Welcome

Guli Silberstein's art work progress can be roughly divided to three stages: 2000-2014 - starting in his MA in Media Studies research at The New School University NYC, he has created socio-political pieces processing personal recordings, found footage, and mixes of both, to produce new perspectives on issues of war, and perception, from 2015 - using 'glitch' (datamoshing) technique to break down the image, deconstructing video code, investigating formations of the body and finding new landscapes in personal and media footage. And since 2020 being an early adopter of Artificial Intelligence - creating short video loops, and experimental short & feature films, exploring and subverting AI to push boundaries and generate unexpected forms of human, motion, and environment. Ignited by dreams, nightmares, visions, hallucinations and memories, his works experiment with video form as poetic expression. It’s a continuous practical research, a life project, tracking down peculiar usages of computer processes, to produce moving image assemblies that form new aesthetics fed by inner personal experiences, reacting to wider human issues.​

Artist Statement:

I’m an artist and filmmaker working with digital video since 2001, following my graduation from MA in Media Studies program at The New School University NYC. My practice involves the digital manipulation of video to explore themes of the human condition, perception, and the impact of technology on society. I aim to create tangible, moving textures that activate the imagination and inspire heightened awareness.

My artistic journey began with processing personal recordings and found footage as a commentary on global events, focusing on individuals caught in war situations, alongside explorations of human cognition of images. I later adopted glitch techniques to disrupt images, uncover new meanings, and create unique visual forms. Since 2020, as an early adopter of AI, I've created work predicting and generating visual forms in aesthetics, scale, and volume previously unseen.

Practical research drives my approach. Using digital tools, I generate, dissect, and reassemble video to challenge viewers' perceptions, aiming to provoke thought, discussion, and action. I share my findings through publications, conferences, interviews, screenings, and exhibitions, reaching a broad public community via social media and active engagement with the artistic community.

Philosophically, Cybernetics lies at the core of my work. My use of AI explores questions about predictive and ethical implications of neural networks in our lives, suggesting that the AI’s 'brain' can offer insights into human cognition and perception. Socially and politically, my art reflects on how cultural data is presented and consumed in the digital age, highlighting distortions often hidden in plain sight, and raising subconscious aspects of the human psyche, brought up to surface by a collaboration of artist and machine.