ERIC ELLINGSEN speciesofspace +49 (0)151 24088069 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.speciesofspace.com/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION -University of Pennsylvania, MARCH / MLA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Masters of Architecture; Masters of Landscape Architecture) -St. John’s College, MALA, Masters in Classics, Annapolis, Maryland -Hollins College, writing and literature classes (non-matriculating) -University of Oregon, MARCH, (incomplete) -DePauw University, BA, Greencastle, Indiana Major: Political Science -University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany semester abroad June 2002– May 2006 August 1999– May2001 August 1998– May 1999 August 1996 – Dec 1997 August 1990 – May 1994 January 1993-May 1993 ______________________________________________________________________________________ AWARDS & Library of Water, guest at Iceland residency May-April 2014 While the writing residency applies for additional support , I have been granted the opportunity to live in the residency space with material support to finish a book. (Recent resident includes Rebecca Solnit) Graham Foundation, Grant to Individuals 2012-2014 University of Pennsylvania Landscape Departmental Theory and Criticism Award 2006 Van Alen Institute Traveling Fellowship Spring 2005 Dales Portfolio Prize, University of Pennsylvania January 2004 Teaching Fellowship (tuition waver & stipend), University of Oregon 1997 ______________________________________________________________________________________ TEACHING - Co-director/teacher, Institut für Raumexperimente 2014 – 2015 spring 2009- 2014 http://www.raumexperimente.net/ The Institut für Raumexperimente is a graduate are school conceived by Olafur Eliasson, started by Eric Ellingsen and Chrsitna Werner. It is affiliated with the UdK (University of the Arts, Berlin), and funded by the state of Berlin. Many of the artists in the institute are professionally practicing artists. One intention of the school is to serve as an experimental model for the future of [email protected] / 1 - Visiting Critic , Cornell University, AAP (Architecture Art Planning) art education. I have helped organize and teach in full semester/half year collaborations with the Sciences Po and Bruno Latour, The University of Addis Ababa (10 week living and teaching together in Ethiopia with 25 art students from Berlin), Sanford Kwinter at the GSD Harvard, and Günther Vogt at the ETH, Zurich. Responsibilities at the institute include teaching classes, experimenting in what a class is, co-moderating all workshops and marathons, co-organizing everything, co-administrating, reflecting and amplifying through websites and publications/books the experiments conducted, organizing and conducting excursions each semester ( two weeks workshops with artists and architects and art institutions in Sao Paulo, for example), managing and selecting well funded grantees in the institute each semester, fund raising, organizing and moderating long term semester with simultaneous five year trajectories, and short term week to week workshops involving a large range of disciplines and expertise in art, theory, space, and science. -Studio Assistant Professor; Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture August 2006-spring 2009 Full time professor. Besides designing and teaching courses (see below; syllabus can be provided upon request; courses range from 90 to 8 students). Responsibilities also included being on the College of Architecture Admissions Committee to interview graduate students, review portfolios, and make recommendations to accept or deny graduate architecture and landscape students, as well as recommending who receives grants and financial scholarships. I was also on the Library Committee to expand collections and strategize fund raising; the Digital Curriculum Committee to discuss digital software tools needs and changes in the curriculum; also conducted graduate thesis advising for two years. -- Assistant Landscape Director, (IIT) fall 2007-spring 2009 Started and served as the assistant director to the graduate landscape architecture department at IIT. Responsibilities included co-designing the entire curriculum and education structure for the graduate landscape program, presenting and defending the curriculum proposals in front of full department faculty, College, and full IIT academic advisory board for final approval. I also worked closely with the LAAB to coordinate the curriculum proposals with national accreditation requirements. Responsibilities also included interviewing and hiring graduate professors and professionals to teach graduate courses, working with new faculty to help structure their individual syllabus for the courses, interviewing and admitting graduate students, recruiting graduate students, and assisting on budget issues. -Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada fall 2008 I served as a visiting professor at the John Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design, Toronto. I taught an advanced seminar on the Philosophy of Nature to graduate architecture and landscape architecture students. fall 2005-spring 2006 summer 2006 spring 2006 fall 2005, spring 2006 fall 2005 fall 1997 ______________________________________________________________________________________ [email protected] / 2 -Research Assistant to Cecil Balmond, University of Pennsylvania -Research Assistant to Detlef Mertins, University of Pennsylvania -Teaching Assistant for Rhett Russo, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Architecture Studio -Teaching Assistant to Laurie Olin & John Dixon Hunt Graduate Landscape : History/Theory I and II -Teaching Assistant to Daniel Bosia, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Architecture Seminar: Form and Algorithm -Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon, Department of Architecture TEACHING , Courses designed and taught by Eric Ellingsen at INSTITUTE für RAUMEXPERIMENTE, Berlin Syllabus Growing Experience Experiments MAPPING EVERYTHING MAKING-OF: Film Practice (techniques in critique and making film/video ) MAKING-OF: Reading Practice (techniques in critique and making poetry/fiction/narratives) WALKING PRACTICES These courses and content can be found at: http://www.raumexperimente.net/#/cat/making-of/ http://www.raumexperimente.net/#/cat/walk Each of these courses has an experimental structure which, except for ‘Experience Experiments’, did not start with a syllabus. Please inquire for more details. ______________________________________________________________________________________ TEACHING , Graduate and Undergraduate Courses designed and taught by Eric Ellingsen at the Illinois Institute or Technology: Arch 503 : Advanced Architecture and Landscape Studio : Vertical Farm (I worked to coordinate and fund raise financial and consulting support from the Garfield Park Conservatory, the Deputy Mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Botanical Garden, Windy City Harvest, and the Department of Natural Resources) -Fall 2008: LA 541 : Graduate Studio I : Dynamics and Processes of Place LA 501 : The Nature of Ecology (The Philosophy of Nature) LA 525 : Representing and Modeling the Landscape -Sum 2008: Arch : 2D Modeling: The Rigor of Risk -Spr 2008: Arch 420 : Advanced Studio: Landscape Urbanism (taught with Charles Waldheim,) Arch 503: Contemporary Topics in Complexity and Non-linear Systems Independent Study : Researching Urban Agriculture, Option I Advanced Master Mapping the City, two 4th year undergrads in Paris, France -Winter 2008: Workshop : Modeling at the Frontier of Architecture (directed 16 students in building workshop; 3 hour conversations and discussion on separate occasions from Cecil Balmond and Ben Nicholson) -Fall 2007 : LA 497 : The Nature of Ecology (The Philosophy of Nature) Arch 321: Historical and Theoretical Structures of 20th Century Modernism -Spring 2007: Arch 321: Historical and Theoretical Structures of 20th Century Modernism Arch 497: On Nature: the patterns, processes and ecologies which connect Arch 611: Advanced Architecture Studio : New City Gaza (with Martin Felsen) -Fall 2006: Arch 321: Historical and Theoretical Structures of 20th Century Modernism Arch 503: Contemporary Topics in Complexity and Non-linear Systems [email protected] / 3 -Spring 2009 : ______________________________________________________________________________________ - Kunstverein Arnsberg, solo exhibition / performance / public installation summer 2015 - RIJKSAKADEMIE van beeldende kunsten, summer 2015 leading 3 days of public walks, discussions, and lecture performances - Harvard Sensory Media Platform, GSD; workshop / performance lecture Feb 2015 - Volksbuhne, Roter Salon, Berlin; JAZZ POETRY July 2014 co-organized & performed in 3 day workshop and public presentation (on translation and performance); participants were made up of contemporary poets and musicians and artists from Ethiopia, Europe, and the US - Akademie der Wissenschaften, (Academy of Sciences), Berlin, May – July 2014 Helped consult, develop and perform workshops in public space involving groups of exceptional high-school students across a range of disciplines in Berlin - DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum – German Architecture Center) In Extenso – Erweitert March 2014 - Dec 2014 - La Conservera, Espacio 13, March 2014- June 2014 Video performance (with Ed Keller & classes), 2 video interviews between myself and two other artists presented as art works in the exhibition - Die Academie der Künste ( Academy of Art, Berlin), performance / talk (w/ Liam Young) March 2014 Vertigo of Reality / Metabolic Office for the Repair of Reality - VITAMIN CREATIVE SPACE, group performance/exhibition January 2014 - WALK EXPERIMENTS, Art Studies at Weißensee Art Academy Berlin Dec 19, 2013 four hour perceptual walking experiments with 15 people incorporating translation and critique - Berlin Trinnale, The Phylogenesis of Generosity Oct 3 – 13, 2013 Tree bending installation with rope made and collected from children and old men in the Marcado, Addis Abeba. At the end of the exhibition I also performance an oral poetry story performance (25 artists, Tomas Saraceno, Jeppe Heim, etc) - HOMECOMINGS, Berlin, Germany Sep 17 – Oct 31, 2013 45 minute movie installation and furniture / surroundings; oral poetry story performance; public art walk. Movie is a combination of interviews made in the Marcato, Addis Abeba, as well as collection of found footage and personal stories of heart. - THE WURST ART PROJECT IN THE WORLD (ongoing) fall 2013-2009 With Food Systems Planner Lynn Peemoller, we work with Berlin’s department of forestry to link us to urban hunters who shoot Wildschein inside of the city limits. We buy the pig and work with a butcher to make sausages (würsts). We then rent a “grill walker”, a man wearing a grill, and attend art openings or in public spaces as a part of symposiums. - The ‘W’ ARCHIVES (ongoing) spring 2013 - present I ask and record people with whom I have a small encounter to say the letter W and the sound W, in their mother tongue, over and over, for 5-30 seconds. I include these into exhibitions when appropriate. - 3 days 3 walks: MANUELS FOR TWISTED FUTURE URBAN PLANNERS, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW (Art Academy in Basel) Oct 2013 Leading 15 graduate art students from Basel on three days of art walks where we do perceptual experiments to slow down and feel ourselves moving in the systems and spaces AROUNDNESS. One afternoon includes a professional psychologist; together we will analyze the spatial trauma of the city and propose alternatives for future care - QUITE CUE, Berlin, German August 2013 [email protected] / 4 INSTALLATIONS & PERFORMANCES: [email protected] / 5 45 minute oral poem/story performance - FRASCATI Theater, Amsterdam, HEARING VOICES, part 1 March 2013 HEARING VOICES is a series of sound poems written by Eric Ellingsen, co-choreographed by Eric Ellingsen and Nicole Beutler, and performed by 12 dancers in a one week intensive workshop, the last day of which culminated in public performance - HAU (Hebbel am Ufer), 100 degrees, Spring 2013 Three two word poem performances in various unannounced places between three theaters during the opening evening of the fesitval. These two word poems were performed with poet Cia Rinne. - Jan Meda, (1) Poetry story performance; (2) do it yourself sound oscillator out of toilet paper tube -- a performance with 20 people making sound piece; (3) 4 hour enactment of Ethiopian coffee ceremony which I conducted wearing boxing gloves in a pavilion I designed and built – coffee tutorials from a woman who makes coffee performances at public institutions and foundations all over Addis Ababa - ADDIS FOTO FESTIVAL, international biennale Nov 2012 exhibited a 7 minute film; co-made with artist Fabian Knecht. - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, The Future Archive, June 2012 Curated by Ute Meta Bauer, invited by Luis Berrios-Negron, to perform 2 hour action with archives and content and space of the exhibition - Glasauge, sound installation with sound engineer Wilm Thoben April 2012 - PALAIS de TOKYO, REBOOT # 4, Paris Video & model installation July- Sep 2011 - HERE HERE THERE, poetry reading, Berlin (publication forthcoming) fall 2011 - Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Iceland; Without Destination April 201l Every day, for the duration of the exhibition a curator or someone who worked in the museum called my sister in Kentucky and wished her a happy birthday. - MOT – Toyko , poster/poem installation June 2011 -The Imaginarium, Berlin, Germany Sep 2010-summer 2011 exhibited 2 models and 1 sound poem an installation of 34 international artists and architects; exhibition will travel from Berlin to San Paulo and LA - GEIST (III) , Unknown place in Berlin, Germany 2010 -Extension Gallery, Chicago IL (www.extensiongallery.us/) May 2009-July2009 A solo architectural exhibit of a large scale architectural model (15’x 30’x 15’). The installation is called Seeing Eye Architecture, Perceptual Architectural Service Animals, Chicago Species. -EXIT ART, Vertical Gardens, NYC, NY March 28, 2009 – June 6, 2009 A project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics). -MOROCCO BIENALLE, les Transculturelles des Abattoirs in Casablanca, Morocco April 2009 One of eight international architects to design a large site specific architectural installation for the international art and architecture biennale, curated by Aziza Chaouni, other architects were Nadir Tehrani of OFFICE dA, Atelier Bow Wow, KLF/ Emergent, others. -2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, NYC, NY Jan 2009 I was invited as one of 20 architecture teams from the United States to submit portfolio of work for the summer pavilion competition in the courtyard for P.S.1. I collaborated with architect Marshall Brown for the submission. -Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Vertical Farm : Fast Forward Jan 2008- Jan 2014 Co-designed, with TJ McLeish and built an $80,000, 23’ tall, interactive model of a Vertical Farm. This involved hiring and managing a team of 8 students, colleagues, and professional structural and exhibit consultants. Design was done in collaboration with Dickson Despommier, an epidemiologist at Columbia University in NYC. -Graham Foundation, Chicago : SOLID VOID : Cecil Balmond Sep 25,2008 – July 2009 coordinated the design and build with Cecil Balmond and Sarah Herda of a 26’ x 11’x 8’, 3500lbs architectural model. Also assembled and managed a 1500’ tensegrity model -Design Exchange, Toronto, Ontario : Carrot City : Urban Agriculture Exhibit Feb20 09- April 2009 One of 25 architects invited to exhibit urban agriculture design solutions for the 21st century. -Guggenheim, NYC, NY Feb 2007 Images of one of some parametric digital models were included in a one day public exhibition of parametric architecture design work undertaken at the Smart Geometry Workshop, hosted by the Smart Geometry Group and Bentley in NYC, NY. -Facilities Gallery, West Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Oct 2006-Feb 2007 ______________________________________________________________________________________ RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE - Species of Space, Principle and Founder: Eric Ellingsen Species of Space is an experimental design studio I founded in 2009. For more information, goto: www.SpeciesofSpace.com - Director of residency AFFECT, at AGORA, Berlin Please visit : http://agoracollective.org/affect/people/ May 2009-present March-June 2014 -Manager: GRAHAM FOUNDATION GRANT (institutional) applied to lecture series -Pro-Seminar Lectures: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago fall 07-fall 08 Designing, coordinating, managing, and moderating two years of experimental lectures using a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts -InSITE : Fall 09 Lecturers from outside of Chicago: Chris Reed, David Hays. Respondents from Chicago: Martin Felsen, Peter Osler, Clare Lyster, Andrew Schachman. Moderator: Eric Ellingsen -Experiment in Architecture : Spring 2008 Lecturers from outside of Chicago: Auturo Vittori, Deborah Gans, David Ruy, Christopher Hight, Ed Keller, Keith Bessured + Blackbox, Francois Roche, David Adjaye (postponed). Respondents from Chicago: Annie Pedret, Sean Keller, Martin Felsen, Paul Preissner, Peter Osler, Charles Waldheim, Dan Coma, Jonathan Miller, Andrew Schachman, Julie Flohr, TJ McLeish, John Jourden. Moderator: Eric Ellingsen [email protected] / 6 - Curatorial work (co-curated with Christina Werner): - ACCIDENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENT, Institute für Raumexperimente summer 2013 (30 artists, students and professionals; guest critiques/moderated conversations leading up to the exhibition with Christine Marcel, Joachim Volz, Tue Greenfort, Molly Nesbit, many others) - Jan Meda – Grosses feld, Institute für Raumexperimente fall 2012 (40 artists, students and professionals from Ethiopia and Europe; exhibition included organizing and performing in a night of poetry and sound performances with Ethiopia’s best known poets) - ADDIS FOTO FESTIVAL, international biennale fall 2012 15 international artists living in Addis Ababa - THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR, Berlin world fair curated by Raumlabor and HUO, summer 2012 With a colleague at the Institute für Raumexperimente, I conducted a design build of a pavilion in which 11 other international artists and art groups exhibited and performed inside of Templehof airfield for 1 month. We moved the school into the pavilion, organized an ongoing exhibition, as well as organized and moderated 4 days a week, 8 hours a day of different programming and experiments, including a publication, a poetry event, a 2 day marathon called Perfoming Politics, and public walks. - GLASAUGE, Institute für Raumexperimente spring 2012 (35 artists, students and professionals - IDEAS Are MOTION, part I ( Zagreb), part II (MOT, Tokyo), part III (Iceland, Contemporary Art Museum). Institute für Raumexperimente spring 2011-2012 -Let’s Start to Implement Little Errors, Institute für Raumexperimente spring 2010 -MODELS and TOOLS : Spring 2007 Lecturers from outside of Chicago: Jenny Sabin, TALK 20 Chicago (12 speakers), Steve Sanderson, Veronika Schmit (postponed), John Nastasi, David Mah and Leyre Asensio, Chris Lasch and Ben Aranda, Jason Daugherty. Moderator: Eric Ellingsen -Director: TALK20 : (http://www.talk20.org/) Ohio St. & Chicago Spring 2008 & Spring 2009 -Associate Editor : 306090 Books Fall 2005—Spring 09 -Assistant Architect : Aphrodisias Archeological Dig, Turkey fall 2006-2009 Served as architectural consultant for a professional and academic archeological excavation in Turkey run jointly by the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Classical Studies Department, and Oxford University; Responsibilities include organizing lectures and visits, recruiting students, reviewing portfolios, conducting interviews, and coordinating logistics for the summer excavation. -Bloomingdale Line Architectural Jury, Chicago Architecture Club Mar 2009 -Co-Director : Cross-Catalytic Architectures : Slought Foundation, Philadelphia fall 2006 Organized and co-directed with Aaron Levy, founder of Slought Foundation -Architectural Archeologist summer 07, summer 2004, summer 2003 -Field Operations, Landscape Architecture Firm, NYC, NY summer 2006 Worked as freelance designer in which I organized and helped manage, design, build, and ship, a large 12’ x 12’ model for an international design competition -Assistant Organizer, Non-Linear Systems of Organization, University of Pennsylvania fall 2005 -Assistant Editor, Geometry and Matter summer 2005 Large Press book Edited by Detlef Mertins and David Ruy. *Release postponed indefinitely -Ruy-Klein Architecture, NYC, NY summer 2005 -NORTHWEST REVIEW. Eugene, Oregon, June 1996—Dec 1997 Served as secretary at the Northwest Review, one of the longest running professional literary reviews of poetry and fiction in the United States. -3 years various construction/wood framing jobs in Kentucky, Oregon, Virginia 1994-1998 -Community Development, Ghana, West Africa August 1995—May 1996 Worked for local Ghanaian community organization conducting hydrological regional surveys, then building and supervising the building of hand dug wells; conducted large regional interviews within rural communities to access need, generate interest, and locate natural resources ______________________________________________________________________________________ PUBLICATIONS (abbreviated) - SOME PIEGEONS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS, (forcoming) spring 2014 This book starts as an artists book which involved two artists who trap and spray paint pigeons ini non-toxic dyes. Thirty pigeons have been painted to date and re-released into cities from the Venice Biennale to Berlin. I asked 30 contemporary poets to write original material in a not quite ekphrastic way. Contributions from CA Conrad, Ben Marcus, John d’Agata, Juliana Spahr, Kathy Part Hong, Andy Fitch, Lyn Hyjinian, Matthea Harvey, Chrisian bök, Christian Hawkey, Jenny Boully, and many others. Other sections of the book include essays by Eli During, Sanford Kwinter, David Graham Burnet, others. [email protected] / 7 - TWISTED, a lyric essay, Broken Demanche Press, (forthcoming) Jan 2014 This is a book which has involved research and historical institutions from the Corderie Royale in Rochefort France, to interviews of recycled ropemakers in Addis Ababa. It is a philosophy book in poetic language engaging a history of being twisted, from agricultural practices to socio-politics of plantations and public spaces, walking manuals for future twisted urban planners, selforganizing structural systems ranging from Incans to Gaudi to Fuller/Snelson to Robert le Ricolet and beyond. - Poetry / translation performances / fiction have been published from 2011-2014, or are forthcoming: Conjunctions (on-line) Beloit Chicago Review Western Humanities Review (selected by Craig Dworkin) Telephone PANK ( also an interview with the author) Spoon River Puerto del Sol Nimrod Colorado Review FULL-STOP LUNGFULL Shampoo Kill Author Requited Hobart World Literature Today Dear Sir POEM A DAY, (edited by Nico Dockx and Clara Meister; 365 artists & poets) forthcoming winter 2014 - urban score translation / poem performed in Paris with Ai Qing’s WALL, given to Eric by Ai Weiwie (under consideration/rewrites) -finalist for Black Warrior Review, fiction prize, 2012 - OLAFUR ELIASSON’S ARCHITECTURE forthcoming (fall 2014) a 14page poem performance translating Heidegger with over 100 people; other essays by Timothy Morton, Caroline Jones, Molly Nesbit, others - SCIENCE AND ART, ed. Stemmler, Susanne. Interview with Peter Galison forthcoming (fall 2014) - GIA READER (Grantmakers in the Arts), The Long Poem of Walking (re-print) March 2014 - STORIES AND KNOWLEDGE; Narrative Strategies in contemporary art, Jan 2013 (German title: Erzählen und Wissen: Narrative Strategien in der zeitgenössischen Kun) edited by Melanie Franke Interviews and artwork with Eric Ellingsen, Omer Fast, Tue Greenfort, Carsten Nicolai and Simon Starling; each of the 5 artists contributions were then given to young art historians to write and critique the artists work and the state of art today - Essays and poetry / fiction in many artist’s books: ( Olafur Eliasson, (many); Thilo Frank; Julian Charrière & Andreas Griener; others) 2012 2011 2011 Dec 2010 June 2010 May 09 [email protected] / 8 - The Transdisciplinary Studio, edited by Alex Coles, Sternberg Press interview - Landabrefid, an international refereed geography journal “Mobile in a Mobile Element” http://landfraedi.is/landabrefid/2011/Landabrefid_2011_EE.pdf - Anxious Prop IV “your personal space is not a bubble it’s an obloid” - WORLD LITERATURE TODAY “The Long Poem of Walking” -Landscape Journal , Design, Planning and Management of the Land “A review of sorts” -Otto’s Impossible Talks/Impossible Topics/Rescued Futures Book published by Institute fur Raumexperiments -CAC Journal- Envisioning the Bloomingdale April 09 “Showing Crack” -06.01.2010/14.07>>>>08.01.2010/16.22 Jan 09 book experiment with Institute fur RaumExperiments & Beatriz Colomina - LIFE IS SPACE, (II, III, IV) publication and performance July 2008 “The Visible Seen: light reflections” -CTBUH Journal , Issue III fall 2008 “The Vertical Farm - The origin of a 21st century Architectural Typology”, co- authored with Dickson Despommier, Medical Ecologist, Columbia University, NYC -SPACE 488 Aug 2008 “Pyramid Farm” -CTBUH : Tall & Green : Congress Proceedings Mar 2008 “The Vertical Farm: the sky-scraper as vehicle for a sustainable urban agriculture”; co-author with Dr. Dickson Despommier , of Columbia University, NY -The Scientist Aug 2007 “Designing Buildings, Using Biology - MODELS, 30.60.90. Books, Issue 11: Guest Editor Fall 2007 Proposed, developed, co-edited, raised money for, and wrote in MODELS. Other contributors include Charles Bernstein, Olafur Eliasson, Lisa Randall, Manuel Delanda, Craig Dworkin, Michael Sworkin, Cecil Balmond, David Graham Burnett, many others. “Illogical Leap”, 306090 Books: MODELS “Survival Patterns”, 306090 Books: MODELS ; Interview with Cecil Balmond “Proof of Concept”, 306090 Books: MODELS ; co-authored with Dickson Despommier “Possibility Spaces”, 306090 Books: MODELS ; Interview with Manuel Delanda -A + U : MVRDV Files 2 Dec 2006 “On the cutting H-edge” -a+ (Architecture Plus) Nov 2006 “Collaboration and Competition” -International Journal of Landscape History and Theory, vol. 25 number 3 Nov 2005 “Uncertain Certainty: the near of the far; Vaux-le-Vicomte vs. Versailles” Internationally refereed journal published out of Dumbarton Oaks. -Intelligent Infrastructure ; co-editor/contributor spring 2004 book sponsored for architects and studio instructors Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EVENTS & LECTURES - Co-organized and moderated the following “MARATHONS” (three day symposiums, actions, public walks and experiments) hosted by the Institute für Raumexperimente: - PERFORMANCE PRACTICES : June 2013 http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/performance-marathon/ : some of the participants : Oliver Marchart, Meg Stewart, Simon Sterling, Kendell Geers, Cia Rinne, Joanna Warsza, Bettina Masuch, Frédéric Seguette (Jerome Bel) [email protected] / 9 -EDUCATING ARTISTS? , KW (Institute for Contemporary Art) Nov 8& 9, 2013 Participated on panel of international artists (AA Bronson for example; art historians, writers (for Art Forum, Frieze), and institutional directors (Rijksacademie). -PERCEPTION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, UdK (University of the Arts), Oct 10-12, 2013 MODERATOR of Keynote Peter Gallison for the Symposium ; moderator of three international artists on a panel titled: PERCEPTION. - JURY, international architecture competition, HOUSE FOR PINK FLOYD, Sep 2013 hosted by Ed Keller director of Parsons Institute and Dan Coma -ADDIS ART PRACTICES : http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/addis-art-practices-marathon/ Nov 2012 -SOUND MARATHON I & II: Nov 2011 & Jan 2012 http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/sound-marathon-part-ii/ http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/sound-marathon-part-i/ Some of the participants : Xavier Le Roy, Jonathan Bepler, JAAP Blonk, Carsten Seiffarth, Ida Momennejad, Katie Paterson, Hildur Guðnadóttir - THE DAY BEFORE LIFE IS SPACE June 2011 http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/day-before-life-is-space-marathon/ Perceptual walks and other peripatetics: with Ute Meta Bauer, Molly Nesbit, Sanford Kwinter, Raumlabor - CURATORIAL APPROACH Dec 2010 http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/curatorial-approach-marathon/ Some of ths participants: Beatrice von Bismarck, Ellen Blumenstein, Carson Chan, Udo Kittelmann, Philipp Oswalt, Artur Zmijewski, Corinne Diserens -SPACE ACTIVISM June 2010 http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/space-activism-marathon/ Some of the participants: Vito Acconci, Monica Bonvicini, Bjarke Ingels, Tomas Saraceno, Theo Spyropoulos, Markus Miessen, Eve de Klerk -BERLIN ARTIST PRACTICES http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/artist-marathon/ Dec 2009 - TRANSLATION ACTS, at The World Is Not Fair (World Fair in Templehof) http://www.raumexperimente.net/single/translation-acts/ - EiABC (Ethiopian Institute of Architecture Building and Construction), Performance/lecture, Dec 2013 “TWISTING YARNS” - WE LIVE HERE (I, II) , Frascati Theater, Amsterdam summer 2011, 2012 - A yearly academy of international choreographers, artists, performers and curators which meet and live together over a few intense days to coduct experiments and conversations - LIFE IS SPACE, (II, III, IV), Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013-2008 - performance talks/poems/experiments using soap films and sound oscillators - SOLON POPULAIRE, Can you pass the salt, please; experiments to start a conversation spring 2012 - ETH, department lecture, Lecture Series EM-POWER! (Marc Angélil invitation) spring 2012 - SANDBURG INSTITUTE, The Dirty Art Department, walks and lecture fall 2011 - PALAIS de TOKYO, REBOOT # 4, Paris Performance talk curated by philosopher Eli During summer 2011 - Reykjavik Art Museum, Without Destination – Conference; Practicing Nature spring 2011 - Goethe Institute, Amsterdam, lecture/performance as part of THE GARDEN spring 2010 - AA (Architecture Association, London), lecture & critiques, invitation Liam Young, summer 2010 - PechaKucha 20x20, Berlin, curated by Lukas Feiriess fall 2010 - Aedes Gallery ; moderated public talk with Winny Maas April 2009 - Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW (Art Academy in Basel) April 2009 [email protected] / 10 - Unfair Poetry and Translation experiments: some participants include: Sharmila Cohen, Christian Hawkey, Martina Hefter, Karl Holmqvist, Gaëlle Kreens, Kirsten Palz, Andreas Töpfer, Uljana Wolf, Caleb Waldorf - Performing Politics: Critical Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture; Symposium by Eric Ellingsen & Alvaro Urbano with Deconcrete, Something Fantastic, Klara Hobza, Petrit Hailaj, Intelegencias Colectivas, Todo Por La Praxis (TPX), Philippe van Wolputte - Smart Geometry, Barcelona, Spain; Shop Talk Moderator and speaker Mar 2009 - SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP , Eric Ellingsen Talk June 23, 2009 “The Importance of Imperfection” - Extension Gallery Talk: Eric Ellingsen, Chicago, Illinois June 18, 2009 - INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE, Studio Olafur Eliasson, workshop May 2009 Three day lecture and workshop about models and experiments.. - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago : Fuller Gallery Talk: April 2009 “Deborah Stratman and Eric Ellingsen on Fuller and Geometry” (included hosting a walk-through tour ) - University of Toronto. Visiting speaker to Alissa North’s class. Mar 2009 “Live Your Multiple-Ecology Syndromes” - University of Toronto, Department wide, Brown Bag Lecture Series, Nov 2008 Models and Experiments: Expeditions in Selection and Self-Organization” - Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts Nov, 2008 Public walk through talk with Sarah Herder of the work of Cecil Balmond - University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, Department of Landscape ArchLecture Series Oct 2008 “Twisting the Lions Tail” - University of Toronto. Visiting speaker to Andy Payne Graduate Advanced Topics class Mar 2008 “The Act to the Art of Engagement” -Art Institute of Chicago Visiting speaker at Ben Nicholson seminar Mar 2008 “Roll Models” -CTBUH, Dubai: Tall & Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future Mar 2008 -The Architecture League, NYC Feb 2008 “Be a Model” I co-organized, spoke, and co-moderated at a public roundtable event - Chicago Architectural Club Feb 2008 “Your Models Model” -SERPENTINE PAVILLION Lecture Series : Public Experiment: Models are Real Sep 2007 Gave talk and performed experiments : curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson -Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Spring 2006 “Region D” : part of TALK 20 series -Van Alen Lecture : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nov 2005 “Public Spaces: networks and memory” ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Art and Architecture/Landscape CRITIQUES University of Addis Ababa, ETH (Zurich), IIT (Chicago), Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Ohio, Oregon University, RICE, Cornell, Princeton (invited), ART INSTITUTE (Chicago), UiC (Chicago & Urbana Champagne), University of Toronto, University of the Arts (Berlin), Architectural Association (London), Münster School of Architecture, AEDES Gallery architecture reviews (Berlin), Yale University, The Why Factory, EiABC (Ethiopian Institute of Architecture Building and Construction) TECHNICAL SKILLS / LANGUAGES Fluent/intermediate skills digital software: RINO 3-D modeling software (including beginning scripting skills), 3-dMax; rendering and animation, AUTO-cad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, In Design. Languages: German (intermediate); learned and forgot Latin, never quite learned and still forgot Greek [email protected] / 11 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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