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Gabriel Shalom 

(*1982) is a hypercubist videomusician living and working in Berlin, Germany. Since 2004 his video art praxis takes the form of rhythmically edited audiovisual compositions which he calls videomusic.

Gabriel Shalom's compositional style is inspired by his own talents as a human beatbox as well as his background in jazz and electronic music. His formal process plays within the limits of human audiovisual perception and often aspires towards the humorous. His work has been included in various audiovisual contexts, including among others Club Transmediale, Berlin (2007) the Best of Optronica, London (2007), and the VIPER International Festival for Film Video & New Media, Basel (2006).

 

Hypercubism is a term Gabriel coined in 2008 to describe a movement in contemporary digital aesthetics. Hypercubism exhibits a tendency of depicting a multiplicity of audiovisually synaesthetic timelines within the same simulated timespace. Hypercubism is positioned to prefigure the aesthetics of holography. He is currently leading the co-authorship of a Hypercubist Manifesto. In his blog Quantum Cinema Gabriel Shalom writes about the future of cinema.

 

Since 2009 Gabriel is adjunct faculty at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule where he lectures on film, audiovisual performance, video art and motion graphics. He has also been a guest lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Institute For Music And Media Düsseldorf, and Perestroika – a private innovation school in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He was a video artist in residence at the ZKM | Karlsruhe in 2006 where he produced the video portion of an hour long audiovisual concert called DONNY G. adapted from Mozart's Don Giovanni, funded in part by the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland. In 2005 he was a participant in the CAMP festival for visual music and sound art in Stuttgart Germany at the Württembergische Kunstverein where he produced a live audiovisual performance together with Vitor Joaquim, Günter Heinz and Philipp Rahlenbeck called Suite for Ingrid. He was a graduate student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe from 2005 to 2007; he received his Bachelor of Arts in film in video from Bard College in 2005.

 

Source: Gabriel Shalom's website

 

 

Gabriel Shalom, berlin, Humor

Reading

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (1994) by French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. (Colombia University Press)

Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film 1910-1975 (1979) is a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery in London from 3 May until 17 June 1979 on rare, essential and controversial avant-garde film history.

META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (2007) by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack digital sampling of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world gone wild while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic practice. (The MIT Press)

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