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11.30.2011
Lecture, "On the Nomos of the Cloud,"Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, FR
11.28.2011
Lecture "Deep Address, The Cloud, The Stack" at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL.
11.23.2011
Guest lecture in Jeffrey Inaba's seminar at UCLA Architecture + Urban Design.
10.27.2011
Talk at Encuentro Internacional de Arquitectura 2011, Centro Cultural Tijuana,MX

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Benjamin H. Bratton
is a Design Theorist based in California

He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts
at the University of California, San Diego, and
Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2

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We-Make-Money-Not-Art
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Center for Design and Geopolitics

Bratton is Director of
D:GP The Center for Design and Geopolitics an interdisciplinary think-tank based at Calit2 and the University of California, San Diego that works to articulate and prototype speculative responses to emergent geopolitical complexities posed by planetary-scale computation and ecological governance.

Twitter: DesGeopolitics

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Calit2, 2009-present

[ongoing] 07.10

At UCSD I am a Principal Investigator at Calit2 (the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology). Founded in 2000, Calit2 is one of the premier applied research institutes in the application of supercomputing and very-large scale data visualization across the sciences, humanities and social sciences.

The Center for Design and Geopolitics, 2009-present

[ongoing] 10.09

I am the founding Director of D:GP The Center for Design and Geopolitics an interdisciplinary think-tank based at Calit2 and the University of California, San Diego that works to articulate and prototype speculative responses to emergent geopolitical complexities posed by planetary-scale computation and ecological governance.

CRCA, 2009-present

[ongoing] 07.09

At UCSD, I am a Principal Investigator at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Originally founded some thirty years ago, CRCA is the oldest research unit in the U.C. system focused the intersections of computation and aesthetics.

UC San Diego, Dept. of Visual Arts, 2009-present

[ongoing] 02.09

Now Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, joining the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts program at the old stomping grounds of Marcuse, Jameson, Latour, and de Certeau.

SCI_Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) 2001-09

[ongoing] 02.09

From 2001-2009 I've taught graduate, post-graduate and undergraduate seminars and studios at one of the most interesting and experimental architecture schools, on a wide range of topics and programs. See Courses for more on many of these.

The Culture Industry, 2000-05

[ongoing] 07.08

From 2000-2005, I was Principal of The Culture Industry, a multidisciplinary design research consultancy focused on the strategic alignment of software, architecture and brand. Clients ranged from telecommunications, software, creative to transportation sectors.

Yahoo! Advanced Strategies Group, 2006-08

[ongoing] 07.08

I was Director of the Advanced Strategies Group at Yahoo! from 2006-08, working across multiple industry verticals and internal channels to develop innovative social and API-driven brand channels.

UCLA Design | Media Arts, 2002-08

[ongoing] 07.08

I taught at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts from 2002-08. Graduate courses included the core design and media theory seminar and others on the intersections of code and architecture. Undergraduate classes included Brand Lab and introduction to design theory.

Software Studies @ UCSD

[ongoing] 06.07

I am a Founding Affiliate Fellow of the CalIT2 Center for Software Studies based at UC San Diego. This institute, run by Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin is the first to focus on software as discreet social form and force.

Flesh and Form: 6 Scales of Biomedia + Architecture

[ongoing] 10.06

The Culture Industry's Spring Collection for 2008 will feature an integrated line for (1) immune system, (2) skin, (3) anatomic morphology, (4) indoor, outdoor and intimate apparels, (5) furniture, (6) living quarters programming, (7) home, and (8) city.

Xefirotarch

[ongoing] 10.06

Hernan Diaz-Alonso and I have collaborated on many speculative and experimental architectural projects. While our interests are apparently out of sync (formal vs. sociological) we share a core agenda in how architecture innovates cultures of embodiment.

Autolux

[ongoing] 10.06

Quasi-advisor to Autolux and their trials in and out of the music machine. Appeared playing a character not totally unlike myself in their electronic press kit.

Interfaces

[ongoing] 10.06

This project develops a general theory of the “interface,” as any point of contact between two complex systems (human or non-human, abstract or material, etc.) that governs the condition of exchange between those systems. In this, our contemporary aesthetics of logistics is diagrammed through the city, program, cinema, and software.

Terrorism and Architecture

[ongoing] 10.00

This project considers the systematically spatial logics of terrorism as a cipher of both the territorial economies of political violence, as well as the always-already militarized body of the built environment. Here tactics of simulation, dissimulation, false borders and prophylactic reversals become critical technologies of organization. (2000-2003)

Sous Les Pavés...Les Halles

[ongoing] 10.95

Between 1993 and 1996, Sous Les Pavés... was a research project looking at the role of media technology in the events of May 68, as well as an endemic driving force in the programmatic needs of the post-68 Parisian landscape.