NOAM TORAN

CV

Exhibitions and Screenings

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Nowhere NowHere, Laboral AICC, Asturias, scheduled for October 17 – May 11 Wouldn’t it be Nice, Somerset House, London, September 15 – October 5 On Purpose: Design Concepts, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, September 13 – November 9 16th Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, July 1 – 6 International Film Festival of Cinema and Technology, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, July 5 – 6 15th Rencontres Internationales, Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid, May 4 – May 15 Link Kits for an Encounter, Western Front Society, Vancouver, April 25 – May 30 Link Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, New York, February 24 – May 12 Link 14th Rencontres Internationales, Cinéma l'Entrepôt, Paris, November 22 – December 1 Link Deeeeesire, Gaatov Galleries, Los Angeles, November Desire Management Screening, DE07, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Arts, Newcastle, October Desire Management Screening, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, September Link Products of our Time, Goldstein Museum, Minneapolis, July 21 – Sept 30 Don’t Panic, The Yard Gallery, London, June Tomorrow Now, Musée D’Art Moderne, Luxembourg, May Link Postponing the Inevitable, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, March Designing Critical Design, with Dunne + Raby, Z33, Hasselt, March Science of Spying, Science Museum, London, February Zero One: ISEA 06, San Jose, August Xenith Film Festival, Zurich, May Britspotting Film Festival, Berlin, April An Evening of Violence and Destruction, Architecture Biennale, Yard Gallery, London, June Raindance 13 International Film Festival, London, premiere screening Destruction Series 2, The Yard Gallery, London Pop Noir, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Extra/Ordinary, Kulturhuset, Stockholm Vitra Film Night, Vitra Showroom, 100% Design London D-DAY: Design Aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris Domestic Demolition Derby, Installation with Onkar Kular, Victoria and Albert Museum, London The OTHER, Architecture Biennale, Spiazzi Gallery, Venice Noam Toran – New Work, Hockney Gallery, London Village Fête, Installation with Dunne + Raby, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Noam Toran – Three in One, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Subliminal Furniture, Automaten Gallery, Berlin Subliminal Furniture, Mixed Realities Exhibition, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea Objects for Lonely Men, Künstlerhaus, Vienna Six Visions Exhibition, Miyake Studio Gallery, Tokyo Eye Contact Machines, The Museum of the Unknown, OXO Tower, London What’s Under the Thames, Video installation, OXO Gallery, London 8 Photomontages, Room 13, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco

Residencies, Research and Lectures

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001

Speaker – Pecha Kucha, Tokyo, March 26 Link Speaker – Human Enhancement Technologies Seminar, Goethe Institute, London, February 12 Participant – British Council Open Space Conference, Istanbul, November 25 – 27 Conference speaker – Revisitez le Design, Louvre Museum, Paris, October 21 Visiting Lecturer, Parsons University, New York Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Applied Arts, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven Visiting Lecturer, PRATT University, Brooklyn Visiting Lecturer, Design Center, Minneapolis University, Minnesota Visiting Lecturer, ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York Visiting Lecturer, SAID Business School, Oxford Conference speaker - Interior Insights Symposium, London Visiting Lecturer – UCLA Design/Media Arts Department Visiting Lecturer – Nottingham University, Nottingham Residency - Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea Judging Panelist – Deutsche Bank Pioneer Awards N.E.S.T.A. Pioneer Program Participant, London Visiting Lecturer, Sheffield University Visiting Lecturer/Workshop leader – Bezalel University, Jerusalem Visiting Lecturer, Central St. Martins, London Visiting Lecturer, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Visiting Lecturer, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco Guest Speaker, Automaten Gallery, Berlin Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London Artist in Resident, IDEO San Francisco Artist in Resident, Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem Research Fellow, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea (IT)

Selected Projects and Publications

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001

Accessories for Lonely Men, Adbusters, issue no 78, July/August Crashland – Curation of Platform 11 exhibition at the Trico Gallery, Tokyo, March 20 –24 Link Final, Final, Final Girl – 16mm film The McGuffin Library – Installation at the Somerset House, scheduled for September 15 Design and the Elastic Mind – Exhibition Catalogue, NY MOMA Link Exercise in Sadness – Noam Toran, Pop Manifesto, Issue 03 - Link Tomorrow Now – Exhibition Catalogue, Luxemburg MUDAM Bra Trainer and Night Porter Console, Multi-media Postponing the Inevitable, 16mm film and three screen video installation Interview – We Make Money Not Art - Link Products for a Parallel World, Home Cultures, January Edition - Link Desire Management, KaK Design Magazine, Russia, February Edition Focus, Etapes Magazine, July D.Day – Design Aujourd’hui, exhibition catalogue - Link Design for Thought exhibition review, Jerusalem Post Newspaper, Israel, October Les Machines a Fantasmes de Noam Toran, Liberation Newspaper, France, July Desire Management, 16mm film and objects for exhibition SPOON- 100 Designers, Phaidon Press, edited by Ron Arad - Link The New Communicators, Blueprint Magazine, March Subliminal Furniture, Video and installation God-ard of small things, The Independent Newspaper, February - Link Design Noir, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, August-Birkhauser Press - Link Object for Lonely Men, short film Objects for Lonely Men, collection of 8 objects

Education

MA in Design, 1999-2001

Royal College of Art, London

BA in Fine Arts, 1993-1997

University of California, Santa Cruz