Profile:
Director of the Center for Transformative Media at The New School, and Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design. Designer, professor, writer, musician and multimedia artist. Prior to joining Parsons, he taught at Columbia Univ. GSAPP [1998-2010] and SCIArc [2004-09]. With Carla Leitao he co-founded AUM Studio, an architecture and new media firm that has produced residential projects, competitions, and new media installations in Europe and the US. His work and writing has appeared widely, in venues including Punctum, Praxis, ANY, AD, Arquine, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Architecture, Precis, Wired, Metropolis, Assemblage, Ottagono, and Progressive Architecture. He has spoken on architecture, film, technology and ecology internationally. Current research seminars at Parsons include Post-Planetary Design and The Radical Future of Guitar. Ed has been an avid rockclimber for over 30 years.
Degrees Held:
Columbia University, M.Arch, 1994
Simon's Rock of Bard College, B.A., 1985
Recent Publications:
Post Planetary Futures [forthcoming] 2018
CTM/Punctum imprint; editor: Ed Keller
For Machine Use Only; "Half Sunk a Shattered Visage Lies..." essay 2016
Critical Prison Design, “Doing Time” essay 2014
AND THEY WERE TWO IN ONE AND ONE IN TWO 2014
__“Corpus Atomicus” essay
TARP, Not Nature, “On Architecture’s Use and Abuse of [Models of] Life” 2012
eVolo_05: Architecture Xenoculture, E. Keller interview 2012
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium 2011
___Punctum Books; editors: Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, Eugene Thacker
John Gerrard [monograph on artist], “Ruin Time” essay 2011
Pulsation,“...We Found More Than One...”essay co-authored with B.Bratton 2011
Parsons re:D, “New Bodies: No Limits to Design?” 2011
A+U 2010:05 #476: AUM Studio MAK competition 2010
Ineffable, conference proceedings, “Speaking with the Alien” paper 2010
Research Practice, symposium proceedings, “By the Bootstraps” paper 2009
Research Interests:
biopolitics, emerging technology, film and media theory, architecture, design criticism, design research, social media, transdisciplinary design
Current Courses:
Independent Study (Fall 2019)
Post-Planetary Design (Fall 2019)
Soundscape and Score (Fall 2019)