Joel Cahen

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Joel Cahen (Hebrew: יוֹאֵל כהן‎; born December 12, 1972, in Jerusalem, Israel), a London-based curator, photographer, filmmaker and sound artist.

He came to the UK in the mid 1990s to study sound engineering. In the late 1990s he worked as a sound technician at a number of venues throughout London. Since 2001 he has worked as sound designer on a number of installations, films, theatre and dance productions. He collaborated with video artist Julian Ronnefeldt and performance artist Lennie Lee and with members of The Black Poodle at Tate Britain in 2003 to considerable critical acclaim. As an experimental film maker, one of his films "Busbug" was awarded first prize at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2005 as part of the annual Halloween Film festival as well as best short film at Shortcuts 2005 and has been shown at numerous film festivals throughout Europe. He has also worked as a curator organising a series of experimental art and music events in London since 2002 including 'Evil Art' at the 291 Gallery, and 'The Wormhole Saloon' at The Whitechapel Gallery. He has a fortnightly show on Resonance fm called TheSaturdayNightMashUp and has worked as a DJ in London, Berlin, New York and Limerick.