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1: Prototyping the lab
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2: Lecturing at Postopolis! Standard Hotel Roof, LA 4/3/2009, image
credit: Storefront for Art and Architecture, video here
Robert
Miles Kemp
Telephone:
1.213.595.5501
Miles
is the founder and president of Variate Labs, LLC and Spatial Robots. His design
and fabrication experience spans all scales and mediums of the built and
digital world including buildings, large scale robotics, products, vehicles,
software, interfaces and information strategies. Before starting his own multi-discipline
practice, Miles worked for over 13 years for prominent
architecture firms across the US as well as 3 years working for a notable
interactive media agency in Los Angeles. In addition to designing and
contributing to over 60 built
architecture projects, he has designed and developed next generation interfaces
and experiences for web, mobile and other emerging platforms for clients
including ABC, Blockbuster, BMW, BBC, Disney, Emotiv, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony,
Target, Televisa and Time Warner. He is currently developing various projects
across the globe, most recently including Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City,
London, Tokyo and Munich.
In
addition to project work, Miles regularly contributes to academia and the
community through articles, books and lectures. Miles first book, Interactive Architecture, published
by Princeton Architectural Press and co-authored
with Michael Fox, offers the first comprehensive overview of the history,
current landscape and future of interactive space. In addition to this book,
his projects, articles and videos have been published internationally and his
project on Nano-scale Reprogrammable Space continues to be cited as a
pioneering project in the field of architectural robotics. Miles is also maintains
Spatial Robot’s research and development blog, www.spatialrobots.com.
Founded
by Miles Kemp in 2005, Variate Labs, LLC is a company that specializes
in the design and development of intelligence, software and user experience strategies
for interactive and robotic environments. The strength of this company is built
on its diverse background and application in both physical and digital design.
Project teams are comprised of well-rounded and visionary individuals that
represent the fields of architecture, engineering, programming, user experience
design, creative design and other specialized fields. Variate Labs is capable
of tackling projects ranging in scale from comprehensive business and
information strategies to the design, development and fabrication of robotic
prototypes and software.
Spatial Robots is a burgeoning company that
specializes in the fabrication and construction of prototype and full-scale robotic
environments. On a day-to-day basis, Spatial Robots works closely with Variate
Labs, LLC to design and develop physical things including computer hardware, sensors,
screens, kinetic mechanics, machinery and custom-built robotic hardware. Spatial
Robots is currently researching and building prototypes for large-scale
applications and will be releasing these products commercially over the
upcoming years. The company currently maintains a research and development blog
(www.spatialrobots.com) that
investigates technology, application and theory in fields relating to and
impacting our work.
Robert
Miles Kemp CV
Education
Masters
of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2006
Bachelor
of Science in Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001
Work
Experience
Variate Labs, LLC, President,
Los Angeles, CA 2005-Present
Spatial Robots, Principal, Los Angeles, CA 2007-Present
Schematic Inc., Senior User
Experience Designer, 2007-2009
Series Design / Build, Principal,
Los Angeles, CA 2005-2009
Tmt Restoration Consultants, Junior
Architect, NYC, 2003-2006
Nonzero Architecture/Studio Bau:ton, Junior
Architect, 2004
Bandolier Inc., Head of Design, NYC, 2003-2004
Essex Works, Junior Architect, 2002-2003
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM
Eurolabs, Junior Architect, NYC and DC, 2000-2002
*
Prior to 2000, six years of architectural work, spanning 3 offices, 25+ projects
Books
Interactive Architecture - Princeton Architectural Press, 256 pages, 350 color
illustrations, forward by Bill Mitchell (MIT), Afterward by Mahesh B. Senagala
(Ball State), August 2009
Review
- "Considered to be one of the most experimental strains of building
research in the world, IA deals with modular designs, dynamic materials and
embedded computation - meaning a user can control virtually any active element
in a building.....the most comprehensive overview of the subject written to
date."— Paul Young (February, 2008)
Articles
Our Adapting
Future,
Seed Magazine, December 2009
Augmented
Realities 2.0, Icon
Magazine, October 2009
Challenges in Modular Spatial Robots, Archibots
Conference 2009, UbiComp
2009, October 2009
Interactive Interfaces in Architecture: The New Spatial
Integration of Information, Gesture and Cognitive Control - ACADIA 2008: Silicone
and Skin, 2008
Automatic
Architecture, Issue #69, Surface
Magazine, December 2007
Mentions
Arch
Daily
Art
Log
City
of Sound
BLDG
BLOG
El
Universal Newspaper
Icon
Magazine
Interactivearchitecture.org
Nanoarchitecture.net
Omnispace
Seed
Magazine
Serial
Consign
Shift
Magazine
Subtopia
Surface
Magazine
Storefront for Art and Architecture
El
Universal Newspaper
We-make-money-not-art.com
Lectures
and Talks
Interactive
Architecture Futures - Woodbury University, Pasadena, CA, 11/23/2009
Challenges
in Modular Spatial Robots, Archibots Conference 2009, UbiComp 2009, 10/30/2009
Postopolis!
- Standard Hotel, Los Angeles CA, 4/3/2009, video, review
Interactive
Architecture: Interfaces, Control and Robots! - University of Calgary, Calgary,
3/19/2009
Interactive
Reprogrammable Architecture - Digital Hollywood, Los Angeles CA,
5/7/2008
Reprogrammable
Space - Materials & Applications Gallery, Silverlake, CA, 11/7/2006
Clients
Architecture
Individual
clients spanning over 60 projects
(skyscrapers, large office buildings, large scale residential, single-family
residential, commercial, apartments and exhibits)
User
Experience and Interactive Media
ABC,
Blockbuster, BMW, BBC, Disney, Emotiv, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Microsoft,
Samsung, SONY, Target, Televisa and Time Warner
last
edited 2010.01.07