Ed Keller is a designer, professor, writer, and musician/multimedia artist.


He is an Associate Dean of Distributed Learning and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design, and Associate Professor in the Parsons School of Design Strategies, in NYC.

He is co-founder and principal of AUM Studio [2003-present], an architecture and new media firm whose work includes residential projects in Europe, award winning competitions, expanded cinema and locative media projects, and media/technology research and consulting.  In 1997 he founded a.CHRONO, a R&D firm that has designed/produced digital media projects, film scripts, architectural competitions, worked as a primary developer on computer games, and continues to develop hidef digital video projects and sound design. In 1994,  he founded basilisk.com, an influential online journal dedicated to architecture and new media theory, which he edited.

AUM Studio’s work has been shown at Experimenta [Lisbon 2009], the MAK Center [Vienna and Los Angeles 2006], New Blood [Lisboa Architect’s Guild 2006], TELIC Gallery [LA 2006], Crossing Disciplines [Pratt] 2005], and Beijing Biennale [NY Hotspot 2004]. Keller’s work and the work of a.CHRONO has been exhibited at the PixelGallery [Toronto 2003], The Kitchen [NY 1999], iMage Architettura in Movimento [Firenze 1997] and ISEA [Art Institute of Chicago, 1997]. AUM Studio’s work appears in journals including  AD, Metamorfosi, Ottagono, Construir, and Architectura e Vida.

He is currently working on Kino-Mind [forthcoming], a book exploring temporal models in cinema and architecture. Ed's essays on culture, technology, film, and architecture have been published in books including Four Lines [Merz/Solitude], Beyond Form [Lusitania], The State of Architecture in the 21st Century [CBA], and Beyond Postmodernism [Routledge]. His writing and work has been published in journals including PRAXIS, AD, Film Philosophy, Leonardo Online, ZAPP, Ottagono, Space, Scroope, Architecture, ArchRecord2, Parpaings, Precis, ANY, Metropolis, and Wired. 

In academia, he has taught advanced graduate design studios and seminars at the Columbia GSAPP [where he was an adjunct professor 1998-2010]; in 2000-01 he was the acting director of the Advanced Architectural Design AAD one year Masters program at the GSAPP. The work of his graduate design studios 1999-2003 at Columbia GSAPP was published in the book Chronomorphology, Keller, [2004] by Columbia Books on Architecture.

Between 2007-09 he was founder/coordinator of the MediaSCAPES one year Masters program at SCI-Arc, and fulltime faculty at SCI-Arc teaching design studio and cultural studies.

In 2007 he was Paul L. Cejas Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair at FIU Miami. Between 1996 and 2007  he has been visiting or adjunct faculty at FIU Miami, SCI-Arc, University of Pennsylvania [Architecture & Landscape], Pratt Institute, Parsons [Grad. Architecture & MFADT], Rensselaer Polytechnic, and Bennington College.

Ed has been a guest critic internationally for final reviews at the Architectural Association London, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya BCN, Harvard GSD, Yale, UPenn, Rice, RISD, UCLA, Parsons, RPI, and Cornell.

He has participated as a key speaker in conferences including Research Practice [Cal Poly Pomona, 2009], MediaSCAPES [SCIArc 2009], Temporalism [Cornell 2007], Ineffable [CCNY 2007], Action Cut Micro Cut [Columbia GSAPP 2007], Media Space | Public Space [New School  2006], Becoming Architect: XXI Century [La Sapienza, Rome, 2005], and Beyond Form [School of Visual Arts, 2001]. In 2006-07 he organized a series of three conferences on new forms of coding in architecture, held at Cornell [NY], Columbia GSAPP [NY], and SCIArc [LA].  He has lectured at the AA London, IIT Chicago, FIU Miami, Ramon Lull BCN, SCIArc, Pratt, Columbia GSAPP, Iowa State, Ohio State, and Rensselaer. In 2004 Ed co-organized [with Benjamin Bratton] the Aspen Satellite conference at the Columbia University GSAPP.

LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edkeller

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