Island\nFebruary 19, 2026\n\n2025Urgent Inquiries with Ari Melenciano and Sam Lavigne\n\nEyebeam at Secret Riso Club122 Central Avenue, Brooklyn\nNovember 11, 6 to 8:30 PM\n\nBroadcast Radio Hour at Second Sundays with Shannon Mattern \nPioneer Works, Brooklyn\nSep 14, 2025\n\nsonar d\nBarcelona, Spain\nJune 13, 2025\nKeynote\nAnnual Conference Metro NY Library CouncilJune 17, 2025\n\n\n2024\nCrit Night at Ace Hotel Brooklyn\nwith PioneerWorks\nMonday, Sep 16, 2024\n\nThe Means of Automation\nResponsibility in postnatural environments\nCritical Media Lab, Basel Academy of Art and Design\nJuly 5th, 2024\nInauthentic Behavior\nR & D Salon - No More Likes\nMuseum of Modern Art, New York\nApril 30, 2024\n2023\nTega Brain: On Automation and Environment\nDutch Digital Design Day\nAmsterdam, Netherlands\nJune 24th, 2023\nGetting to Net Zero\nRepublica \nBerlin, Germany\nJune 6th, 2023\nA Question of Agency\nCreative Days Vienna\nVienna, Austria\nMay 31st, 2023\n\n2022Artists Talk: Tega Brain and Emilija \u0160karnulyt\u0117The Photographers Gallery 3 Nov 2022\n\nThe Environment is Not a SystemThe Conference, Malmo\nAugust, 2022\nArtist Talk: Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne\nSonar-D\nLisboa, Portugal\nApril 2022\n\n2021\nWorking with Logic of the World Itself\n Living Cities Forum, \nMPavillion, Melbourne, 2021.\n2019Ways to Predict the Future, \nSonar Festival, Barcelona, 2019.\n\n2017\nThe Making of Natural Language: An Evening with the Enron Email Archive\n The New Museum, \nNew York, 2017.\n\n\n\n\nThe Entropy of a System \nData & Society, New York City 2017.\n\n2016\nFree Your Fitness from Yourself, \nre:publica ConferenceBerlin, 2016.\nEccentric Engineering\nThe Eyeo Festival, Walker Arts Center, \nMinneapolis, 2016.\n\n \n\n2015Eccentric Enginnering: Thoughts for the Anthropocene\nTedX, The Sydney Opera House\nSydney, 2015.\n\n\n\nNetwork with Others, \nRadical Networks Conference\n NYC, 2015.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n"},{"title":"Press","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Press","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:02:04 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Press","description":"EXHIBITIONS \/ TALKS \/ PRESS    \n\n\n\nPress\n\nA new browser hack lets you blast away 3 years of AI slop, Shannon Carroll, Quarz, Dec. 3, 2025.Art Gallery Shows to See in November, Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, Nov. 27, 2025.'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It\u2019s 2022, Janus Rose, 404 Media, Nov 26, 2025.   These artists want your help distracting fossil fuel executives, Louis Bury, The Art Newspaper, October 14, 2025.Go to Red Hook to Heckle Some Oil and Gas Execs, Hell Gate, September 16, 2025. Essential AI Artworks, Alex Greenberger, ARTnews, August 20, 2024.\nPeter Weibel\u2019s \u201cRenaissance 3.0\u201d: The freedom of art is its unscientific nature, Time.news, April 3, 2023.Eco-Crime Pays: New Scheme Lets You Trade \u2018Industrial Sabotage\u2019 for Carbon Credits, Lauren Leffer, Gizmodo, February 15, 2023.Deep Swamp reviewed in T Zero: A Roman view on art, science and society, We Make Money Not Art, March 4, 2022.Solar Protocol network explores the potential of a solar-powered internet,  Rima Sabina Aouf, Dezeen, 27 September 2022 Smithsonian exhibition \u2018Futures' explores \u2018mind-expanding possibilities\u2019, Eva Hagberg, Wallpaper*, November 26, 2021.Futures comes alive in Smithsonian\u2019s Arts and Industries Building, Peggy McGlone, Washington Post, October 6th 2021.createCanvas Season 2: Interview with Tega Brain and Golan Levin,\nProcessing Foundation, Jun 1, 2021Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment, Brooklyn Rail, June 2020.New York Apartment is reviewed in The New Yorker, 2020.Get Well Soon is listed in ArtNews in their list of Defining Artworks of 2020.Critics Pick, Artforum, April, 2020.'Artport' from the Whitney Museum. Interview with my collaborator Sam Lavigne, speaking about New York Apartment on NPR, All Of It, April 2020.Museums Are Finding New Ways to Connect with Art Lovers Online during Quarantine, Artsy, Apr 19, 2020.An Art Exhibit You Can Visit Without Leaving Your Couch, Slate Magazine, April 02, 2020.24\/7: A Wake-Up Call for Our Non-Stop World review \u2013 in search of lost time, The Guardian, 10 Nov 2019.Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures, Logic Magazine, Issue 9, Dec 7th, 2019.Data Science Friction. On the AI-based eco-management system Asunder (2019) by Tega Brain, Julian Oliver and Bengt Sj\u00f6l\u00e9n. Sivanesan, Sumugan, Springerin, 2019.Smell Dating Creates the World\u2019s First \u201cMail Odor\u201d Dating Service to Help Singles Sniff Out a Hot Date, Dating News, March 5, 2019\u201cReview: Being Radiotropic\u201d, Neon Digital Arts, 8 November 2018.Artificial Intelligence, Like a Robot, Enhances Museum Experiences, Jane L. Levere, New York Times, October 15th, 2018.Le projet New Organs veut terrasser le capitalisme de la surveillance, Thibault Pr\u00e9vost, Vice France, Sept 4th, 2018.Digital ads are starting to feel psychic, Oscar Schwartz, The Outline, July 13th, 2018.This is your brain on Wi-Fi , Straith Schreder, Internet Citizen, Mozilla, January 22, 2018.An Exhaustive List Of Art Projects Threatened By The Proposed NEA Cuts, Katherine Brooks, Huffington Post, January 25, 2017.As Trump Threatens the NEA, an Artist Compiles All the Projects It Funded Last Year, Claire Voon, Hyperallergic, January 27, 2017.Experience Enron's Everyday Evil with a 500,000+ Email Experiment, Azura Wannmann, Creators Project, January 4, 2017.Finding Inspiration for Art in the Betrayal of Privacy, Jenna Wortham, The New York Times, December 27, 2016.A Tech Collective Sets Up a Sleek Boutique \u2014 to Help Visitors Elude Big Data., Jay Cassano, Hyperallergic, December 2016.These Brooklyn artists are exploring the dark side of Big Data, April Joyner, Technical.ly Brooklyn, December 2016.Corporate Malfeasance as Service \u2013 The Enron Email Simulator, Greg J. Smith, Creative Applications, November 2016.What Enron\u2019s emails tell us about artificial intelligence, Tyler Woods, Technical.ly Brooklyn, November 2016.I'd Swipe Right on Yr Metadata, Liat Berdugo, Transart Triennale, 2016.Fit for the Future: The 2016 Eyeo Festival, Desi Gonzalez, Art in America, June 2016.Eccentric Wi-Fi Routers Put the \"Fun\" in Functional Art, Beckett Mufson, Creators Project, June 2016.The nose knows: Can you find love with smell dating? Jessica Martin, ABC Online, May 27, 2016.Confessions of a Data Broker and other tales of a quantified society, R\u00e9gine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, April 28th, 2016.Love in the Singles, Mandy Oaklander, Time Magazine, April, 2016.Here\u2019s What Happened When I Agreed To Try \u2018Smell Dating\u2019, Noah Michelson, Huffington Post, April 26th, 2016.Smell dating: sniffing out potential lovers (and their sweaty T-shirts), Amber Jamieson, The Guardian USA. April 27, 2016.Love is in the armpit at New York's Smell Dating, Barbara Goldberg and Angela Moore, Reuters, March 24, 2016.This Dating Site Matches You Based On Your B.O., Katie Notopoulos, BuzzFeed News, February 16, 2016.How to Fake Your Workout, Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, September 28, 2015.Unfitbits: How To Trick Your Fitbit Into Thinking You're Working Out But You're Not, Kif Leswing, International Business Times, 2015.Strange Weather: alien flowers in the Arctic, raindrop that floats in mid-air and jellyfish snacks for all, Regine DeBatty, We Make Money Not Art, 2014.Art activism, Nathan Li, Green Lifestyle Magazine, 2014.Meet Tega Brain, environmental engineer and artist, Xavier Mayes, Learning and Teaching Sustainability,Office for Learning and Teaching, 2013.If a system fails in a forest, is anybody listening?, Urszula Dawkins, Realtime Arts, June 2013.Le Temps, Interview on Talking Through Your Arts, Angela Stretch and Chris Virtue, 2SER Radio, March 2, 2013.Engineering an Artistic Streak, Rashell Habib, The Telegraph, March 17.Youngsters & The City Wilderness Trail, Andrew Frost, The ArtLife, Sept 6, 2012.Slow Cycle, The Evolution of Coin Operated Wetland, Megan Garrett-Jones, Runway, Issue 21, January 2012.A Stock Exchange, Amelia Stein, Runway, Issue 9, July, 2011.The Ordinary Collective, Bridie Connell, Das SuperPaper, Issue 14, 2010.Tooling the Art of Electronics, Somaya Langlay, Realtime Arts, Issue 95, 2010.Audio.Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne: Eccentric Engineering, Culture and Technology Podcast, 27. April 2024Nuance, with Tega Brain, The Data Fix Podcast with Dr. M\u00e9l Hogan, July 24, 2023Tega Brain. The Digital Ecoscape, ZEITGEIST19 Curated Podcast, Jun 13, 2023Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne Launch of 'Offset' - ACCA Podcast, May 2023\nEp 10: Agent Tega Brain - Engineering Art for Ecological Needs, AI Agents, 24 Apr 2021 \nBiologically Speaking, Perfume on the Radio Podcast, May 27, 2021\nThe Fairest of Them All, Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything, November 2016Witness the Fitness, Joel Werner, ABC Radio, Radio National Health Report, December 2016What Is Smell Dating, And Does It Work? Huffington Post, Love and Sex Podcast, 2016Television\n\nStop and Smell the Roses, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, May 2016.Finding Love at first Whiff, Reuters, 2016.Dating by Smell, AJ+, Al Jazeera, April 2016.\n"},{"title":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/artwork","pubDate":"Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:14:42 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/artwork","description":"ARTWORK \/ WRITING \/ CURATORIAL"},{"title":"editions","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/editions","pubDate":"Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:45:42 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/editions","description":"Artwork \/ Writing \/ Curatorial \/ Editions "},{"title":"words","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/words","pubDate":"Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:21:53 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/words","description":"ARTWORK \/ WRITING \/ CURATORIAL\n\n\n\n\n\n\tBooks\n\tGolan Levin and Tega Brain. (2021). Code as Creative Medium, MIT Press.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\tEssays, Articles and Chapters\n\tBrain T. and Lavigne, S. (2024) \u2018All that is Air Melts into Air\u2019 in Eflux Architecture. \nBrain T. (2024) \u2018Fluxes and Flows\u2019 in Swamps and the New Imagination, On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture, and Philosophy. Sternberg Press. \n\nBrain, T., Nathanson, A., & Piantella B. (2022) \u2018Solar Protocol: Exploring Energy-Centered Design\u2019 in Workshop on Computing within Limits.\n\nBrain, T. and Lavine, S. (2021) The Battle to Control the Carbon Media Cycle, Ding Magazine.\nPiantella, B., Nathanson, A., Brain, T., & Ohshiro, K. (2020, April). Solar-Powered Server: Designing for a More Energy Positive Internet. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-4).Nooney, L. and Brain T. (2019) 'A \u2018speculative pasts\u2019 pedagogy: where speculative design meets historical thinking' published in Digital Creativity. This paper was written in response to the class, History of Computing: How the Computer Became Personal.Brain, T. (2019). New Phenologies published in UnBag Magazine.\nBrain, T. (2018). 'The Environment is not a System' published in APRJA.Brain, T. and Lavigne S. (2016) Simulating Enron, Rhizome Blog.\nBrain, T. (2015) At Home in the Universe, Tega Brain interviews Margaret Wertheim. Guernica Magazine.\nBrain T. (2012). 'Making Architecture Public' in Expanded architecture : avant-garde film + expanded cinema + architecture. Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany. \n\n\n \n"},{"title":"curatorial","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/curatorial","pubDate":"Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:13:41 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/curatorial","description":"ARTWORK \/ WRITING \/ CURATORIAL\n\n\n\n\tSun Thinking\n\nApril 22, 2023\n\n\n\tOnline at solarprotocol.net. With the hybrid launch event at LARPA, Brooklyn.\n\nCuratorial Team: Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella and Kate Silzer\n\n\n\n\n\t\nPoetic Computation: Seven Years of SFPCJanuary 12 - 23, 2020\n\n\n\tWestbeth Gallery, New York City\nCuratorial TeamTega Brain, Alex Miller, Brian Solon, Lauren Gardner and Taeyoon Choi.This exhibition celebrated seven years of work at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC). Founded in 2013, and located in Westbeth Artists Housing, SFPC is an artist-run school, residency and research community, exploring the intersection of code, design, hardware and theory \u2014 focusing especially on artistic intervention. Its mission is to support and nurture a diverse community of artists and critical thinkers to shape more creative, humane and poetic forms of computation. In the past few years, the school has prioritized inclusion of women, QTPOC, and the disability community, offering a range of free public programs. With classes and events focusing on environmental justice, disability and accessibility, intersectionalities, and racial bias in algorithms, the teachers have expanded the conventional understanding of computation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nExhibition photography by Kyle Knodell.\n\n\n"},{"title":"Eccentric Engineering","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Eccentric-Engineering","pubDate":"Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:40:58 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Eccentric-Engineering","description":"Eccentric Engineering - PhD Project\n\n\tThis practice-led research project unfolds through the development and making of four artworks: Deep Swamp (2018),\nAsunder (2019), Synthetic Messenger (2021), and Solar\nProtocol (2021-2022). Each work plays out through the operation of a\ntechnological system that attempts (or proposes, in the case of Asunder) ways\nto manage or influence its ecology. Each involves the design of an automated\nprocess that relies on a mode of perception, a technique of analysis for decision\nmaking and then a way of proposing or confederating some sort of program of\naction. Through each of these processes of perception, cognition and action,\nthese works explore some of the ways that data-driven computational\ntechniques like AI are shaping and reshaping both ecological thought and the\nways of responding to the current ecological crises.Through the dialogue between these artworks and the exegesis, I articulate a\nmodel for an interdisciplinary art practice called eccentric engineering. Eccentric\nengineering draws on methods from systems art, social practice, critical\nengineering and ontological design to offer critiques of the technological status\nquo but also, importantly, generate new possibilities, imaginaries and\napproaches for designing systems that act in concert with their environments\nand which serve ecosystemic rather than exclusively human agendas.\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tPrompts and commitments for eccentric engineering.\n\n\n\n\n\nThesis Abstract\n\n\tCultivating new infrastructural and ecological imaginaries is a crucial part of addressing the climate crisis. How might we envisage ways to design and engineer our way out of the mess we are in? Where is there space to prototype new social and technological relations that depart from both the privatised techno-solutionism of Silicon Valley and the anti-technological stance of twentieth century environmentalism? This practice-led research focuses on how automated systems and AI are reshaping ecological thought, and articulates a model for practice called eccentric engineering which provides space for this much-needed thinking and experimentation. It unfolds through four artworks that each realise an automated, computational system for environmental management, and it explores how environmental knowledge is produced and applied through systems, models, media and protocols. From this dialogue between practice and theory, I show how the question of how we know our environments informs how we think we can, or should, act within them.\n\nI also draw on non-anthropocentric theories of agency from Indigenous cosmologies of North America and Australia, new materialism, and the work of artists engaged with AI and automated systems to argue that automation is the coordination and confederation of human and non-human agencies. As such, automation is not an exclusively human intervention but equally emerges in the absence of human intent. It is a fundamental characteristic of a liveable biosphere.\n\nFrom these discussions of computation, ecological thinking, and the ways artists and designers orchestrate new coalitions of agencies, this thesis concludes by defining the practice of eccentric engineering. Eccentric engineering combines methods from systems art, social practice, critical engineering and ontological design to critique the technological status quo. Importantly, it generates new possibilities, imaginaries and approaches for designing systems that act in concert with their environments and serve ecosystemic, rather than exclusively human, agendas.\n\t\n"},{"title":"How to Get to Zero (exhibition)","link":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/How-to-Get-to-Zero-exhibition","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:59:39 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/tegabrain.com\/How-to-Get-to-Zero-exhibition","description":"How to Get to Zero (2025)\n\nTwo-person exhibition with Sam Lavigne, Pioneer Works\nSep 13 - Dec 14, 2025\n\n\nHow To Get To Zero is the largest survey show of Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne's solo and collaborative practices to date, presenting work that examines the present limits and future possibilities of political agency during our time of climate crisis. Over the past ten years, the artists have worked at the forefront of social critique and participatory art, examining subjects ranging from economic corruption to police surveillance, and from data manipulation to the commodification of everyday life. By repurposing the technologies used to perpetuate these conditions, Brain and Lavigne highlight the underlying conceptual and political frameworks that so often reinforce an unjust and repressive status quo. Read more here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"}]}}