RAN SLAVIN

Born in Jerusalem (Israel), 1967
Lives & works in Tel Aviv (Israel)
Very active in: 2000s, Current decade

Representative galleries:
Tavi Dresdner

More links:
http://www.ranslavin.com/

Video Art Works

Organic Urbanic (2002)
Insomniac City (2009)
Omni (2005)

2008

Insomniac City at the International Triennale of contemporary Art, Prag
"Alenbi Moment" screening at Rencontre Internationales, Berlin. Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Live and monographic screening at Audiovisiva, Milan
5th to the 14th of May 2008, Alenbi Moment at the at the Rencontres Internationales, Madrid.
Live in Budapest, Brand Festival
"Works" solo exhibition of paintings, prints and video at the Tavi-Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
D&A Contemporary Photography, Tel Aviv
Live at the Barzilay, Tel Aviv
Live solo a/v performance at Kol Hamila festival, Jerusalem
Live solo a/v performance at Levontin7, Tel Aviv
Live solo a/v performance and Insomniac City screenings at Netwerk, center for contemporary art, Aalst, Belgium
Organic Urbanic at Atlas of the Future, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence
"Animal", group exhibition at Agora Art, Tel Aviv
"To Know Fire" Group exhibition at Florentin 45 Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Digital Landscapes, group exhibition at the University Gallery, Tel Aviv

2007

Live Sine-ma concert/screenings/presentation.Digital Arts Festival Madeira Dig, Madeira Island, Portugal
Insomniac City at the IFCT festival, Florida.
Digital Landscapes, exhibition at the University Gallery, Tel Aviv
8-video screenings-special focus at the 25th Torino Film Festival, Italy
"ALENBI MOMENT" Video screenings at the The Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Insomniac City screening at Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel Germany
Exhibition of Live Cinema @ i-Dissabtes, Caixa Forum, Barcelona.
Live audio improvisations at the ICA, Atlantic Waves Festival, London
The Wayward Regional Transmissions was awarded an Honorary Mentions at the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
Memory Tunes video-sound concert at "Perfect Strangers" Brucknerhaus, Ars Electronica, Linz
Video-sound concert show at the opening event "More then Memories" of Ars Electronica, Linz
Memory Tunes. Live audiovisual show + video installation at the Video Marina, Bat Yam, Israel
Insomniac City at the "Transport(s) Urbain(s)" Exhibition, Saint Lizier, France.
Insomniac City at the Babylon Movie Theatre, Rencontre Internationales, Berlin
Live audio-video at the Bezalel Art Academy, Bezalel Art Academy, Architecture Dept, Jerusalem
Live audio-video at the Musrara Mix festival, Jerusalem
"Alenbi Moment" wat Laptopia,levontin 7 Tel Aviv
Insomniac City at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Rencontres Internationales, Madrid
Audio impro at the Teiva, Jaffa IL
Live audio-video at Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, 20:30-22:45, IL
"The Silence" at VIDEOFORMES 07, Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) France
LEGO. At The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv
Quiet, Video Riot. Live audio-video at the CCA, Tel Aviv
Essays on Radio at Mao Lounge, 21:00 club transmediale / DISK, Berlin
'Untitled" - video installation at the Petach Tikva Museum, Israel
The Prizes in Art and Design from the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport exhibition www.globalscreen.org / Internationales Medienkunstprojekt: "Visual Sound": National Museum, WRO 07, Wroclaw, Poland
Goethe Institute, Dakar, Senegal
Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea , Seoul, Korea
Luigi Pecci Museum, Florence-Prato, Videominuto Festival
International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany
Kuenstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf, Germany
Videoart Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece

2006

Insomniac City screening at the Jeu De Paume, Paris
Insomniac City at Jeu De Paume, the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris
Insomniac City screening at the Cabanis Media Center in Toulouse, France
Insomniac City screening at Electrosa, Rosa, Jerusalem
Insomniac City at the Unsound music festival, Krakow
Insomniac City screening at the Wormhole Saloon, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"Untitled" at optica video festival, Gijon, Spain
Insomniac City screenings at the Big Screen, Liverpool
Insomniac City screening at Pulsar, The Caracas Contemporary art museum, Venezuela
"Untitled Memories" live audio-video at "Man without shirt" cafe barzilay, Tel Aviv
'Untitled' and You Are Beautiful' on street led screens in Ljubljana, at the Visual Sound project, Slovenia
Insomniac City screening at Double Exposure, Makor Gallery, New York
Insomniac City screening at the MIVAEM Biennal, Montreal Canada
Insomniac City vers3 screenings at the Liverpool Biennale, part of Hiding City-Seeking City program, Liverpool
Insomniac City vers3 installation at Espace Croise, Roubaix, France
Insomniac City vers3 screening at UGANDA, Jerusalem
Insomniac City vers3 screening at - C.SIDES, International Convention Center, Jerusalem
Live audio-video at C.SIDES, International Convention Center, Jerusalem
Insomniac City vers3 screening at "Intervention in public space" at the THIRD EAR, Jerusalem
Insomniac City svers3 creening at LIVE CINEMA NIGHTS, ISEA 2006 - international symposium of electronic arts / Zero One San Jose, California
Live audio-video at LIVE CINEMA NIGHTS, ISEA 2006 - international symposium of electronic arts / Zero One San Jose, California
"Beauty Queen 1666" at Found Footage/Cultural Recycling/Intersections, the 23rd Jerusalem Film Festival
Live audio-video at MERSAND CAFE, frishman corner of ben yehuda, Tel Aviv
CLOSE YOUR EYES. Live audio-video at MERSAND CAFE, FROM 21:30, frishman corner of ben yehuda, Tel Aviv
RS VS CE at the Khan Theatre, 21:00, Jerusalem
Insomniac City vers3 at the "Details of Sound" festival, Ukraine
Live audio-video at the opening night of Turn on, tune in, drop out computer arts festival, Maribor, Slovenia
Insomniac City vers3 two channel video installation at the Media Nox gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
Live audio improv at the Teiva, Jaffa Tel Aviv
Live audio-video at M12, as part of PRUIG, Berlin
Insomniac City vers3 screening at Ozen5, the Third Ear's cinema, thursday at 21:40, Tel Aviv
Insomniac City vers3 showing at 66 East: Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam
Live audio-video and Insomniac City screening at DESI, Nurnberg, Germany
Live audio-video at ?Under.Ctrl?, Forum StadtPark, Graz Austria
Rs vs Ce live at Vortex, ben avigdor st, Tel Aviv
Insomniac City vers3 screening at 'Hors Pistes' medium length film festival, the Pompidou Center, Paris
Insomniac City vers3 screening on Israeli channel 2 TV, time 24:45
5 video screenings at The 'Third Ears' new 5 cinema complex, Tel Aviv IL
Insomniac City vers1 and DreamZone 537 at the West London Synagogue, London UK
Organic Urbanic screening on the Brooklyn and Manhattan cable TV at 10 pm, New York US
'Untitled' screening at Diapason Gallery, New York US
Insomniac City vers3 at Projekt Migration, Köln Germany

2005

Insomniac City vers3 at The Upgrades 'Architectural Patterns', Center for Contemporary Arts, Kalisher 5, Tel Aviv
Insomniac City vers2 at Documentaire Sur Grand Ecran, Paris
Golden Twilight Moments, Radio, A RadioPhonic Fairytale, at L'entrepot Cinema, Rencontre Internationales, Paris
Insomniac City vers2 at the Jeu De Paume national museum, Rencontre Internationales, Paris
RS vs CE [Ran Slavin vs Cadaver Eyes]live video performance-installation, at the Digital Art Lab with David Oppenheim. Holon, Israel
Insomniac City vers1 at the annual museum night, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam Holland
Triggers Of Violence at the 291 Gallery, London UK
Insomniac City vers2 at the 27th festival Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier, France
Insomniac City vers2 + Organic Urbanic at Uganda, 4 aristobulus st, 22:00, Jerusalem Israel
Untitled at the Connectors festival, Sonic Arts Network. Curated by Kurt Ralske, Bristol UK
Insomniac City vers2 at Audio-Frames, Lille France
Invisible Harmonies video at the group exhibition "pass" at 'beit haomanim' gallery, Tel Aviv Israel
Insomniac City vers3 screening at ctrl_alt_del, 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Live audio-video at ctrl_alt_del opening night, 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Insomniac City special screening of vers3, friday 24:00 cinematec Tel Aviv
Electro acoustic assemble, at 'hagda hasmalit', 22:00, w/daniel davidovsky, loic kessous, ido govrin, rami gabay, karni postel, gilad roth, Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Insomniac City. Smadar Cinema, Jerusalem Israel
RS vs CE Live at the 'Lab' Jerusalem Israel
Live audio-video at BRG2005, Braga, Portugal
Insomniac City vers2 at the Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv Israel
Drawing the lines.West London Synagogue, London UK
'From club straight to museum', Pixelache, Helsinki
Tedarim, Live audio-video - Organic Urbanic Decomposition. Cafe Barzilai, Tel Aviv Israel
Insomniac City vers2 at the Cinematec Jerusalem Israel
Chalet 05, 'From club straight to museum', Club Transmediale, Berlin
Insomniac City vers2 at the Cinematec Haifa Israel
Insomniac City vers2 at the Cinematec Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at Art Space, Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video Bamat Meitsag, Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at UltraSound,Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at Ex-Central Station, Bamat Meitsag, Tel Aviv Israel

2004

North Station at Transmediale, Berlin
UltrasSound,Tmuna Theatre ,Tel Aviv Israel
Ex-Central Station, Bamat Meitsag,Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at V2 Affective Turbulance, Deaf 04, Rotterdam Holland
Live audio-video at Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel
Video Bar, Saluna, Tel Aviv Israel
Insomniac City vers1 at the Israeli Pavilion. 9th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice Italy
Live audio-video at "SomeKindOfHead, Under a/v signals", program curator, Video-Zone Biennale, Tel Aviv Israel
Cobra Live Ensemble, JahPan, Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at the International Film Festival, Jerusalem Israel
Un cabinet de curiosité, Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva Switzerland
Video as Urban Condition, Traveling exhibition, Ambient Tv, London UK
Isratim,-Israeli Film Festival, showcase of works and live improvisation, Paris France
Live audio-video at V-Junky, Jah-Pan club, Tel Aviv Israel
Organic Urbanic at the Jewish Museum, New York USA
Dream Zone 537 at the Cinematheque, Jerusalem Israel
Live audio-video at Audiosphere, with Cristof Shlagel & Thomas Koner, Tel Aviv Israel

2003

Organic Urbanic + File, live at B12 w/Propaganda/EranSachs/Dj radomski, Jerusalem Israel
Organic Urbanic at the ?Og? event Tel Aviv Israel
Opening show for Transmediale 03, at the Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin Germany
Mercedes Camels from the Holy Land at the Transmediale VideoLounge, Berlin Germany
Random_Inc:? Walking in Jerusalem: Pirate radio stations feat: Ran Slavin & Eran Sachs? a sound Installation at the Podewil, Berlin Germany
Live audio-video at Maria ost Bahnhof, Club Transmediale, Berlin Germany
?Spatial Lines? video screening at Club Transmediale, Berlin Germany
Live audio-video at CLUB KROWADERSKA 52, Krakow, Poland
Rencontres Internationales ? Paris-Berlin
Organic Urbanic at PikseliÄHKY [pixelache], Helsinki Finland
Live audio-video at the Fact Records Evening, Tel Aviv Israel
Live audio-video at the "Hermannshof" Hannover, Germany
Live audio-video at Recycle Art, Brussells Belgium
Live ensemble with John Zorns ?Cobra? ensamble,At the Israeli Theatre Festival, Jerusalem Israel
Organic Urbanic at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Screening of ?Nowa Huta' + Organic Urbanic at club Krowaderska 52, Krakow, Poland
Organic Urbanic at E-Phos video festival, Athens, Greece
Organic Urbanic Screening in Beigin, China
Live video improv with Tamar & Kolika at Israel Art, Tel Aviv Israel
Live Video at videofly, Sofabeat, Tel Aviv Israel
Organic Urbanic and Mercedes Camels at Moov03: Digital Convergence, New York USA
Mercedes Camels From The Holyland screening as part of the Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin

2002

Live with Uri Frost as "Subo" at the Festspiehaus, St Polten, Austria
Live with Uri Frost as "Subo" t in Maribor, Slovenia
Live with Uri Frost as "Subo" at Hamehoga, Tel Aviv Israel

2001

Live Audio and Video in Collaboration with Piano Nobile Gallery, Geneva Switserland
Live Audio and Video "Constructive Chaos and Video Dna" at the opening night of the Digital Art lab, Holon Israel
V.J Vol1. Live Video at the Matmid Theatre, Tel Aviv Israel
Live video with the Rephlex label, Aphex Twin, Mike Dread, at the Dead Sea and at the Electric Tunnel Club, Tel Aviv Israel

1999

DisOrientTension, a live audio and video installation running for the time span of 5 hours as part of the International Theatre Festival, performed in a synagogue, Jerusalem Israel

1998

A live audio-video collaboration with the late book author and story teller Yosel Birnstein: "TV and Bunny ears" at Habima, Du-Oman Festival, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel theatre - Jerusalem Israel Lipstick Synk [Slavin+Shargoretsky] live at the Podewil, Berlin Germany Lipstick Synk [Slavin+Shargoretsky] live at Next Festival, Tel Aviv Israel 1997

MindStreamStrain, a video installation at the "Factory Club", Tel Aviv Israel

DISCOGRAPHY

2007 The Wayward Regional Transmissions, cd Crónica 2006 Insomniac City, dvd/cd, Mille Plateaux 2006 Into The Void, Meissner/Slavin/Sachs, cd Sub Rosa Records 2005 Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, cd/dvd Crónica, v/a 2005 Past Present Future. cd Ak Duck Records, v/a 2005 Resses, Type/+, 5" cd Ak Duck records ep 2004 Bizz_Circuits_play_Intifada_Offspring, [comp,cd,dvd], Mille PlateauxMedia, v/a 2004 Click and Cuts 4, cd Mille PlateauxMedia, v/a 2004 Tropical Agent / Ears in Water, product 02, cd Crónica 2003 On Paper, as Bz_ToneR [with Sebastian Meissner], 2xcd Crónica, v/a 2003 Electronic Facts, cd Fact records, v/a 2002 Walking in Jerusalem, Random_Inc [compilation/cd/vinyl/video/Text], Mille-Plateaux, v/a 2002 Quanta+Else|Studio Blanks 01-02, cd Esot. Rec 2001 Lipstick Sync [Slavin+Shargoretsky aka Dj E]: Eastern Symphonies, cd Nana Discs 2000 SharkMoneySexFastEntertainment, cd Earsay Records 2000 Israelian Jungle, B.N.E records, cd v/a 1999 Thermo-Swing, cd Esot. Rec 1996 Rare [Slavin/Frost/Hayut/Horovitz]- private pleasures, cd Hed Arzi records 1992 Rir [Slavin/Frost/Hayut/Horovitz], cd mc Hed Arzi records 1987 Shalosh-Hait [Slavin/Oppenheim/Hareuveni], self released untitled L.P VIDEOGRAPHIE

2007/8 The "Moments" Triology. Alenbi Moment, Highway Moment, Simple Moments. 2008 To Know Fire - Untitled 2004-08 Insomniac City. the full version [80 minutes] 2005 Facial Witness 2002-05 Invisible Harmonies 2005 Untitled 2005 Radio 2005 Golden Twilight Moments 2005 A RadiophonicFairyTale 2004 Triggers Of Violence 2004 You Are Beautiful 2004 The Silence 2004 Cit Oscillo 2004 Pixel Travels 2004 DreamZone 537 2003 North Station DM528. 2003 Nowa Huta/Preview Skin 2002 Organic Urbanic 2002 Informer 1997-2002 Mercedes Camels From The Holyland 1996-2001 Intifada Offspring 2002 Hollow 1997-2002 Omni 1/1.7 1996 Hotel Rooms / Airports DIRECTED MUSIC VIDEOS

2003 Klimek - [Sun] fall upwards [Kompakt] 2002 Meah Shearim from Walking in Jerusalem [Mille Plateaux] 2001 Trif from Lipstick Sync's Eastern Symphonies [NanaDiscs] 2000 Meka from SharkMoneySexFastEntertainment [Earsay] 2000 Disco Tuner from SharkMoneySexFastEntertainment [Earsay] 1999 The Picket from Thermo Swing [Esot.Rec] 1996 Perfect World from RARE/Private Pleasures [HedArzi] 1996 The Big Hand from RARE/Private Pleasures [HedArzi] 1996 Shelly from Algir [HedArzi] 1993 September from RIR [HedArzi] BANDS

2001 Lipstick Sync 1992 Rir / Rare 1987 Shalosh Hait [3-H] 1985 The Pleasure Splinters 1982 Cholera COLLABORATIONS WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS / DANCE ENSEMBLES

Yossi Tamim and the Muza Ensemble ? Hungry Eyes Ohad Naharin - Playback Ohad Naharin & the Bat Sheva Dance Ensemble ? YAG Yasmin Goder Dance Ensemble ? ULAM Yasmin Goder Dance Ensemble ? 2 PLAYFUL PINK Shlomi Biton Dance Ensemble ? JUST AIR, no hands Shlomi Biton Dance Ensemble ? Ehad [one] SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

17.4-23.5 "Works" exhibition of paintings, prints and videos at the Tavi-Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 8-14.5.06 - Insomniac City two channel video installation at the Media Nox gallery, Maribor, Slovenia 1994-2000 'Breathing Room' at Office in Tel Aviv gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 'New Paintings' at Beit Haam gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 'Paintings' at Olive alternative show space, Tel Aviv Israel 1993 'Sculptures'? at Sadnaot Haomanim gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 1991-92 'Electric' at Beit Haomanim gallery, Jerusalem Israel 'Mindscapes' [part 1] at the Yavne Art gallery, Yavne Israel 'Mindscapes' [part 2 at the Betsalel Art gallery, Jeruslaem Israel 1990 'Paintings' at Teamon Cafe, Jerusalem Israel GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 10.4-16.5 SlavinFishofPitchon, DNA gallery, Tel Aviv 28.2 - 20.3 "Animal", group exhibition at Agora Art, Tel Aviv 10.1 "To Know Fire" Group exhibition at Florentin 45 Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Digital Landscapes, group exhibition at the University Gallery, Tel Aviv 1997 - 2002 'Repeat' at the Haifa Museum for Contemporary Art, Haifa Israel 'During Construction' at the Haifa Museum for Contemporary Art, Haifa Israel 'Videotheque' Frument and Putman gallery, Paris France 'Mission Impossible' at the Cinematheque, Tel Aviv Israel 'After Rabin, New Art From Israel' at the Jewish Museum, New York USA 'Retail Price' at the Pyramid gallery ,Haifa Israel >'Intimacy' at Habama Theatre, Jeruslaem Israel 'Closing Show', Hamumche gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 'Voyeurism' at the Mehoga night gallery, Tel Aviv and at the Bama Theatre, Jerusalem Israel 'A night at the Video' , at Tal Esther gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 'New Video Works' at Tal Esther gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 'Local Time 3', at the Cinematheque, Tel Aviv Israel 'Local Time 5', at the Cinematheque, Tel Aviv Israel 'Imagine' Plonit gallery, Rosenfeld gallery & at Um El Fahem gallery, Israel 'Video' ,at the Gada Hasmalit, Tel Aviv Israel VScape at the Cinematheque, Tel Aviv Israel 'Organic Urbanic' at the VideoZone Biennale, Tel Aviv Israel 'Organic Urbanic' at the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion, Tel Aviv Museum Israel 'The Displaced Identity' Piano Nobile, Grenoble, France 1996 'The Autumn Salon' a project in a deserted building, Tel Aviv Israel Art on billboards around various locations in Israel 'Lights' the Israel museum, Tel Aviv Israel 'Galaxy-Less' at the Studio gallery ,Raanana Israel 1995 ?1:1?, Nachson gallery, Kibuts Nachshon Israel Kerech [book project] ,Kidmat Eden gallery, Tel Aviv Israel Active Still Life, Limbus gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 1994 'Artist Location Identity',Beit Haomanim gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 'Transit' Art Focus, Tel Aviv Israel 'Reminiscence and Obsession' ,Beit Haomanim gallery, Jerusalem Israel '90-70-90' at the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 1993 'Light' Beit Haomanim gallery, Tel Aviv Israel 1992 'The 6 room gallery' , Jaffa Israel 'Zerox' , Limbus gallery ,Tel Aviv Israel 1991 ?2D-3D? at the Israel Festival, Jeruslaem Israel The Sharet Fund, at the Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan Israel 1990 'Situations' Beit Haomanim gallery, Jeruslaem Israel BIO Currently Lives in Tel Aviv, works as sound designer, post production compositor and director 1986-1990 Graduates from the Betsalel Art Academy - Jerusalem AWARDS 2007 Honorary Mention at the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica for The Wayward Regional Transmissions CD. 2006 Production benefit for Insomniac City vers4, the Rabinovich foundation for the arts - Cinema Project, Tel Aviv Israel 2006 Production benefit for Insomniac City vers4, Israel Lottery Council for the Arts, Israel 2006 Prize in Art and Design from the Ministry of Science, Pras idud hayetsira 2006 Production benefit for Insomniac City vers3, the Rabinovich foundation for the arts - Cinema Project, Tel Aviv Israel 2004 Prize for alternative music video with Lior Har Lev at the ?951? video awards, Tel Aviv Israel 2002 Prize for best music video at the ?951? video awards, Tel Aviv Israel 2002 First prize for sound design of channel '5+' id's, Promax, Los angeles USA 1999 Best soundtrack prize for the music of the documentary film: 'Stress'. at the Doc-Aviv Film Fest, Tel Aviv Israel 1996 Prize for original director at the haifa music video competition, Israel 1994 The Young Artist Award, Tel Aviv Israel 1991 The Sharet Fund Award, Tel Aviv Israel