Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the owner of Watkins Books,[1] London's oldest spiritual bookshop.[2][3] Ilfeld is also the editor-in-chief of the Watkins Review and the creator of an interactive spiritual map of London.[4] In Issue 26 of the Watkins Review, Ilfeld created the 100 Spiritual List, which ranks the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World.[5]
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Ilfeld is a competitive strategy games player having won the World Amateur Poker Championship Title in the 2010 14th Mind Sports Olympiad;[6] he is a ranked USCF chess master,[7] and winner of the under 2300 section of the 2003 US Open.[8]
Ilfeld graduated at the top of his undergraduate Physics class at Stanford University and was granted the David Levine Award, and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa; Ilfeld also holds a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Southern California, and a Masters in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths, University of London.
In 2007, Ilfeld founded Tenderpixel Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Central London.[9] Ilfeld is also a digital artist and his New Kind of Cinema work has been featured and archived in Rhizome's ArtBase,[10] which was programmed in Mathematica and inspired by the usage of cellular automata after training with Stephen Wolfram in Pisa during the summer of 2009.[11] He was also an executive producer of the feature film, Killer Pad (directed by Robert Englund).