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Austin Public Library Podcast
In an episode of the APL Volumes podcast, Cultural Arts Division staff member Calder Kamin interviews Urban Matter Inc. about public art and their new artwork Golden Afternoon, a public art installation in the Seaholm Redevelopment commissioned by Austin Art in Public Places.
Golden Afternoon on City View
Great shots of Golden afternoon and insightful sound bytes from John Rosato, principal of Southwest Strategies Group in Austin, on City View, City of Austin Government Access Channel.
Archpaper
This virtual pong game at NYU aims to restore social interaction to gaming and activate an abandoned storefront.
Blog ATMEL
Playing larger-than-life Pong on a NYC storefront
PSFK
Pop-Up Pong Game Promotes Storefront Interaction
WFPL NPR
Downtown Louisville Art Exhibit Makes Air Quality Visible
WLKY 32 News
Local ‘Air Bare’ exhibit monitors the city’s air pollution
Broken Sidewalk
Seeing is believing: “Air Bare” installation merges pollution data and art to help clear the air in Louisville
Insider Louisville
Using data visualization art to tell Louisville’s air quality story.
WFPL : Louisville’s NPR® News Station
Telling Stories About Louisville’s Air Quality Through Art.
ATELIÊ URBANO : TV Show
Urban Matter Inc is a part of a Brazilian TV Program called Ateliê Urbano about different types of urban artistic expressions in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and New York axis.
Austin Business Journal
Urban Matter likely to light up Austin’s Seaholm with art installation.
Drive the District : Powered by GM
Urban Matter Turns Parking Garage Into Fiber Optic Installation.
Metropolis
Unnatural Nature : Embracing the city by transforming industrial blight into urban amenity.
Daily Pioneer
Bangladeshi-American artist Fariba Alam uses geomteric angles, pixels and mathematical diagrams to define themes of migration and travel.
Design Observer
Good Night : A Dazzling New Era of Metropolitan Light, essay by Sandy Isenstadt
Matters of Art
MYSTIC TRAIL, Review of ‘Lace of Stars’ by Amrita Varma
Core 77
Urban Matter’s ‘Silent Lights’ turns New York City traffic noise into color.
Archpaper
Silent Light installation illuminated sound pollution in Brooklyn.
Inhabitat
Silent Lights: Noise-Activated LED Gates Illuminate Passageway Underneath Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
News 12
New public art display ‘Silent Lights’ unveiled under the BQE in Fort Greene
the Creator’s Project
Brooklyn Installation Turns Traffic Noise Into An Exuberant Light Vista.
PSFK
How combining light and sound can help reveal local character.
Arup Connect
Arup recently invited Urban Matter Inc. to install work in its New York lobby as part of a new rotating exhibition series. Connect caught up with the designers as they set up Wise Words.
New Museum
Shagun Singh and Valeria Bianco give us insider details about Wise Words, a project as part of IDEAS CITY celebrating women immigrants in New York City.
Architect
The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects : US Pavilion, 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Inhabitat
ARTfarm Project Turns Gritty New York Streets Into a Green Haven.
Panels & Presentations
Core Conversation : The future of physical digital placemaking
On March 14th we hosted a core conversation for ‘SXSW interactive’ around the theme of physical/digital placemaking in Austin, Texas. Check for notes in our blog section.
Panel : Workspace of the Future | FXFOWLE
On October 8th we participated in the future of work panel organized by the architecture firm Fxfowle as a part of the World Architecture Day.
Panel : Social lives of Public Spaces | US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennial
The U.S. Pavilion at the Thirteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale was organized by the Institute for Urban Design on behalf of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Panel : The Intersection of Architecture & Public Art for Innovative Community Revitalization | AFHny
We moderated a conversation around the ‘The Intersection of Architecture & Public Art for Innovative Community Revitilization’ at the Center for Architecture in New York. The questions that we raised included […]
Panel : Parallel Urbanism; Local people regulating local spaces | Designwala
Parallel Urbanism Panel – Designwala from Urban Matter Inc on Vimeo. Panelists – Lina Srivastava, Jyoti Hosagrahar, John Gerarci Date – Feb 28th at Wix Lounge NYC The panel on Parallel Urbanism : […]
Under the Elevated
Silent Lights was showcased as part of one of the DOT improvement case studies in the ‘Under the Elevated’ project publication by Design Trust for Public Space.
Color Quotient, Issue 6, Aug 2014
Silent Lights was featured on the 16th Issue of Color Quotient (spelt Colour Quotient in British English), a magazine focused on color, published by Asian Paints in India. According to […]
Works that Work, Issue 3, Spring 2014
Works that Work is a magazine about unexpected creativity. Shagun contributed an article about an inventor in India – Arunachalam Muruganantham who invented a machine that can create sanitary pads for […]
Metropolis Mag, Feb 2014.
‘Unnatural Nature : Embracing the city by transforming industrial blight into urban amenity’ is the title of the article in Feb issue of the Metropolis magazine. Written by Karrie Jacobs, the article […]
Architect Magazine, August 2012
The showcase, which will be on view in the US Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture from August 27th through November 25th, is organized around six broad themes: economy, information, accessibility, community, pleasure, and sustainability.
Kyoorius Magazine, Vol. 12, 2012
‘What designers can learn from Grassroots level Creative Entrepreneurs’ talks about creativity in the places where it is least expected.
Kyoorius Magazine, Vol. 13, 2012
‘Creating Urban Futures through Tactical Urbanism’ covers the role of tactical urbanism in creating sustainable urban experiences.
By the City / For the City : IFUD, 2011
Silent Lights was published in the ‘By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York
Exhibitions & Festivals
Pop Up Storefront
Play Array was installed as an interactive pop up at the NYU storefront space in Downtown Brooklyn in May 2015.
Ornate Activate Group Show
Bare Branches created in collaboration with Fariba Alam was shown at Shirin Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, from June 11th to July 11th 2015.
Bare Branches in Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi
Bare Branches was done in collaboration with Fariba Alam and was shown at the Shrine Empire Gallery in New Delhi as a part of the show Lace of Stars.
Wise Words at the IDEAS CITY Architecture Biennale 2013
Wise Words was shown as a part of the IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL organized by the New Museum. This initiative explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that art and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work and play.
ARTfarm in Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
ARTfarm was selected as one of the 124 projects to be showcased as a part of the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2012
Raising the Count at the Sikh Film Festival 2010
Raising the Count was selected to be a part of the Sikh Film Festival in 2010. The festival is organized every year by the Sikh Arts and Film Foundation and focuses on creating awareness about the Sikh community in America.
