About

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 can produce new meaning. For Galle these ‘techno-images’ can be geometrical or symbolic, playfull or dead serious.

Doubt plays an important role in his work. He encountered 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 behaviour. But when doubt is injected into a computersystem, strange things happen.

Here you can find some recent or upcoming events:

• 05.05/2012, ‘Poëtische Machine’, Poëzienacht, Bruges
• 19.04 – 03.05/2012, ‘Poëtische Machine’, Zwarte Zaal, KASK, Ghent
• 15.04 – 17.06/2012, ‘Poetic Machine’, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
• 02.12 – 11.12/2011,  ’Into the Light: Error One’, Antwerp
• 18.02 – 27.03/2011, ‘LONELY AT THE TOP: Graphology’, M HKA, Antwerp

And here you can find a more detailed cv.

Exhibitions:

• 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, Netherlands
• 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
• 1999: ‘0Bc1’ (solo), Gallerie Het Been, Antwerp
• 1998: ‘Happy to be Alive’ (solo), Gallerie Latal, Zürich, Switzerland
• 1997: ‘Poisone$Gift’ (solo), Gallerie Brasilica, Vienna, Austria
• 1997: ‘Image’, Gallerie B1, Antwerp

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:

• Assistant ‘Combined Media’ en ‘Media art’: Hogent, Department Audiovisual & Fine Arts, KASK Ghent , december 2004 – 2006
• Assistant-reasearcher ‘Media art’: Hogent, Department Audiovisual & Fine Arts, KASK Ghent , 2006 – 2009, Doctoral Research Project: ‘Poetic Machine’, KASK, Ghent, juni 2006+
• Interaction Lab, research project with Peter Beyls and Daniel Libens, KASK Ghent, 2004 – 2009
• Coördinator ‘Media art’ (Fine Arts Department), Kask, Hogent, 2007-2009.

Publications/Texts
Author:

• J. Galle, 1999, Obsceen 0BC1, Gallerie Het Been, catalogue solo exhibition, Antwerp
• J. Galle, Kathleen de Bodt, 2004: “Urban Sound[e]scape”, ‘The European City’, EAAE – Conference on design theory and Practice, Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-46304-6
• J. Galle, 2005: ‘Nan – Not a Number’, in Liquid Space, deSIGNing spatial audiovisuals, Arte-Print, p.39-40, Brussels
• J. Galle, 2006: ‘Update’, Biennal, catalogue p. 110-113, Ghent
• Henriette Bier, Kathleen de Bodt, Jerry Galle, 2006: ‘Prototypes for – interactive architecture’, interactive technologies VSMM’06 (paper), China
• H. De Preester, J. Galle, 2008: “On the intimate relation between the reproducible and the abstract nature of images.”, Symposium on Art & Science, Baden Baden, Germany
• J.Galle, H. De Preester, 2009: “Internet Art, Technology and Relational Aesthetics.”, Symposium on Art & Science, Baden Baden, Germany

Mention:

• Peter Beyls, 2006, ‘Interaction Lab’, KASK Cahiers #4, Ghent
• Pieter van Bogaert, 2007, Artes Digitales, ‘Sign of no time’, catalogue, Buda centre, Kortrijk
• Marc Schepers en Leen Derks, 2008, ‘Images of Images’, text exhibition, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp
• Helena de Preester, 2009, “Portrait”, Bilder- Fotonachrichten Nr. 234/2009, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Pieter van Bogaert, 2009, ‘In de wetenschap van het toeval’, ART #48, interview