Edward J. Keller
The Center for Transformative Media director http://ctm.parsons.edu
AUM Studio partner / principal http://www.aumstudio.org
office/voicemail: 646.207.5989 kellere [at] new school [dot] edu
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
Associate Professor, School of Design Strategies 07.09 - present
Director, Center for Transformative Media 08.12 - present
Responsibilities as CTM director include:
developing & coordinating all lectures, conferences and events; identifying
& working with fellows; directing external collaborations and related courses;
internal univ. divisional collaborations; budget; publications & editing;
online presence and identity.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Parsons: Associate Dean of Distributed Learning and Technology 08.10 - 07.12
Columbia University GSAPP: Adjunct Associate Professor 01.98 - 05.10
3rd Year MArch + AAD Graduate studios + seminars + AAR advisor
Pratt Institute: Adjunct Associate Prof., Undergrad & Grad Architecture 09.04 - 05.10
SCI-Arc: Fulltime faculty & MediaSCAPES M.DesR founder/coordinator 2007 - 2009
SCI-Arc: Graduate Vertical Architecture studios + seminars 01.04 - 2009
FIU: Paul L. Cejas Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair 01.07 - 03.07
Univ. of Pennsylvania: Visiting faculty, Grad. Arch. & Landscape seminars 09.03 - 12.06
Parsons: Adjunct Graduate Architecture seminars 09.02 - 12.06
Pratt Institute: Adjunct, Undergrad Architecture 09.98 - 05.99
Parsons: Adjunct, MFADT Program - Digital Design studio 09.98 - 12.98
Bennington: Undergraduate Visual & Performing Arts seminars 03.97 - 05.99
Rensselaer Polytechnic: Adjunct Undergrad Arch. studios + seminars 08.96 - 05.99
ACADEMIC Administration & Service
The New School/Parsons
New School workgroups and Univ. committees 08.12 - 12.13
Milano; SIP Lab; Dataviz program dev; Univ. Facilities
Parsons committees while Assoc. Dean 08.10 - 07.12
P3, LMS, PLC, DOLC, ACC, PGC
Parsons faculty and admin search committees 2010 - 2011
SCE 2010, AMT/CD 2011, DeansÕ office 2011
SCI-Arc: MediaSCAPES M.DesR program founder/coordinator 2007 - 2009
responsibilities included: acting as primary design and theory faculty;
developing and coordinating all curriculum; faculty selection; lecture series;
admissions; accreditation; external collabs
Columbia Univ. GSAPP
Admissions cmte., AAD M.Sc program 2000 - 2004
Chair, Curriculum and Infrastructure Committee 1999 - 2002
Acting Director, AAD M.Sc program 2000 - 2001 OFFICES as FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
AUM Studio: co- founder / partner with Carla Leitao 2003 - present
architecture, interactive + locative media
residential projects [built, Portugal]; expanded cinema installations
architecture, urban design & new media competitions
a.CHRONO: founder / principal / creative director 1997 - present
design research practice; interactive + online media, audio, film, video,
architecture. 2002-06: ORNAMENT MMOG; Beijing Biennale 2005; HDV films
straylight imaging and design: founder / principal 05.92 - 2003
architectural design and imaging; CGI; game design
PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC DESIGN JURIES 1996 - 2014
Professional: ICARCH [head of jury, ÔHouse for Pink FloydÕ, 2013], FEIDAD, EVOLO
Academic: Architectural Association London - SCI-Arc - Harvard GSD - Yale -
U.Penn - Rice - RISD - GSAPP - Parsons - RPI - Cooper Union - UCLA - Pratt -
Bennington - Cornell - Princeton - Angewandte Vienna
EDUCATION
Columbia University GSAPP: M.Arch 05.94
Juilliard School of Music: extension division 1985
Simon's Rock College of Bard: B.A. (music) 05.85
TEACHING [2010-14]
Future of Guitar and Instrument Design collaboration/seminar SP2014
http://ctm.parsons.edu/projects/courses/sp-2014-radical-future-of-guitar-collab/
principal faculty, course author. sponsor/collaborator: Strandberg Guitars
Post Planetary Design SP2012, 2013, 2014
http://post-planetary.tumblr.com/syllabus
principal faculty, course author. research/theory seminar, cross divisional
Miami New World Symphony collaboration seminar FA2013
http://parsonsnws.wordpress.com/
co-taught with Saavedra and Percifield. sponsor/collaborator: New World Symphony
Design For This Century FA 2011, 2012, 2013
Guest lecture and recitation leader
Global Issues in Design FA2012, SP2013
Guest lecture and recitation leader
TEACHING 1996-2010 [Columbia GSAPP, SCIArc, UPenn, Parsons, etc] available on request
EVENTS as PRINCIPAL ORGANIZER
Post Planetary Capital symposium 03.14
http://ctm.parsons.edu/post-planetary-capital-symposium/
co-organizer [w/Ben Woodard]; speaker
CTM Guest Lectures 2013-14
http://ctm.parsons.edu/ yearly guest and fellows lectures at CTM/Parsons
The Future of Guitar and Instrument Design Lectures 2013-14
http://ctm.parsons.edu/the-future-of-guitar-and-instrument-design/
year long lecture and performance series at CTM/Parsons
Nietzsche Workshop iv, CTM hosted conference 03.13
http://ctm.parsons.edu/cyber-nietzsche/
Future of Security conference 10.12
http://ctm.parsons.edu/future-of-security-ethical-hacking-big-data-and-the-crowd/
organized by PIIM/Goranson and CTM/Keller [moderator]
Google/Arctic/Mars symposium 05.12
http://mim.io/fef492 speaker and organizer [w/B. Bratton, G. Manaugh]
Mobility Shifts: conference organized by Trebor Scholz at The New School 2011
http://mobilityshifts.org/
track co-chair/moderator, DIY U: Learning Without a School?
Transhumanism Meets Design 05.11
http://humanityplus.org/conferences/parsons/
organizer & co-chair [w/N.Vita More]; speaker
Cyclonopedia Symposium 03.11
https://vimeo.com/groups/86415
organizer [w/ N. Masciandaro, & E. Thacker]; speaker
Design and Existential Risk Lectures [10 evenings] 08.10-12.10
http://designexrisk.wordpress.com/ organizer and moderator
Shockwave Riders: Collective Intelligence conference, Parsons 11.09
http://collectiveintel.wordpress.com/ organizer, moderator
GSAPP, SCIArc & Cornell: three agentCODE symposia 11.06 - 04.07
http://agentcode.wikispaces.com/ organizer, speaker, moderator
Aspen Satellite Conf. NYC: Ambient : Interface 07.04
co-organizer, moderator
LECTURES, CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA [keynote or major talk]
Apps and Affect, Western Univ, Ontario: keynote: ÔPost-Planetary SublimeÕ 10.13
http://appsandaffect.blogspot.ca/p/keynote-speakers.html
We Will Show You Film in a Handful of Dust, RPI/EMPAC colloquium 07.13
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/fall/jaffe-colloquia/we-will-show-you-film-handful-dust
A.C.Clarke Center, UCSD Inaugural symposium: ÔBiopolitical CenturyÕ 06.13
http://youtu.be/d-cguSYm0h4?t=36m38s
Designing Geopolitics 2012, DGP at UCSD, panelist 06.12
http://youtu.be/ruiRCT1Qc6w
Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK 04.12
ÔMassive Addressability and Post Planetary DesignÕ
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/ed-keller-lecture
Nietzsche Workshop at Western iii, UWO, Ontario keynote 11.11
ÔA Semi-Animate, Crystalline ExistenceÕ
PROTOECOLOGICS conference, Rovinj Croatia 08.11
https://vimeo.com/29252020 ÔThe Logic of an Endless Living DesertÕ
Designing Geopolitics 2011, UCSD DGP 06.11
http://youtu.be/-UgEIrebe68 ÔAlien, All Too AlienÕ
GDNYU- Elsewhere Envisioned, NYU 05.11
ÔMassive Addressability: Geoscape 3.0Õ
Parsons Transhumanism Meets Design 05.11
https://vimeo.com/49524975 ÔWhat is a Body? What is Life?Õ
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: Research Practice symposium 05.09
IIT Chicago: ÔNetworked Cinema: the New Last MachineÕ 04.08
CCNY: Ineffable conference 11.07
Columbia GSAPP: Action Cut MicroCut conference 10.07
https://vimeo.com/15100071
FIU Miami: ÔGeometry, Code, TimeÕ 01.07
Cornell: Temporalism conference 03.07
Columbia GSAPP: Keller & Diaz Alonso in conversation 08.06
Pratt: ÔThe State of ArchitectureÕ lecture 04.05
Architectural Association: ÔDrift Cinema: Rehearsals for the MultitudeÕ 02.05
La Sapienza Rome: Becoming Architect, XXI Century lecture 01.05
NJIT: ÔThinking Time: Materialist Digital PracticeÕ 11.04
SCI-Arc: ÔRecent Work, a.CHRONO & AUMÕ 02.04
Columbia GSAPP: Ôtime, ethics, intelligenceÕ 08.03
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, BCN: Ôtime and topologyÕ 09.02
Harvard Film & Arch series: ÔDark City: dream catchers and free willÕ 11.01
Pratt: Ôon endlessness: a repriseÕ 04.01
LaSalle Arch. School, Univ. Ramon Llull BCN: Ôcomplex timeÕ 02.01
Columbia GSAPP: Ôcomplex time, ethics, and inventionÕ 07.99
Parsons & Univ. of Pennsylvania: Ôtoward an ethologyÕ 02.98
Rensselaer Polytechnic: Ôsavage practicesÕ 02.97
Iowa State & Ohio State Schools of Arch: Ôcinematic thresholdsÕ 02.95
Rice School of Architecture: Ôstraylight recent workÕ 03.94
Columbia GSAPP: Ôevent surfaces, moving sections, timingÔ 11.93
PANELS, WORKSHOPS & SMALLER TALKS
SitREP, summer workshop, NYC: ÔMassive AddressabilityÕ 08.13
Arts, Letters, Numbers, summer program: ÔPolitics of TimeÕ 08.13
Sound/Architecture, Cooper Union, lecture and panel 10.12
InfluencerCon, NYC, panelist 10.12
White Heat White Light, Cooper Union, seminar lecture 02.11
Landscape Futures, Los Angeles, lecture 01.11
Home Room Salon: ÔThe Future of Knowledge: AUM Studio workÕ 01.10
Drawing Center: Power of Art symposium 07.09
SCI-Arc: MediaSCAPES symposium 03.09
Pratt [undergrad history]: ÔagentCODE & Byzantine IconoclasmsÕ 11.06
SCI-Arc: MAK REDUX symposium 11.06
The New School: Media Space | Public Space symposium 05.06
Columbia GSAPP: Water: The Biggest Issue in Global Design moderator 02.06
New Museum NYC: Computing the Future moderator 11.05
Columbia GSAPP [joint studio lectures]: ÔCinema and Architecture of HorrorÕ 03.05
Architectural Association London: Drift Cinema workshop 02.05
Columbia GSAPP film series: on LeoneÕs ÔOnce Upon a Time in the WestÕ 06.04
Columbia GSAPP: State of Architecture C21 panel respondent 03.03
Nomads + Residents: Urban Genetics, Gaming + Networks speaker 01.03
Princeton, Built lectures: Hypnagogue 04.01
SVA: Beyond Form roundtable for Lusitania Press 02.01
NYU: Art and Architecture in the Space of Media panel 03.00
SVA: Toward an Understanding of Interaction panel 04.97
BOOKS
as author/editor
KINO-MIND: Networks, Cinema and Architecture [forthcoming]
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium 2011
ed. E. Keller, N. Masciandaro, E. Thacker
CHRONOMORPHOLOGY, Columbia Books on Architecture 2004
as contributor
The Digital Dionysus [forthcoming 2014]
Nietzsche and the Network Centric Condition, ed. N. and D. Mellamphy
Mas DÕEnric Prison, Doing Time 2014
Not Nature, TARP, On ArchitectureÕs Use and Abuse of [Models of] Life 2012
Leper Creativity, ÉOr, Speaking with the Alien, a RefrainÉ 2012
John Gerrard [monograph on artist], Ruin Time essay 2011
Pulsation, ÉWe Found More Than OneÉ essay co-authored with B. Bratton 2011
Ineffable, conference proceedings, Speaking with the Alien paper 2010
Research Practice, symposium proceedings, By the Bootstraps paper 2009
Autogenic Structures, Routledge, Topological Ethics essay 2008
4 Lines, merz & solitude, Form Thought Manifolds essay 2006
Beyond Form, Lusitania, conference proceedings and essay 2004
The State of ArchitectureÉ21st Century, CBA, GSAPP conference 2003
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, Routledge, bio entry on B. Tschumi 2000
Transarchitectures, Ed Keller + atelier CHRONOTOPE- recent work 1998
Cutting Edge Web Design, Hypnagogue - featured website 1998
Reversible Destiny: Arakawa and Gins, Guggenheim, 4 Architects 1997
JOURNALS and PUBLICATIONS
eVolo_05: Architecture Xenoculture, E. Keller interview 2012
Parsons re:D, New Bodies: No Limits to Design? 2011
A+U 2010:05 #476: AUM Studio MAK competition 2010
PRAXIS #10: Fugitives in the Atemporal Present 2008
AD Collective Intelligence in Design: Agent Intellects 2006
ZAPP: GONZO, A Panegyric for Hunter S. Thompson 2005
RAM [Reapproaching New Media]: Architecture, Time, Geological Drift 2003
ZAPP: Complex Time, Ethics, and Invention 2003
OTTAGONO PLAY: Ludic Visions of Virtual Architecture 2002
AD Versioning: versioning, time, and design culture 2002
SPACE 0204: a.CHRONO Recent Work 2002
SCROOPE [Cambridge Arch. Journal]: a.BIO+ and k.d.Lab 2001
ARCHITECTURE: GSAPP, Digital Architecture, Ed Keller 2000
PARPAINGS: interview on GSAPP Digital Studios 2000
AD Contemp. Processes in Architecture: atelier CHRONOTOPE 2000
PRECIS #14: Toward an Ethics of Material Intelligence 1997
Gendai Shisou, Vol. 24-10: Arakawa and Gins: Why Ethics? 1996
aNY #13: Architecture: Sites of Reversible Destiny, book review 1996
assemblage # 26: Computer Animisms, with Greg Lynn FORM 1995
aNY #5 & #10: Mech in Tech participant, Movement in Climbing 94-95
Metropolis: The Art of Imprisonment prisons project with Jim Casebere 1994
Wired #1.4: Electrotecture with Studio AEM 1993
AD #100: Whether Conditions with Studio AEM 1992
SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Film Philosophy: The Reinvention of Self and World 06.05
http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol9-2005/n35keller
ArchRecord2: Ed Keller, Game Designer 2003
http://www.architecturalrecord.com/archrecord2/work/july02/GameDesign.asp
basilisk: founder - editor - contributing writer - designer 1994 - 2003
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 4 #12, Hypnagogue 1996
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 3 #7, Cinematic Thresholds 1995
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS and INSTALLATIONS
GDNYU- Elsewhere Envisioned, NYU SUTURE Installation 05.11
EXPERIMENTA [Lisbon]: AUM Studio work 09.09
Beyond Media [Firenze]: Nous Gallery, AUM Studio work 09.09
SUTURE at FIU: HDV remix installation [EK shot/cut/sound/edit] 01.07
MAK Center: AUM STUDIO Vertical Garden Comp., L.A. & Vienna 06.06, 11.06
TELIC and SCI-Arc Galleries: AUM STUDIO SUTURE Installation 11.05 - 01.06
iMage Firenze: GSAPP student workshop installation 11.05
Crossing Disciplines, Pratt: AUM STUDIO recent work 02.05
Beijing Biennale NY Hotspot: Time Flow Control installation 09.04
Pixel Gallery | ESC | Toronto: ORNAMENT project 02.03
The Kitchen, NYC: HYPNAGOGUE screening 07.99
iMage | architettura in movimento Firenze: HYPNAGOGUE 12.97
ISEA 97 , Art Institute of Chicago: HYPNAGOGUE 09.97
Bennington & Rensselaer Polytechnic: Faculty shows 1997
INVITED COMPETITIONS
MAK Center: Vertical Garden Competition [AUM Studio] 2006
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
UIA National Award, Portugal: Celebration of Cities Comp. [AUM Studio] 2004
First Prize: A House for Andrei Tarkovsky [AUM Studio] 2003
Honorable Mention: Superstructure Competition [Straylight] 1993
ARCHITECTURE: DESIGN TEAM MEMBER
Greg Lynn Form 07.93 - 09.95
Cardiff Bay, Yokohama and Cabrini Green competitions
Artists Space exhibit @ basilisk : web site design
Straylight Imaging and Design
Superstructure + Whether Conditions (with Sean Daly / AEM) 08.92, 09.93
Shinkenjiku School of Arch. competition (with Sean Daly) 06.92
Paola Iacucci Architect
Copenhagen library/opera, Berlin Spandau competitions 05.92, 07.93
COMPUTER GRAPHICS as CONSULTANT [selected clients]
Kunio Kudo Architect
Hikone town center & House for Erik Satie competitions 1994
Jim Casebere
prisons project: CGI merged with photographs of prison typologies 09.93 - 04.94
Eisenman Architects
Max Reinhardt Haus, Berlin 11.92
Ed Mills Associates / Perkins & Will
Police Building competition, NYC 10.92
ARCHITECTURE OFFICES
Nikken Sekkei International [NYC] 08.90 - 06.91
drafting / models / DD models and drawings
Bernard Tschumi Architects [NYC] 03.91
drafting, Kyoto Station competition
INTERACTIVE MEDIA
HYPNAGOGUE : an Ocurix Films production
multimedia CDROM / installation, in collaboration with Perry Hall 1995 - 1999
PROFESSIONAL and AMATEUR PURSUITS
musician, sound designer, screenwriter, digital filmmaker
Gesture/Infrastructure HDV piece [SUTURE installation edit]
https://vimeo.com/35339723
rockclimber / boulderer 1981- present
2014: climbing 5.11 trad, 5.12 sport / V6 & the occasional V8 / 5.13a 2009-14
Energizer [5.13a RP 2009]
Jackson Pollack, Illustrious Buddha, Funny Killer [V8 blocs 2009-12]
NY State licensed professional climbing guide 1989 Ð 94
U.S. World cup climbing team, ranked 8th in USA 1990
Notable sport & trad one-pitch ascents 1985-89
Journey to Ixtlan [5.12a trad onsight], DreaminÕ [5.12a onsight]
Pig Pen [5.12b onsight], Chain Reaction [5.12c RP 3rd go],
Public Enemy [5.12d RP], The Surfer [5.12d RP first ascent]
Acid Crack [5.12d TR], Love Muscle [5.12d TR], Ecstas [5.13a RP],
Survival [5.13a TR], Clairvoyance [5.13b TR]
RuinTime [5.13c TR first ascent], Colors [5.13d TR second ascent]
Many US trad multipitch ascents 1982 - 86
Naked Edge [III, 5.11b, age 17]
Chouinard Herbert [V 5.11c, age 18, led crux pitches]
Freeblast [IV, 5.11b, age 19], Middle Cathedral North Buttress [V, 5.10]
Astroman [V, 5.11+, led all pitches], Rostrum [IV, 5.12b, led all pitches]
onsight free solos up to 5.10a [Little Sheba, Peruvian Flake] 1980s
onsight rope solos include Book of Solemnity [5.10a] 1984