Curriculum VitaeMetahaven CV

Articles and publications (selection)
‘Graphic #12 Manystuff Special Issue’, Graphic magazine, Korea, November 2009
Wat als? , by Marina van den Bergen, at archined.nl, November 12, 2009, www.archined.nl/recensies/november/wat-als/
‘Metahaven’, by Alice Twemlow, in 60: Innovators Shaping our Creative Future , Thames & Hudson, November 2009
‘Metahaven’, by Sasha Leopold, Étapes 174, November 2009
‘Branding the Superstate Abyss’, Metahaven interviewed by Brian Kuan Wood, in Kaleidoscope #3, Milan, Italy, September-October 2009
Design and Life are more or less the same , interview with Åbake, by Hynam Kendall, at PonyStep, July 22, 2009, www.ponystep.com/article.aspx?articleid=352
Eine Anti-Utopie im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart , by Michael Reuter, at kunst-blog.com, July 15, 2009, kunst-blog.com/2009/07/stadtstaat_szen.php
‘Products of Our Imagination’, Metahaven interviewed by Emmet Byrne, in Task Newsletter Issue #2, July 2009
‘Double Bind’, by Lisette Smits, in: The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2008, Bern: Bundesamt für Kultur, 2009
The Relationship between Design and Populist Politics , by Gabrielle Kennedy, design.nl, July 2, 2009, www.design.nl/item/the_relationship_between_design_and_populist_politics
'Een sexy hek om Nederland', by Daniel van der Velden, NRC Handelsblad , June 12, 2009
'Nations Re-Nationalized', by Daniel van der Velden and Evert Ypma, Volume magazine, April 2009
'Europe Sans: History, Politics and Protocol in the EU Image', in e-Flux online journal, April 2009
'Borderline', by Rick Poynor, in Eye , Issue 71, London April 2009
'Metahaven', in Design, Between Art and Business , Volume 369, Seoul, South Korea, March 2009
'Blackmail', in Metropolis M : Shareware, No 1, February 2009
'Inward Model (2009): We Lived in Financial Times', in Muhtelif by Pelin Tan, Istanbul, Spring 2009
'Brand States: Postmodern Power, Democratic Pluralism, and Design', in e-Flux online journal, December 2008
'Wall', in Casco Issues XI: An Ambiguous Case, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, November 2008
'Surplus', in Field of Grey magazine by Israel Kandarian, 2008
White Night Before A Manifesto , Metahaven, published by Onomatopee, 2008
'A Democratic Brand Paradox', HTV No. 72, Amsterdam, February 2008
‘Some Questions about an Inquiry’, by Alice Twemlow, at Designobserver.com: www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=32924, February 2008
‘Re-Search the Search Engine’, by Annett Busch in: Springerin No. 1, 2008, Vienna
‘Metahaven: Scientific Design’, by Alexander Mao, in: kAk No. 2/42/2007, Moscow
‘A Europe Game’, in: Markus Miessen (ed.), The Violence of Participation , 2007, Sternberg Press, Berlin
‘Metahaven Design Research’, in: Super Holland Design , 2007, Actar, Barcelona
‘Neocon Black Metal’, in: Pyramid Power , no. 3, 2007, Vancouver, Canada
‘Secret Practices – Markus Miessen in Conversation with Metahaven’, in: Zak Kyes en Mark Owens (eds.), Forms of Inquiry, the Architecture of Critical Graphic Design , catalogue, 2007, Architectural Association, London
‘Metahaven’, in: Arhitext 6, 2007, Romania
‘9/11’s Ghost ship’ by Metahaven in: Memosphere. Rethinking Monuments . Published by the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial
‘Welcome to the Wild East’, by Kathleen Ritter in: The Fillip Review , No. 5. Spring 2007, Vancouver, Canada
‘Een boek in maatpak; de graphic designer’, in: De Standaard , February 2007, Brussels
‘The Museum of Conflict/Il Museo del Conflitto’ in: Domus , February 2007, Italy
‘The Museum of Conflict – New engagement with ‘totalitarian’ architecture’, by Metahaven, in: DAMN Magazine , February 2007, België
‘The Logo of Bucharest’, by Metahaven, Archined , January 2007,
‘What’s the Latin for “Delusional”?’, by Philip E. Ross, in: IEEE Spectrum , January 2007, New York
‘(Post)Com Icons’, in Omagiu No. 5, 2006, Bucharest, Romania
‘Models for Money’, in GAS fanzine, No. 2, Winter 2006, Denmark
‘Cc. / Bcc.’, in TheCreativity , Sandberg Institute / Institute of Network Cultures / Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, November 2006, Amsterdam
‘Political design, Creatie , October 2006, Amsterdam
‘Metahaven’, Work from Mars , 2006, Brno, Czech Republic
‘Gebouw als logo’ by Vinca Kruk in: Metropolis M , Dingen: No.5/2005, Amsterdam
‘Shadow Nation’, HTV No. 62, 2005, Amsterdam
‘ImagiNation’, OPEN No. 8, SKOR, 2005, Amsterdam
‘P.S. I love you’, Prelom magazine, Belgrade, 2005, Serbia
‘The Discovery of the Fifth World’ (essay), Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts, April 2005, Delhi, India
‘The Network Ruin’, Design Text, April 2005, Seoul, Korea
‘ImagiNation’, Idea 309: Design Liberated, 2005, Tokyo, Japan
‘The floating signifier’, by John O’Reilly, Eye No. 53: Brand Madness Special Issue, 2004, London
Metahaven: Sealand Identity Project , September 2004, publication for conference State of Emergency, SMCS Amsterdam, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
‘E Mare Libertas or Facts are the Enemies of the Truth’, interview by Warren Olds, Ramp Magazine : Sunbathing under Beanstalks, Vol. 1 Issue 2, 2004, Hamilton, New Zealand
‘Land in zicht’, interview by Renson van Tilborg, Identity Matters IM, no. 04/04, Amsterdam
‘The Principality of Everything’, Tank , Vol. 3 Issue 1, 2004, London
‘Mission Impossible’, Archis No. 1, 2004, Amsterdam
‘Jewel Box’, Fonds BKVB Newsletter 06/2004, Amsterdam

Exhibitions
Graphic Design for and Against Cities , Corner College, Zurich, 2009
Stadtstaat – A Scenario for Merging Cities, Episode Two , Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, 2009
Stadtstaat – A Scenario for Merging Cities, Episode One , Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2009
Affiche Frontière , solo exhibition and urban poster campaign, CAPC musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France, curated by Etienne Bernard, October – December 2009
On Purpose: Design Concepts, Arnolfini, Bristol, group exhibition curated by Nav Haq, October 2008
Since we last spoke about monuments , Stroom, Den Haag, group exhibition, curated by Mihnea Mircan, October - November 2008
Multipolar Search, Pancevo Republika! - 13th Art Biennial Pancevo, Serbia, group exhibition curated by Jelena Radic, September – October 2008
Cuneiform (Ideography) , Sinopale 2008, Black Sea Biennial, Sinop, Turkey, August–September 2008
ISEA2008 Juried Exhibition , National Museum of Singapore, July – August 2008
Imaginary Property , research passport designed for Florian Schneider at The Museum of the Stealing of Souls, Manifesta7, Trento, Italy, July 2008
Academy of Flows , group exhibition at Low Fesztival, Budapest, Hungary, February 2008
Forms of Inquiry: the Architecture of Critical Graphic Design , Architectural Association, London, Casco Utrecht, Lux Valence, IASPIS – International Artists Studio Program in Sweden, Archizoom EPFL, curated by Zak Kyes, 2007 – 2009
A Number of Worlds Resembling our Own , group exhibition at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, June 2007

Presentations and lectures (selection)
Extreme Democracy , lecture at ‘Me you and everyone we know is a curator’, symposium Paradiso, organized by the Graphic Design Museum, Amsterdam, December 2009
Stadtstaat , lecture and discussion, Salon de Recherche Design2Context, Zurich 2009
4 Notes on City Branding , lecture and discussion at Al-Manakh Debate on Tour, Columbia University Studio X, New York, with Mark Wigley, Jeffrey Inaba, Waleed Hazbun, Alex Deffner, Christos Liouris, December 2009
Metapopulism , debate on political communication in the age of polarization, at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, temporary facility, with Hassan Bahara, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Sebastiaan Capel, Rob Schröder, Jonas Staal, and Metahaven. Curated with Carolien Glazenburg, November 2009
Networked Cities: Governance, Trust, Design , symposium at Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, with Ingo Niermann, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Felix Janssens, Theo Deutinger, Marina Vishmidt, and Metahaven. Curated with Binna Choi and Axel Wieder, November 2009
Peripheral Forces , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) at ‘Society of the Query’, conference on the politics of the internet search engine at Trouw Amsterdam, organized by the Institute for Network Cultures, November 2009
Loose Cohesion , lecture (Vinca Kruk) at the symposium ‘The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety’ at Tate Britain, London, October 2009
Stadtstaat , presentation (Gon Zifroni) at the symposium ‘…out into the broad daylight of Common Sense’, at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, September 2009
Branding After Branding , presentation (Daniel van der Velden) at Design2Context, Zurich, June 2009
Tryptich Lecture #1 , presentation (Daniel van der Velden) at Hogeschool Sint Lucas, Antwerp, April 2009
Design and research , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) at Architecture Museum, Ljubljana, March 2009
Design Labor , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) at Wintercamp, Amsterdam, March 2009
Uncorporate Identity , lecture (Vinca Kruk) at the University of Portsmouth, School of Art, Design and Media, London, January 2009
Uncorporate Identity , lecture (Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk) at the Royal College of Art, London, January 2009
Hollow Shell Politics , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) as part of the Design Negation research team (Cornelia Durka, Ghalia Elsrakbi, Merijn Oudenampsen, Ziga Testen), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, January 2009
Battle of Symbols: an urban chess game , workshop (Vinca Kruk, Gon Zifroni), Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, December 2008
Design Spectacle , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) at Academy of Arts, Stuttgart. With Jonathan Puckey, Thomas Friedrich, Ingrid Loschek a.o., November 2008
Multipolar Search , lecture (Vinca Kruk, Gon Zifroni) at Formatting Utopia: from Paul Otlet to the Internet. With Sabine Niederer and De Geuzen. Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium. November 2008
Here & There , seminar (Daniel van der Velden) with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville at Yale University, November 2008
Information / Immersion , seminar (Daniel van der Velden) at D-Crit, MFA Design Criticism School of Visual Arts, New York, Novermber 2008
Uncorporate Identity , lecture (Vinca Kruk, Gon Zifroni), ERBA School of Art Valence, France, November 2008
Multipolar Search , presentation (Gon Zifroni) at Deep Search: The digital future of finding out, World-Information Institute Symposium. Together with Tsila Hassine. Hotel Savoyen, Vienna, November 2008
Metahaven , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) as part of the opening of Work from Mars, Academy of Arts, Tallinn. Together with James Goggin. Organized by Kristjan Mändmaa, October 2008
Identity and branding , panel discussion (Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden), organized by the Estonian Design Institute at the Academy of Arts, Tallinn, October 2008
Money is Natural , lecture (Gon Zifroni) at the Workshop On Economics and Psychoanalysis by Georgios Papadopoulos, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, October 2008
Monuments , discussion as part of the opening of the exhibition 'Since we last spoke about monuments' at Stroom, The Hague, Amsterdam
Designing Politics, the Politics of Design , annual hearing of the International Design Forum, Ulm, September 2008
Politics of Design , lecture (Vinca Kruk, Gon Zifroni) at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, September 2008
Faculty of Branding , statement (Daniel van der Velden) at Venice Architecture Biennial, Archiphoenix - Faculties for Architecture. Panel discussion with Matthias Rick / Markus Bader, Raumlabor, Berlin and Lorenzo Romito / Francesco Carreri, Stalker, Rome. Moderator: Peter Lang. Curated by Saskia van Stein and Stealth Architects, September 2008
Away from the Centre , lecture (Daniel van der Velden) at Iaspis, Stockholm, August 2008
EXODVS , presentation at juried exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore, ISEA2008 Conference, 2008
Icons & Watermarks , lecture at Brno Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic, 2008
Metahaven , lecture at Urbanasymmetries.org, TU Delft, June, 2008
Metahaven , presentation at Lux° Valence, France, May 2008
Metahaven , presentation at Chaumont Festival des Affiches, Chaumont, France, May 2008
‘We’ , lecture at ‘Design Blast’ international conference, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, May 2008
Metahaven , presentation at IM Masters, Design Academy Eindhoven, May 2008
Utopolitika , presentation at Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, May 2008
Desearch , presentation Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, May 2008
Desearch , lecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, February 2008
Academy of Flow s, presentation and exhibition at Low Fesztival, Budapest, Hungary, February 2008
Wall , lecture at Dictionary of War #5, Kuda Foundation, Novi Sad, Serbia, January 2008
Signs , lecture Yale University School of Art, Design Atrium, October 2007
Post-Design – Fragments from a Manifesto, presentation Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, October 2007
Signs , lecture Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, October 2007
Quaero Uncorporate & Virtual Territories, Real Borders , lecture at ‘Forum on Quaero’, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, September 2007
Specimen – Beyond Identity Politics , presentation Euregional Forum Heerlen, June 2007
Signs , lecture SMART Project Space, June 2007
Signs , at 'Moving in Free Zones', iStrike Foundation & TU Delft, Rotterdam, 6 June 2007
The Design of Evil , Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, March 2007
Regimes of Representation , MNAC, Bucharest, Romania, January 2007
Imagination of Engagement , Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, September 2006
Metahaven: Signs , 'DARE#1: Dutch Artistic Research Event', Centraal Museum Utrecht, September 2006
Metahaven , London College of Communication, London, May 2006
Metahaven , 'Leeds Unknown', Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, May 2006
Symbol X , Design Academy Eindhoven, March 2006
Uncorporate Identity , Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria, January 2006
Stepping out , ‘Three Posters for Casa Poporului’, exhibition Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht 2005
Stealth Nation / Ghost Prison , ‘Radio Days’, De Appel, Amsterdam, April 2005
PS: I love you , ‘Shapeshifters’, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, December 2004
Island as Logo , ‘State of Emergency’ conference, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, September 2004
Three letters to Prince Michael of Sealand , Zefir7, Theater Zeebelt, The Hague, June 2004
Metahaven – Identity for a Micronation , Locus010, Rotterdam, May 2004
Somewhere , ‘Transmediale. 04 – Fly Utopia!’ International Media Art Festival 2004, Berlin, January 2004
Mission Impossible , Non-Stop symposium, Utrecht, November 2004

Editorial and curatorial projects
November 2009: Networked Cities: Governance, Trust, Design
Symposium at Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, with Ingo Niermann, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Felix Janssens, Theo Deutinger, Marina Vishmidt, and Metahaven. Curated with Binna Choi and Axel Wieder, November 2009
March – April 2009: Metahaven Distri
Temporary distribution centre for the 'Featuring' series. Poster series on the re-use of design issues. With posters on 'Kein.org', 'Euromayday' and 'Woonlasten Omlaag'.
At Postjesweg 1, Amsterdam
February 2009: North by Northeast* (*and South)
Graphic design conference, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Curator, moderator (Daniel van der Velden)
With presentations by Ajdin Basic, Petra Cerne Oven, Kasia Korczak, Nina Støttrup Larsen, Konst & Technik, Kristjan Mändmaa, Indrek Sirkel and Ziga Testen.
Co-organized with Ziga Testen.
North by Northeast* *(and South) explores the potential of shared lineage between graphic designers originating from the ‘margins’ (North, East, South) of the established contemporary graphic design hubs.
November 2008: Add Comment: Designing Critique in Public Forums
Research conference, Casco, Utrecht
Curator and initiator (Vinca Kruk). Co-organized with Binna Choi and ArtEZ Academy of Arts Arnhem.
With presentations by Annette Krauss, Mia Jankowicz, Florian Schneider and Design Negation (Cornelia Durka, Ghalia Elsrakbi, Merijn Oudenampsen, Ziga Testen & Daniel van der Velden).
February 2008: A Democratic Brand Paradox , HTV No. 72
Designer and guest-editor-in-chief.
Newspaper with contributions by Regula Stämpfli, Metahaven, BAVO, Société Réaliste, Lauren Alexander, Merijn Oudenampsen, students of Yale University School of Art and ArtEZ Academy of Arts Arnhem.
29 and 30 September 2007: Forum on Quaero
Research conference, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Curator, initiator.
With Florian Cramer, Michael Zimmer, Tsila Hassine, Ingmar Weber, Richard Rogers, Florian Schneider, Bureau d'Études, Jodi Dean, Open Search, Sabine Niederer and Maurits de Bruijn (respondents), Metahaven.
June 2007: Memosphere. Rethinking Monuments
Newspaper designed and co-edited with Mihnea Mircan. Published by Revolver Books. Issued by the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial. With Markus Miessen, Malkit Soshan, Office KGDVS, Mark Jarzombek, Alon Levin, LUST, Laurent Liefhooghe, Metahaven, Mihnea Mircan and others.
11 January 2007: Regimes of Representation - Art & Politics beyond the House of People
Conference, MNAC (Palace of Parliament) Bucharest, Romania
Curator, initiator.
Lectures by Chantal Mouffe, Nicaolas Bourriaud, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, Marcus Steinweg, 4Space and Ruxandra Balaci.
12 September 2006: The Museum of Conflict – Art as Political Strategy in Post-Communist Europe
Research conference, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Curator, initiator.
Lectures by BAVO, Minhea Mircan, Edi Muka, Florian Waldvogel, Calin Dan, Wouter Davidts, Maria Hlavajova (respondent) and Metahaven.
23 September 2004: State of Emergency – Territorial Identity in the Post-Political Age
Conference, Stedelijk Museum CS Amsterdam,
Curator, initiator.
Lectures by Slavoj Zizek, Anselm Franke, Boris Buden, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Dieter Lesage, Lieven De Cauter and Metahaven.

Teaching and Workshops
The Other City: Exposing Tarwewijk , with Cohabitation Strategies, IABR, Rotterdam, December 2009
Geneva: Identities, Institutions, Spaces , HESGE/HEAD Spaces and Communication, Geneva, December 2009
Equivalence, serie of six workshops at ERBA, Valence France, October 2008 – February 2009
An Urban Chess Game , workshop at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, December 2008
Academy of Flows , one week workshop at Low Fesztival, Budapest, Hungary, February 2008

Metahaven 2004-2009