Bio:

Jesse Gilbert works in sound and software design, creating flexible tools that are activated in live performance and installation settings. His work has recently focused on multi-channel environments, data networks, and real-time electronic sound using custom sampling software. He's usually occupied with deconstructing technologies as rational systems by exploring alternative designs that emphasize intuitive, fluid modes of human/machine interaction.

Gilbert's work has been shown widely in the US and abroad; venues include Engine27 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The New Museum (New York), net.congestion (Amsterdam), Ars Electronica (Austria), CEAIT Festival (Los Angeles), Kunstradio's Recycling the Future (Austria), PORT (MIT, Boston) and many others. Gilbert has worked with a varied list of collaborators, including Anthony Braxton, Mark Trayle, Wadada Leo Smith, Carole Kim, Atau Tanaka, Clay Chaplin, Pauline Oliveros, Leroy Jenkins, Grisha Coleman, Scott Rosenberg, Nina Sobell, Dafna Naphtali, Emily Hartzell, Nick Didkovsky, Marek Walczak, Helen Thorington, and many others. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Eyebeam Atelier, turbulence.org, the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, the Markle Foundation, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT).


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Reverse House Kit directed by Jesse Gilbert and Jesse Gilbert USA, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:12:48 REVERSE HOUSE KIT is a non-linear, spatial interpretation of a 15-part poem by the same name. Peering into a large room through windows that create long, tunnel-like portals through a multi-layered space, a f... more info

Compilations containing Reverse House Kit
	Commercial DVD Aspect - The Chronicle of New Media, Volume II (MC-192) Artists of the West Coast	2002	Available from the Microcinema DVD Store

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