https://nataliefeldesman.com natalie feldesman Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:02:07 +0000 https://nataliefeldesman.com en https://nataliefeldesman.com/Home Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:02:39 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Home Natalie Feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Information Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:02:39 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Information Information Bio Natalie Feldesman, born in 1985, USA, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Member of Alfred Cooperative Institue for Art and Culture, Tel Aviv.&nbsp; Graduated from the Department of Screen Based Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2014). Winner of a studio scholarship at the ‘Gabirol Artists House’ from the City of Tel Aviv and BIT in 2015 and the Rabinovich Fund for Project Funding in 2015 and 2018. A multidisciplinary artist, who creates site-specific environments including video, sound, drawing, ready made and sculpture. High school art, art history teacher and creates live video art performances for music and theater. https://nataliefeldesman.com/Press Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:37:28 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Press Press Portfolio Mag gggaaallleeerrryyy Klimt02 portfolio magazinehaaretzsaloona https://nataliefeldesman.com/Footer Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:02:39 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Footer https://nataliefeldesman.com/Project-Nav Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:02:40 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Project-Nav Index &nbsp; &nbsp; Next ︎ https://nataliefeldesman.com/How-to-talk-to-ghosts-at-parties Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:02:07 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/How-to-talk-to-ghosts-at-parties How To Talk To Ghosts At PartiesCurator: Bar Yerushalmi “Be seated, supernal guests, be seated. Be seated, guests of faith, be seated.” (Sefer Ha-zohar) Somewhere in the vast mausoleum of the internet, amongst the ancient cyber pyramids, the living-dead dance. They move and sing in concert, humming and chuntering fractions of their memories, of who and what they used to be. They are the ancients who had walked this earth, imprinting their existence upon the mnemonic substance of the internet hive mind. Like bits of wisdom that were left deep inside the veins of online data, the elders move within the incessant flow of information. In solitude, they patiently wait to utter their voice to whoever is willing to listen, In a world in which internet users leave behind enormous quantities of digital data residues, where can we find the entombed remnants of our fathers and mothers? Who will speak to us across the boundaries of time and space? Who will offer us advice in times of crisis, when life is fragile and unbearable?&nbsp; According to the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, by 2070, dead Facebook users would outnumber the living. With time, our personal pages will become memorial headstones, and our human presence will transform into a zombie-like being, meant to endlessly roam the vast expanses of the online world. This is also the starting point of Natalie Feldesman’s research on the gap between our physical body and the body of data we leave behind.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Feldesman chooses to look at digital memories and instances: YouTube clips, texts and recordings made by humans whose physical bodies passed away from this life, leaving behind orphaned internet beings, detached from the bodies that created them.&nbsp; Using a synthesizer software converting video input to sound in real time, which was developed especially for this show, Feldesman summons ghosts from the internet archive. She conjures them up from the online abyss, creating a fictional dialog between them. In this continuous podcast, voices of spirits from the past are orchestrated into an audio-visual radio play that traverses different times and cultures, revoicing these characters and offering them a renewed existence. The exhibition is an invitation into a guest room, a room of Ushpizin (Aramaic for “guests”) situated between the living and the dead—an invitation extended to the spiritual fathers and mothers of our culture to join the dinner table, an afterparty between two worlds. It is an eternal moment, in which the dead share a slow, infinite dance with the living. &nbsp; <img width="6144" height="4096" width_o="6144" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ad621f00199b3596065923f8d10bf2d469f989a38176d41df054293afbc701f/GHOSTS_014.jpg" data-mid="244136454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ad621f00199b3596065923f8d10bf2d469f989a38176d41df054293afbc701f/GHOSTS_014.jpg" /> <img width="6144" height="4096" width_o="6144" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f615a6051dfeb597e45d3f174f62c2e3b70f4987c65b58128b37de79c7114128/GHOSTS_009.jpg" data-mid="244136450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f615a6051dfeb597e45d3f174f62c2e3b70f4987c65b58128b37de79c7114128/GHOSTS_009.jpg" /> <img width="6144" height="4096" width_o="6144" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b16be1641d76efa009189aaca140e83512b724dd70cfef7b62cfbb4300004ff/GHOSTS_025.jpg" data-mid="244136456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b16be1641d76efa009189aaca140e83512b724dd70cfef7b62cfbb4300004ff/GHOSTS_025.jpg" /> <img width="6144" height="4096" width_o="6144" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a325c5e002dc5e9a2a5b0ee495152e0032e095cbc1468876594fe30f34769465/GHOSTS_011.jpg" data-mid="244136451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a325c5e002dc5e9a2a5b0ee495152e0032e095cbc1468876594fe30f34769465/GHOSTS_011.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31f0f2c5b3381dfc9c8fc2975803b078334bb323db837b04e667a0d87d6bd2b4/IMG_5580.jpeg" data-mid="244136459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31f0f2c5b3381dfc9c8fc2975803b078334bb323db837b04e667a0d87d6bd2b4/IMG_5580.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc06676721ab2553f381cd023b4c708cf311c901e26e1a08008088df767d9a94/IMG_5516.jpeg" data-mid="244136460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc06676721ab2553f381cd023b4c708cf311c901e26e1a08008088df767d9a94/IMG_5516.jpeg" /> <img width="6144" height="4096" width_o="6144" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7e892c2f7325c1708cb81d4cc2ae33d6266c5a061850ab119dea1d9e930b5e8/GHOSTS_024.jpg" data-mid="244136455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7e892c2f7325c1708cb81d4cc2ae33d6266c5a061850ab119dea1d9e930b5e8/GHOSTS_024.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fabfc3803f2571cecb7c8f87226dbd8c473d2281218ce7deea217f9e6258573/IMG_5514.jpeg" data-mid="244136461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fabfc3803f2571cecb7c8f87226dbd8c473d2281218ce7deea217f9e6258573/IMG_5514.jpeg" /> <img width="4096" height="6144" width_o="4096" height_o="6144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/147ef290aa3aa522ab964360fef0898214153e13e32d064983e41216e3ce45ad/GHOSTS_029.jpg" data-mid="244136457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/147ef290aa3aa522ab964360fef0898214153e13e32d064983e41216e3ce45ad/GHOSTS_029.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="6144" width_o="4096" height_o="6144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71f1951479ace2e61e24ade5f5a8f847f7dbc607be6dd1a98b887646484f0ac0/GHOSTS_013.jpg" data-mid="244136453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71f1951479ace2e61e24ade5f5a8f847f7dbc607be6dd1a98b887646484f0ac0/GHOSTS_013.jpg" /> <img width="6144" height="4096" width_o="6144" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc9e548f2edfecb68870366d29c74da2ccde8834581ed5b65a54c9ac4919b35b/GHOSTS_012.jpg" data-mid="244136452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc9e548f2edfecb68870366d29c74da2ccde8834581ed5b65a54c9ac4919b35b/GHOSTS_012.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a866f655b454d2f86c159b808154c991307d39cb8c639453affc19384fa7e63/IMG_5513.jpeg" data-mid="244136462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a866f655b454d2f86c159b808154c991307d39cb8c639453affc19384fa7e63/IMG_5513.jpeg" /> https://nataliefeldesman.com/Songs-From-the-Archive Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:08:04 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Songs-From-the-Archive Songs From the Archive2023 The concept of remembering assumes we once knew, that inside of us exists all the knowledge. In the center of ‘Songs from the archive’ a digital flower entity sings, encouraging us to actively remember, to use our bodies to mine the knowledge within us, to reconnect with our animal instincts. The entity, composed of archival videos, digitized from film, of blooming flowers and nature, sings a series of questions, the answers generated in a conversation with chat GPT. The questions to the algorithm are naive: ‘How do I remember?’, ironically searching for ways to reclaim our minds and thoughts, whether personal, collective or historic notions. How can we take back our consciousness and balance between our digital and physical body, how can we reconnect the relationships we maintain with the world - being them with human beings, organic life forms, technologies or other? We are constantly archiving our souls in the cloud. Uploading our memories which are destined to live forever in virtual space thus subjecting our information to those in power. We are more post-human than human, and wifi is our oxygen. According to Jacques Derrida the archive is not a neutral repository of knowledge but is entangled with the exercise of power and control. Rosi Braidotti's concept of "forgetting to forget" emerges from her critique of dominant modes of knowledge production and the historical erasure of marginalized narratives. When we forget a certain event in our lives, or a certain person, neither the event nor the person ceases to exist. In the space plaster reliefs of images extracted from the cemetery, another kind of archive, taken out of context, begins to resemble monsters or other creatures we don’t recognize.&nbsp; The archive as well as the cemetery serve as reminders of our interconnectedness. Just as people and plants undergo a natural process of decomposition and return to the earth, memories too can fade and deteriorate over time. Wood cutouts of the same imagery from the cemetery as well as their negative spaces are chained together. The mobile hovers over a weed garden, plants taken from the streets of Porto and replanted in wet green foam, used to extend their life. Throughout the exhibition Itzik Mor photographs the process of the plant's decay, using black and white analogue photography, he develops, prints and installs the images in the space. On the walls, large scale human / animal figures reminiscent of archaeological reliefs create veins in the walls. 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width_o="2773" height_o="4924" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa4ea38279b5e8990f697c3bc204cc97d268ec09455d5fac118ce289a92a19e3/19---.jpg" data-mid="158336039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa4ea38279b5e8990f697c3bc204cc97d268ec09455d5fac118ce289a92a19e3/19---.jpg" /> <img width="3194" height="3898" width_o="3194" height_o="3898" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7495f39cec494b9d75152fd880cf85e39217677d9ef61909f8cf9a83d7f63020/25---.jpg" data-mid="158336036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7495f39cec494b9d75152fd880cf85e39217677d9ef61909f8cf9a83d7f63020/25---.jpg" /> https://nataliefeldesman.com/The-Field Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:23:58 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/The-Field The Field&nbsp; By Natalie Feldesman and Guy Fleisher&nbsp; Curator - Hagit Emma Werner&nbsp; Take a moment to listen to your “natural” surroundings. You will hear a ceaseless cacophony of noises. The ear doesn’t waste energy on familiar background sounds, so those become white noise. Although we are unaware of them, our ear never stops picking up the many rumblings of the modern world – analyzing them and combining them to find meaning in reality. Our ears are in a constant state of “search.” Now, look at your surroundings; you’ll notice that vision is slower and far more selective than hearing. The eye can pause, linger, connect and perceive many different elements – or on the contrary, subtract and separate them. Vision explores space in a manner that obeys the process of the time and place we are present. While visual observation is focused on form, listening is inherently amorphous and fluid. The hearing follows details in time and space and only later if ever, processes them into a larger whole. Attentive listening is indeed able to isolate elements from within an auditory field. Still, as opposed to vision, it flows along after them in time and space, in disassembled temporal forms. Our ears notice fragments and short segments, which are processed and put together to create a complex whole. Obviously, the two senses are closely linked to one another. Any sound heard will necessarily be affected by the visual conditions presented to them. Even if we were to listen to sounds in complete darkness, that darkness would have an inseparable visual impact on our auditory experience. At the movies, for example, the brain performs a synchronization. An “auditory event” and “visual event” are synced in a manner that makes the sound seem natural and inherent to the image – or alternatively, seem like a by-product of reality or even a reproduction of the meaning held within the visual image. With that in mind, we invite you to dive into The Field with both your senses. This audio-visual installation was created in collaboration between Guy Fleisher and Natalie Feldesman. The installation consists of nine audio channels and a spatial video art piece. Both artists are collectors of “natural environments” even though they work with different media types: Fleisher collects field recordings, and Feldesman collects old archive films. Both artists aspire to challenge listening and observing conditions. The sound composition created by Fleisher for The Field is part of a domain known as “acoustic ecology .”This discipline explores the relationship between man and the environment through sound that range across the spectrum between music and between noise. On one end of the spectrum lies the motivation to familiarize surroundings by listening and deciphering its various sounds as forms of communication; on the other, a wish to isolate elements from the environment and reassemble them into musical structures – extracting emotion from noise. Fleisher’s work sits somewhere between these two motivations. For him, crickets’ chirps and car horns, whistling winds and dripping water, birds’ songs, and cats’ howls all bear a loaded, fascinating emotional weight – in other words, they are already potentially musical. Nevertheless, Fleisher is not willing to discard the natural abundance held within his field recordings, even if it supposedly remains hidden. Therefore, Fleisher chooses to use his recordings in entire length while developing a technique that manages to bring the natural musical quality of our world to the surface. On top of the field recording’s existing frequencies, Fleisher performs a spectrum analysis, searching for various wavelengths and ratios while maintaining the recording’s continuum structure. In addition, he has developed an analytic mechanism that focuses on the relations between sounds, illuminating them on the backdrop of a given natural-spatial situation. The spatial condition is emphasized in Room25s space via an ambisonic sound system, which allows the composition to be played through 9-channels, creating a 3-dimensional sound experience. After 15 minutes of listening to the composition, something happens. The auditory details that make up The Field’s environment become distinguished from each other. What is thus far experienced as a whole entity begins a process of breaking up into separate sounds that intertwine, disappear and burst back in, move in space, from every direction – giving the auditory field depth and richness. The video composition created by Natalie Feldesman comprises archival nature films shot in various locations around the globe. Feldesman is uninterested in the narrative qualities of the movies. Instead, she uses the footage as though it were a malleable sculpting material, which can be shaped into a new environment. Similar to Fleisher, Feldesman aspires to retain and alter the viewing experience. Thus, for example, she examines how one can watch documentation of migrating birds and perceive their motion across the sky – without seeing them. Feldesman focuses on attributes such as color and motion or on the minute details that appear in the original films but aren’t their main focus: The space between buildings rather than the buildings themselves;&nbsp; the changing density of the tree branches or the colorfulness of leaves and how light hits them, she observes the motion of a breeze as it collects debris from the pavement and rolls it onward down the sidewalk; she focuses on the point where a tap leaks, and the rhythm of newly-forming drops; the friction created between the wing of a bird and the air it cuts through. Feldesman cut the various archival materials and pasted them together into a collage. She does so by using multiple layers in a form that creates a final product that is both artificial and natural – i.e., random and surprising. The surprises arrive when Feldesman projects her moving collage onto a prism-like object. This prism breaks, reflects, and dismantles the lightwaves, creating an additional reflection. Feldesman wishes to exceed conventional wall projection. Using video as if it were sculpting material, she aims to construct a unique space and offer a hypnotic dive into the resulting visual environment. In the encounter between light and matter, the photomontage’s layers are granted new, 3-dimensional life – a bird from one film is suddenly submerged in the water of another movie in a new, ad hoc space. The Field was created via dialogue and mutual inspiration. After personal research and preparation, the artists entered the exhibition space and constructed their new piece in collaboration. Attempting to meld the two environments into one: together, Fleisher’s sound and Feldesman’s video create a unique audio-visual field, both familiar and foreign, that invites us to dwell in it. https://nataliefeldesman.com/Video-Synth Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:50:12 +0000 natalie feldesman https://nataliefeldesman.com/Video-Synth Meta-Hyper-Serial-Audio-Visual-Composition&nbsp; 2022 A Collaberation with sound artist Guy Fleisher&nbsp; The video synth reverses the traditional roles between sound and image; changing the visual material generates the music and sounds. The result is an experience in which we are hearing the voice of the images speaking to us from the depths of a new virtual space. The machine simplifies the videos to 12 hues color-space, exposing the pixels hiding in the gradients of the animations, reminiscing experiments done in the 60s and 70s with electronic music and motion graphics. The uniqueness of our project is the interconnectedness of sound and image; The color spaces mesmerize while the sounds seduce the viewer to prolong and linger in this audio visual meditation. When making&nbsp; visual decisions in the real-time composition, the values for the sound change accordingly, hence creating new audio-visual connections in the synchronicity, as well as the synchresis of the resulting image and sound. By creating ambient planes for exploration, the dimension of time and space opens up and allows for aesthetic decisions to make a lasting affect over sound, similar to playing traditional music instruments.