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BIOGRAPHIES
Eric Schuldenfrei
Teaching Appointments: Princeton University: School of Architecture
and Columbia University: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation.
Eric Schuldenfrei is the Principal of his own practice: Eric Schuldenfrei
Animation: Art + Architecture. He is a designer and artist who focuses
on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art.
Recent projects include an art installation for Agnes Gund, President
Emerita of MoMA, in collaboration with architect Markus Dochantschi;
time-lapse animations for all eight finalists of the World Trade Center
Memorial Competition for the LMDC; and a short film created with Christian
Bruun for "Non standard Architectures" featuring the architecture
of Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald, exhibited at the Centre Pompidou
in Paris. Past work includes "Alladeen", a cross media collaboration
with Moti Roti and The Builders Association, currently on tour worldwide;
and an animation for "the City without a Ghetto," in conjunction
with Marisa Yiu and The Center for Urban Pedagogy. Further projects
include computer animations for Diller + Scofidio and The Builders Association's
multi-media theater work "Jet Lag"; and an animation and video
installation "The Measure of All Things," a collaboration
with artist Haluk Akakce which was exhibited at Casino Luxembourg, P.S.1,
NY; Kunst Werke, Berlin; The Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt; and the
Centre d' art Contemporain, Geneva. Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu
were finalists for the Athens 2004 Olympics installation for the ‘look
of the city’ project and have collaborated on other projects such
as ‘By-Product’ and ‘Blue-prints for Art in General’.
In addition to Princeton University and Columbia University, he has
taught in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Landscape
Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania; the Integrated Design
Curriculum and the Department of Architecture at Parsons School of Design.
He holds a Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University and a Masters
of Philosophy from Cambridge University, U.K.
Marisa Yiu
Marisa Yiu has an interdisciplinary design collaborative called Mksyiu
Studio. She is currently invited as the 2005-6 design panelist for the
Chinatown Design Lab, organized by the Rebuild Chinatown Initiative
(RCI) and AAFE, a non-profit organization that is a nationally recognized
affordable housing and social provider. Her recent independent projects
include ‘No Sweat’, an installation shown at the exhibition
honoring the 30th anniversary of Asian Americans For Equality (AAFE),
and ‘Brandspider’ for the Whitney Museum’s ISP exhibition
entitled EMPIRE/STATE: Engaging Globalization. Marisa Yiu’s collaborations
with Eric Schuldenfrei include ‘Re_lapse: the atlantic terminal
time line’ with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, shown at the Storefront
for Art and Architecture and recently at the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn.
Yiu and Schuldenfrei have previously collaborated on ‘By-Product’
and ‘Optical Field’ a proposal for the Arts event installation
for the Athens Olympics 2004. Yiu has taught a seminar entitled ‘Public
Construction’ with Netherlands-based UNstudio architects, Ben
Van berkel and Caroline Bos; a course at the Integrated Design Curriculum
of the Parsons School of Design; and recently ‘City of Neighborhoods’
workshops on Chinatown at the Cooper Hewitt Design Musuem that examined
design and civic engagement. Yiu previously worked as the Designer for
the International Commerce Center (Kowloon Tower project) in Hong Kong,
the Guangzhou TV Tower and Master Plan and the Shanghai World Financial
Center at KPF Architects (2001-2005). She also worked on the team that
received the 2000 “Record Awards,” of the Architectural
Record for the Open Loft Project, design team of Marble.Fairbanks Architecture.
She received the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize (the highest honor)
at the Graduate School of Architecture, Princeton University for her
design and research thesis project entitled ‘Behind the Label:
the global assembly’ and she was a nominated candidate for the
Rolex Arts Initiative award in 2002. She holds a B.A. from Columbia
University and a Masters of Architecture from the Graduate School of
Architecture, Princeton University.