Public Engagement & Rituals of Daily Life

  • Ars Electronica Experience

    Ars Electronica installation with public participation. Participants used a biochemical process to transform their urine into fertilizer for houseplants.

  • R&D-I-Y

    A public art-tech mass participation via the internet that enabled tens of thousands of people around the world to collaborate on inventions for environmental benefit

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  • Forking Like Software Design

    At Kiasma art museum in Helsinki Finland, in collaboration with Mikko Laajola, Niko Punin, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Ulla Taipale/Capsula. Helsinki based Windowfarmers create a forked design.

  • Planting Together

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Inspiring a Ritual of Home Food Growing for Urbanites

    At its heart, the Windowfarms Project builds a cultural movement in which city dwellers cultivate a healthy and fulfilling habit of growing some of their own fresh food.

  • Windowfarm Urban Agriculture installation at the American Museum of Natural History grew crops indoors year-round indoors, farmed by a group of citizen volunteers.

    A Year of Community Grown Crops at the American Museum of Natural History Installation

    The Windowfarm installation at the American Museum of Natural History grew crops indoors year-round, farmed by a group of citizen volunteers.

  • Collective Hacking Labs

    Riley and Bray hosted open hacking labs as part of their artist Residency at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, inviting engineering-minded amateurs to join them at Home Depot to repurpose consumer products for socially constructive purposes.

  • Intimate At-Home Experience

    Sold at the New Museum (NYC) and other museum gift shops, Riley & Bray’s DIY Urine>Fertilizer Kit facilitated a private experience at the intersection of art and science, exploring the relationship between one’s body and the environment.

  • Bodies Close the Loop

    A group of experiences meet the public in different venues, from the intimately private setting to a live experience on international public radio (PRI), and move them through an experience of the cycle of water systems closed by our own bodies.

  • Installations

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Britta Riley (she/they) is a social practice artist. Her public participation experience artworks, influenced by a background in journalism and the Opensource movement, have been featured by MOMA (NYC), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), the American Museum of Natural History (NYC), the Venice Biennale (2008), Ars Electronica Festival, Kiasma Museum (Helsinki, FI), Tokyo Design Week (Tokyo, JP), NPR, the New York Times, Public Radio International, ArtNews, and TED Talks (2011). Riley’s work often deals with the relationship between the individual and the collective, agency, futurism culture, our use of our spare time, and rituals of daily life. She aspires to create the experience that “We are all still pioneers.”

PAST WORK

Her work often engages the public in mass collaboration, such as R&D-I-Y (with Rebecca Bray, 2008-2014) Drink.Pee.Drink.Pee.Drink.Pee (2009- ) and the Windowfarms Projects (2009-2016).

CURRENT WORK

Her current subject interest involves public pocket parks. Reclaiming new public spaces for new kinds of local community culture experiences and daily rituals that make us all live longer and more connected lives.  

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