Exhibitions and Screenings
2010
Saint Etienne Design Biennale, Saint Etienne, Nov 17 – Dec 5
I Cling to Virtue, V & A Museum, London, Sep 17 – Oct 7 (with Onkar Kular)
Paris & Creation, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, Jul 12 – Aug 12
Noam Toran: Things Uncommon, Le Lieu du Design (FRAC Ile-de-France Invitation), Paris, Jun 23 – Aug 12 (solo show)
Impact, Royal College of Art, Mar 15 – 21
Video Appart, Organised by L’Association Plastica, Paris, Mar 6 – 28
2009
Artsway Open 09, Artsway Gallery, Hampshire, November 21 – January 24
Britspotting Film Festival, Babylon Mitte, Berlin, November 13 – 15
Freeze!, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Jul 25 – Sept 27
Super Contemporary, Design Museum, London, June 3 – October 4
Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, May 26 – September 26
Rough Cut – Design Takes a Sharp Edge, MoMA, New York, Nov 26 08 – Oct 12 09
Designs of the Year, Design Museum, London, Feb 12 – June 14
2008
4th International Video Art Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Nov 25 – Dec 1
Nowhere NowHere, Laboral AICC, Asturias, October 9 – April 20
ACToRAL 7, MontéVidéo, Marseilles, September 29 – October 11
Wouldn’t it be Nice, Somerset House, London, September 17 – Dec 18
On Purpose: Design Concepts, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, September 13 – November 9
16th Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, July 1 – 6
International Film Festival of Cinema and Technology, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, July 5 – 6
15th Rencontres Internationales, Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid, May 4 – May 15
Kits for an Encounter, Western Front Society, Vancouver, April 25 – May 30
Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, New York, February 24 – May 12
2007
14th Rencontres Internationales, Cinéma l’Entrepôt, Paris, November 22 – December 1
Deeeeesire, Gaatov Galleries, Los Angeles, November
Desire Management Screening, DE07, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Arts, Newcastle, October
Desire Management Screening, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, September
Products of our Time, Goldstein Museum, Minneapolis, July 21 – Sept 30
Don’t Panic, The Yard Gallery, London, June
Tomorrow Now, Musée D’Art Moderne, Luxembourg, May
Postponing the Inevitable, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, March (solo show)
Designing Critical Design, with Dunne & Raby, Z33, Hasselt, March
Science of Spying, Science Museum, London, February
2006
Zero One: ISEA 06, San Jose, August
An Evening of Violence and Destruction, Architecture Biennial, Yard Gallery, London, June (solo show)
Xenith Film Festival, Zurich, May
Britspotting Film Festival, Berlin, April
2005
Raindance 13 International Film Festival, London, premiere screening
Destruction Series 2, The Yard Gallery, London (solo show)
Pop Noir, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Extra/Ordinary, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Vitra Film Night, Vitra Showroom, 100% Design London
2004
D-DAY: Design Aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Domestic Demolition Derby, Installation with Onkar Kular, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The OTHER, Architecture Biennale, Spiazzi Gallery, Venice
2003
Noam Toran – New Work, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (solo show)
Noam Toran – Three in One, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (solo show)
Subliminal Furniture, Automaten Gallery, Berlin
2002
Subliminal Furniture, Mixed Realities Exhibition, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
Objects for Lonely Men, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2001
Six Visions Exhibition, Miyake Studio Gallery, Tokyo
Eye Contact Machines, The Museum of the Unknown, OXO Tower, London
What’s Under the Thames, Video installation, OXO Gallery, London
2000
8 Photomontages, Room 13, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco
Residencies and Lectures
2010
Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Nov 3
Speaker, Props and Set – the Making of Narratives, Shunt Space, London, May 13
Visiting Lecturer, Kingston School of Art and Design, London, Mar 16
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths Fine Art and Art History Dept, London, Jan 19
2009
Speaker, Conference sur Design et Fiction, École Supérieure d’Arts de Brest, Brest, Dec 2
Visiting Lecturer, Ravensbourne College, Chiselhurst, April 27
Speaker, Interaction Design Conference, Arts Academy, Split, March 19 – 21
Guest Lecturer, Research Methodology Course, Royal College of Art, London, March 11
2008
Keynote Speaker, Design Cinema 2008, Istanbul, November 19 – 22
Speaker, London Calling, DesignTransfer Gallery, Berlin, November 13
Speaker, Pecha Kucha, Tokyo, March 26
Speaker, Human Enhancement Technologies Seminar, Goethe Institute, London, February 12
2007
Participant – British Council Open Space Conference, Istanbul, November 25 – 27
Conference speaker – Revisitez le Design, Louvre Museum, Paris, October 21
Visiting Lecturer, Parsons University, New York
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Applied Arts, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
2006
Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven
Visiting Lecturer, PRATT University, Brooklyn
Visiting Lecturer, Minneapolis University, Minnesota
Visiting Lecturer, ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York
Visiting Lecturer, SAID Business School, Oxford
2005
Conference speaker – Interior Insights Symposium, London
Visiting Lecturer – UCLA Design/Media Arts Department, Los Angeles
2004
Visiting Lecturer – Nottingham University, Nottingham
Residency – Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
Judging Panelist – Deutsche Bank Pioneer Awards, Royal College of Art, London
N.E.S.T.A. Pioneer Program Participant, London
2003
Visiting Lecturer, Sheffield University, Sheffield
Visiting Lecturer/Workshop leader – Bezalel University, Jerusalem
Visiting Lecturer, Central St. Martins, London
Visiting Lecturer, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Visiting Lecturer, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Guest Speaker, Automaten Gallery, Berlin
2002
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
Artist in Resident, IDEO San Francisco
Artist in Resident, Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem
2001
Research Fellow, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea (IT)
Selected Publications and Articles
2010
Visionaire 57, 2010 Edition, Visionaire Publishing
2009
Factory, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Bat Yam, Israel
Noam Toran’s Favorite “Designed” Things in Detective Films, Icon Magazine, Issue 70
Freeze!, Exhibition Catalogue, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
On Purpose, Exhibition Catalogue, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
New Talents – State of the Arts, edited by Hans Maier-Aichen, published by Avedition
MacGuffins, Abitare Magazine, Cover Article, Issue 489
Best of 2008, Frieze Magazine, Issue 120
2008
MacGuffin Library, 032C Magazine, Issue 16
The MacGuffin Library, Icon Magazine, Online video interview
Digital by Design, edited by Troika, published by Thames and Hudson
Nowhere NowHere, Exhibition Catalogue, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
The MacGuffin Library, Electric Sheep Magazine, September
Accessories for Lonely Men, Adbusters, issue no 78
Crashland – Curation of Platform 11 exhibition at the Trico Gallery, Tokyo, March 20 –24
Design and the Elastic Mind – Exhibition Catalogue, NY MOMA
2007
Exercise in Sadness – Noam Toran, Pop Manifesto, Issue 03
Tomorrow Now – Exhibition Catalogue, Luxembourg MUDAM
2006
Interview – We Make Money Not Art
Products for a Parallel World, Home Cultures, January Edition
Desire Management, KaK Design Magazine, Russia, February Edition
2005
Focus, Etapes Magazine, July
D.Day – Design Aujourd’hui, Exhibition Catalogue, CNAC Pompidou, Paris
Design for Thought exhibition review, Jerusalem Post Newspaper, Israel, October
Les Machines a Fantasmes de Noam Toran, Liberation Newspaper, France, July
2004
SPOON, edited by Ron Arad, Publsihed by Phaidon Press
2003
The New Communicators, Blueprint Magazine, March
2001
God-ard of small things, The Independent Newspaper, February
Design Noir, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, published by August-Birkhauser Press
Collections
MoMA, New York
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
Education
MA in Design, 1999-2001
Royal College of Art, London
BA in Fine Arts, 1993-1997
University of California, Santa Cruz