NOAM TORAN

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Exhibitions and Screenings

                                    

2009

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Designs of the Year, Design Museum, London, Feb 12 – June 14   Link

Rough Cut – Design Takes a Sharp Edge, MoMA, New York, Nov 26 – ongoing   Link

4th International Video Art Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Nov 25 – Dec 1   Link

Nowhere NowHere, Laboral AICC, Asturias, October 9 – April 20  Link

ACToRAL 7, MontŽVidŽo, Marseilles, September 29 ­– October 11  Link

WouldnÕt it be Nice, Somerset House, London, September 17 – Dec 18  Link

On Purpose: Design Concepts, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, September 13 – November 9  Link

16th Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, July 1 ­– 6   Link

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, CinŽma l'Entrep™t, 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

DonÕt Panic, The Yard Gallery, London, June

Tomorrow Now, MusŽe DÕArt 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

An Evening of Violence and Destruction, Architecture Biennial, Yard Gallery, London, June

Xenith Film Festival, Zurich, May

Britspotting Film Festival, Berlin, April

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 AujourdÕhui, 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 Fte, 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, KŸnstlerhaus, Vienna

Six Visions Exhibition, Miyake Studio Gallery, Tokyo

Eye Contact Machines, The Museum of the Unknown, OXO Tower, London

WhatÕs Under the Thames, Video installation, OXO Gallery, London

8 Photomontages, Room 13, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco

 

                                                                        

 

Residencies and Lectures

 

2009

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Speaker, Nowhere Now Here Symposium, Laboral AICC, Asturias, January 24   

Keynote Speaker, Design Cinema 2008, Istanbul, November 19 – 22   Link

Speaker, London Calling, DesignTransfer Gallery, Berlin, November 13   Link

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, Publications and Articles

 

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MacGuffins, Abitare Magazine, Cover Article, Issue 489   Link

Best of 2008, Frieze Magazine, Issue 120    Link

MacGuffin Library, 032C Magazine, Issue 16   Link

Digital by Design, Edited by Troika, Published by Thames and Hudson   Link

Nowhere NowHere, Exhibition Catalogue, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creaci—n Industrial   Link

The MacGuffin Library, Electric Sheep Magazine, September   Link

Accessories for Lonely Men, Adbusters, issue no 78

Crashland ­– Curation of Platform 11 exhibition at the Trico Gallery, Tokyo, March 20 –24  Link

Final, Final, Final Girl – Video Installation

The MacGuffin Library – Mixed Media

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, Mixed Media

Night Porter Console, Mixed 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

Desire Management, 16mm film and objects for exhibition

Focus, Etapes Magazine, July

D.Day – Design AujourdÕhui, exhibition catalogue - Link

Design for Thought exhibition review, Jerusalem Post Newspaper, Israel, October

Les Machines a Fantasmes de Noam Toran, Liberation Newspaper, France, July

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

 

 

Collections                              

 

MoMA, New York

FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris



Education

MA in Design, 1999-2001

Royal College of Art, London

 

BA in Fine Arts, 1993-1997

University of California, Santa Cruz