Gabriel Shalom is a videomusician, art director, producer and media theorist living and working in Berlin, Germany. He writes a blog about the future of cinema where he attempts to articulate a new movement in aesthetics called Hypercubism. His video art takes the form of rhythmically edited audiovisual compositions. He is the co-founder of KS12, a boutique creative studio which produces projects such as Postcards from Berlin, a participatory storytelling project, as well as servicing clients in arts and culture. Since Spring 2009 he is adjunct faculty at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule where he lectures on film, audiovisual performance, video art and motion graphics.
EDUCATION
| 2005 – 2007 | Graduate studies at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe |
| 2003 – 2005 | Bachelor of Arts in film in video at Bard College |
| 2003 | Exchange student at Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall |
| 2000 – 2003 | Honors student in fine arts at University of Maryland College Park |
SELECTED FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
| 2008 | Örebro International Video Art Festival, Örebro Sweden |
| DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington DC | |
| Bilder über Bilder - Berlin | |
| Vision'R VJ Festival - Paris | |
| 2007 | Signali Video - Cagliari, Sardinia |
| Hea Uus Heli, Tallinn | |
| C-Prayer, Milano | |
| C/O Pop - Best of Optronica, Köln | |
| Le Cube - Optronica on Screen, Paris | |
| Optronica Festival, London | |
| Rokolectiv Festival, Bucharest | |
| Club Transmediale, Berlin | |
| 2006 | Transit Festival - Handclaps, Chiasso |
| ZKM Kubus - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe | |
| 8th CHROMA - Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajarra | |
| PI 5 Video Festival, Szczecin | |
| VIPER International Festival for Film Video & New Media, Basel | |
| Mapping VJ Festival - Media Flow, Geneva | |
| 2005 | CAMP International Festival for Sound and Light Arts, Stuttgart |
| Re/Act Festival - Ichiigai Label Showcase, Heidelberg | |
| Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock | |
| DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington DC | |
| Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | Art Video Exchange - Rauland Kunstforening, Rauland, Norway |
| 10 Years CAMP Festival - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart | |
| 2007 | Vereinigung Bildener KünstelerInnen Wiener Secession, Wien |
| Videovisionen - Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenberg | |
| Westwerk - 1A18 Screening, Hamburg | |
| India International Centre - VideoChannel Image Vs. Music, New Dehli | |
| GL Strand Kunstforeningen - 100 Tage = 100 Videos, Copenhagen | |
| 2006 | Heidelberger Kunstverein - 100 Tage = 100 Videos, Heidelberg |
| Gallery Olaf Stüber - Music Machines & Videomusic, Berlin | |
| Project 101 - Music Machines & Videomusic, Paris | |
| Kunstmuseums Bonn - 1A18 Screening, Bonn | |
| Kumho Museum of Art - Floating Perspective Showcase, Seoul | |
| Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan - Black Box Screening, Bangalore | |
| Black Box Kino - Black Box Screening, Düsseldorf | |
| KAMUNA Karlsruher Museumsnacht - 1A18 Screening, Karlsruhe | |
| Wilhelm Hach Museum - Media Flow, Ludwigshafen | |
| The Lab - Media Flow, San Francisco | |
| Museum Ludwig - Jump Cut Nights - Stories Told Through Movement, Köln | |
| 2005 | Sargasso: C - Media Flow, London |
| Project 101 - Media Flow, Paris | |
| 2004 | Gallery of Fluctuating Images - Media Flow, Stuttgart |