Etan Ilfeld
Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur, and the author of Beyond Contemporary Art,[1][2] an image-driven contemporary art book, which spans disciplines ranging from science, design and architecture to new media, film-making and performance art.[3]
Education
Ilfeld graduated at the top of his undergraduate Physics class at Stanford University and was awarded the David Levine Award. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and holds a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Southern California, and a Masters in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Media and Art
In 2007, Ilfeld founded Tenderpixel Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in central London.[4] In 2008, Tenderpixel began hosting an annual experimental film competition known as Tenderflix.[5] Ilfeld is also a digital artist and his New Kind of Cinema work was showcased at TEDxLondon in 2011, included in the Apparatjik iPhone magazine and archived in Rhizome's ArtBase.[6] New Kind of Cinema was programmed in Mathematica and inspired by the usage of cellular automata after training with Stephen Wolfram in Pisa during the summer of 2009.[7] Ilfeld was also an executive producer of the feature films Killer Pad (directed by Robert Englund), and Remainder an adaptation of Tom McCarthy's Remainder_(novel) directed by Omer Fast. Ilfeld also produced the sci-fi graphic novel, Binary,[8] based on Chris Hinz's award winning Liege-Killer novel.[9] He has written extensively on contemporary art. His article Contemporary Art and Cybernetics was published in the peer-reviewed Leonardo Journal published by MIT Press in February 2012,[10] and his book, Beyond Contemporary Art, was published in October 2012 by Vivays Publishing.[2]
Watkins Media
Ilfeld is the owner of Watkins Books,[11] London's oldest Mind Body Spirit bookshop (established in 1893).[12][13] He is also the editor-in-chief of the Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine.[14] In the February 2011 issue of Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine, Ilfeld launched the 100 Spiritual List, which ranks the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the world.[15] The 100 Spiritual list continues to be published annually.
In 2014, Ilfeld acquired Watkins Publishing, Nourish, and Angry Robot from Osprey Publishing.[16]
Mind Sports
Ilfeld is a competitive strategy games player having won the World Amateur Poker Championship Title in 2010;[17] he is a ranked USCF chess master,[18] and winner of the under 2300 section of the 2003 US Open. Ilfeld is also the inventor of Diving Chess, a chess variant played in a pool such that each player can think during their turn for as long as they can hold their breath underwater.[19][20][21] He is currently the chief organizer of the Mind Sports Olympiad.
References
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