I'll be speaking as a part of the panel at this year's conference for the American Society of Landscape Architects, in Phoenix, AZ.  The panel is titled:

 

Illuminated Landscapes: Using Light Projections to Transform the Built Environment

 

The panel, organizerd by Jeff Schnabel of Portland State University, focuses on the repertoire and potential for projected light as a medium for urban intervention and landscape design.

I will present plis/replis at this years ACADIA conference.

Our collaborator Hyoung-gul Kook will join me in San Francisco for the conference.

The detailed conference program is here.

Sponsored by:

 

I joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art in the Spring of 2012.

I'll be documenting all of my teaching at http://teach.alimomeni.net.  

I taught a workshop Anderson Ranch the summer of 2011. Here's the low-down (revised description):

 

Workshop Title: Miniature Worlds: Movement, Light, Gesture And Electronics

When: Jul 09, 2012 - Jul 13, 2012

Where: Anderson Ranch @ Snowmass, Colorado

Media and Techniques: 

Electronics, Arduino-based micro-controllers, electromechanics (motors, solenoids and servos), dynamic lighting, software and programming (Arduino IDE, Cycling '74 real-time programming and Max/MSP/Jitter).

Concept:  

This workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to working with live electronics, kinetics, light and imagery. Students explore the basics of electronics work with micro-controllers and strategies for using light and movement to animate a miniature space. The metaphor of a miniature world invites students to integrate their own creative practices (in two- or three-dimensional media) into mixed-media interactive installations.

Course Web-Page: here

Work samples: check out all the final project videos from last year's course blog!

 

This workshop shares much of its concept/content with a course that I teach at CMU called "Animated Theater".  Look at the blog from this course to get a better sense of the approach.

 

Here are a few of my favorite final projects from last year....

 

My Truce-collaborator Robin Meier put on Truce at SIGGRAPH Asia, in Yokoyama (Japan). See below for some excellent videos of townsmen and women interacting with our favorite musical insect...

This year marked a transitional stage for the Experimental and Media Arts department. Together with my colleagues Lynn Lukkas and Diane Willow, we accomplished the following:

-Official name change from Time and Interactivity to Experimental and Media Arts
-Creation of the EMA area blog with a centralized calendar and online resources for our graduate and undergraduate students
-Conceptualization and initial deployment of a comprehensive space reconfiguration: new sound studio (Regis W131), new advanced video lab (W121, the old space was given to the Regis tech staff to meet their needs), new mixed analog-digital studio shared with painting and drawing (W248)
-Preparation and submission of three major CLA-OIT Tech Fees grants (requesting a total of $150,000) for necessary upgrades of hardware and software in Regis

Our friend Regine has posted a review of my work Smoke and Hot Air on her much beloved blog, we-make-money-not-art. She has also written two posts (titled Part 1: Wreckage and countermeasures, and Part 2: Globalization and agency) about the FEEDFORWARD exhibit at Laboral as a whole.

Myself, Jenny Schmid and Heba Amin presented our works at the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo.