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Kazys Varnelis is the director of the Network Architecture Lab, at Columbia University in New York. Within this experimental department of the university's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Varnelis investigates the impact of computation and communications on architecture and urbanism. Together with Robert Sumrell, he runs the non-profit architectural collective AUDC; their first book, "Blue Monday", was published in 2007. In 2005/06 Varnelis was a visiting scholar with the "Networked Publics" program at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication. This fall, MIT Press will publish the results of this program as "Networked Publics", edited by Varnelis. His essay for receiver looks at how mediated communication has changed our notion of place, created non-places and now has us darting between simultaneous environments.
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===History===
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Born in Chicago in 1967, he is the son of noted Lithuanian geometric abstractionist Kazys Varnelis [1917-2010] and grandson of Kazys Varnelis, the Samogitian folk artist [1867-1945]. When his family moved to the Berkshires, he encountered Fluxus, meeting George Maciunas and getting to know the movement through noted Fluxus collector Jean Brown who became close friends with his mother" [http://varnelis.net/about].
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He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice AUDC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys_Varnelis_(historian)].
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===Work===
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Varnelis has written extensively on the Internet, locative media and network culture. Since 2000 has maintained a blog at his web site, [http://varnelis.net]. In 2004, he was appointed as senior researcher at the Annenberg Center for Communication where he worked with [[Mizuko Ito]] on "[[Networked Publics]]," a year-long research project. More recently he has been involved in research on infrastructure and urbanism, which he began as director of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys_Varnelis_(historian)].
  
 
*[http://kazys.varnelis.net/ Homepage]
 
*[http://kazys.varnelis.net/ Homepage]

Latest revision as of 12:25, 21 November 2010

Kazys Varnelis

History

Born in Chicago in 1967, he is the son of noted Lithuanian geometric abstractionist Kazys Varnelis [1917-2010] and grandson of Kazys Varnelis, the Samogitian folk artist [1867-1945]. When his family moved to the Berkshires, he encountered Fluxus, meeting George Maciunas and getting to know the movement through noted Fluxus collector Jean Brown who became close friends with his mother" [1].

He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice AUDC [2].

Work

Varnelis has written extensively on the Internet, locative media and network culture. Since 2000 has maintained a blog at his web site, [3]. In 2004, he was appointed as senior researcher at the Annenberg Center for Communication where he worked with Mizuko Ito on "Networked Publics," a year-long research project. More recently he has been involved in research on infrastructure and urbanism, which he began as director of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design [4].

See: Vodafone - Simultaneous Environments Networked Publics