Artist Profiles
Ran Slavin
Insomniac City (2009), installation view
Born in Jerusalem in 1967, Ran Slavin lived in the USA, London and Singapore and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
Slavin is a film maker, writer, and a video and audio artist. His film making relies foremost on visual language and its parallels in audio and vice versa. His approach to film is that of an auteur, to the extent that he shoots, edits, and writes the scores for all of his films and videos.
His videos blur the distinctions between present and future, documentary, digital and fiction and present a hybrid of moving images, and stills in motion. At times on the threshold of digital painting, the videos are characterized by dream-like sequences, intense suspension and altered states.
Slavin's work - video installations, live-video-sound improvisations and digital music releases – has been exhibited internationally in screenings, exhibitions and performances. These include The Torino Film festival, The Venice Biennial, The Liverpool Biennial, The Istanbul Biennial, an honorary mention at Ars Electronica [Linz], Transmediale [Berlin], Deaf [Rotterdam], Centre de Pompidou [Paris], Jeu De Paum [Paris], Rencontres Internationales [Madrid-Berlin-Paris], The Whitechapel Art Gallery [London], Zero One [San Jose], Netwerk Contemporary Art Centre [Aalst], and Petah Tikva Art Museum [Israel]
Slavin's live cross-media concerts are an ongoing project. Each performance is a unique cinematic stream of video, sound and text improvised live, tapping into a virtually endless stream of possibilities and juxtapositions of morphing dream worlds Layers of images and text are processed and juxtaposed and then translate into raw sound via oscillators that tap into the speed and colors of the image. Using custom video and sound tools, each variation produces the change in rhythm and sound of the soundtrack, in an attempt at 'hearing the image' and real time 'cause and effect'.
Slavin is a film maker, writer, and a video and audio artist. His film making relies foremost on visual language and its parallels in audio and vice versa. His approach to film is that of an auteur, to the extent that he shoots, edits, and writes the scores for all of his films and videos.
His videos blur the distinctions between present and future, documentary, digital and fiction and present a hybrid of moving images, and stills in motion. At times on the threshold of digital painting, the videos are characterized by dream-like sequences, intense suspension and altered states.
Slavin's work - video installations, live-video-sound improvisations and digital music releases – has been exhibited internationally in screenings, exhibitions and performances. These include The Torino Film festival, The Venice Biennial, The Liverpool Biennial, The Istanbul Biennial, an honorary mention at Ars Electronica [Linz], Transmediale [Berlin], Deaf [Rotterdam], Centre de Pompidou [Paris], Jeu De Paum [Paris], Rencontres Internationales [Madrid-Berlin-Paris], The Whitechapel Art Gallery [London], Zero One [San Jose], Netwerk Contemporary Art Centre [Aalst], and Petah Tikva Art Museum [Israel]
Slavin's live cross-media concerts are an ongoing project. Each performance is a unique cinematic stream of video, sound and text improvised live, tapping into a virtually endless stream of possibilities and juxtapositions of morphing dream worlds Layers of images and text are processed and juxtaposed and then translate into raw sound via oscillators that tap into the speed and colors of the image. Using custom video and sound tools, each variation produces the change in rhythm and sound of the soundtrack, in an attempt at 'hearing the image' and real time 'cause and effect'.
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