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I N TERV I EWEE : ED KELLER ( EK )
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Bio: 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 principalof AUM Studio [2003-present],
an architecture and new media
firm whose work includes
residential projects in Europe,
d i i titi
Precis, ANY, Metropolis, and
Wired.
In academia, he has taught
advanced graduate design
studios and seminars at theColumbia 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
Ch h l K ll
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thing with his hands. His mouth is forced open.”
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“’In a work of art, I rather l ike to f ind thus transposed,
at the level of the characters, the subject of the
work itself… what would be more accurate would
be a comparison with the device from heraldry that
involves putt ing a second representat ion of the
original shield ‘en abyme’ with i t ’ (p.7 in The Mirror in
the Text by Lucien Dal lenbach cit ing Andre Gide)…
The plat form on which we f ind ourselves on today is
most apt ly def ined as a mise-en-abyme: a condit ion
not unl ike s tanding between two oppos ing mirrors,
mult ip ly ing into inf inity, perpetual ly zooming recurr ing
doubles of doubles. What once was a device for
texts, plays, paint ings and hera ldry shields is now
embodied and coded into the prof i le of the actual,
the governing logic of capita l, seamless ly ingra ined
into the fabricat ion of experience.”
(Matter Management in Five Coordinates to the
Seam: a Five Act Play, publ ished in Pulsat ion In
Architecture by Goldemberg p. xxx)
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