Ed Keller

auchrono@basilisk.com


Designer, professor, writer, architect, musician/multimedia artist based in NYC.

Assistant Professor [part time] at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture; teaching 3rd year options studios since 1998; theory and digital practice seminars since 2000; acting director of the Advanced Architectural Design Program, 2000-01.


Visiting Faculty at SCIArc, Parsons, Pratt and University of Pennsylvania, 2003-04. Options studios and theory seminars with a focus on the overlap between cinema, architecture, and digital game design. Taught in architecture and new media programs at Penn, Pratt, Parsons, Bennington and RPI , 1996-2003.


Lectured 1993-2003 on architecture, film and digital media at Harvard, Pratt, Princeton, Univ. Ramon Llull, BCN, Columbia Univ. GSAP, Parsons, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Iowa State, Ohio State, and Rice.


Chronomorphology: Active Time in Architecture, a survey of Keller’s graduate design studios at the Columbia GSAP, was published in 2004 by Columbia Books on Architecture.

His design research, collaborations, essays and interviews have been published in ANY, AD, Arquine, Guggenheim Museum Publications, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Architecture, Parpaings, Precis, Wired, Metropolis, Assemblage, Ottagono, and Progressive Architecture.


PROFESSIONAL
a|Um Studio :: An architecture, interactive + online media firm co-founded with Carla Leitao and Umasideia. a|Um has 3 residential projects in Portugal between schematic design and CD phase. Recent competitions include House for Andrei Tarkovsky [1st prize]; Museum for Nam June Paik.


a.CHRONO [atelier chronotope] :: a design research studio he founded in 1998. Architectural design/theory, DV cine-roman projects, new media installations, and screenplays. Four projects underway: preproduction work on a.BIO+ online game/film/graphic novel property; 'Savage Practices'; a cinema/arch theory manifesto; art direction on a docufiction feature project; and 'Forgetting Driving', a screenplay.


Past projects/work
Hypnagogue, a digital collaboration with artist/musician Perry Hall / Ocurix Films, has been screened at SVA [2001], NYU [2000], the Kitchen, NYC [summer 1999, Parsons/New school [1998], the image|architettura in movimento: Video and Film for Architecture International Festival, Firenze, 12/97, and at ISEA 97 at the Art Institute of Chicago, 9/97 as an installation.


Ed worked as a designer/digital consultant for a number of leading NY practices between 1993 and 1996, as the principal of Straylight Imaging and Design. In 1990 he was ranked 8th in the U.S. as a competitive rock climber, a sport he continues to pursue as an amateur.

complete CV: pdf file
In the 80s and early 90s, before I encountered architecture, I was a technical rockclimber. This shot was taken around 1990, about 10 feet up a climb called 'RUNNING MAN', 5.13c, which Jeff Morris and I were working on. As I recall Lynn Hill got the first ascent.

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