Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist, scholar, and design educator with a PhD in arts and creative industries from Middlesex University London. His research focuses on the cultural geography of material culture, examining how places undergo semantic, material, and historical transformation through the framework of “constructed geographies” that he developed in his doctoral dissertation. His current project, Constructed Geographies of Capital: Architectural Ornament and American Identity in Manhattan, examines ornamental programs in Lower Manhattan’s financial architecture as visual language systems, tracing how the materials, symbols, and scale of decorative surfaces constructed meaning and encoded financial power across two periods: the Art Deco era of the 1920s–30s and the postmodern revival of the 1980s–90s. His artistic research, organized around the Terra Corpus trilogy, has been exhibited and screened at the 54th and 59th Venice Biennale, Blaffer Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra, among other institutional venues internationally. His article on algorithms and creative labor, developed during a 2021 Research Fellowship at the Schaufler Lab, Technische Universität Dresden, was published in Leonardo (MIT Press, 2025). He serves as adjunct associate professor in graduate communications design at Pratt Institute.
Anton Ginzburg
Visiting Fellow, Spring 2027
Visiting Faculty and Fellows