The Powers
For the inaugural Winter Lights Project at Artpark in 2025, “The Powers” will present works ranging from projections to sculptural installations and live events, o...
Light Industry
Geiger organized the first Architecture Section at Buffalo’s echo Arts Fair, around a sort of trigger phrase, “Light Industry.” The words are taken not so much...
Matters of Currency
MoneyLab #5: "Matters of Currency" A symposium co-organized with Chris Lee and Stephanie Rothenberg It is no longer clear how the axiom “money is power” still ...
Vapor
Vapor is a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining atmospheric conditions as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative...
Citta[dino]
13th International Venice Architecture Biennial What is the city without citizens? Depopulation in Buffalo and in Venice pose this question, albeit in two...
MediaCities
MediaCities International Conference, Workshops and Exhibition University at Buffalo, The State University of New York May 3-5,...
Very Large Organizations
This exhibition introduces design research on the architecture and human-computer interactions of "Very Large Organizations (VLOs)." Today, human-computer...
Day For Night
Day for Night is a temporary architectural environment that operates on the street life of downtown San Jose by inverting relations between time and place,...
Beau-Fleuve
One legend has it that Buffalo got its name from what the French settlers said when they arrived and beheld the Niagara waterway: pretty river – b...
Gekh Projects
Gekh is a design studio working where the built environment, culture and media intersect. A partnership between Jordan Geiger and Omar Khan, Gekh realizes...
Niagora
Niagora is a master plan for the built environment surrounding the Peace Bridge at the US-Canada border crossing by Buffalo, New York. It rests on research into...
Hyperculture: Earth as Interface
Two vitally important fields of work in architecture and computing - in digital fabrication methods and in the development of interfaces between digital and...
Emission
“Émission” is a title that refers to both radiation and broadcast in the word’s French usage. This word identifies an important relation between electromagnetic fr...
Flutter
Flutter is a large exurban landscape proposal in the United Arab Emirates, and a site of renewable energy production with human interaction. Not quite a desert...
Phantom Tollbooth Plaza
Toll crossings and pass control stations are last centuryʼs familiar polyps in road development, the ubiquitous spots where two lanes expand to ten. Inverse ...
Being / Light
Being/Light is a proposal for an AIDS Memorial in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Its conception is dedicated not only to the many people whose lives have been a...
Entr'acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture
Entr'acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture A new volume of essays edited by Jordan Geiger. This collection employs the "entr'acte"...
Inside Circles
This essay formalizes recent research on how the internet of things and the quantified self movement are evolving with the prison industrial complex in the United...
Zero Atmosphere Architecture
This essay addresses the architecture and human-computer interaction found in a recent history of spacecraft. It recounts ecological agendas for earth atmosphere...
Alive Without Us
This essay picks up where Zero Atmosphere Architecture left off, now imagining a distant future where architecture and human-computer interaction of space craft...
Songdo: Maximal Surface Tension
This essay describes in text and graphic analysis the implications of misalignments between fiber optical cable and aviation systems at the new town of Songdo,...
Entr'acte
This 2012 essay for MIT's Leonardo Journal of Arts, Science and Technology established the research inquiry, hypothesis and set of terms for what became an edited...
Jordan Geiger: Large Interaction Design and Research
Jordan Geiger's work relates architecture to new social and environmental implications of human computer interaction. Geiger has published, exhibited and ...