- Paul Elliman
Paul Elliman (November 5,1961) is an artist and writer based in London. His work, which draws on a range of resources from found typographies to professional voice-overs, explores the mutual interests of technology and language. Elliman has taught at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, since 1997 and is a thesis supervisor for the Werkplaats Typographie in Arnhem, Netherlands.
Works
Voices Falling Thru the Air (2008) is a 30 minute radio documentary about the ‘whispering wall’ phenomena, narrated by the voice of London Underground, Emma Clarke. In Concorcio de Transportes (2006), the voices of the Madrid metro, Javier Dotu and Maria Jesus Alvarez, guide the listener by public transport from Galeria Pilar Parra and Romero in Madrid to Elliman’s studio in Bethnal Green, London. Phantom Ride is a set of drawings of speaker grills used in different kinds of public spaces around the world. Found Fount (aka Bits) is an ongoing collection of found ‘typography’ drawn from objects and industrial debris. For The Foghorn (2007) a synopsis of Ray Bradbury’s short story The Foghorn is told in a kind a chain-recital by 80 different electronic voices.
He has been included in collections and exhibitions at London’s Tate Modern and Victoria and Albert Museum, APAP in Seoul, Kunsthalle Basel and New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art.Fact|date=September 2008
External links
* [http://art.yale.edu/PaulElliman Yale School of Art online bio]
* [http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/ Werkplaats Typografie online]
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