Gabriel Menotti
Movie/Cinema – Rearrangements of the Apparatus in Contemporary Movie Circulation
Gabriel Menotti Gonring, born 1983 in Brazil, is an independent critic/curator engaged in different forms of cinema and grassroots practices. He has previously organized pirate movie screenings, remix film festivals, videogame championships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with super8 film projectors, generative art exhibitions and academic seminars. Menotti holds a Masters in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of São Paulo, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Media & Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. His exhibition projects and installations are an inherent part of his research activity and have been presented in numerous venues throughout the world. The most recent events he has participated in are: the Artivistic Festival (Canada); Medialab Prado’s Interactivos?! (Spain); the 16th International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Germany); the 29th São Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil); and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid.
Website: bogotissimo.com/b2kn
List of publications
- Digital movie distribution: technological engagement, institutional transgression and mediatic experience (in Netted Cinema, L’Atalante #13, Spain, Forthcoming 2012)
- Video rec como forma de gameplay (in Machinima, CINUSP, Brazil, Forthcoming 2011)
- Cinematographic Circuit Bending (in Collaborating Now, New Zeland, Forthcoming 2011)
- Art Institutions and Pirate Media Ecologies in Brazil (in esse arts + opinions, n 72, Canada, Jun 2011)
- Nova York, Lugar Comum (in Select, n 1, vol 1, Brazil, May 2011)
- O Mapa como Matéria-Prima (in the catalogue for the exhibition Lugares / Representações, FUNARTE, Brazil, 2011)
- Objets Propagés: The Internet Video as an Audiovisual Format (in Video Vortex Reader II, Institute of Network Cultures, the Netherlands, 2011)
- SP International Curatorial Encounter (Fórum Permanente, Brazil, Oct 2010)
- Através da Sala Escura: Uma aproximação entre a sala de cinema e o lugar do Vjing (in Comunicação e Sociedade, n 17, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, Jul 2010)
- Movie Theatres for a World in Progressive Dissolution (in Public, n 37, York University, Canada, 2008)
- O Cinema como Prestação de Serviço (in Digitofagia, Radical Livros, Brazil, 2008)
- The Contrary of the Movie Theatre (in a:minima, n 22, Spain, 2007)
- Arquitetura da Espectação: A construção histórica da Situação Cinema nos espaços de exibição cinematográfica (in Ciberlegenda, ano 9, n 18, PPGCOM/UFF, Jul 2007)