DANIEL GANDELMAN

 artist/computer scientist/homo ludens

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Daniel Gandelman

conceptual / performance / painting / new media

    Daniel Gandelman (b. Venezuela, based in Miami) is an intermedia/transmedia artist and computer science researcher whose work sits at the intersection of conceptual art, participatory performance, and game design.

    Displaced by the Venezuelan crisis, his practice is rooted in the construction of community and presence across dissolving borders — geographic, cultural, and temporal — in the face of the growing infiltration of social media, AI, and algorithmic technology into the fabric of everyday life. Drawing on complexity science, recursion, and art history as a living and malleable force rather than a field of retrospective study, Gandelman designs rule-spaces that invite collective authorship and distribute the act of making across time, place, and strangers.

      LUDISM is his first major work.

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The Ludist Manifesto

conceptual / performance / artist's book / new media

March, 2024 -> March, 2026.

The Ludist Manifesto exists simulatenously as a text to be read, as well as an action to be performed and seen. It is in the synergy between the performance and the text that the manifesto itself exists. It serves as the foundation of an art movement for a new generation: Ludism.

At the time of writing this, The Ludist Manifesto project has involved a mixture of bookbinding, web design, drawing, writing, collage, assemblage, as well as extended performance and video editing.

To see (or read, or perform) it for yourself, visit round0.net
Or, for more information, watch this video.

The Wikipedia Eye

conceptual / performance / painting / new media

July, 2023.

A Wikipedia Eye is a single piece of art; a painting or illustration that depicts an eye with a 'W' inscribed on it. It is usually attached to a performance, inviting the reading that someone could be witnessing that moment from a Wikipedia article yet-to-be-written.

The Wikipedia Eye as a concept, however, (through careful and thoughtful selection and strategy) represents the possibility of that illustration becoming a reality, as opposed to mere symbolism. As an action, this represents an attempt at prediction but is ultimately an educated wager.

At the time of writing this, The Wikipedia Eye project has involved a mixture of web design, painting, illustration, as well as extended performance.
To see it for yourself, visit wikipediaeye.com

The Poem Online

conceptual / performance / new media

May, 2023.

The first ludic art piece, the origin of the concept, The Poem Online is a very expensive meta-poem. On the website we see the central lines of the poem, each line inscribed to a real-world transaction (with the requirements that each transaction has to be above $15, and that the artist has to consciously do the transaction with a verse of the poem in mind).

The rest of the poem was submitted in parts to different poetry contests, hinting at the judges that they had to communicate with each other in order to complete and put together their pieces of the poem.

To see it for yourself visit thepoem.online

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FSU Museum of Fine Arts

The Elmyr de Hory Exhibit
Tallahasse, FL - August, 2023
painting / drawing / sculpture

Rubell Museum

Round 0 Series
Miami, FL - March, 2024
assemblage / artist's book / drawing / performance

Institute of Contemporary Art

Round 0 Series
Miami, FL - March, 2024
artist's book / drawing / performance

Bass Museum of Art

Round 0 Series
Miami, FL - March, 2024
artist's book / drawing / performance

Artist's book featured in bookshelf as part of the museum's 'Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum' initiative, an invitation to rethink how we interact with and learn from art—and each other—in a museum setting, in The Bass' Harrison Gallery.

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