Berit Gwendolyn Gilma
Berit Gwendolyn Gilma is a new media artist, art/creative director and writer living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Working in the nexus of contemporary art, politics and new technology, she is interested in the aesthetics of secrecy and into the creation of poetic realities.
As a Fulbright fellow she is currently a MA candidate at UCLA Design Media Department. She holds a BA in Visual Communication from the University of the Arts in Berlin where she has been a student of Ai Weiwei. She further studied at The New School in New York City and was a visiting scholar at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
She is the creative and art director of composer Danny Elfman and has worked with and for artists such as Ai Weiwei, Trevor Paglen, Adam Harvey, James Bridle and hacktivist/surveillance expert Jacob Appelbaum.
She is the lead art curator of Elevate Festival in Graz, Austria.
︎ bgilma@ucla.edu
︎ @beritgilma
︎ Berit Gwendolyn Gilma
Writing agent: nora.boeckl@agentur-eggers.de
LATEST PROJECTS
Danny Elfman BIG MESS Album
Role: Creative Director, Album Art Direction
Danny Elfman “In Time”
Directed by Zev Deans, Artificial Intelligence by Lorem
Role: Co-Director, Creative Director
Selected press
︎︎︎ Broadwayworld ︎︎︎ Iconvsicon ︎︎︎ post-punk.com
Danny Elfman “Love in the Time of Covid”
Directed by Sven Gutjahr
Role: Creator, Art Director, Producer
Selected press
︎︎︎ RollingStone ︎︎︎ NME ︎︎︎ post-punk.com
Danny Elfman “Sorry”
Directed by Jesse Kanda
Role: Art Director, Producer
Selected press
︎︎︎ Stereogum ︎︎︎ NME
Danny Elfman feat. Trent Reznor “True”
Directed by Aron Johnson
Role: Creative Director
Selected Press
︎︎︎ RollingStone ︎︎︎ Vulture ︎︎︎ post-punk.com
Danny Elfman “Insects”
Directed by Sam Rolfes & Andy Rolfes
Role: Creative Director
Selected Press
︎︎︎ papermag ︎︎︎ RollingStone ︎︎︎ undertheradar
Anika “Finger Pies”
Role: Artistic Consultant
Liquid Truth
Digital Sculpture
In collaboration with schnellebuntebilder and Knoth & Renner
Role: Conception, Curation
SELECTED PRESS
When I made Big Mess – Videointerview with Danny Elfman and Berit Gilma, consequence magazine, 2022
Big Mess—An Interview with Danny Elfman and Berit Gilma on his First Solo Album in 37 Years, postpunk.com, 2021
Steirerin des Tages – Berit Gilma, (German), Kleine Zeitung Austria, 2021)
Danny Elfman and Creative Director Berit Gilma Talk ‘Big Mess’, Box Set and his ‘Weird Hand’, Gotham Mag, 2021
SELECTED WRITING
Interview with Lorem on AQNB
‘LOREM shares alternative AI-generated video for Distrust Everything & interview with Berit Gilma of Elevate Festival’, AQNB, 2021
Artificial Truth – About truth in art and artificiality in truth between the renaissance and the internet. An essayistic curatorial text. (English/German)
Elevate Magazine, 2019 (page 24-27)
Durch den inneren Weltraum an Board einer künstlichen Intelligenz (German). Elevate Magazine, 2021 (page 8-9)
PRISONERS OF DISSENT – Locked up for exposing Crimes (English) – furtherfield London, 2017
Not to be seen – THE AESTHETICS OF SECRECY
Political implications and meta-meanings in classified data and the visual language of secret service
(unpublished book)
SELECTED MEDIA
The Art of Revealing –Artistic response on surveillance and the deep web in the post-Snowden era
With Jacob Appelbaum, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Addie Wagenknecht
Elevate Festival, 2015
Role: Curation, Moderation
The New Age of Algorithms – Using art & activism to expose invisible technologies affecting our reality in a surveillance state
With James Bridle & Adam Harvey
Elevate Festival, 2017
Role: Curation, Moderation
AWARDS
Fulbright Austria Grantee 2019-2022
UCLA Design Media Arts Clifton Webb Scholarship 2021-2022
As a Fulbright fellow she is currently a MA candidate at UCLA Design Media Department. She holds a BA in Visual Communication from the University of the Arts in Berlin where she has been a student of Ai Weiwei. She further studied at The New School in New York City and was a visiting scholar at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
She is the creative and art director of composer Danny Elfman and has worked with and for artists such as Ai Weiwei, Trevor Paglen, Adam Harvey, James Bridle and hacktivist/surveillance expert Jacob Appelbaum.
She is the lead art curator of Elevate Festival in Graz, Austria.
︎ bgilma@ucla.edu
︎ @beritgilma
︎ Berit Gwendolyn Gilma
Writing agent: nora.boeckl@agentur-eggers.de
LATEST PROJECTS
Danny Elfman BIG MESS Album
Role: Creative Director, Album Art Direction
Danny Elfman “In Time”
Directed by Zev Deans, Artificial Intelligence by Lorem
Role: Co-Director, Creative Director
Selected press
︎︎︎ Broadwayworld ︎︎︎ Iconvsicon ︎︎︎ post-punk.com
Danny Elfman “Love in the Time of Covid”
Directed by Sven Gutjahr
Role: Creator, Art Director, Producer
Selected press
︎︎︎ RollingStone ︎︎︎ NME ︎︎︎ post-punk.com
Danny Elfman “Sorry”
Directed by Jesse Kanda
Role: Art Director, Producer
Selected press
︎︎︎ Stereogum ︎︎︎ NME
Danny Elfman feat. Trent Reznor “True”
Directed by Aron Johnson
Role: Creative Director
Selected Press
︎︎︎ RollingStone ︎︎︎ Vulture ︎︎︎ post-punk.com
Danny Elfman “Insects”
Directed by Sam Rolfes & Andy Rolfes
Role: Creative Director
Selected Press
︎︎︎ papermag ︎︎︎ RollingStone ︎︎︎ undertheradar
Anika “Finger Pies”
Role: Artistic Consultant
Liquid Truth
Digital Sculpture
In collaboration with schnellebuntebilder and Knoth & Renner
Role: Conception, Curation
SELECTED PRESS
When I made Big Mess – Videointerview with Danny Elfman and Berit Gilma, consequence magazine, 2022
Big Mess—An Interview with Danny Elfman and Berit Gilma on his First Solo Album in 37 Years, postpunk.com, 2021
Steirerin des Tages – Berit Gilma, (German), Kleine Zeitung Austria, 2021)
Danny Elfman and Creative Director Berit Gilma Talk ‘Big Mess’, Box Set and his ‘Weird Hand’, Gotham Mag, 2021
SELECTED WRITING
Interview with Lorem on AQNB
‘LOREM shares alternative AI-generated video for Distrust Everything & interview with Berit Gilma of Elevate Festival’, AQNB, 2021
Artificial Truth – About truth in art and artificiality in truth between the renaissance and the internet. An essayistic curatorial text. (English/German)
Elevate Magazine, 2019 (page 24-27)
Durch den inneren Weltraum an Board einer künstlichen Intelligenz (German). Elevate Magazine, 2021 (page 8-9)
PRISONERS OF DISSENT – Locked up for exposing Crimes (English) – furtherfield London, 2017
Not to be seen – THE AESTHETICS OF SECRECY
Political implications and meta-meanings in classified data and the visual language of secret service
(unpublished book)
SELECTED MEDIA
The Art of Revealing –Artistic response on surveillance and the deep web in the post-Snowden era
With Jacob Appelbaum, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Addie Wagenknecht
Elevate Festival, 2015
Role: Curation, Moderation
The New Age of Algorithms – Using art & activism to expose invisible technologies affecting our reality in a surveillance state
With James Bridle & Adam Harvey
Elevate Festival, 2017
Role: Curation, Moderation
AWARDS
Fulbright Austria Grantee 2019-2022
UCLA Design Media Arts Clifton Webb Scholarship 2021-2022