Christian Nold


Christian Nold

Christian Nold is an artist, designer and educator working to develop new participatory models for communal representation. In 2001 he wrote the well received book ‘Mobile Vulgus’, which examined the history of the political crowd and which set the tone for his research into participatory mapping. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Christian has led a number of large scale participatory projects and worked with a team on diverse academic research projects. In particular his ‘Bio Mapping’ project has received large amounts of international publicity and been staged in 16 different countries and over 1500 people have taken part in workshops and exhibitions. These participatory projects have a strong pedagogical basis and grew out of Christian’s formal university teaching. He is currently based at the Bartlett, University College London.

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EDUCATION

2004 MA Interaction Design - Royal College of Art

1999 BA Fine Art Intermedia - Kingston University

1996 BTEC Art and Design - Brighton College

EMPLOYMENT

2005 - present University Teacher ‘ Electronics Clinic ’
The Bartlett, University College London. Tutorial based teaching on interactive environments and physical computing
for architecture students.

2005 - 06 University Lecturer ‘ New Media Histories ’
South Bank University, London. Lecturing on the transition from photography and cinema to New Media.

2004 - 05 University Lecturer. Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies, Plymouth, UK. Lecturing New Media theory as well as hands on interactive programming.

2000 - 01 Interaction Designer. Lowe Broadway, London
Working for a commercial agency building websites and interactive tools.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

2007 - 08 Mapping Change for Sustainable Communities
2 year research project working with local communities to develop online local maps to reflect their issues and priorities.
Government funded. Partners: UCL, London 21 and Planning Aid

2007 - 08 Creative Mapping
2 year research into new artistic mapping models developed with young people in schools. Funded by Arts Council England.
Partners: Iniva and local London schools

2006 - 08 SciArt - Evaluating Bio Mapping
2 year reasearch project into the application of bio feedback for personal and comunal reflection. Welcome Trust funded. Partners: Welcome Trust, Goldsmiths, UCL

2005 - 06 ITTACA
1 year long project into new educational structures for politically engaged culture. European Commission funded. Partners: Foundation Hicter, Arcada, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art

2004 - 05 Mobile Education
6 month ethnographic research project into the use of mobile phones for education in rural India. Centre for Knowledge Societies funded. Partner: CKS

2000 - 01 Mobile Vulgus
1 year research project into the history of crowd policing
and possible civil society responses. UK Arts Council funded. Partner: Book Works

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2008 Emotional Geographies - Edited Christian Nold Welcome Trust - ISBN 978-0-9557623-1-4

2007 Stockport Emotion Map - Christian Nold
Softhook - ISBN 978-0-9557623-0-7

2007 San Francisco Emotion Map - Christian Nold Southern Exposure - ISBN 978-0-9796007-1-5

2006 Greenwich Emotion Map - Christian Nold Independent Photography - ISBN 0-9546725-3-4

2005 Legible Mob - Making Things Public
Chapter contribution. Edited Latour & Weibel, MIT Press
ISBN 0262122790

2005 Day-to-Day-Data
Exhibition catalogue. Angel Row
ISBN 0905634713

2005 Bug Report - Christian Nold
JODI interview for Mute Magazine
Issue 29, Feb 2005

2001 Mobile Vulgus - Christian Nold
Book Works - ISBN 1 870699 56 4

SOLO PROJECTS / EXHIBITIONS
2008 Emotion Mapping
Watermans Gallery, London
Solo exhibition bringing together previous maps and a new local mapping project.

2007 San Francisco Emotion Map
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
2 month participatory mapping project with daily workshops.

2006 - 07 Mapping Fulham
Fulham NDC, London, UK
6 month participatory mapping project.

2005 - 6 Greenwich Emotion Map
Independent Photography, London UK
6 month participatory mapping project with weekly workshops.

2001 Mobile Vulgus
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Performance.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Emotional Systems - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2007 Dislocate - Ginza, Koiwa Tokyo, Japan
2007 Zoom - Santa Monica, USA
2006 Fête promise - CCC, Tours, France
2006 CrashtestDummy - Munich, Germany
2006 CrashtestDummy - Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 Always On, Sonar - Barcelona, Spain
2006 ITTACA - Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2006 The Information - London Gallery West, London, UK
2006 Day to Day Data - Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2005 State of Mind - Bios LSE, London, UK
2005 Day to Day Data - Angel Row, Nottingham, UK
2005 Day to Day Data - Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
2005 Making Things Public - ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 TCM Hack - Deaf 04, Rotterdam, Holland
2004 The Show - RCA, London, UK
2003 War. Respond - RCA, London, UK
2002 Broadcast - Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
2001 Mobile Vulgus - Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N. Ireland
2001 Mobile Vulgus - Book Works, London, UK

SELECTED LECTURES

Christian has lectured at numerous academic, cultural institutions and conferences including:

Pop!Tech, New York University, Yale, Stanford, Goldsmiths, Royal College of Art, Tate Modern, Liverpool Biennal, ISEA, Saint Martins, Westminster University, Middlesex University, Spacex Gallery, Platform Istanbul, Turku University, Nottingham University, John Moore University, CCC France, ZAIM Japan, ZDB Lisbon, Digital Cultures Nottingham, Platform Istanbul, Huddersfield University, Center for Knowledge Societies, Spacex Gallery, DEAF 04, RIXC Riga, AAG

SELECTED PRESS COVERAGE

CNN, New Scientist, BBC World Service, BBC, Discovery Channel, Slashdot, Art Forum, Guardian, The Observer, Art Monthly, Digicult, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Mute Magazine, Sleazenation, Telepolis, British Council, Süd Deutsche Zeitung, Chinese FHM, Dagbladet, Denver Post, Fast Company, Fibreculture, Furtherfield, LA Times, Liberation, Metro, Salt Lake Tribune, Time Out, USA Today, World Changing, Core77, We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Fast Company

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

2007 Residency in San Francisco
2 months @ Southern Exposure, US

2006 SciArt Award
Wellcome Trust, UK

2006 Residency in Turku
1 month @ Ars Nova Museum, Finland

2005 - 06 ITTACA Award
Marcel Hicter Foundation, Belgium

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Last Updated 21.06.08
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I finally took the time to rework an old project, the Rio - Point of Sale poster! Take a look :
Rio - Point of Sale

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The Brentford Biopsy Map is complete. Check out the 10 meter map! This week I am heading to Paris for a lecture about the East Paris Emotion Map. Next week I will be in Copenhagen for the Metropolis Conference

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Off to Turin to plan the Complexity Maps summer school for the World Design Capital

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I am in Paris for workshops part of my new solo show at Arslonga Gallery and part of Mal aux Pixel festival

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Next week sees the launch of my major solo show, the Brentford Biopsy at Watermans in London. Come to workshops and look at the exhibition evolve over the next few months!
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Next week I will be in Holland for workshops at Delft University and then a keynote at Mobile City in Rotterdam. On the 3rd March I will giving a lecture at MIT Medialab come along!

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I will be in NY in Feb giving a lecture with Adam Greenfield, J. Meejin Young and Stamen at the New Museum. Come along!

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In Popular Terms has won the Eyebeam Eco Visulisation Challange and is showing at Eyebeam in NY.

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The printed San Francisco Emotion Map is now available!

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Tonight is the physical and online launch of my new project In Popular Terms at the Berkeley Art Museum. Check it out!

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Hello I would love to get feedback from people about what they think about my projects. Please help by filling out this online form. Thanks so much !!!

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Back in London trying to get over the jetlag. Preparing for the last Stockport workshop.

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I am in Tokyo speaking and running a workshop at the Dislocate 07 conference. Come and join us if you are around.

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Some of my maps are currently showing in Santa Monica in the Zoom exhibition.

The Stockport Emotion Map will be starting next week. Have a look!

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I have made a diagram to try and clarify my own position in this world. Have a look (PDF)

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Link to press coverage about my work.

Back in London and working on the SciArt commission as well as preparing a mapping project for Stockport and Tokyo.

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I am in Holland setting up the Cultuur exhibition. I also just uploaded a brand new project Sensory Deprivation ! If you want to setup workshops or make maps get in touch.

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France for the Festival Bandits-Mages in Bourges in France to show the RFID Map / Affect Browser. At the end of May I am setting up an exhibition of all my maps for the the Cultuur 2.0 event in Amsterdam.

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I am in San Francisco for a residency at SOEX setting up the San Francisco Emotion Map. The Mapping Fulham project is also currently continuing until June. Also my work is currently showing in Turku, Finlnd at the Digittaly Yours exhibition. In May there are shows in Bourges, Fracnce and Amsterdam coming up.