Artists - G
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gansomaeda (Japan) 
 Gansomaeda is an artists’ collaborative formed in 2000
by Gaku Shinohara (born in 1974 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works
in New York) and Go Watanabe (born in 1975 in Hiroshima, Japan.
Lives and works in Kitakyushu).
While each artist pursues his own creative activities, Shinohara
and Watanabe also share an idea as the same generation and develop
works in respond to the environment of art world. They simply
struggle with conditions and problems to befall artists Major
exhibitions include “Rakumachi Rakuya” (Kyoto, 2005),
“Channel 0” (Akiyoshidai International Art Village,
2004) and “Art Camp in Nakatsue” (Nakatsue-mura,
Oita, 2002). Gansomaeda is also a prolific creator of moving
images.
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Jakob Gautel & Jason Karaïndros (Germany
and Greece)
Jakob Gautel – Born in 1965 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Lives
and works in Paris.
Jason Karaïndros – Born in 1963 in Athens, Greece.
Lives and works in Paris.
Gautel and Karaïndros have also been collaborating since the early
90’s while pursuing their own careers. In Gautel and Karaïndros’s
representative work Angel Detector, the light inside a transparent dome only
lights up when total silence is detected in its vicinity. The title of this
work alludes to a French expression taken from the idea that a lull in a
conversation occurs when an angel passes by. Small and large versions of
this device – transforming the public space into an intimate space by detecting
the silence that exists in our noise-filled urban environment – have been
exhibited in many different locations. In Japan, Gautel and Karaïndros’ work
has been shown at the “Paris in Creation” exhibition, a showcase
of young French artists held at Bunkamura, Shibuya in 1999.
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Shaun Gladwell (Australia) 
Born in 1972 in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney.
Gladwell presents extreme sports – skateboarding, BMX
(bicycle motocross) and break dancing, and street culture
– hip hop and graffiti - within the urban environment
through video works. He challenges urban space in an attempt
to strip the city of, or to convert, its function. Gladwell
stimulates the barren and closed urban space by dramatizing
the images through the use of slow motion. Since 2000, Gladwell
has been a member of the Australian artist collective Imperial
Slacks and continues to exhibit widely. Major works include
New Balance (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art,
Perth, 2004) and Interlace (Performance Space, Sydney,
2004).
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Ingo Günther (Germany) 
Born in 1957 in Hanover, Germany. Lives and works in New York.
Artist and journalist Ingo Günther is widely influential as an innovator
of media art. His work represents visualizations of the various issues that
surround journalism and art, the State, technology, the individual and media.
Examples include World Processor in which the various issues and problems
faced by our planet today are conveyed by the data collected from every imaginable
place – from ground level, from outer space, from science and from
society – and presented on an illuminated globe, and Refugee Republic,
a project that attempts to create a virtual community, transcending national
boundaries, of the countless refugees scattered throughout the world. Günther
is widely known for his global perspective and activism – in the past
he has been invited to attend the World Economic Forum while he also continues
to research and explore international diplomacy.
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