Jerry Galle’s work is all about the sometimes difficult relationship between digital technology and contemporary culture. He uses recent software and digital imagery in an unconventional way and stresses the role of technology in our daily life and artistic creation. His work explores the way how technological images and texts can produce new meaning. For Galle these ‘techno-texts’ and ‘techno-images’ can be geometrical or symbolic, playful or dead serious.
Digital doubt plays an important role in his work. He encounters this theme by the binary structure of the computer, meaning the 0 and the 1, the ‘yes’ and the ‘no’ of our contemporary technology. In a society where doubt is considered to be an unproductive quality, technology with its compulsive efficiency, has a pervasive effect on our social behavior. But when digital doubt is injected into a computer system, strange things happen.
Recently Galle explores the use of language that is co-created with artificially intelligent algorithms. The mediation of the world through ever circulating and replicating texts that are both bot and human generated, have had a dramatic impact on conceptions of politics, culture, economics and language itself.
His work has been shown in Muhka, Bozar, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, British Film Institute, Wiels, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EMAF, International Film Festival Hamburg, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ars Electronica among others.
Fellow at V2
Jerry Galle is affiliated to KASK School of Arts University College Ghent as artistic researcher.
Exhibitions:
02/12 – 04/12/2022: Broei, Ghent
18/11 – 21/11/2022: Piksel, Bergen, Norway
25/05 – 29/05/2022: ADAF22, Athens, Greece
22/01 – 02/02/2022: Tools for Things and Ideas, Imal, Brussels
31/10 – 09/01/2022: Abstracte kunst bestaat niet, Emergent, Veurne
18/11 – 21/11/2021: Piksel, Bergen, Norway
02/10/ – 08/10/2021: Fu:bar, Zagreb, Croatia
20/09/ – 03/10/2021: Glitch is the Soul in the Machine, MCAD, Minneapolis, USA
24/06/ – 27/06/2021: Glitch is the Soul in the Machine, Winona, Minnesota, USA
08/05/2021: Critical AI manifestation, together with United Intelligence Lab, KIOSK, Ghent
21/04/2021: Homeostasis lab, Brazil
23/12/ – 24/12/2020: Art Teleported, together with United Intelligence Lab, Cica Museum, Korea
18/07/ – 05/09/2020: Dark Room Online, Torrance Art Museum, California, USA
06/04/ – 01/07/2020: Broken Screen, Buenos Aires, Argentina
03/04/ – 01/07/2020: The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany
02/03/2020: press refresh, open pavilion by D. Q. Guilló, the wrong, online
26/10 – 08/12/2019: W’re out Phishin’, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent
21/11 – 26/11/2019: Imal at Work, Imal, Brussels
20/09 – 06/10/2019: Seeing Together: a synopsis, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent
18/09 – 10/10/2019: Extravagant Love, Nikola Tesla Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
05/05/2019: Copernicus festival (Cricoteka), Krakow, Poland
2019: Output, Shanghai, China
2019: FILE-festival, São Paolo, Brazil
2019: WordPower: Language as Medium, London, UK
2019: Tendencies’19 The Overview Effect, Bozar, Brussels
2019: KVAB, Brussels
2019: Don’t be evil, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels
2018: Evening of the Black Box Business, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018: Fibre Fixed, Designmuseum, Ghent
2018: YXur gujss if asegood as minM, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent
2018: A.I.: Between humour, fear and utopia, (Gluon) Brussels
2018: WORKFLOW, CC St. Niklaas
2018: Unframed Festival, Berlin, Germany
2018: A.I.: Between humour, fear and utopia, (Gluon) Montreal, Canada
2018: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2017: Rainbow Unicorn, Berlin, DE
2017: Patchlab, Krakow, Poland, PL
2017: Langages Machine – Fondation Vasarely/Seconde Nature, Aix, France, FR
2017: Ars Electronica, White Circle, Linz, AT
2017: Alpha & Omega, Principium et Finis, White Circle, Brussels
2017: B-Seite, Mannheim, DE
2016: Multiplicity, Emergent, Veurne, BE
2016: Jan Kempenaers & Jerry Galle, Panache, Antwerp, BE
2016: Ex Nihilo, Nihil Fit, White Circle, Atelier Coppens, Brussels, BE
2015: A New Spirit in Booking, Mer. Station 17, CC Strombeek, BE
2015: De Burgemeester van Veurne, Emergent Gallery, Veurne, BE
2015: Lodgers, Muhka, Antwerp, BE
2014: Generatieve Kunst, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, BE
2014: Return to Sender, Wiels, Brussels, BE
2014 Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
2013: Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp, BE
2013: Swan Song, Les Rencrontres Internationales, Paris, FR
2013: Swan Song, Punto y Raya Festival, Reykjavik, IS
2013: [Manœuvres], Voorkamer, Lier, BE
2013: Swan Song, Antimatter, Victoria, CA
2013: Swan Song, British Film Institute, London, UK
2013: Swan Song, New Horizons, Wroclaw, PL
2013: Swan Song, Videoex Festival, Zürich, CH
2013: Swan Song, International Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
2013: ‘Swan Song’, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE
2013: ‘Swan Song’, International Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
2013: ‘Swan Song’, Courtisane Festival Ghent
2013: ‘Swan Song’, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US
2013: Artipool, Kortenberg, Brussels
2013: ‘Swan Song’, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2013: ‘Blijven kijken/Dropouts/Ce qui nous regarde’, Museum M, Leuven
2013: ‘Eine kleine Geschichte der Bilder’, CCHA, Hasselt
2012: ‘Swan Song’, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2012: ‘Graphology’, Art Exchange, Essex, London, UK
2012: ‘Poetic Machine’, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
2012: ‘Poetic Machine’, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent
2012: ‘Poëtische Machine’, Poëzienacht, Bruges
2011: ‘Into the Light: Error One’, Antwerp
2011: ‘LONELY AT THE TOP: Graphology’, M HKA, Antwerp
2010: ‘Sleeper’, screening at KIOSK, Ghent
2010: ‘inFORM’, Gallery Kunst-Zicht, Ghent
2010: ‘Europapark’, screening ‘Linker Oever’, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp
2010: ‘A longing for abstraction’, FeliXart Museum, Brussels
2010: ‘To dub doubt’ (solo), NP3, Groningen, NL
2010: ‘An a is a b is a z’, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp
2009: ‘Double Yes’ (solo), Croxhapox, Ghent
2009: ‘Micronomics’, Brussels
2009: ‘Portrait’, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2009: ‘Fuzzy Electronics’, Netwerk, Aalst
2009: ‘Fenomenale Feminatheek’, La Riva, Antwerp
2008: ‘Europark monteren’, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp
2008: ‘Images of images’ (solo), Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp
2008: ‘Zonder Titel’, HISK, Ghent
2008: ‘Pixelspleen’, with August Orts, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2007: ‘Artes Digitales’, Budacentre, Kortrijk
2007: ‘Here today, gone tomorrow’, Gallerie Fst Forward, Antwerp
2007: ‘Vidéothéque Ephémére’, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2006: ‘Cimatics’, Audiovisual festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2006: ‘Update_1’, ‘De Oorsprong’, Zebrastraat De Cirk, Ghent
2005: ‘Rain’, ‘Champsdaction’, Museum Contemporary Art Antwerp
2005: ‘Nan (Not a Number)’, with Labau, Dorkbot, Gent
2004: ‘Qiska’, CCB, Antwerp
2004: ‘Soundtoys’, London, UK
2004: ‘Physical sound’ (solo), Mediaruimte, Brussels
2004: ‘Nan(Not a Number)’, Mediaruimte, Brussels
2004: ‘Nan(Not a Number)’, MAP, Brussels
2003: ‘Future Perfect’, CCB, KASK Antwerp, Antwerp
2003: ‘Rest’, Fish&Chips, Antwerp
2002: ‘Genant’, Gallerie De Griffioen, St. Pauwels
2000: ‘0Bc2’ (solo), Gallerie Het Been, Antwerp
1998: ‘Happy to be Alive’ (solo), Gallerie Latal, Zürich, Switzerland
1997: ‘Poisone$Gift’ (solo), Gallerie Brasilica, Vienna, Austria
Workshops and lectures:
Lecture ‘So Simple A Computer Can Do It’, Zebrastraat, Ghent, 2010
Masterclass Live A/V, Workshop “Logic doubles Logic”, Cimatics, Brussels 2008
Lecture ‘Digital technologies in the arts’, Vooruit, Ghent, 2006
Workshop ADSL2006 ‘InterAction’, Henry van de Velde Institute, Antwerp, 2006
Lecture on Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Weekend, Plymouth University, UK, 2006
Lecture ‘fuzzyLogic’, Mediaruimte Brussels, 2004
Lecture ‘fuzzyLogic’, KASK Antwerp, 2004
Organisation ‘Future Perfect’, multimedia event CCB and KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) Antwerp, 2001
Lecture on ‘Future Perfect’, multimedia event, KASK Antwerp, 2001
Teaching and research:
Postdoctoral researcher, ‘Psychoanalytic Machines’, School of Arts, Ghent, 2012 +
Doctoral research project: ‘Poetic Machine’, KASK, Ghent, 2006 – 2012
Assistant-researcher ‘Media art’: Hogent, Department Audiovisual & Fine Arts, KASK Ghent , 2006 – 2009
Interaction Lab, research project with Peter Beyls and Daniel Libens, KASK Ghent, 2004 – 2009
Coordinator ‘Media art’ (Fine Arts Department), Kask, Hogent, 2007 – 2009
Assistant ‘Combined Media’ en ‘Media art’: Hogent, Department Audiovisual & Fine Arts, KASK Ghent , december 2004 – 2006
Workshops and lectures:
Lecture ‘So Simple A Computer Can Do It’, Zebrastraat, Ghent, 2010
Masterclass Live A/V, Workshop “Logic doubles Logic”, Cimatics, Brussels 2008
Lecture ‘Digital technologies in the arts’, Vooruit, Ghent, 2006
Workshop ADSL2006 ‘InterAction’, Henry van de Velde Institute, Antwerp, 2006
Lecture on Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Weekend, Plymouth University, UK, 2006
Lecture ‘fuzzyLogic’, Mediaruimte Brussels, 2004
Lecture ‘fuzzyLogic’, KASK Antwerp, 2004
Organisation ‘Future Perfect’, multimedia event CCB and KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) Antwerp, 2001
Lecture on ‘Future Perfect’, multimedia event, KASK Antwerp, 2001
Teaching and research:
Postdoctoral researcher, ‘Psychoanalytic Machines’, School of Arts, Ghent, 2012 +
Doctoral research project: ‘Poetic Machine’, KASK, Ghent, 2006 – 2012
Assistant-researcher ‘Media art’: Hogent, Department Audiovisual & Fine Arts, KASK Ghent , 2006 – 2009
Interaction Lab, research project with Peter Beyls and Daniel Libens, KASK Ghent, 2004 – 2009
Coordinator ‘Media art’ (Fine Arts Department), Kask, Hogent, 2007 – 2009
Assistant ‘Combined Media’ en ‘Media art’: Hogent, Department Audiovisual & Fine Arts, KASK Ghent , december 2004 – 2006
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