Etan Ilfeld
Encyclopedia
Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the owner of Watkins Books
, London's oldest spiritual bookshop. Ilfeld is also the editor-in-chief of the Watkins Review and the creator of an interactive spiritual map of London. In Issue 26 of the Watkins Review, Ilfeld created the 100 Spiritual List, which ranks the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World.
and was granted the David Levine Award, and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa; Ilfeld also holds a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Southern California
, and a Masters in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Central London. Ilfeld is also a digital artist and his New Kind of Cinema work has been featured and archived in Rhizome's ArtBase, which was programmed in Mathematica
and inspired by the usage of cellular automata after training with Stephen Wolfram
in Pisa during the summer of 2009. He was also an executive producer of the feature film, Killer Pad
(directed by Robert Englund
).
Watkins Books
Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop specializing in esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality....
, London's oldest spiritual bookshop. Ilfeld is also the editor-in-chief of the Watkins Review and the creator of an interactive spiritual map of London. In Issue 26 of the Watkins Review, Ilfeld created the 100 Spiritual List, which ranks the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World.
Board Games
Ilfeld is a competitive strategy games player having won the World Amateur Poker Championship Title in the 2010 14th Mind Sports Olympiad; he is a ranked USCF chess master, and winner of the under 2300 section of the 2003 US Open.Education
Ilfeld graduated at the top of his undergraduate Physics class at Stanford UniversityStanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
and was granted the David Levine Award, and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa; Ilfeld also holds a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
, and a Masters in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Media and Art
In 2007, Ilfeld founded TenderpixelTenderpixel
Tenderpixel is a contemporary art gallery located in central London. In addition to monthly shows throughout the year, it holds an annual experimental film festival, Tenderflix, each summer....
Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Central London. Ilfeld is also a digital artist and his New Kind of Cinema work has been featured and archived in Rhizome's ArtBase, which was programmed in Mathematica
Mathematica
Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...
and inspired by the usage of cellular automata after training with Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine.- Biography :...
in Pisa during the summer of 2009. He was also an executive producer of the feature film, Killer Pad
Killer Pad
Killer Pad is a 2008 comedy/horror film directed by Robert Englund and starring Daniel Franzese, Eric Jungmann and Shane McRae.-Plot:When three friends find a sweet deal on a mansion in Hollywood Hills, they think they have struck party gold...
(directed by Robert Englund
Robert Englund
Robert Barton Englund is an American actor, voice-actor and director, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in...
).