Jetztzeit is a California based studio researching and developing projects critical to the negotiation of issues embedded in visual cultures and forensic research. The studio's practice focuses primarily on digital video, installation, digital imaging, digital media, design, algorithmic/database aesthetics. It includes site-specific projects as well as work in architectural, design, object-oriented, and publication projects. The studio's research and scholarly interests revolve around issues of media analysis, identities and displacement through an examination of concepts/perceptions of reception, inscription, spectacle, memory, space/place, gender and time shape the articulation of subjectivities.

MAP Studios is a trans-disciplinary practice engaging with architecture, design, housing and the built environment, and media. We are positioned at an interstitial nexus of ecologies, material logics, spatial relations with a dynamic emphasis on the body in sensorial relation to time and neural networking.

Based In the San Francisco Bay Area, the breadth of the firm’s expertise + award winning projects are consistently internationally nationally recognized and extend from large-scale commercial and historical landmark projects to a wide variety of residential, exhibitions, media and public works. MAP is currently led by two principals, Professor Katherine Lambert, AIA + Professor Christiane Robbins.

Katherine Lambert is a founding principal of Metropolitan Architectural Practice (MAP) based in San Francisco and Professor in the Division of Architecture at the California College of the Arts. Her research and praxis focuses on the mutable environment of architecture, design, the built environment, neural networks + the Body, sustainable practices. Her consistent engagement with the realms of visual cultures, social equity/justice and digital and media practices is internationally recognized. Her work has been exhibited and collected by institutions such the Dia Foundation, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the Whitney Museum, the Banff Center, The Venice Biennial, the Gwangju Design Biennial, and SFMoMA.

Christiane Robbins is a founding principal of Jetztzeit. She is a media director, artist, designer, and thinker whose practice spans the disciplines of film, digital media/imaging, visual art, design, and education. A professor and director of USC's Matrix Program for Digital Media, she was instrumental in developing and forecasting current concepts of creative thought and strategies via digital media and cultural practices, identifying relationships between data visualization, interactivity, spatial and locative-based practices. Robbin’s move back to the Bay Area served as a pivotal juncture and underpinning for a cross-disciplinary, collaborative work, “This Future has a Past” that was first installed at the 15th Venice Architectural Biennale, 2016 “Reporting from the Front.” This installation was then selected by Cynthia Davidson, for the initial exhibition in Anyspace’s series at The Center for Architecture, NY, NY 2017.

As part of this project, she is directing/ producing a “No Place like Utopia” - a twisted tale of a singular - some say suppressed - figure of modern architecture's golden age in Los Angeles/New York. It’s first iteration was exhibited in 2009 at the AIA Architecture and the City Festival. This introductory video reveals how a profession lost sight of its soul in the midst of political and cultural turmoil in this most dangerous architect’s quest for social and racial justice in the midst of LA’s post WWII housing shortage. This video was selected for exhibition and screening in the 2011 Gwangju Design Bienniale curated by the notable artist, curator, social commentator and activist, Ai WeiWei and shown throughout the USA in AIA screenings.

Robbins' work has been widely exhibited and screened in film and video festivals in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and in Europe. Both her experimental and documentary video work have won several awards, including the Best of Video Shorts at the [http://history.sffs.org/ San Francisco International Film Festival], a Film Arts Foundation Award and has been broadcast on PBS (KQED, KCET, WGBH, WNET), American Public Television, Channel 4, UK, and cablecast. She has been the including the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist’s Award, The SFMOMA SECA Video Award Commission, the Sundance Producer's Institute, as well as nominations for Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships. She was invited to present at the Moving the Moving Image presented as part of the University of Minnesota's Women with Vision Symposia. Her works have been screened in the Berlin Film Festival the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the San Francisco Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives and numerous venues throughout the world. It has been reviewed and appeared in a variety of publications ranging from Art Forum to Wired magazine. Her work is in public collections including: Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, CAN, California Institute of the Arts, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Getty Museum, LA, Kitchen, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Oakland Museum of Art, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stanford University Art Museum, Stedlijck Museum, Amsterdam, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

———PROJECT TEAM includes———

Paul Gibson: New York-based cameraman, segued into feature film and commercial production after fifteen years as one of HBO’s hottest cinematographers. His credits include cinema-verite work such as “Paris Is Burning,” one of the highest grossing theatrical documentaries of all time; and award-winning excursions into real-life human drama such as the Oklahoma tornado, Iowa floods, Kentucky ice storms, and Hurricane Gustav.

John Kiffe: Los Angeles based cinematographer filmed many of the early interviews early in the initial research phase of the project, including interviews with Richard Corsini, Melissa, Tom Hines, Frank Gehry, and Thom Mayne, He holds the position of Lead Photographer, Getty Research Institute.

Crystal Noonan's appreciation for contemporary art and architecture was cultivated by her tenure at the Walker Art Center during their signatory expansion and renovation designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Her position leading the marketing team for a nationally recognized, award-winning architecture studio provided an opportunity to refine her design aesthetic and production management skills. This was coupled with her experience at a software management solutions start-up which advanced Crystal’s abilities to integrate her creative passions with cutting edge technologies. Crystal’s background in the cross disciplinary spaces of visual art, architecture and technology environments is a perfect fit for her role as Web Producer for “No Place Like Utopia”. She loves getting the details right on design oriented projects almost as much as hiking in the mountains. Crystal gets stuff done and we love her for it!

Vivian Rivas: Born in Guatemala, always wanted to study film, but only traditional careers were offered at the local Universities. Vivian graduated as an Architect and worked independently for a few years. After working on the feature film “The Silence of Neto” by director Luis Argueta, she moved to New York to work in his production company Morningside Movies. Later, she worked as a script supervisor and camera person. Vivian obtained her master’s degree in Documentary Filmmaking from City College of New York. Her first thesis film “Ebb Tide” was shown in numerous international festivals around the world, garnering several awards. Additionally, it was featured in the prestigious provocative AEON digital magazine in 2020. She is in post-production of her first feature documentary film “Obfuscation” about women demanding justice for young victims of torture in Guatemala.

Vivian recent work’s as Cinematographer in “No Place Like Utopia”, provides an optimum opportunity to utilize her professional skills as both an Architect and a Documentary Filmmaker, Her interviews include Beatriz Colomina, Philip Denny, Joseph Giovanini, The Kelly Family, and Kazys Varnelis.