I use noise / experimental / ambient composition as a way to deal with things that stress me out or upset me. Therefore, here is a track filtering my C19 experience through that medium.

Designer, professor, writer, musician and multimedia artist. 
Lecturer, RPI Architecture 2022-25; Mentor: LAB#03 Synthetic Minds 2023-24 MADRID MEDIALAB MATADERO.
2022-23: consulting Creative Director, SingularityNET. 
Creative Director, Venice Virtual Pavilion, 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. 

With Carla Leitão, Ed is co-founder of Spec.AE, a speculative design practice, and AUM Studio, an architecture and new media firm with residential projects, competitions, and installations in Europe [Venice Architecture Biennale 2018/2021] and the US. They have convened more than 20 international conferences and lecture series.

He has taught architecture + film/media + technology since 1996; his research and practice explores the structures of feeling which link cultural, infrastructural, ecological, and technosocial systems, revealing emergent terrestrial and cosmopolitical potential. He has spoken on artificial intelligence, architecture, film, technology and ecology internationally; current research explores the relationship between philosophy, cosmopolitics, sound design and music in lectures and solo performances. His work and writing has appeared in Volume, &&&, SCHISM, EVOLO, Punctum, Praxis, A+U,  AD,  Arquine,  Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Wired,  Metropolis,  Assemblage, and Ottagono. 

From 2021-23, Keller co-directed the Post Planetary Universal Design program at The New Centre. In 2022, he was a visiting design Faculty at Rensselaer School of Architecture [RPI]. He served as a Creative Director, Italian Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.  From 2012-2020, he was Director of the Center for Transformative Media [CTM] at The New School; from 2009-2020, Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design and Associate Dean [2010-12]. In a prior arc, he taught advanced architectural design studios, theory, and digital techniques at Columbia University GSAPP, SCIArc, UPenn, Pratt, FIU, and RPI, from 1998-2010.
Ed has been an avid rockclimber for over 40 years.

First Media Assault Group (Mechanized) is a performance and releasing umbrella for industrial, harsh noise, power electronics, death industrial, damnbient, powernoise, agitprop, and experimental sound, video and performance projects both unnamed (operating as sound combat elements of First Media Assault Group (Mechanized) directly), and named (independent audio assault squads and sound-strike units assigned under FMAG command).  

FMAG(M) was originally organized as a performance-only unit, and completed its first media assault action in Boston in 1991.  The unit was active in San Francisco in the mid-90s, and New York in the early 2000s.  After a period on the inactive units list, it was reactivated by Sound Central Command in 2011 and operates out of Radon Basement III, a command bunker strategically located in the hills surrounding the San Francisco / Oakland Metroplex.

We do: Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics, Powernoise, Doom/Sludge, Damnbient, Martial, Experimental, and related genres. 

Affiliated Audio Assault Squads:

* Abteilung für Heimatsicherheit

* MQ-9

* Veles

* Force Multiplier

* Headless

* Pisst Pisstofferson

* 13hex

* Supreme Soviet

* Brygada Dywersji Broda 53 (BDB53)

* handjobb.  (released on Aural Sects recordings)

FMAG is run by Socialists and is resolutely anti-fascist. Fascist noise artists need not apply.

C19

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