Amos Latteier

I build machines and give lectures. I'm a big fan of the public library, PowerPoint, and pigeons.

You can reach me at amos@latteier.com. I'd love to come talk at your organization.

Amos Latteier

Recent Events

January 10, 2007. Lecture at University of Waterloo Department of Architecture.

March 29, 2007. Lecture at University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design.

May-July 2007. Teaching Flying Machines Invention Workshop at Unversity of Waterloo School of Architecture as part of the Render visiting professor project.

May 5 2007. Lecture about pigeon aerial photography at Bishops Univerity as part of the Birdwatching: Leisure and Landscape project.

May 2007. Emcee lecture/performances at Subtle Technologies Symposium.

August 2007. Launched Bell Kite Project Blog to document my giant telephonic kite project.

Sept 29, 2007. Installation at Univeristy of Toronto Hart House as part of the Nuit Blanche festival.

October 26, 2007. Performance lecture at Ebar in Guelph at 6:30 as part of the Space Mission at Ed Video.

Selected Projects

Bell Kite Project

Flying Machine
August 2007
Canada.

Call of the Wild

We're Not Gonna Take It

Public Art Project
2006
Toronto, ON.

We're Not Gonna Take It

Pigeon Condo

Public Art Project
May 26 - June 25 2006
Toronto, ON.

Pigeon Condo

Call of the Wild: Cell phone audio tours of downtown Portland wildlife

Public Art Project
July - September 2004
Portland, OR.

Call of the Wild

Ant and Human Societies

Slide Lecture Performance
2004
Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, and United States.

Human and Ant Societies

Getting Organized

Slide Lecture Performance
2003
Hugo House, Seattle, WA & Core Sample, Portland, OR.

Getting Organized

Be Portlandia

Public Installation
May 19 - June 13, 2003
Portland Building, Portland, OR.

Be Portlandia

Lecture Series

Underground curatorial project

Lecture Series

Model Notes

Slide Lecture Performance
April 4 and 5, 2003
On the Boards, Seattle, WA.

Model Notes

Why Pigeons?

Interactive Window-Installation
March 2003
PDX Gallery, Portland, OR.

Why Pigeons?

A Report on Pigeon Aerial Photography

Slide Lecture Performance
February 5-6, 2003
Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, OR.

A Report on Pigeon Aerial Photography

Birds and Gods

Video
December 15, 2002
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR.

Birds and Gods

Prosthetic Ass

Machine
2000
Science Faire at the Old Lab, Portland, OR.

Prosthetic Ass

500 lb Potato Battery

Performance
2000
Portland, OR.

500lb Potato Battery

30 Minute Hovercraft

Machine
2000
PICA, Portland, OR.

30 Minute Hovercraft

Calculator Haikus

Installation
2000
Viscount Ballroom, Portland, OR.

Calculator Haikus