Brian House is an American artist and scholar who investigates the rhythms of human and nonhuman systems. Through sound, subversive technology, and multidisciplinary research, he makes our interdependencies audible and imagines new political realities. House holds a PhD in Computer Music from Brown University and was an Associate Scholar at Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research. He is currently an Affiliate at the Harvard metaLAB and an Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College.
Synchronising Uncertainty documents House’s audio-visual installation of the same name, exhibited at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, in 2025. In this installation, 286 autonomous, pulsing circuits populated the large gallery space. Each circuit (with an independently programmed microcontroller, emitting light and sound via an LED and a piezo speaker) embodied a
