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Timothy Furstnau

Part-time Lecturer

Email
furstnat@newschool.edu

Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street

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Timothy Furstnau

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Timothy Furstnau is a writer, designer, and curator, whose wide-ranging practice has taken many forms. He is co-founder of FICTILIS, an independent curatorial studio, Museum of Capitalism, an institution dedicated to the memorializing capitalism, Writ Large, a festival and commissioning program for generative poetry and screen-based text installation, and Toolshed, a tool lending library in Hudson, NY, among other collaborative curatorial and publishing projects.  He is also author of the world’s first and only study guide for pain examinations, How It Hurts. As an educator in the fields of writing, art, design, and history, he has designed seminars at The New School for Social Research, California College of the Arts, and University of California Santa Cruz, and has organized workshops and exhibitions for a variety of academic and cultural institutions.

Recent Publications

“Pace Ranae, or Adjusting the Culture of Speed,” The New Farmer's Almanac, Vol. IV, Greenhorns, 2023. “Tracing the Line, or the Promissory Politics of Climate Change,”  for Labor, e-flux Architecture × CCA, Oct 2021. “Petroleum on Display: Visual Culture and the Post-visible Condition,” Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2021. “Using Animals Using Tools,” (with Imani Jacqueline Brown), and “Categorization of Tools and the Tools of Categorization,” Toolshed, 2020. Museum of Capitalism expanded second edition (editor), Inventory Press, 2020. “Animals Being Animals,” in Pigeon, Sybil Press, 2020. "True Cost Market," in Expedition Sustainia, online module for Government of Flanders and Ecocampus, 2019. “What is the Speculative?” (contributor), Sublevel Magazine, CalArts School for Critical Studies, 2018. “Interfaces for Emplacement,” Media-N Journal, New Media Caucus, Ecologies of Creative Activism, 2016. How It Hurts, Publication Studio Portland, 2013.

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