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Alex Coles is an art critic and editor. He is the author of DesignArt (Tate Publishing, 2005). Following the volume of debate and activity DesignArt engendered, Coles edited the critical anthology Design and Art (MIT Press/Whitechapel Publications, 2007).

Coles is currently researching his next book The Transdisciplinary Studio (Sternberg Press, forthcoming), a two volume study of the studio models of artists (Olafur Eliasson and Jorge Pardo), product designers (Konstantin Grcic), graphic designers (Abake) and architects (Zaha Hadid). As part of the research for the book, Coles is spending a sustained period of time in each studio.

Publications

Edited anthologies include:
The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity (Black Dog Publishing, 1998), Mark Dion: Archaeology (Black Dog Publishing, 1999), The Optic of Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...

(Black Dog Publishing, 1998), Site-Specificity: The Ethnographic Turn (Black Dog Publishing, 2001) and Design and Art (MIT Press/Whitechapel Publications, 2007).

Catalogue essays include: "Peter Halley, Waddingtons Galleries" (2001), "Off Limits: 40 Artangel Projects" (Artangel, 2002), "Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation" (National Museum, Oslo, 2005), "Anton Henning" (Museum fur Kunst Frankfurt, Germany, 2006), "Project VITRA" (Birkhauser, 2007), "Jorge Pardo" (K21, Düsseldorf, 2009), "Martin Creed: Down Over Up" (The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010), "Donald Judd: A Good Chair is a Good Chair" (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2010) and "Konstantin Grcic" (Gallery Kreo, Paris, 2011).

Public Lectures and Conferences

Conferences organized include: "The Enigma of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty" (Tate Britain, 2000), "Abstraction and the Everyday" (Tate Modern, 2001), "The All New Artwriting" (Tate

Tate

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Britain, 2002), "What is DesignArt?" (Tate Britain, 2005), and "Dialogues in DesignArt" (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2007).

Conferences, seminars and debates participated in include: "The DesignArt Debate" (Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

, 2004), "Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.-Early life and career:...

: Switched On" (The Courtauld Institute, 2006), "The Greater Sixties" (The Courtauld Institute, 2006), "Ellsworth Kelly" (The Serpentine Gallery, 2006) "M/M Critical Forum" (The Royal College of Art, 2006), "Jorge Pardo Critical Forum" (The Royal College of Art, 2009), "Konstantin Grcic: Design Real" (Serpentine Gallery, 2009), "Felix Beltran Critical Forum" (Royal College of Art, 2010), "Design = Art?" (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2010), "Jorge Pardo: Roundtable Debate" (IMMA, Ireland, 2010), "Art and Design: Friends or Foes?" (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011), and "Ronald Jones Critical Forum" (Royal College of Art, 2011).

Teaching

Coles has been a lecturer at Goldsmiths College in the Department of Art History, a Senior Lecturer at University College for the Creative Arts, and Chair of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. In the academic year 2010/2011, he has lectured on the Critical Forum at the Royal College of Art, the MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and on the MA in Experience Design at Konstfack, Stockholm.

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