The exhibition is a celebration of urban pioneers: citizens who through a personal passion have initiated collective activities in public space. Completely self-organized they claim a space and hack, mod and change it to fulfill new functions – whether it’s guerilla gardening or add-hacking. The projector embodies the ethos of the movement, allowing the ordinary man to “hack” spaces by projecting his own message on any surface ripe for reclaiming. A response to over-regulated cities providing little room for citizens to play freely, conduct experiments and express their opinions.

Experimentadesign Amsterdam is part of the new design festival Freedesigndom, with venues located between the Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. The exhibition runs until 2 November. This year’s theme – Space and Place -– explores the city as a landscape, which has been shaped and will continue to be shaped through human intervention such as design, architecture and engineering.

More about the SMS Guerrilla Projector here.
More about ExperimentaDesign here.

The first copy of our forthcoming book 'Digital by Design' arrived today on our desks, and although you will have to wait until the end of october to find it on the shelves, it is with great pleasure that we can announce that the book is indeed terrific!

'Digital by Design' surveys the fusion of digital technology, art and design, presenting innovative objects and art works that are playful, disruptive, functional, critical, radical and responsive.

We will post more information about the book very soon, including full synopsis and contributors' list, as well as dates for the official launch.

In the meantime, many thanks again to all the contributors!

Tent Digital and DeTank.TV invited Troika for a live broadcast from the TV studio at the show, where we will be interviewed by Max Fraser.

Tent London, the East London hub of the London Design Festival runs from 18-21 September 2008 at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane.

Also check our talk at the Southbank Centre on Wednesday 17th September held by Martyn Ware & Friends as part of last year follow-up of the successful iDesign event.

More info about DeTank.Tv here.
More info about iDesign, click Here.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial will host the Nowhere/Now/Here, an exhibition curated by El Último Grito and that challenges the perception of design by questioning our relationship with the environment.

Nowhere/Now/Here features more than 60 works ranging from everyday products, fashion, jewellery to installations and live performances by established designers such as Tord Boontje, Jerszy Seymour, Santiago Cirugeda, Dunne & Raby, Martino Gamper, Assa Ashuach, among others.

Troika will set up a new custom-made version of our electromagnetic soundscape for the Electroprobes, which have previously been exhibited in Bejing and Guangzhou, China and Münster, Germany. For 'Gijon Magnetica' we will use electronic objects sourced in the Spanish region of Asturias.

More info about the exhibition Here.

More info about the Electroprobes, Magnetic Gunagzhou and Shit! I forgot the iPod on our Troikart page.

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We are happy to announce the the Museum of Modern Art, New York, has now purchased the Newton Virus for its Permanent Collection.
Many thanks to Paola Antonelli and Patricia Juncosa.

On Thursday 26 June, Troika will take part in a one-day symposium at Napier University in Edinburgh entitled 'Inter_multi_trans_actions
emerging trends in post-disciplinary creative practice'.

The symposium will bring together a number of leading practitioners from the fields of art, architecture and design who each share a common desire to exploit the latest computing technologies in their creative practice. The invited speakers will present works that blur the traditional boundaries of the creative disciplines.

Speakers include amongst others Moritz Waldemeyer, Jason Bruges Studio, HeHe and Usman Haque.

Our projects have been recently featured in, among others, Creative Review, Grafik, Icon, Metropolis, Paper, Page Magazine, ID Magazine, Interior Design Mag or the more exotic Aircraft Interior International. The complete list is available in our press section.

Many Thanks to all of you who have contributed to the articles, and to the readers of course.

We just said Good Bye to our old and beloved studio in Brixton and moved... to a great new studio near Arnold Circus in East London, ready to take on new exciting projects.

The V&A is currently hosting a fantastic exhibition on books produced by artists - from books as subjects in art as well as illustrated texts. Leading artists of today and the recent past that are represented include Louise Bourgeois, Anthony Caro, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, or Henri Matisse.

To coincide with the exhibition, Troika was asked to customize Graham Green's Stamboul train, a story on a train travel from Ostend to Istambul. We integrated in the front cover a extra-slim led display on which scrolls the names of the towns in which the train stops, and which happens to match the book's chapter titles.

Troika was commissioned by the Science Museum Arts Programme to develop the Graphic Identity for the famous 'Listening Post', the net art installation by artists Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin. It will be hosted by the Science Museum for 2 years.

We created the Exhibition Graphics, Signage and all marketing material.

To read more about the project see the project page here.