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Creative Time Reports
“Ask the Artist”
Join Christoph Gielen, cultural historian Michael Prokopow, and President of
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) Raphael Sperry for
a live discussion
New York – March 1, 2013 1p.m. (EST)
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Creative Time
public art projects
Supermax Prisons: Views from Above
New York – February, 2013
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Creative Time Reports
“provocative perspectives of artists on the most challenging issues of our times”
contributor
New York – February, 2013
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The Canary Project
“Ciphers”, project partner
New York – December, 2012
George Maciunas Foundation
“Fluxcity”, Christoph Gielen
New York – August-September, 2012
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Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Summer Salon
New York – June, 2012
Fund for Investigative Journalism
grant, American Prison Perspectives
collaboration with cultural historian Michael J. Prokopow
Washington D.C. – May, 2012
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Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kunst-Werke Berlin, digital venue, platform for media activism
Berlin, Germany – April, 2012
Blue Earth Alliance
“Incarcerated Populations: American Prison Perspectives”
Seattle – March, 2012
MoMA
Energy Future Platform
Nation-wide public art campaign,
The Netherlands — December, 2011
Metropolis. City Life in the Urban Age
Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum,
Tallinn, Estonia — October 28 / November 12, 2011
Prison Photography
“Christoph Gielen Goes Up In The Air, Shares a Broad Perspective On Solitary Confinement,” Portland – April, 2013
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Wired Magazine
“Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia,”
San Francisco – April, 2013
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June Williamson
Monograph, “Designing Suburban Futures”, Island Press
Washington D.C. – March, 2013
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Metropolis. City Life in the Urban Age
The Empty Quarter Gallery,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — October 19 / November 30, 2011
Daily Mail
“Cons from the Air: Vast super-max prison captured from above in series of stunning shots
showing layout designed for total lockdown,” London, England – March, 2013
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WriteAmerica.us
“Supermax Prisons: Views from Above,” – February, 2013
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BMW Guggenheim Lab NYC
Discussion, “Sprawl: Past, Present, Future” New York – October 8, 2011
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Creative Time Reports
Christoph Gielen, “Supermax Prisons: Views from Above,”
New York – February, 2013
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Tokyo Photo 2011
Danziger Gallery, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Roppongi
September 23 – 25, 2011
Congress for the New Urbanism
panel discussion, “Sprawl Retrofit at the Macro Scale”
Madison – June 3, 2011
CNN International
TV discussion, “World One”
London, England – November, 2010
TEDxMidAtlantic
discussion, “What if?” Washington D.C. — November 5, 2010
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Bernard Tschumi
monograph, “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli
New York – October, 2012
Fast Company Co.EXIST
Progressive business media, “The Hidden Beauty Of Suburban Sprawl,”
New York – September, 2012
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Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 3
Chicago – July, 2012
PDN
Magazine, “Behind the Scene,” Fine-Art Photography
New York – July, 2012
Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 2
Chicago – April, 2012
Supermax: Structures of Confinement and Rationales of Punishment
Forthcoming:
Exploring the rationales behind the building of maximum security prisons, “Supermax” offers rarely-heard industry insider assessments of the architectural aims behind these facilities and presents an otherwise not available opportunity to examine these places from directly above.
“Supermax” is conceived as a video exhibition accompanied by a discussion forum that will address the future role of prison architecture and respond to the growing impasse facing the corrections praxis today.
?The design of supermax prisons assumes that prisoners’ disposition is to act violently, an assumption that is reflected in each and every design detail. It is a (…) design, which aims to pre-empt administratively defined dangerousness. The architectural design not only reflects the discourse of dangerousness, but also realizes it.”
Sharon Shalev, SUPERMAX: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement (Devon, UK: Willan Publishing, 2009)
“Supermax” is in its launch phase. Please support the development of this critical work with your tax-exempt donation through our fiscal sponsor, the New York Foundation of the Arts, thereby directly increasing the number of prison locations that can be covered with this vital production to help bring about practical reform concepts.
UNTITLED XV Arizona
UNTITLED XVIII / XIX / XVII Arizona
Ciphers
Ciphers aims to examine the ramifications of building trends and growth machines that systematically generate more car-dependent, low-density developments.
Viewed from above, such patterns of suburban land-use readily disclose their disruptive spatial logic. The images capitalize on and extend the fundamental estrangement that comes from aerial photography, here recorded at steep angles, often nearly straight down. It is through a “sprawl encounter” with these land-use details that these perspectives can attain abstraction, become typological, glyphic — and provoke unease, leaving viewers with the sense of having seen the writing on the wall.
UNTITLED XXXI Arizona
Complementing the widespread belief in the possibility of catastrophe climate change, my photographs also offer concrete insights as they trace the evidence of an energy-inefficient, urbanized existence. They challenge our comfort in the normal by jarring us loose from deeply held beliefs — the assumption that growth is unlimited and always beneficial — though most American planners have simply been following the path of least resistance, channeled in the postwar years by national legislation. Relying on maps, they drew subdivisions that ignored the laws of nature — rather than drawing a connection between the built environment, building practices, and climate change. Thomas Pynchon describes such sites as “less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts – census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to their own freeway”.
By documenting structures of prosperity in a technically highly-developed society, I set out to provide a telling glimpse of the present impasse of finding habitation for everyone on the planet while also preserving it – and to inspire a yearning for an ecological symbiosis between nature, society, and the built form.
“Christoph Gielen’s uncommon views of infrastructure from above call into question predominant development practices. By showing a monoculture that lacks integration between residential, commercial and public places, he is asking for a more intelligent use of urban space.”
UNTITLED I / III / IV Arizona, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
STERLING RIDGE VII / III / VI Florida, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED X / XII / XI Arizona, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED VIII / VII / XXI Arizona, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED VII / VIII / VI Nevada, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
DEER CREST V / III / II Suburban California, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED XIII / XVII / XIV Arizona, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
EDEN PRAIRIE I / II / IV Florida, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
FOREST GLEN III / VI / I California, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
STERLING RIDGE II Florida, cibachrome print, 20.5 x 25.6 inches (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED II / X / XI Nevada, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
OUTER HOUSTON II / I / III Texas, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
CONVERSIONS XVII Suburban California, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
SKYE ISLE I / III / II Florida, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED XII / IV / XII Nevada, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
FORMER EAST SECTOR AND PERIPHERAL BERLIN III / V / VI Germany, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
A video installation compiled from footage shot from a helicopter over California’s fire-prone regions was made in collaboration with Planet Earth cinematographer Michael Kelem.
Ciphers 2010, video stills
N+1
Literary magazine, Issue 13, New York – February, 2012
Blueprint
issue 310, architecture and design magazine, London, England – January, 2012
Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 1
Chicago – January, 2012
Energy Future
Nation-wide public art campaign, The Netherlands – December, 2011
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NRC Handelsblad
Energy Future edition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – December, 2011
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Veco
Christoph Gielen, “Geometry of Sprawl, Home, Visions of Earth”
magazine issue 10, China – November, 2011
Arqa
contemporary art and architecture magazine, “Casa de estudo”
Portugal – November, 2011
Forward
Journal, architecture and design, AIA issue 211, “Adaption”
Washington D.C. – November, 2011
Trop space
Blog, “l Art de la eometrie spatiale” France – October, 2011
Noorderlicht
Catalog, “Metropolis / City Life in the Urban Age”
Groningen, The Netherlands – September, 2011
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Adbusters
magazine #97 vol. 19 no. 5
Vancouver, Canada – September, 2011
Public
Journal, art issue 43, “Suburbs”
Canada – August, 2011
Rooilijn
Nr.4 “Geheimschrift”, geography sociology and demographics monthly
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – March, 2011
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Panorama
Andy J. Wang, “New Urbanism vs. Landscape Urbanism” journal vol. 19
Philadelphia – March 2011
CNN World
Matthew Knight, “America’s suburban sprawl elevated to aerial art”, daily
London, England – November, 2010
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Sustainable Cities Collective
Blog, “Christoph Gielen’s Aerial Photos of Sprawl” — November, 2010
KPFT-FM Houston
radio discussion, “Open Journal” Houston – March, 2006
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Tim Doody and Christoph Gielen, “They Unpaved Paradise”
New York – October, 2010
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Scope
magazine, “The invisible geometry of our urban lives” – October, 2010
SF.STREETSblog
“Sprawl Anemones” San Francisco – September, 2010
Wired
magazine, “Geometrie urbane”, Italy – September, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Christoph Gielen, “The Death of a Building” New York – August, 2010
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The New York Times
Op-Ed, Geoff Manaugh and Christoph Gielen, “The Geometry of Sprawl”
New York – September, 2010
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Shanghaiist
magazine, “China’s Instant Cities” Shanghai, China – September, 2010
Core 77
Blog, “Joe Rogan, on why we’re even here…” – July, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Tim Doody and Christoph Gielen, “China’s Instant Cities”
New York – July, 2010
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BLDGblog
Blog, Geoff Manaugh, “Species of Space” New York – June, 2010
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Culturehall
Blog, “Future History” New York – June, 2010
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PDN
magazine, “Photo Annual 2010” New York – May, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Allison Arieff, “Space: It’s Still a Frontier” – February, 2010
Metropolis
magazine blog, “Burbs from Above” – January, 2010
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Metropolis
magazine, “What’s Next / Transportation” New York – January, 2010
Natural Resources Defense Council
Blog, “A Birds-Eye View of New Suburbia” New York – January, 2010
Peeping Tom
Catalog, no. 1 Berlin, Christoph Gielen, “The Chain”
Paris, France – June, 2009
PDN
magazine, “Photo Annual 2009” New York – May, 2009
The New Yorker
magazine, Vince Aletti “Christoph Gielen” Goings on About Town / Art
New York – January, 2009
Artforum
magazine, “Arcadia” New York – December, 2008
DLK Collection
Blog, “Arcadia” Bedford Hills – November, 2008
ArtCat
Blog, “Arcadia” – October, 2008
Lapham’s Quarterly
Journal, history and ideas “Book of Nature”, vol. 1 no. 3
New York – June, 2008
REAL Photography Award
catalog, ING Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – March, 2008
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Cabinet
magazine, art and literature “Flight”, issue 11
New York – June, 2003