Gartel's, Trance, Dance and Other Living Things on DVD
Amazon Review - Gartel- Trance, Dance and Other Living Things Vol. 1 DVD
This dvd is unique. The 14 tracks cover a whole range of dance styles from the Ragga influenced 'Notorius' (Miss Gorgeous) by General Degree to Trancy/Euro -Ibiza club anthems like Suva's 'Searching for the Sun'. All the music is of the highest quality and Gartel's mindblowing in sync visualisations cut with images from his fantastic artistic brain leave you stunned. The whole thing is like having a perfect club night experience on dvd
LAURENCE GARTEL is a founding "PIONEER" of the Digital Art movement. Gartel could also be considered the father of the paintbox era (circa 1986), who actually started this technique 10 years prior to any software being written for painting and photo-manipulation. He used digital synthesizers, TVs and then output photographically as a dyesub & Polaroid prints. It was also 10 years before Warhol did his Amiga prints of Deborah Harry.
His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, PS 1, Norton Museum and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and the Bibliotheque Nationale. His biography for his pioneering efforts is included in "Who's Who," "Who's Who in the East," "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in American Art," and "Who's Who in the World."
Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Gartel had the opportunity to teach Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer, went to School of Visual Arts, with fellow art student, grafitti artist Keith Haring, where he earned his BFA degree majoring in Graphics, and started his electronic career working side by side with Nam June Paik at Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York.
Gartel had many associations with musicians such as Debbie Harry (Blonde) Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols), Stiv Bators (Dead Boys) Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls) Ace Frehley (Kiss) and Wendy O Williams (Plasmatics). Recently, Gartel has created artwork for such Pop Culture stars such as Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears.
LAURENCE GARTEL breaks all the rules once again as he brings to the music and entertainment industry a new vision. Mixing photography, graffiti, 3D computer graphics, animation, paint and video, here is GARTEL's first fusion of art and music in the new genre of Digital Video (DVD). Each track is like a mini movie. This project allows people to have their own rave party.
Suggested to be shown on a big screen the experience reminds people of their early "club" days (with or without external stimulus): GARTEL takes us to heightened sensory states. GARTEL's work has been exhibited around the globe at institutions and museums such as: The Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, Norton Museum, and in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, and Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History. Several monograph books on Mr. GARTEL's work include: "Laurence GARTEL: A Cybernetic Romance," published by Gibbs Smith, Utah, and "GARTEL: Arte & Tecnologia" published by Edizioni Mazotta, Italy. Commissions include: "ABSOLUT GARTEL" for Absolut Vodka, Coca Cola, Philip Morris, Roche Pharmaceuticals, FORBES, Walt Disney Company, Commerzbank, and many others.
As a published author of several fine art books, you can see more of GARTEL's innovative work, by visiting the artist's website: www.gartelmuseum.com. You can communicate with the artist's studio by going to: gartel@aol.com
Friend and colleague, STEVE DANZIG brings his bizarre sense of art and design to the multi media platform. Editing and mixing both the moving image and the static singular frames, the production takes on a multi layered dimension. The viewer is taken on a journey and most certainly will not be the same after experiencing this work. DANZIG residing in Australia communicates with GARTEL via the internet while discussing artistic strategies . DANZIG has been a working digital artist for many years. He is the President of the IDAA which features the talents of artists working in digital media. The exhibition of the IDAA have been shown in the United States, Germany, Australia and Russia.
BIG DADDY G. - Award winning Producer of world class Dance Music integrates his own sound plus those of Producers/Artists from America, Europe, The Middle East and Latin America including: Cruisin L.A. Produced by Big Daddy G.- Big Daddy G. /Falling Far Away (trance remix) Produced by Hijo de Buda (aka Luis Castellanos)/Never Will You Find Produced and Performed by Fatima Marques- Fatima Ribeiro Marques/Nigol Tchalakian/Chris Paul/Digital Gartel Produced by Big Daddy G. and Paul Dinletir- Paul Dinletir/Big Daddy G.- My Scream Produced by Roy Stoler/Uri Levanon- Roy Stoler/Uri Levanon /Get High Produced by Shlomi Aboukrat/Eldad Paz/Uri Levanon- Miss Gorgeous Produced by P. Baigorry and Pionear for Seed Performed by General Degree/Dilemma Produced by Samuel Blankson Performed by Samuel and Uju Samuel Blankson/ Searching For The Sun Produced by Virus Audio Performed by Suva Dave Coe/Las Vegas Produced by Paul Dinletir and Big Daddy G Big Daddy G and Paul Dinletir/No Reason Produced by Gordon Michael Performed by PrimaDonna- Donna Cristy/Gordon Dziedziak/Buzz Produced by John O'Herron "JohnO" -John O'Herron-Bionic Studios/Fiesty Monster Produced by Big Daddy G and Paul Dinletir - Paul Dinletir/Big Daddy G.- Killum Produced by Big Daddy G- Big Daddy G.
EACH GARTEL TRACK ON THIS DVD IS A MINI MOVIE! WITH HUNDREDS OF GARTEL IMAGES INTEGRATED INTO A MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION INCLUDING:
1. FUSION SYSTEM (4:29) 2. NEFERTITI'S SECRET (5:36) 3. A GIRL LIKE ME (2:59) 4. FACE OFF (3:20) 6. SOUTH BEACH (4:12) 7. NOTORIUS (3:19) 8. BOYFRIENDS (3:54) 9. SEARCHING FOR THE SUN (3:36)10. JAPONICA (3:23) 11. WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT (3:21) 12. CYBEROTICA (4:42) 13. ESCAPISM (3:02) 14. GARTEL TRANCE (4:13)
TAKE HOME YOUR OWN "RAVE PARTY" ON A DVD WITH DOLBY® DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND SOUND. YOU WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS!!!
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