Robert Gerard Curriculum Vitae Pietrusko 2019 Academic Appointments
07.2018 - present Associate Professor Landscape Architecture Graduate School of Design Harvard University
07.2016 - 06.2018 Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture | Architecture Graduate School of Design Harvard University
07.2014 - 06.2016 Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture | Urban Planning + Design Graduate School of Design Harvard University
07.2012 - 06.2014 Lecturer Landscape Architecture | Urban Planning + Design Graduate School of Design Harvard University
03.2011 - 06.2015 Co-Founder + Principal metaLAB {at} Harvard Graduate School of Design Harvard University
03.2020 Visiting Faculty The Terraforming Program Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design Moscow, Russian Federation
03.2019 Visiting Faculty The New Normal Program Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design Moscow, Russian Federation
Curriculum Vitae Academic Affiliations
07.2018 - present Co-cooridinator Sensory Media Platform Harvard GSD
07.2017 - present Co-Director Masters of Design Studies Program Technology Concentration Harvard GSD
07.2016 - present Advisor, Affiliated Faculty Masters of Design Engineering Program Harvard GSD
07.2012 - present Co-Director Mapping @ GSD Francis Loeb Library Harvard GSD
07.2016 - 06.2017 Co-Director Masters of Design Studies Program Urbanism Landscape + Ecology Concentration Harvard GSD
02.2017 - present Affiliated Faculty Sound Lab 2.0 Department of Music Harvard University
07.2015 - present Affiliated Faculty Office for Urbanization Harvard GSD
07.2015 - present Affiliated Faculty Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative Harvard University
07.2015 - present Design Consultant Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI) Harvard University
3 07.2015 - present Faculty Advisory Committee Critical Media Practice Secondary Field Harvard University
07.2013 - 06.2016 Faculty Researcher Urban Theory Lab Harvard GSD
Curriculum Vitae Publications forthcoming « High Contrast —False Color Landscapes of the Cold War » University of Texas Press forthcoming Vegetal media LA+ interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture, No. 12: GEO University Pennsylvania forthcoming A Speculative Cartography in: Benjamin Bratton (ed) « The New Normal » Sternberg Press
10.2018 Inventory and Prospect in: Felipe Correa (ed) «Sao Paolo — A Graphic Biography» University of Texas Press
04.2018 A Space for Signals Thresholds, Vol 46: Scatter! Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10.2016 The Surface of Data LA+ interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture, No. 4: Simulation University Pennsylvania
08.2016 Hybrids—Institutional and Cartographic in: Nadia Amoroso (ed) Visualizing Landscapes—Hybrids Routledge
07.2016 A Certain Darkness: Interview with Demdike Stare Harvard Design Magazine, No. 42: Run for Cover! Harvard University
05.2016 812990 : The Industrial Capacity of the Passions Scapegoat Journal of Landscape, Architecture + Politcal Economy, No. 9: EROS
5 03.2016 Sample and Hold VOLUME Architecture Magazine, Vol 47: The System
10.2013 The College of the Six Days Work PIDGIN Architecture Journal, Vol 16: Fictions Princeton University
04.2012 The Enumerative Institution MANIFEST journal of american architecture and urbanism, Vol 1: Looking Inward
04.2012 Embodied Music System - U.S. Patent 8,156,433 (w/C Nataraj) filled Feb 2006 | issued Apr 2012
01.2008 ICWorld: An MMOG-Based Approach to Analysis (w/ W Wong, D Rolston, K Gill) Journal of Strategic Security, Vol 1 (1) | Jan 2008
10.2007 Venture Capital (w/ V Rao and S Pemmraju) Public Culture Vol 19 (3) | Fall 2007
09.2005 Research—Its Role North American Design Education (w/ L Manfra and A Prinz) METROPOLIS Magazine, Aug | Sep 2005
09.2005 Dynamic Response of Rigid Rotors Supported on Rolling Element Bearings with an Outer Raceway Defect (w/ C Nataraj) Proceedings 2005 ASME IDE Tech Con Long Beach, CA
03.2005 Modeling, Dynamics and Signal Processing of Screw Compressors with Bearing Defects (w/ C Nataraj) The ASME | AIAA 2005 Symposium Philadelphia, PA
Curriculum Vitae 03.2005 Understanding the Mathematics of the Frequency Transform (w/ R Boulanger) Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2004 Miami, Fl
Residencies
2019 Artist-In-Residence The MacDowell Colony Peterborough, NH
2013 Artist-In-Residence Arts @ 29 Garden Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2011 Artist-In-Residence ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
2011 Artist-In-Residence Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2011 Ideas Scholar The Aspen Ideas Festival The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO.
2000 Artist-In-Residence Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) Paris, France
Grants
2017 Dean’s Junior Faculty Grant Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Robert Gerard Pietrusko “Test Sites: A Data-driven History of
7 Environmental Remote Sensing” ($4,500)
2015 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Research Grant Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Robert Gerard Pietrusko “Geosimulation” ($18,000)
2013 Dean’s Research Grant Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Robert Gerard Pietrusko “Visualizing Institutional Space.” ($2,500)
2013 Research Incubation Fund Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Neil Brenner and Robert Gerard Pietrusko “World Urbanization and the Critique of Geospatial Reason.” ($30,000)
2012 The History Project The Joint Center for Economic History Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Robert Gerard Pietrusko “An Inquiry into the Diffusion of Dr Adam Smith’s « The Wealth of Nations ».” ($5,000)
Curriculum Vitae Exhibitions
02.12.2019- UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) 13.02.2020 Santiago, Chilé
22.10.2019 - Designs for Different Futures 08.03.2020 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA
07.09- 10.11.2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Seoul, Korea
12.07- 10.11.2019 Nous les Arbres (Trees) Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain Paris, France
25.05- 09.09.2019 Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Brentonville, AR, USA
02.02-05.05.2019 Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment Peabody Essex Museum Salem,MA, USA
01.02-30.04.2019 Dimensions of Citizenship Wrightwood 659 Gallery Chicago, IL, USA
13.10.2018- Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment 06.01.2019 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton, NJ, USA
27.08 - 14.10.2018 Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative Druker Design Gallery @ Harvard Cambridge, MA, USA
26.05 - 25.11.2018 Dimensions of Citizenship (US Pavilion) Biennale di Architettura di Venezia Venice, Italy
15.04 - 09.05.2018 Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative CSMVS Mumbai, India
9 07.03 - 01.04.2018 Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative SALT Galata Instanbul, Turkey
27.01 - 21.02.2018 Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, Germany
26.10 - 10.11.2017 XX Bienal De Arquitectura Y Urbanismo Valparaiso, Chile
01.06 - 27.08.2017 The World is Not Ours La Kunsthalle Centre D’Art Contemporain Mulhouse, France
31.05 - 15.08.2017 The Collection of the Fondation Cartier Seoul Museum of Art Seoul, Korea
22.04 - 30.07.2017 Shanghai Project: Seeds of Time Shanghai Himalayas Museum Shanghai, China
19.04 - 13.07.2017 Art+Climate = Change Ian Pattern Museum of Art Melbourne, Australia
07.01 - 25.03.2017 The Sydney Festival UNSW Gallery Sydney, Australia
14.10 - 16.10.2016 Deterritorialized Complexity ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany
05.08 - 15.10.2016 The World is Not Ours Art Space Pythagorion Samos, Greece
24.11.2015 - EXIT 09.01.2016 Palais De Tokyo Paris, France (during UN Climate Change Summit, COP21)
Curriculum Vitae 02.07 - 28.11.2015 Big Bang Data Espacio Fundación Telefónica Buenos Aires, Argentina
13.04 - 30.06.2015 A Brief History of GIS Francis Loeb Library Harvard GSD, Cambridge, USA
12.03 - 24.05.2015 Big Bang Data Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Spain
08.04 - 19.04.2015 The Interstitial Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (CCVA) Cambridge, USA
09.05 - 16.11.2014 Big Bang Data Centre De Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
01.09.2012 - Images At Work 01.08.2014 Massachusetts Hall Harvard University Cambridge, USA
14.06 - 14.06.2014 Video Snack 2 festival Varick Sessions Brooklyn, USA
06.02 - 20.02.2014 Aesthetics of Information School of Architecture Princeton University, Princeton, USA
12.10 - 18.01.2014 BEING Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, USA
16.10 - 19.12.2013 Airport Landscape Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
11 01.02 - 24.03.2013 Nothing to Declare? World Maps of Art since ‘89 Akademie Der Kunste Berlin, Germany
29.10 - 12.31.2012 Cartographic Grounds Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
30.09.2011 - X-Rays of the Soul 03.06.2012 CHSI Putman Gallery Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
17.09.2011 - The Global Contemporary 05.02.2012 ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany
01.08 - 30.08.2011 Landscapes - Worlds Real The Index Festival New York, USA
24.07 - 07.11.2011 Talk To Me The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
11.11.2010 - How Wine Became Modern 17.04.2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) San Francisco, USA
18.05 - 01.08.2010 Proyecto Tierra Azkuna Zentroa | Alhondiga Bilbao Bilbao, Spain
19.12.2009 - Native Land : stop eject 21.02.2010 Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Denmark
21.11.2008 - Terre Natale, Ailleur Commence Ici 15.03.2009 Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain Paris, France
Curriculum Vitae 10.09 - 19.11.2006 XXth Biennale di Architettura di Venezia US Pavillion Venice, Italy
Lectures and Symposia
16.10.2019 The Media of Mapping School of Architecture Univeristy of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
12.10.2018 Inside Out : Symposium on Practice Harvard Grduate School of Design Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
05.09.2018 Urban Intermedia Panel Discussion Harvard Grduate School of Design Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
09.02.2018 Ways of Knowing the City Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, Preservation Columbia University, New York, NY
21.04.2017 Data, Design, Decision Radcliffe Institute Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
31.03.2017 Penn Landscape Dialogues University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
23.02.2017 Global Dialogues ‘17: displacements_people American Institute of Architects New York, NY
18.05.2016 An Esocartography Le Laboratoire Cambridge, MA
02.05.2016 Urban Intermedia Radcliffe Institute Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
13 28.04.2016 Geographic Thinking in the Humanities Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Cambridge, MA
11.03.2016 #decoding Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
23.10.2015 The History of Energy and the Environment Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
18.09.2015 Information Fall-Out Columbia University GSAPP, New York, NY
01.05.2015 The Lab and Its Legacy Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Cambridge, MA
03.20.2015 Simulating Natures Department of Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
11.09.2014 Visualizing Data Boston Societ of Architects: Urban Design Committee Boston, MA
23.06.2014 Beautiful Data The Getty Foundation workshop Cambridge, MA
02.05.2014 Reconceptualizing the Urban Radcliffe Institute Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
19.04.2014 Intention + Improvisation School of Architecture University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
12.03.2014 Datascapes School of Architecture and Design Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Curriculum Vitae 07.02.2014 Aesthetics of Information School of Architecture Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
27.10.2011 Mapping the Archive ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
06.05.2011 Geospatial Collaboration Harvard Center for Geospatial Analysis Cambridge, MA
28.03.2011 Visualizations : Realizations Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA
14.04.2009 Envisioning Ethnography Parsons Design School, New York, NY
29.04.2006 Cities in a World of Migration The India-China Institute The New School, New York, NY
Conferences
07.04.2017 Mapping Flexibly American Association of Geographers (AAG) Boston, MA
07.04.2017 Meet the author, Jill Desimini (respondant). American Association of Geographers (AAG) Boston, MA
16.04.2015 Architectural Histories of Data Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Chicago, IL
07.11.2014 Expanse Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Philadelphia, PA
15 09.10.2014 Cartography and Time North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Pittsburgh, IL
Books + Articles Featuring My Work
2018 Karl Kusserow + Alan C. Braddock Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment Yale University Press
2017 Adrian Parr Birth of a New Earth: The Radical Politics of Environmentalism Columbia University Press
2017 Alan C. Braddock Ecology > Landscape American Art 31(2) Summer 2017: 59-61
2016 Elizabeth Farrelly EXIT Architecture Australia 106(2) Mar|Apr 2017: 12-14
2016 Jill Desimini, Charles Waldheim Cartographic Grounds Princeton Architectural Press
2016 Benjamin Bratton The Stack MIT Press
2015 Terry Smith Thinking Contemporary Curating Indepdendent Curators International
Curriculum Vitae 2015 Peter Galison, Robb Moss Contaiment (documentary) Redacted film productions
2014 Laura Kurgan Speculation with Data in Vyjayanthi Rao, et al. (eds) Speculation, Now Duke University Press
2013 Chris Reed, Nina-Marie Lister Projective Ecologies Actar Press
2013 Hans Belting The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds MIT Press
2013 Benjamin Bratton What We Do Is Secrete in Armitage, et al. (eds). Virilio and Visual Culture Edinburgh University Press
2013 Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher Architecture in Formation: On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture New York: Routledge
2013 Antoine Picon Substances and Structure II: The Digital Culture of Landscape Architecture Harvard Design Magazine 36: Lanscape Architectures Core?
2011 Peter Allen Review: How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) 70(4) Dec 2011: 550-551
17 2011 Paola Antonelli Talk To Me The Museum of Modern Art
2009 Laura Kurgan EXIT VOLUME Magazine: Crisis Issue February 2009
2008 Paul Virilio, Raymond Depardon Native Land | Stop-Eject Fondation Cartier November 2008
Press
2019 Anthony D’Amico Six Microphones Brainwashed.com 06 October 2019
2019 TJ Norris Six Microphones Toneshift.com 04 September 2019
2019 Jack Chuter Six Microphones ATTN Magazine 24 August 2019
2019 Zach Mortice Materials & Methods At Macdowell Landscape Architecture Magazine 26 March 2019
2019 Mimi Zeiger Live and Learn Landscape Architecture Magazine February 2019: 78-89.
Curriculum Vitae 2018 Jonathan Hilburg “Urban Intermedia” at Harvard shines light on gaps in urban studies The Architects Newspaper 11 September 2018
2018 Arthur Solway Fondation Cartier Pour L’art Contemporain, A Beautiful Elsewhere ArtAsiaPacific 109 July / August 2018
2018 Phillip Denny “Freespace” Shows That Architects Must Retool Their Relationship to Power—and to the Biennale METROPOLIS June 2018
2018 Ted Loos Creators of Architectural Exhibits Reach To the Cosmos for Inspiration The New York Times 24 May 2018
2018 Beth Broome U.S. Pavilion at 2018 Venice Biennale Grapples with Diverse Ideas of Citizenship Architectural Record 24 May 2018
2018 Blair Kamin Chicago in Venice: A First Look at the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale The Chicago Tribune 23 May 2018
2017 John Oliver Nuclear Waste HBO’s Last Week Tonight 20 Aug 2017
19 2017 Andrew Goldstein Can Art Help Combat Climate Change? Art Net 11 Jul 2017
2017 Kwon Mee-yoo Unlimited possibilities of contemporary art showcased at ‘Highlights’ The Korea Times 14 Jun 2017
2017 Frances Arnold The Shanghai Art Project That’s Working to Save Us from a Dystopian Future, Artsy 17 May 2017
2017 Helmi Yusof Art Ponders a World in Crisis The Business Times 28 Apr 2017
2017 Briony Downes Across Borders Art Guide Australia 28 Apr 2017
2017 Sara Savage This Is the Future: EXIT Assemble Papers 21 Apr 2017
2017 Uncredited ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE | 360° video installation ‘EXIT’ Art Almanac 11 Apr 2017
2017 Ann Finegan EXIT 2008–2015: Exhibiting global crisis (cover story) ArtLink 37(1) Mar 2017
Curriculum Vitae 2017 Elizabeth Farrelly Decoding The Data Architecture AU 15 Feb 2017
2017 Christopher Allen EXIT, from Fondation Cartier, Paris: drifting towards disaster The Australian 4 Feb 2017
2017 Ros Brennan EXIT: the acclaimed climate change artwork premieres in Sydney Buro 24/7 01 Feb 2017
2017 Steve Dow 360° projection illustrates climate change in EXIT Art Guide Australia 10 Jan 2017
2017 Tom Compagnoni Art and Science Collide in Immersive 360° Exhibit at Sydney Festival The Huffington Post 5 Jan 2017
2017 Elissa Blake Sydney Festival: EXIT installation turns climate change data into art The Sydney Morning Herald 4 Jan 2017
2017 Brianna Roberts Animated installation turns global challenges into art for Sydney Festival Special Broadcast System (SBS) 4 Jan 2017
21 2016 Maya Jaggi A new art show on the frontline of the refugee crisis Financial Times 19 Aug 2016
2015 Laurence Defranoux Au Palais De Tokyo, «EXIT Devait Être Beau Pour Libérer L’émotion Des Données» Libération 24 Dec 2015
2015 Jana Perkovic Climate Change Spurs EXIT Installation at Palais de Tokyo Blouin Art Info 23 Dec 2015
2015 Liz Else and Simon Ings Paris climate talks: can a global cultural festival help? New Scientist 11 Dec 2015
2015 Nick Compton Mapping the Future Wallpaper 8 Dec 2015
2015 Clémentine Mercier and Clémentine Gallot Climat: L’art En Immersion Libération 6 Dec 2015
2015 Carey Dunne A Sobering 360-Degree Video Visualization of Climate Change Data Hyperallergic 3 Dec 2015
Curriculum Vitae 2015 Emmanuelle Jardonnet La COP21, versant artistique Le Monde 2 Dec 2015
2015 Sophie de Santis COP21: les créations à voir à Paris Le Figaro 1 Dec 2015
2015 Véronique Mortaigne «Exit», la folie humaine en courbes et en chiffres Le Monde 30 Nov 2015
2015 Hannah Ellis-Petersen Global panic: art show EXIT brings climate change to shocking life The Guardian 27 Nov 2015
2015 Dominique Leglu L’installation EXIT, une plongée dans le monde de la data visualisation Sciences et Avenir 25 Nov 2015
2011 Paola Antonelli State of Design 01 - Visualization DOMUS April 2011
2009 Sophie de Santis Terre Natale Le Figaro 15 Jan 2009
2009 Janine Armin Critics’ Picks: Native Land, Stop Eject ART FORUM Jan 2009
23 2008 Michael Guerrin Le Desordre du Monde en Image Le Monde 16 Dec 2008
2008 Alice Rawsthorn New Tools to Help with Information Overload. Intl Herald Tribune 8 Dec 2008
2006 Robert Ivy Venice Biennale 2006: After the Flood Architectural Record November 2006
2006 Toshiko Mori Architecture Seen Between the Cracks Architect’s Newspaper (16) 2006
2005 Laurie Manfra The Sight of Music METROPOLIS June 2005
Curriculum Vitae Education
09.2007 - 05.2012 Master of Architecture, with distinction Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Thesis, “The Enumerative Institution and Other Statistical Fever Dreams” finalist 2010 Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence
01.2003 - 12.2006 Master of Science, Electrical Engineering Villanova University College of Engineering, Villanova, PA
Thesis, “Factorial Hidden Markov Models for Condition-Based Monitoring” 2003|2004 teaching fellow full-tuition scholar
09.1997 - 05.2001 Bachelor of Music, Music Synthesis, with honors The Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Thesis, “Back-Propagational Bach: Recurrent Neural Networks for Formal Analysis and (re)Composition” 1999 recipient, Robert Moog Award-Scholarship
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