The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would be considered schizophrenic in the last century. We have more friends than ever before yet know new frontiers of isolation. The quantification of our experience haunts us in the form of a persistent history. And we are distracted more than we ever knew possible. These circumstances are paradoxically a description of the near future and a diagnosis of the current state of affairs. The truly timeless is redefined – it has transcended that which is classic; it has become that which is never finished.
Directed and Edited by Gabriel Shalom
Designed by Patrizia Kommerell
Produced by KS12
Producer: Karen Cifarelli
Commissioned by MU Artspace, Eindhoven
Curated by Angelique Spaninks
Production Assistant: Rob Versteeg
Interviews
(in order of appearance)
Bernhard Herrmann
Rafaël Rozendaal
Bruce Sterling
Peter Kirn
Jorien Kemerink
Markus Kayser
Elske van der Putten
Vivian van Gaal
Toby Barnes
Mary Flanagan
Shot on location in Eindhoven, NL during the STRP Festival 2011 and in Hofgeismar, Germany at the Günter Herrmann Lehrmittelfabrik
Early Stage is a transmedia documentary produced for Wieden+Kennedy.
Why is Portland an interesting place to create a startup?
How can we understand entrepreneurs and software engineers to be a new creative class?
What roles do story and performance play in the creation of an enterprise?
Following the true story of a group of aspiring startups in the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE), in the context of Portland’s creative and technology ecosystem, KS12 presents Early Stage, a Video Sprint in collaboration with PIE which starts a conversation on these topics and invites your participation.
Produced by KS12
Creative Direction: Gabriel Shalom
Designed and produced by Patrizia Kommerell
Production Assistant: Kris Cantrell
Second Camera: Jason Roark
Music "Lamplighter" and "Acre Lux" by Campfires
2012
We got older. And as we got older we realized we had rules. Not the rules of our parents. Not the rules of some big corporation or government. Rules of interaction, of engagement, etiquette even. We had grown up in a world of magical objects – things with attributes, properties, menus and options. And slowly we introduced this magic back out into the world – at least on the surface of things. In our desperation for control in a world more and more out of control, we began expressing these rules about objects in our aesthetics. Guided by visions of a near future in which the real and the virtual would be seamlessly blended, we created prototypes and simulations with increasingly higher fidelity. Yet the tyranny of the frame prevailed. Our rules collided with systems of another dimension. Stubbornly, we carried on building the simulacrum. We gritted our teeth, we dug in our heels, and we fought to stay lucid as our dreams shimmered across legions of rectangles.
Directed & Edited by Gabriel Shalom
Art Director and Production Designer: Patrizia Kommerell
Produced by KS12 as artists in residence in the Deutsche Boerse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
Commissioned by NODE Forum for Digital Arts
Curated by Eno Henze
Festival Director: David Brüll
Assistant Curator: Jeanne Charlotte Vogt
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Dmitry Paranyushkin deemeetree.com
Onyx Ashanti onyx-ashanti.com
Gabriel Shalom gabrielshalom.com
Protey Temen proteytemen.com
2013
What are young adults thinking about money and value? How can we create new systems of wealth generation and abundance? What does the future hold for banks and other financial institutions in the wake of massive peer to peer exchange?
"The Future of Money" begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation (twitter hashtag #futureofmoney)
This video was created as part of Venessa Miemis' presentation at the SIBOS Conference in Amsterdam, 25 October 2010. The interviews were conducted with participants in America, England, Sweden, Mexico, Germany and Thailand via video Skype calls from Berlin, Germany.
Written by Gabriel Shalom, Venessa Miemis and Jay Cousins
Directed and Edited by Gabriel Shalom
Produced by KS12 with Venessa Miemis
Title Design by Patrizia Kommerell
