Case Gabriel Simmons
323.459.3178
casesimmons@pm.me
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I’m a collaborator with people, culture, and technology that nurtures the common into the uncommon.
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My work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Jumex Collection, Mexico City; the Me Collectors Room, Berlin and most recently the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 2017, I co-founded Tête-à-Tête creative studio making commissioned projects and branded content for Google, Facebook, The Webster, Pace Gallery, Stella McCartney, and Waka-Waka - amongst others.
Since 2019, I’ve expanded my practice into software engineering and creative technology.
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Tête-à-Tête Studios
A small creative studio I co-founded. Creative Direction / Development / Production.
1.
David Adjaye / Adam Pendleton
USA / UK • 5:45min • B&W • Format 21:9
Pace Gallery Commission for 2021 Exhibition: Hong Kong
W/ Studio Pendleton / Adjaye & Associates
Sir David Adjaye and Adam Pendleton discuss their respective practices for an upcoming exhibition at Pace Gallery, Hong Kong.
To be screened at exhibition, digital billboards, and online. Photographs for Artist Book.
(Please refrain from sharing)
2.
Curtains Up
USA / UK • 10M • Color / Black & White • Format 1.78
Stella McCartney Commission
W/ The David Lynch Foundation
The Galeries Lafayette, Galeries des Galeries, Paris
Viewed more than 100,000 times on YouTube alone, Curatins Up is a rare insight into David Lynch behind the lens, teaching us about his theory of film as well as his lifelong pursuit to bring Meditation to anyone in the world who wants it.
The film premiered at Galeries des Galeries as part of Stella McCartney’s Sanctuary of Stillness - a meditation based experience in Paris. It then debuted worldwide online via NOWNESS and screened at both the Festival of Disruption New York 2018 and Los Angeles 2018.
3.
Sky Ferreira: Masochism
USA / UK • 60S / 3M • Color / Black & White • Format 1.78
On spec piece w/ Badass Productions, Paris
Shot on Location: Copenhagen, DK
A documentary portrait of the musician Sky Ferreira intended to launch with her forthcoming album, Masochism.
The portrait shows Sky’s artistic process and the inspirations and interests that propel her work. Lucid moments, fragments and thoughts paint a kaleidoscopic picture of her that is revealing and intimate, yet wholly mysterious.
Fine Art
Ten plus years breaking photoshop. With works in the Guggenheim, LACMA, etc.
1.
Temple 10
2019
Pigment Print
80 x 54 inches
A celebratory blitz of intricately assembled images - collected, cut and constructed into a precarious and precise landscape.
Composed of thousands of layers with sourced visual references from across the Internet, including a compendium of obscure B-movie posters, as well as the online archives from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Open Content Program.
Using formal strategies of quotation, repetition and hybridization, I create a meticulous visual tapestry that’s provocatively psychological, immersive and explorative.
2.
U.S. Plant Collection Palette
2013
Pigment Print
99 x 159 inches
The nucleus of this show is a list of common names of plants that grow in the United States and its territories, initially chosen based solely off of the attraction to the names themselves.
This body of work toys with the history of the still life genre in its acknowledgment of our innate desire to organize and control nature on a symbolic level.
These dense composites of images re-imagine Nature Morte as a vibrantly lush and kinetic force in which the organization and obsessive relationship to these plants developed as Simmons culled and cut the images from their original, digital source material.
Software Engineering / Creative Technology
One tech led to another, one project to the next.
1.
Critique (Beta)
2020
React Native, Express/Node.js, PostgreSQL
Send, request, and receive feedback.
Critique encourages thoughtful and personal dialogue around user-created topics.
Developed as an Open-Source project that believes that constructive criticism lies at the foundation of personal growth.
2.
Aqls (Beta)
2020
Developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io).
Aqls is a GraphQL analytics toolkit and dashboard that uses custom React hooks and express plugins to enable developers using Apollo client and Apollo server to generate subscription analytics: including frequency of resolver use, roundtrip latency, and dropped/unresolved subscriptions. This is accomplished by installing two lightweight modules - one on the client and one on the server - to generate and save analytics in a few easy steps.
Aqls custom hooks preserve all native Apollo functionality, enabling async chaining upon mutation updates. Aqls server plugins seamlessly integrate analytics functionality into mutation resolvers and instantiate an app-specific “Traql” that collates subscription responses, generates errors, and efficiently stores analytics in the aqls.io database.
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3.
Programmatic Everything
2021
JavaScript / ExtendScript / Photoshop
A series of scripts that (seek to) generate the most dense abstract collages ever created, while remaining visually balanced.
The algorithm first shuffles an image set using Fisher-Yates then runs through the first half (in this case, about 2,200). Then for each image, between 4 and 20 versions of it are pasted in, where the location, rotation, scale, and opacity are randomized. The script optimizes to merge and purge every 25 layers to save on virtual memory. The below finished image resulted in 25,074 layers.
Onward.
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