Brett Ian Balogh

2007 MFA Studio Department of Art and Technology Studies SAIC Chicago IL

1999 BA Biology School of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA

2007 - Present The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago IL
2019 - Present Associate Professor Adj. AT/SP & Liberal Arts
2015 - 2019 Adjunct Assistant Professor AT/SP & Liberal Arts
2007 - 2015 Lecturer AT/SP & Liberal Arts

2008 - 2021 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL
Part-Time Instructor Interprofessional Program
Part-Time Instructor College of Architecture

2017 - 2019 Columbia College Chicago Chicago IL
Part-Time Instructor Audio Arts and Electronics

2014 - 2016 University of Illinois at Chicago
Part-Time Instructor New Media

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art & Technology / Liberal Arts

FA 2024 AT / SP 2027 Activated Objects
SP 2023 - Present SCIENCE 3231 *Everyday Electronics
SP 2020 - Present AT / SP 3163 *Biological Communications
SP 2019 - Present AT / SP 3007 *Analog Electronics
SP 2015 - 2023 AT / SP 4015 *Robotics
SP 2008 - Present AT / SP 3024 *Tactical Media (Previously DIY Broadcast)
FA 2008 - Present SCIENCE 3250 *Topics in Physics: Acoustics
FA 2007 - 2018 AT / SP 3006 *Model to Object
FA 2007 - 2018 AT / SP 3101 *Electronics as an Art Material
FA 2009 - 2018 AT / SP 3016 *Embodying Code
FA 2010 AT / SP 2101 ^Fundamentals with Art and Technology
SP 2009 AT / SP 2019 ^Digital Sculpture (Cross-Listed w/ SCULP)

The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture and IPRO

SP 2019 - SP 2021 IPRO 497 ^Frontiers of Technological Innovation
SU 2016 - SU 2020 ARCH 497 *Special Projects: Computational Design and Fabrication
FA 2018 IPRO 497 ^Interactive Wall
SP 2018 IPRO 497 ^Biodesign in Consumer Space
FA 2016 - FA 2017 ARCH 508 Design Communications III (Graduate)
SU 2017 ARCH 497 *Special Projects: Internet of Things
SP 2017 ARCH 507 Design Communications II (Graduate)
SP 2017 ARCH 208 Design Communications IV (Undergraduate)
FA 2014 - SU 2016 ARCH 497 *Special Projects: Architectural Robotics
SU 2016 ARCH 498 Research in Digital Fabrication
FA 2011 - SP 2016 ARCH 433 *Intro to Digital Fabrication
SP 2015 ARCH 108 Design Communications II (Undergraduate)
SP 2013 - SP 2014 ARCH 435 *Digital Fabrication
SP 2014 ARCH 420/593 *ARCH X Retooling Studio
FA 2013 ARCH 419/545 *ARCH IX Retooling Studio
SP 2009 - SP 2013 ARCH 125 Intro to Architectural Computing
FA 2012 ARCH 226 Architectural Computing
SP 2010 ARCH 597 Digital Media

2016 Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago
Visiting Research Specialist Creative Coding Research Group

2014 - 2016 do.Until() Chicago IL
Partner in freelance design collective specializing in bespoke Internet of Things powered devices and environments

2014 - 2016 School of Art and Art History University of Illinois at Chicago
Instructional Lab Specialist New Media Arts

2007 - 2014 College of Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL
Assistant Manager Materials Laboratory
Coordinator Digital Fabrication Facilities

2001 - 2005 School of Engineering and Applied Science UPenn Phila PA
Coordinator Manufacturing Technologies Laboratory (Mechanical Engineering)
Coordinator Advanced Chemical Processes Laboratory (Chemical Engineering)

2000 - 2001 General Robotics Automation and Sensory Perception Lab UPenn Phila PA
Project Coordinator Tactical Mobile Robotics Program
Research Assistant Multi-Spectral OmniDirectional Sensor (MOOSE)
Artistic Consultant Teleimmersion Initiative

1995 - 2000 School of Design University of Pennsylvania Phila PA
Supervisor Wood Shop
Manager Metal Shop

2018 ‘IZZI’ collab w/ Sean Lally Form N-X00 Venice Biennale Venice IT
2016 ‘Wilderness Wireless’ Radical Networks Conference New York NY
2016 `A Noospheric Atlas of the United States’ IEEE VISAP`16 Baltimore MD
2015 ‘RFVis’ IEEE Vis Conference Chicago IL
2015 ‘Hot for O. S.’ Cobalt Studio Chicago IL
2014 ‘Solar Heresies’ Mammal Gallery Atlanta GA
2014 ‘Unseen’ Gallery Project Eastern Market Detroit and Ann Arbor MI
2013 ‘Interferences’ Radius Experimental Radio Station Chicago IL
2012 ‘Quantified Self’ Gallery Project Ann Arbor MI
2012 ‘Transmittal’ Greene County Council on the Arts - Catskill Gallery Catskill NY
2011 'All that is Solid Melts into Air (Radia Version)’ Radia Independent Radio Network
2011 'Noospheric Translations' Illinois State University Bloomington/Normal IL
2010 'Invisible Cities' Warp Exhibition Gallery Project Ann Arbor MI
2010 'Tinderbox' NY Art Book Fair MoMA PS1 Queens NY
2010 'Noospherium' Devotion Gallery Brooklyn NY
2010 'Variometer Crystal Radio' Media Povera Dunedin NZ
2010 'Inflorescence' Project Soundwave((4)): Green Sound San Francisco CA
2010 'All that is Solid Melts into Air' Deep Cycle Catskill NY
2010 'Chora'. International Computer Music Conference @ Devotion Brooklyn NY
2010 'Diastic Composition for FM Radio' Aural Inversions of Debris P.P.O.W Manhattan NY
2010 'Border Crossings' on-line exhibition by Bill Rankin at radicalcartography.net
2010 'Chora' LiveBox @ The Hyde Park Arts Center Chicago IL
2009 'Chora' Outer Ear Festival of Sound 2009 Experimental Sound Studio Chicago IL
2009 'Invisible Cities' Here Not There Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL
2009 'Chora' Microsound Diapason Gallery Brooklyn NY
2009 'Sonambulant City' A Synesthetic Plan of Chicago Chicago Cultural Center Chicago IL
2009 Clairaudient:(Balogh + King)'Spurious Landscapes' ((audience)) festival Syracuse NY
2009 Clairaudient:'Spurious Landscapes' Edible Audible Millenium Park Chicago IL

2016 The Institute for Implied Imperfection (w/Jason Soliday) Chicago IL
2016 The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape (w/Mark Booth) Sector 2337 Chicago IL
2015 Soft Power Experimental Sound Studio Chicago IL
2015 Hex Inverter Threewalls Space @ Mana Contemporary
2015 To The Ground (Schallenberg Salmon Balogh) Links Hall Chicago IL
2014 ADARADIO (Balogh Speer Mozari Farrow) Experimental Sound Studio Chicago IL
2009 'Scratch Track' Art In Odd Places: SIGN Manhattan NY
2009 New York Art Book Fair MoMA P.S.1 Long Island City Queens NY
2009 Clairaudient:(B Balogh + S King)'The Way We Flock' New Arts Festival Gloucester MA
2009 Chicago Phonographers: 'Here Not There' Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL
2009 Chicago Phonographers: 'Exquisite City' Viaduct Theater Chicago IL
2009 Chicago Phonographers: Elastic Arts Foundation Chicago IL
2008 'On Air' live transmission for 'This American Life' by Neighborhood Public Radio
2007 Clairaudient: 'Spurious Landscapes' Experimental Sound Studio Chicago IL

2016 Signal Culture Owego NY
2015 ACRE Steuben WI
2010 Roger Brown Residency New Buffalo MI
2008 free103point9 AIRtime Residency Acra NY

2016 - 2019 Faculty Enrichment Grant School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant (CAAP)
2010 Met Life Creative Connections Meet the Composer Grant
2010 Faculty Enrichment Grant School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010 free103point9fm AIRtime Fellowship Grant
2010 free103point9fm Distribution Grant

2024 Contributed photo to ‘Listen Up! Radio Art in the USA’ Anne Thurmann-Jajes and Regine Beyer eds. Columbia University Press
2020 Contributed ‘Rule the Airwaves: Build a Radio Transmitter’ chapter 27 in Nicolas Collins’ Handmade Electronic Music 3rd ed. Taylor and Francis
2016 ‘Spectral Landscapes: Visualizing Electromagnetic Interactions’ Brett Balogh Anil Çamcı Paul Murray and Angus G. Forbes IEEE Art on Graphics Bruce Campbell and Francesca Samsel ed.
2014 ‘WiFi Mapping’ featured in the book ‘The Signal Culture Cook Book’ Tammy McGovern ed.
2011 'Nooshperium' featured in the book 'Artists and the Airwaves' PAJ and MIT press
2010 'Border Crossings: A Visual Analysis of the Mass Media Landscape' Parsons Journal of Information Mapping
2010 'A Noospheric Atlas of the United States' featured in PSFK's book 'Good Ideas 2010'
2009 'Random-Access Radio' is featured in 'Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking 2nd ed.' by Nicolas Collins Routledge New York
2009 'Towards a Programmable Transmission Arts Platform' Journal of Performance and Art (PAJ 93) MIT Press
2009 'Spurious Landscapes: Travelers Inside Pianos' Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ18) Why Live? Performance in the Age of Digital Production MIT Press
2008 'When Airwaves Swing' Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ17) The Joy of the Gizmo MIT Press

2019 [PROTEST_BAR] Radical Networks New York NY
2019 [PROTEST_BAR] Our Networks 2019 Toronto ON
2018 ‘Wilderness Wireless Workshop III’ Critical Engineering Summer Intensives at Studio 0x00WE15SE7 Berlin Germany
2017 ‘Wilderness Wireless Workshop II’ Radical Networks Conference New York NY
2016 ‘Wilderness Wireless Workshop’ Radical Networks Conference New York NY
2015 ‘Space is the Place’ Artist’s Talk IEEE Vis Conference Chicago IL
2015 ‘Wandering through Hertzian Space’ Comfort Station Summer Lecture Series Chicago IL
2015 Do-It-Yourself FM Tx Workshop Versionfest 15 Co-Prosperity Sphere Chicago IL
2014 Do-It-Yourself FM Transmitter Workshop Radius’ Propeller Fund Studio Mana Contemporary
2012 ‘Radio as a Creative Medium’ Intuit Center for Outsider Art Chicago IL
2012 Do-It-Yourself FM Transmitter Workshop Southside Hub of Production Chicago IL
2012 ‘Local Area Networks’ Location/Location Co-Prosperity Sphere Chicago IL
2012 ‘Mapping Wireless Networks’ Processing Chicago UIC Chicago IL
2010 Do-It-Yourself FM Transmitter Workshop Sound Megapolis Festival Baltimore MD
2010 Do-It-Yourself FM Transmitter Workshop Dorkbot Chicago IL
2009 Discussion Panel ACADIA 2009: reForm() Conference AIA Chicago Chicago IL
2009 Discussion Panel Art+Design Lecture Series Columbia College Chicago IL
2009 New Atlantis Workshop l'Ecole Superieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence France
2008 free103point9fm Artist's Retreat St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Manhattan NY
2008 DIY Transmitters (w/ Neighborhood Public Radio) Kavi Gupta Gallery Chicago IL
2008 CAVELab Workshop l'Ecole Superieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence France
2007 Laboratoire Archive Concept Workshop l'Ecole d'Art d'Annecy Annecy France
2006 Audio Sites Conference l'Ecole Superieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence France
2004 NoiseTheoryNoise2 Conference Middlesex University London UK

2010 Review of 'Warp' @ Gallery Project by John Carlos Cantu of annarbor.com
2010 'Inflorescence' @ Soundwave((4)) Festival Editor's Pick at flavorpill.com
2010 Review of 'Digital Intelligence Analogous Interactions' @ Devotion Gallery reviewed at The New York Times' CityRoom blog
2009 Artist Interview by Kyle Studstill of psfk.com
2009 'Chora' @ The Experimental Sound Studio's Outer Ear Festival of Sound reviewed by Lauren Weinberg of TimeOut Chicago
2009 Prints from 'A Noospheric Atlas of The United States' @ The New York Art Book Fair featured by Ceci Moss of rhizome.org
2009 Chicago Phonography @ The Museum of Contemporary Art's 'Here Not There' series reviewed by Gretchen Holmes of Chicago Now / Art Talk Chicago
2009 Chicago Phonography @ The MCA's 'Here Not There' on National Public Radio (WBEZ)