CHRIS WOEBKEN

  • runs a rapid research practice creating props, narratives and cinematic visualizations investigating the aesthetic and social potentials of technologies. Our studio is based in Brooklyn in a former bank that has been converted into a unique inter-disciplinary lab. I collaborate with scientists, organizations, artists and engineers and we have the right environment and network to invent and build prototypes of future services and products.

    • Now

    02/15–07/30/2012 Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, MoMA (NYC), helped the MOS team with their cinematography

    • Recent Projects

  • 2011 AUTOCOMPLETE FUTURES
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  • 2011 FORECLOSED
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  • 2011 99¢ FUTURES
  • 99¢ futures - Eventspace
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  • 2011 FUTURELABCAMP
  • IMG_0839
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  • 2011 DIAL 3-1-1
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  • 2010 LEVI'S CUBES

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  • 2010 BAT BILLBOARD
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  • 2009 BACK TO THE FUTURES

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  • 2009 AMPHIBIOUS ARCHITECTURE
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  • 2009 COLLABORATION BIRDHOUSE
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  • 2008 BEETLE WRESTLER

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  • 2008 MOTH
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  • 2008 ANIMAL SUPERPOWERS
  • antbirdgiraffe
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  • 2008 FUTURE OF MONEY
  • ethical?time is money?
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  • 2007 NEW SENSUAL INTERFACES
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    Collaborators

    A selection of companies, individuals and organizations that I have worked with since 2008
    Intel Labs
    Microsoft Research
    Autodesk Research
    Nearfuturelab
    Sagmeister Inc.
    frog
    Natalie Jeremijenko
    The Living
    Richard The
    Dunne & Raby
    Kenichi Okada
    Van Alen Institute
    James Patten
    Kyle McDonald
    Genspace
    Mac Cowell
    Sascha Pohflepp
    MOS
    Leigha Dennis
    Rhianon Morgan-Hatch

    Education

    2006-2008 MA RCA Design Interactions (London)
    2001-2003 Interactive Design Apprenticeship (Hamburg)

    Work

    2008-now Independent Designer
    2001-2006 Adobe Systems, User Experience Designer

    Fellowships

    2011 TED Fellow
    2008-2009 Research Fellow, NYU

    Teaching

    2011 Night School: Camera Hacking, Studio-X (NYC)
    2011 Narrative Design and Filmaking Workshop, RISD Digital + Media (Providence)
    2011 Futurelabcamp Biotech Un-conference (Boston)
    2011 Futurelabcamp Biotech Un-conference (NYC)
    2011 Lost, Syracuse University (Syracuse)
    2010 Conflux, (NYC)
    2010 Invisible Behaviors, NYU ITP (NYC)
    2008-2009 TA for Natalie Jeremijenko's class, NYU (NYC)

    Exhibitions

    2011 Dial 3-1-1 @ Bring to Light Festival, Greenpoint (NYC)
    2011 Design Triennale, China National Museum (Beijing)
    2011 Landscape Futures, Nevada Museum of Art (Reno)
    2011 Talk to me, MoMA (NYC)
    2011 Virtual Futures 2.0, (Warwick)
    2011 MADE UP, Artcenter (Pasadena)
    2010 between-between, (London)
    2010 BIODIVERCITY: 47 Important Ideas and Technologies for the Urban Environment, (Washington DC)
    2010 Demo:Mode, (Geneva)
    2009 What if, Sciencegallery (Dublin)
    2009 Confines, IVAM (Valencia)
    2009 Designersblock, London Design Festival (London)
    2008 Biennale internationale Design, (St. Etienne)
    2008 Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA (NYC)

    Talks

    2011 Lecture at Cooper Union, (NYC)
    2011 Lecture at MIT Tangible Media Group, (Cambridge)
    2011 Thrilling Wonderstories, (NYC)
    2011 TED Fellows Talk (Long Island)
    2011 Quantified Self, (NYC)
    2010 School of Visual Arts, (NYC)
    2010 UDK, Digitale Klasse, (Berlin)
    2010 lucid, (NYC)
    2010 Disney Research, CMU (Pittsburg)
    2010 dorkbot, (NYC)
    2010 lift-conference, (Geneva)

    Publications

    2011 Talk to Me (Bat Billboard, Future of Money, Animal Superpowers)
    2011 See Yourself Sensing (Animal Superpowers)
    2009 Axis Magazine »Advanced Design Research« Volume #142 (Beetle Wrestler)
    2009 Birkhaeuser, Smart Surfaces (Sensual Interfaces)
    2009 Gestalten, Play All Day (Animal Superpowers)
    2009 Axis Magazine »When a designer becomes a Researcher« Volume #139 (A New Relationship to Money)
    2009 Archistorm Magazine (Sensual Interfaces)
    2008 Good Magazine (Animal Superpowers)
    2008 Icon Magazine Volume #63 (A New Relationship to Money)
    2008 Design and the Elastic Mind Catalog (flicflex, Sensual Interfaces)

    Contact



    studio: Metropolitan Exchange Bank, 33 Flatbush Ave, 7th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
    email: hello@chriswoebken.com
    phone: +1.646.39S.PACE
    skype: chriswoebken
    metaverse: Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Vimeo, Delicious