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Wired Magazine
“Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia,” – april, 2013
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Wired Magazine
San Francisco – April, 2013
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italk fm Radio Spain
Radio Jones show, featured guest – march 25, 2013
June Williamson
Monograph, “Designing Suburban Futures”, Island Press – march, 2013
italk fm Radio Spain
Radio Jones show
featured guest
Marbella-Estepona, Spain – March 25, 2013
Daily Mail
“Cons from the Air: Vast super-max prison captured from above in series of stunning shots
showing layout designed for total lockdown,” – march, 2013
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WriteAmerica.us
“Supermax Prisons: Views from Above,” – february, 2013
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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 Reports
“Supermax Prisons: Views from Above,” – february, 2013
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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
Bernard Tschumi
Monograph, “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli – october, 2012
Fast Company Co.EXIST
Progressive business media, “The Hidden Beauty Of Suburban Sprawl,” – september, 2012
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George Maciunas Foundation
Fluxcity
New York – August-September, 2012
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Journal of the American Planning Association
volume 78, issue 3
Washington, D.C. – July, 2012
Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 3 — july, 2012
PDN
Magazine, “Behind the Scene,” Fine-Art Photography – july, 2012
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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Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 2 — april, 2012
7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
digital venue, platform for media activism
Berlin – April, 2012
Blue Earth Alliance
sponsorship, Incarcerated Populations: American Prison Perspectives
Seattle – March, 2012
American Prison Perspectives
Forthcoming:
American Prison Perspectives will provide a glimpse into the dry “science” of building maximum security prisons — offering rarely-heard industry insider assessments of the architectural aims behind state of the art confinement facilities. My photography and video of maximum security facilities will be presented on-line, as an exhibition, and as an integral part of a symposium series featuring interest groups on both sides of the debate surrounding solitary confinement.
With American Prison Perspectives, I intend to trigger a dialogue that can demonstrate how prison design and architecture are indicators of political discourse, economic priorities, cultural sentiments, and social insecurities, and how, in turn, these constructed environments also become statements about a society.
Outside of a purely photographic context — this project aims to bring together the perspectives of disciplines that might not otherwise converge, to explicitly connect artistic, social, and architectural issues.
‟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)
Donate to this project here.
MoMA
N+1
Literary magazine, issue 13,
New York — February, 2012
Blueprint Magazine
London, UK — January, 2012
Journal of the American Planning Association
Volume 78, issue 1,
Washington D.C. — January, 2012
Energy Future Platform
Nation-wide public art campaign,
The Netherlands — December, 2011
NRC Handelsblad
Energy Future edition
Amsterdam, The Netherlands — December, 2011
Forward
Architecture journal, issue 121: Adaption,
Washington D.C. — November, 2012
Metropolis. City Life in the Urban Age
Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum,
Tallinn, Estonia — October 28 / November 12, 2011
Metropolis. City Life in the Urban Age
The Empty Quarter Gallery,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — October 19 / November 30, 2011
BMW Guggenheim lab, New York
Sprawl: Past, Present, Future
October 8, 2011
Ciphers
The photographic aerial studies in Ciphers reveal the hidden geometries of sprawl growth that become apparent only when seen from far above the ground. These top-view abstractions show striking parallels between layouts and shapes of otherwise unrelated developments – structures as varied in function as prisons and retirement communities. But all of them clearly demonstrate sprawl as a car dependent phenomenon and as a way of life. These pictures are intended to invoke an era of carefree risk-taking, of “bigger is better,” when investing in home ownership and commercial real estate were still standard practices and neither distance from workplace or city centers nor gasoline prices much mattered in determining the geographic locations of new constructions.
The goal of this work is to connect art with environmental politics and to trigger a discussion about contemporary building trends by looking closely at the ramifications of sprawl – to ask: what is sustainable planning? – particularly at this point in time, when a growing need for new housing is prevalent across the globe.
To further explore these environmental topics within the context of other disciplines, Ciphers was paired with the thoughts of futurist Geoff Manaugh, cultural philosopher Johan Frederik Hartle, urban redevelopment expert Galina Tachieva, and architect Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss.
“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 2010, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
STERLING RIDGE VII / III / VI Florida 2009, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED X / XII / XI Arizona 2010, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED VIII / VII / XXI Arizona 2010, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED VII / VIII / VI Nevada 2010, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
DEER CREST V / III / II Suburban California 2008, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED XV / XIII / XVII Arizona 2010, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
EDEN PRAIRIE I / II / IV Florida 2009, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
FOREST GLEN III / VI / I California 2008, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED II / X / XI Nevada 2010, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
OUTER HOUSTON II / I / III Texas 2006, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
CONVERSIONS XXIII / XVIII / XVII Suburban California 2008, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
SKYE ISLE I / III / II Florida 2009, cibachrome prints, 20.5 x 25.6 inches each (52 x 65 cm), edition of 4
UNTITLED XII / IV / XII Nevada 2010, 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 2005, 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
Z Machine
Forthcoming.
Tokyo Photo 2011
Tokyo Midtown Hall, Roppongi
September 23 – 25, 2011
N+1
Literary magazine, Issue 13 — february, 2012
Blueprint
Magazine, architecture and design (UK) — january, 2012
Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 1 — january, 2012
Energy Future
Nation-wide public art campaign (Netherlands) — december, 2011
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NRC Handelsblad
Energy Future edition (Netherlands) — december, 2011
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Veco
Magazine (China) — november, 2011
Arqa
Magazine, contemporary art and architecture (Portugal) — november, 2011
Forward
Journal, architecture and design, AIA issue 211, “Adaption” — november, 2011
Trop space
Blog, “l Art de la eometrie spatiale” (France) — october, 2011
BMW Guggenheim Lab NYC
Discussion, “Sprawl: Past, Present, Future” — october, 2011
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Noorderlicht
Catalog, “Metropolis / City Life in the Urban Age” (Netherlands) — september, 2011
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Adbusters
Magazine #97 vol. 19 no. 5 (Canada) — september, 2011
Public
Journal, art issue 43, “Suburbs” (Canada) — august, 2011
Congress for the New Urbanism
Discussion, “Sprawl Retrofit at the Macro Scale” — june, 2011
Rooilijn
Monthly, geography sociology and demographics “Geheimschrift” (Netherlands) — march, 2011
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Panorama
Journal, planning “New Urbanism vs. Landscape Urbanism” vol. 19 — march 2011
CNN World
daily “America’s suburban sprawl elevated to aerial art” (UK) — november, 2010
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CNN International
TV discussion, “World One” (UK) — november, 2010
Sustainable Cities Collective
Blog, “Christoph Gielen’s Aerial Photos of Sprawl” — november, 2010
TEDxMidAtlantic
discussion, “What if?” — november, 2010
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The New York Times
Op-Ed, “They Unpaved Paradise” — october, 2010
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Scope
Magazine, “The invisible geometry of our urban lives” — october, 2010
SF.STREETSblog
Blog, “Sprawl Anemones” — september, 2010
Wired
Magazine “Geometrie urbane” (Italy) — september, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, “The Death of a Building” — august, 2010
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The New York Times
Op-Ed, “The Geometry of Sprawl” — september 2010
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Shanghaiist
Magazine, “China’s Instant Cities” (China) — september, 2010
Core 77
Blog, “Joe Rogan, on why we’re even here…” — july, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, “China’s Instant Cities” — july, 2010
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BLDGblog
Blog, “Species of Space” — june, 2010
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Culturehall
Blog, “Future History” — june, 2010
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PDN
Magazine, “Photo Annual 2010” — may, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, “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”, january — 2010
Natural Resources Defense Council
Blog, “A Birds-Eye View of New Suburbia” — january, 2010
Peeping Tom
Catalog, “The Chain”, no. 1 Berlin — june, 2009
PDN
Magazine, “Photo Annual 2009” — may, 2009
The New Yorker
Magazine, “Goings on About Town / Art” — january, 2009
Artforum
Magazine, “Arcadia” — december, 2008
DLK Collection
Blog, “Arcadia” — november, 2008
ArtCat
Blog, “Arcadia” — october, 2008
Lapham’s Quarterly
Journal, history and ideas “Book of Nature”, vol. 1 no. 3 — june, 2008
REAL Photography Award
Catalog (Netherlands), ING Bank — march, 2008
ISBN 9789081282215 Purchase online
KPFT-FM Houston
Radio discussion, “Open Journal” — march, 2006
Cabinet
Magazine, art and literature “Flight”, issue 11 — june, 2003