Gabriel Shalom

Bio 

Gabriel Shalom (Born 1982, Bethesda, Maryland USA) is an audiovisual artist with a background in cinema, video art, music and design. Since 2003 he has worked extensively in Germany on a number of collaborative projects in design and performance. His primary interests include experimental narrative, visual music and postapocalyptic children's fairy tales. His bachelor's thesis, a documentary about instrument inventors, world premiered at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival. In 2005 he participated in the creation of the live audiovisual quartet Suite For Ingrid at the Creative Arts and Music Project in Stuttgart Germany, an international festival for visual music and sound art. He is currently working on a number of character-driven audiovisual projects.

Education

• 2000-2003 Honors student in fine arts at University of Maryland College Park
• 2003 Exchange student at Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall
• 2003-2005 Bachelor of Arts in film in video at Bard College
• 2005-2007 Graduate studies at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe

Selected Group Screenings

2007

• Optronica Festival, London
• VideoChannel Image Vs. Music - India International Centre, New Dehli
• Handclaps - Club Transmediale, Berlin
• 100 Tage = 100 Videos - GL Strand Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen

2006

• 100 Tage = 100 Videos - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg  
  
• Music Machines & Videomusic - Gallery Olaf Stüber, Berlin  
  
• Music Machines & Videomusic - Project 101, Paris  
  
• Handclaps - Transit Festival, Chiasso
• 1A18 Screening - Kunstmuseums Bonn, Bonn
• 1A18 Screening - Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
• VideoChannel Image Vs. Music - 8th CHROMA - Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajarra  
  
• VideoChannel Image Vs. Music - PI 5 Video Festival, Szczecin  
  
• Black Box Screening - Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore  
  
• Black Box Screening - Black Box Kino, Düsseldorf  
  
• 1A18 Screening - Karlsruher Museumsnacht, Karlsruhe  
  
• Media Flow - Wilhelm Hach Museum, Ludwigshafen  
  
• Media Flow - The Lab, San Francisco  
  
• VIPER International Festival for Film Video & New Media, Basel  
  
• Jump Cut Nights 2006 - Stories Told Through Movement - Museum Ludwig, Cologne
• Media Flow - Südhaus, Tübingen  
  
• Media Flow - Mapping VJ Festival, Geneva

2005

• Ichiigai Label Showcase - Re/Act Festival, Heidelberg  
  
• Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock  
  
• Media Flow - Sargasso: C, London  
  
• DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington DC  
  
• Media Flow - Project 101, Paris

2004

• Media Flow - Gallery of Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart