Past events
2020
BioArt, Research, and the Pandemic: Uncertain Histories and Unstable Futures, with artist Anna Dumitriu
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES - webinar talk with artist Anna Dumitriu
Thursday, Sept. 3, 14.30-16.00
Presentation by Anna Dumitriu
Followed by conversation with guests from NTNU Oceans, OSEH (UiO), NTNU Program for Applied Ethics, Greenhouse (UiS), the Center for Experimental Humanities at Bard, & Kunsthall Trondheim
Susceptible Anna Dumitriu and Alex May
About Speaker: Anna Dumitriu is a British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology, and robotics. Past exhibitions include ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, HeK Basel, Science Gallery Detroit, MOCA Taipei, LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, and Eden Project. She holds visiting research fellowships at the University of Hertfordshire, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and Waag Society, as well as artist-in-residence roles with the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford, and with the National Collection of Type Cultures at Public Health England. She was the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts Section of the British Science Association. Her work has featured in many significant publications including Frieze, Artforum International Magazine, Leonardo Journal, The Art Newspaper, Nature and The Lancet. Current collaborations include the Institute of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology at BOKU – Universität für Bodenkultur in Vienna, the EU H2020 CHIC Consortium, the University of Leeds and the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells at HelmholtzZentrum in München.
Talk Abstract: In Uncertain Histories and Unstable Futures Anna Dumitriu will discuss the ideas and processes behind her artworks which explore infectious diseases, synthetic biology and genomics, and well as robotics, artificial intelligence and emerging digital technologies. Equally at home in bioscience and technology settings as the art studio, Dumitriu will discuss key past works including her “Plague Dress”, embedded with real plague DNA and artworks involving CRISPR genetic modification and antibiotic resistance. Furthermore, she will give an insight into new artworks created in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, including "Susceptible" which focusses on new innovations in global health and tuberculosis genomics, "Shielding" which looks at the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on victims of domestic abuse, and “Cyberspecies Proximity” a robotic artwork exploring how we will share future cities with intelligent robots. Finally, she will consider the impact of the pandemic on biotechnology and synthetic biology in her ongoing research “Biotechnology from the Blue Flower” exploring new plant breeding methods and CRISPR, and “Fermenting Futures” focused on yeast biotechnology and ecology. Her work is frequently inspired by the history behind research, situating contemporary issues within cultural contexts, weaving narratives and telling stories and drawing threads across time.
Modalities of Listening
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES - webinar talk with artists, scholars, & performers
Nina Eidsheim (UCLA) & Garth Paine (ASU)
Monday, September. 21 18.00-20.00 (CEST)
In conversation with Thomas Hilder, Rasika Ajotikar, Andreas Bergsland, Hanna Musiol, & the public.
About Speakers & Event
Nina Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at the UCLA. She is also the founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, established to study experiential ways of knowing. Eidsheim is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Duke UP, 2015) and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Duke UP, 2019); co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (June 2019); Co-editor (with Josh Kun and Ronald Radano) of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press; recipient of the Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship, the UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship and the ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship. She received her bachelor of music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego. Nina Eidsheim will talk about her recent work on voice, race, and materiality. https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/nina-eidsheim/
Garth Paine (USA/AU) is Professor of Digital Sound and Interactive Media at Arizona State University, where he co-directs the Acoustic Ecology Lab. Paine is a composer, performer, and scholar, and an internationally regarded innovator in the field of interactivity in experimental music and media arts. His passion for sound as an exhibitable object has given rise to interactive environments where the sonic landscape is generated through gesture, presence and behavior and several music scores for dance works using realtime video tracking and bio-sensing and musical compositions that have been performed internationally. Paine was awarded a Green Room Award for Outstanding Creativity, for Escape Velocity (Company in Space), was a finalist for the Best new Musical Score for Dance in Australia, a was researcher-artist in residence at IRCAM/ZKM, developing Future Perfect for spatial audio, cell phones and VR. Paine will talk about the embodied way of listening to the voice of the land and modes of listening from the somatic to directed and how they inform us about the energy of the land on which we sit and the ecology of that place. https://www.activatedspace.com, https://soundcloud.com/garthpaine/sets/environmental-works, https://vimeo.com/garthpaine.
Who Wants to Live Forever?
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES - exhbition tour with Carl Martin Faurby
24. september 2020 16:15 / Kunsthall Trondehim
I samarbeid med NTNU ARTEC inviterer Kunsthall Trondheim til en omvisning på stedet i utstillingen Who Wants to Live Forever? Omvisningen holdes av programkurator Carl Martin Faurby.
NTNU ARTEC, Art and Technology Task Force, er en tverrfaglig enhet som støtter forskning og høy kunstnerisk kvalitet gjennom samarbeid innen kunst, humaniora og teknologi innenfor rammen av universitetet og i samarbeid med interne og eksterne partnere / interessenter. NTNU ARTECs mål er å fremme tverrfaglig dialog og nyskapende forskning, inkludert kunstnerisk forskning, for å støtte og produsere kreativ praksis, og engasjere seg i en kritisk refleksjon over de sosiale og etiske dimensjonene i vårt teknologiske globale øyeblikk.
Bioplastics and Biodegradeable Materials for Sustainable and Circular Design
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES - a workshop with Anastasia Pistoufidiou
06. October 2020 / 0900 - 1200
Get to learn how to make bioplastics, bioleathers, biocomposites in a direct, live, hands-on session by Anastasia Pistofidou, FabTextiles & Materials Lab, Fabricademy co-founder, curator, editor and publisher of ¨Secrets of Bioplastics¨, ¨Bioplastic CookBook¨and FoodWaste Bioplastics. Alex Murray-Leslie will host the workshop with Assistant Professor Nina Haarsaker and student assistant Einar Grinde. FORMLAB @ Department of Architecture and Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Sentralbygg 1, 227, Gløshaugen, Alfred Getz vei 3
Bioplastics and Biodegradable materials for sustainable and circular design. Crafting biomaterials empowers designers with the knowledge to create and program material performance, design the life cycle of a product and create solutions for a sustainable future.
Biography. Pistoufidiou is a researcher, practitioner and educator on digital fabrication, textiles, wearable technologies and biofabrication. Specialized in hardware development, integration design, rapid prototyping and design to production. Co-founder of fabtextiles.org, a research laboratory on textiles, soft architectures and innovative materials at IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona. Co-founder of Fabricademy, Textile and Technology Academy, a radical educational platform on the future of textiles that merges online learning with hands-on prototyping. Combining digital fabrication techniques and crafts, she demonstrates how new technologies can shift the massive consumption and fast production to a customized, open source, personal and local fabrication applied on education, everyday life and new enterprises.
Extractivism, Soundings, Art
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES & KUNSTHALL TRONDHEIM present
a webinar conversation with Margarida Mendes & Stefanie Hessler
15. October 2020 / 1830 - 2000 (CEST)
Margarida Mendes’s research explores the overlap between infrastructure, ecology and experimental film, investigating environmental transformations and their impact on societal structures and cultural production. She was part of the curatorial team of the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), and the forthcoming 11th Liverpool Biennial (2021). In 2019 she launched the exhibition series Plant Revolution! that questions the interspecies encounter while exploring different narratives of technological mediation, and in 2016 she curated Matter Fictions, publishing a joint reader with Sternberg Press. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths University of London.
Stefanie Hessler is a curator and writer, and the director of Kunsthall Trondheim. Her work focuses ecologies, technology and expanded definitions of life and non-life from an intersectional feminist perspective. Her monographic book Prospecting Ocean was published by MIT Press in 2019. She has curated amongst others for Gropius Bau Berlin, São Paulo Biennale and TBA21–Academy. She currently conducts transdisciplinary research with The Seed Box, culminating in an exhibition, publication and conference at Kunsthall Trondheim. Hessler is visiting research scholar at Westminster University in London and curator of the 17th MOMENTA Biennale in Montreal, 2021.
2019
KULTURNATT 2019
“Resist as Forest: Cartography, Tech, and the Arts for New Forms of Planetary Caring”
Talk by Pablo DeSoto
Free admission
Introduction by Hanna Musiol (NTNU ARTEC & NTNU EnvHum)
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“To be able to resist we must become forest – and resist as forest. Like a forest that knows that it carries the ruins, that carries with it both what is and what is no longer. It seems to me that it is this political-affective feeling that we need to shape to make sense of our action.”
– Eliane Brum, Rainforest Journalism Fund meeting, Manaus, Brazil (12/7/2019)
With the Amazon converted into the central battlefield of the planetary struggles, what institutional and affective communities could constitute as forms of opposition to the new extractive regimes? How to readapt the politics of friendship in the face of the violence of these regimes? How can the Norwegian support for the Amazon Fund be reframed as a response to Bolsonaro? How can the same European countries further decolonize their politics? Pablo DeSoto will talk about how art, radical cartographies, and technology can become fundamental tools in the making of new alliances for the planet.
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Pablo DeSoto, PhD, a Visiting Professor of Architecture at Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, is an award-winning experimental architect, multidisciplinary artist, radical cartographer, scholar and an educator with an iconoclastic experience across geographical and disciplinary borders. He holds a MA degree in Architecture and a PhD in Communication and Culture. DeSoto is a co-founder of hackitectura, a collective of architects, computer specialists, and activists, pioneering emancipatory uses of hardware, software and the internet, and he is a recipient of LAB_JovenExperimenta, LAB_Cyberspaces and Elinor Ostrom awards. DeSoto is also the editor of Fadaiat: Freedom of movement, freedom of knowledge, Situation Room: Designing a Prototype of a Citizen Situation Room and After.Video: Assemblages, and a co-author of The Critical Cartography of the Straits of Gibraltar exhibited worldwide. http://pablodesoto.org
The talk is organized in collaboration with NTNU ARTEC and Pia Arke’s retrospective exhibition “Wonderland” at Kunsthall Trondheim.
https://www.ntnu.edu/artec
https://kunsthalltrondheim.no/utstillinger/pia-arke/?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/events/2049787018661868/
I AM A MONSTER
As she just returned from travelling to four continents and beyond 14 cities in one month with the hope of bringing back the origin of knowledge in her suitcase, the Willy Wonka of Design and Science-Dr. Ben Hayoun- will stop by at ARTEC to share some of the mysteries behind her practice and production of the impossible. Somewhat of an alien, a little homo-sapien and a real dreamer, Dr. Ben Hayoun, a WIRED Innovation fellow, activist, designer of experiences and the world's best speaker according to the Drum, is not one to shy away from any challenges. Come, get a jolt of power packed energy and join her in a rollercoaster of 'monstrous' large-scale projects.
You will hear about astronauts playing music with The International Space Orchestra; asteroids impacting the earth with Disaster Playground, extreme forms of life on our planet and beyond with Space Viking and finally tuition-free universities under nightclubs with the University of the Underground. Dr. Ben Hayoun will also present some behind the scenes of her latest project 'I am (not) a Monster' an impossible pursuit- looking for the origins, mechanics and power dynamics behind knowledge.
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES presents
“Mobilized Humanities, Technology, & Art”
with
Alex Gil (Columbia University), Roopika Risam (Salem State University),
& Pablo DeSoto (Federal University of Paraíba & 2019 NTNU ARTEC AiR)
Day 1: Monday, Sept. 2, 12.10-14.00, Dragvoll, D2
Introduction by Andrew Perkis (IES/ IE, NTNU ARTEC) & Hanna Musiol (NTNU ARTEC, ISL/HF)
“Reinventing the Digital Cultural Record: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory and Praxis,” Roopika Risam
“On Hardening the Rims: Minimal Computing and Technological Disobedience on the Margins of History,” Alex Gil
“Digital Humanities Just in Time: Rapid Response Research and the Case of Torn Apart/Separados,” Alex Gil & Roopika Risam
Q&A
Tuesday, Sept. 3, 13.00-16.30: EGGS Design, Nordre Berggate 2 / Entrance from Kirkegata
Introduction by NTNU ARTEC & EGGS Design
“hackitectura net: Radical Cartography and “Space of Flows” Experimental Architectures,” Pablo DeSoto
Q&A
Lighting shorts, Roopika Risam, Alex Gil, Pablo DeSoto
Free lunch + Discussion
14.30: Workshops with Pablo DeSoto, Roopika Risam, & Alex Gil
Closing remarks
Events are free and open to the public
(Tuesday workshops @ 14.30 require registration at vildebor@stud.ntnu.no)
The Seminar Series is organized by NTNU ARTEC and supported by EGGS Design with assistance from Vilde Borgan and Shreejay Shrestha.
About Speakers
Alex Gil is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. He collaborates with faculty, students and library professionals leveraging computational and network technologies in humanities research, pedagogy and knowledge production. He is among the founders of several ongoing, warmly received initiatives where he currently plays leadership roles: Co-director of the Studio@Butler at Columbia University, a tech-light library innovation space focused on digital scholarship and pedagogy; co-founder and moderator of Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, a vibrant trans-disciplinary research cluster focused on experimental humanities; senior editor of sx archipelagos, a journal of Caribbean Digital Studies, and co-wrangler of The Caribbean Digital conference series. He is also founder and former chair of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities. Current projects include Ed, a digital platform for minimal editions of literary texts; Aimé Césaire and The Broken Record, a minimal computing experiment in long-form digital scholarship; and, In The Same Boats, a visualization of trans-Atlantic intersections of black intellectuals in the 20th century; and most recently, the nimble tent intervention, Torn Apart/Separados.
Roopika Risam is assistant professor of English at Salem State University. Her research focuses on the intersections of postcolonial and African diaspora studies, humanities knowledge infrastructures, digital humanities, and new media. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern University Press, 2018) and co-editor of two forthcoming volumes: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (Arc Humanities Press) and The Digital Black Atlantic (Debates in the Digital Humanities Series, University of Minnesota Press). Risam also co-directs several digital humanities projects including Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer reviewed journal for digital scholarship, and Reanimate, an intersectional feminist digital publishing collective.
Pablo DeSoto, PhD, a Visiting Professor of Architecture at Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, is an award-winning experimental architect, multidisciplinary artist, radical cartographer, scholar and an educator with an iconoclastic experience across geographical and disciplinary borders. He holds a MA degree in Architecture and a PhD in Communication and Culture. DeSoto is a co-founder of hackitectura, a collective of architects, computer specialists, and activists, pioneering emancipatory uses of hardware, software and the internet, and he is a recipient of LAB_JovenExperimenta, LAB_Cyberspaces and Elinor Ostrom awards. DeSoto is also the editor of Fadaiat: Freedom of movement, freedom of knowledge, Situation Room: Designing a Prototype of a Citizen Situation Room and After.Video: Assemblages, and a co-author of The Critical Cartography of the Straits of Gibraltar exhibited worldwide. http://pablodesoto.org
NTNU ARTEC and the Environmental Humanities Research group invite scholars from across the Faculties to join us for conversations about the humanities contributions to NTNU Oceans during the “Other Voices, Other Stories” plenary, May 6 @ 13.00 / NTNU Oceans Week
We will be joined by Siri Granum Carson, the leader of HAVANSVAR, Dagfinn Døhl Dybvig, the innovation leader at HF, and Ursula Munster, the Director of the Environmental Humanities School at UiO
Registration
Student registration for May 6 ends on Saturday!
Free registration: Det er gratis for studenter å delta på Ocean Week on May 8, meld deg på her. Påmeldingen er bindende.
Registration with breakfast& lunch: Dersom du ønsker lunch buffet en av dagene (300kr) må du kjøpe studentbillett.
Venue Location
Hotel: Radisson Blu Royal Garden Hotel, Trondheim
Address: Kjøpmannsgata 73, 7010 Trondheim
NTNU ARTEC is pleased to invite you to an artistic research presentation and discussion on 13 February 10.30 - 12.00 at Dragvoll, building 3, room 106.
An Archive of the North artists researchers, Lena Gudd & Antonin Pons Braley and NTNU ARTEC artist-in-residence, dr. Alex Murray Lesley will present their work. Q & A will follow.
About the participants:
An Archive of Norths artists and researchers Lena Gudd & Antonin Pons Braley explore the multilayered relationship between human beings and their milieu in Polar and Circumpolar regions. Driven by a holistic approach, they notably draw on their ongoing study of the Canadian mining town Fermont to compose “Banlieue Nord”, a collection of documents and objects that together map, between narration and documentation, a poetic landscape of inner and outer Norths. While archives usually are institutional matters, An Archive of Norths acts as a subjective laboratory of the duo's research-creation. Pons Braley and Gudd are associate researchers at Imaginary North, the International Laboratory of Compared Multidisciplinary Studies of the Representations of North, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Dr. Alexandra Murray-Leslie is a poly-artist researcher, performer, and co-founder of the international art collective Chicks on Speed. Her current artistic research& practice explores art-science collaboration & designing, fabricating& performing computer enhanced footwear for a new theatrical, audiovisual expressivity of the feet. Alex’s work has been discussed in books such as Creating Artscience Collaboration (2019), Explorations in Art & Technology (2018), Akward Politics (2017) as well as periodicals such as New Yorker, The Wire, Art Forum, Financial Times, & New York Times. Her work has been shown in major biennales, festivals and art institutes, Ars Electronica, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, 56th & 57 Venice Biennale, MoMA NY, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art Australia, Turner Prize Tate Britian, ArtScience Gallery Dublin& Singapore.
NTNU ARTEC Seminar and Workshop
with Lena Gudd & Antonin Pons Braley (An Archive of Norths)
& Dr. Alex Murray-Leslie& Ada Hoel
Thursday, February 14, 8:30-15:00
Kunsthall Trondheim
Spectral Landscapes 2p flyer.pdf
8.30: Coffee
9.00: Introduction by Hanna Musiol (ISL/ NTNU ARTEC)
9.10: An Archive of Norths, a performance presentation by Lena Gudd & Antonin Pons Braley
10.30: A tour of A Generative Archive
11.15: “David Bowie is haunting me: ANALOGIC strategies in digital dark ages,” a performance lecture by Dr. Alexandra Murray-Leslie and real-time acoustic research collaboration with Ada Hoel and NTNU Trondheim Academy of art students.
12.00: Lunch break
13.00: Workshop + Reflection
The event is free and all are welcome to attend! Refreshments will be served.
NTNU ARTEC and Kunsthall Trondheim are pleased to invite you to Spectral Landscapes a day-long exploration of textual, visual, and sonic landscapes. It draws from reflections about the role of literate and visual arts and sound in the making of space and archives developed in Musiol’s Ghosts, Memories, Landscapes (ISL/ HF NTNU) in conversation with A Generative Archive (Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré) currently on view at Kunsthall. The event features talks, performances, QAs, and collaborative workshops with artists and researchers, Lena Gudd, Antonin Pons Braley, Dr. Alex Murray-Leslie, & Ada Hoel.
About the artists:
An Archive of Norths artists and researchers Lena Gudd & Antonin Pons Braley explore the multilayered relationship between human beings and their milieu in Polar and Circumpolar regions. Driven by a holistic approach, they notably draw on their ongoing study of the Canadian mining town Fermont to compose “Banlieue Nord”, a collection of documents and objects that together map, between narration and documentation, a poetic landscape of inner and outer Norths. While archives usually are institutional matters, An Archive of Norths acts as a subjective laboratory of the duo's research-creation. Pons Braley and Gudd are associate researchers at Imaginary North, the International Laboratory of Compared Multidisciplinary Studies of the Representations of North, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Dr. Alexandra Murray-Leslie is a poly-artist researcher, performer, and co-founder of the international art collective Chicks on Speed. Her current artistic research& practice explores art-science collaboration & designing, fabricating& performing computer enhanced footwear for a new theatrical, audiovisual expressivity of the feet. Alex’s work has been discussed in books such as Creating Artscience Collaboration (2019), Explorations in Art & Technology (2018), Akward Politics (2017) as well as periodicals such as New Yorker, The Wire, Art Forum, Financial Times, & New York Times. Her work has been shown in major biennales, festivals and art institutes, Ars Electronica, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, 56th & 57 Venice Biennale, MoMA NY, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art Australia, Turner Prize Tate Britian, ArtScience Gallery Dublin& Singapore.
Ada Hoel is a Norwegian noise performer and producer, and an MA student in the Music Technology program at NTNU. She researches cross-adaptive processing as a production and composition tool, creates software, and processes vocal, acoustic and electric bass, drum, synthetic sounds and field recordings.
2018
NTNU ARTEC is thrilled to invite you to public digital humanities / digital storytelling, & writing with technology events with Lisa Dush, DePaul University, Chicago
on Friday, October 26 / Dragvoll Library / videoconferencing room
10.00-11.00: “Digital Storytelling: Participatory Media Projects for Education, Advocacy, and Research,”
a short public talk, followed by Q&A [refreshments will be served]
12.15-14.00: “Multimodal Writing and Approaches to Mixed-Media Literature,”
a practical workshop for students, scholars, researchers, educators
[space is limited, so interested participants should email hanna.musiol@ntnu.no to register / request materials)
About Lisa Dush: Lisa Dush, a scholar of digital storytelling, digital service-learning pedagogy, and the theory and practice of writing in the digital age, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. She serves as the Director of DePaul’s Master’s program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse, is a member of the advisory board for DePaul’s digital humanities center, StudioCHI, and also serves on the board of the Coalition for Community Writing, a national organization with a mission to advance community-based writing initiatives. Before coming to DePaul, Dush taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University.
Thomas Lehn og Tiziana Bertoncini has a duo that has been in existence since 2002. Their music is a meeting between Tiziana's acoustic violin, an instrument that has existed more or less as we know it since the 16th century, and Thomas' EMS VCS3, a synthesizer developed by Peter Zinovieff in 1969. Their music is forward-looking when it comes to the sounds they used, but it's also at the same time classical and timeless in that they use the same principles of music-making that has been used for hundreds of years: tension/release, consonance/dissonance, stasis/eruptions, movement/stillness. In this workshop Tiziana and Thomas will discuss and demonstrate strategies for improvisation with instruments that are so unlike: one with strings, horsehair and resin, and the other with oscillators, potentiometers and filters. In addition Thomas will tell us about the synth he uses, and show some of the properties that makes it such a flexible and legendary instrument. See video
The workshop is presented in cooperation with Fri resonant, a festival being held at Kunsthall Trondheim on Friday the 5th of October and Saturday the 6th. The festival presents music that exists in the outskirts of, and in between, established genres. Bertoncini and Lehn will perform at the festival on the same day as the workshop is being held.
is thrilled to invited you to a talk by
Marco Armiero
Director of the Environmental Humanities Lab at KTH, Stockholm
"Welcome to the Wasteocene”
Introduction by Hanna Musiol, ISL, NTNU
When: September 14, 18.00-19.30
Where: Kunsthall Trondheim, the Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore exhibit
"Welcome to the Wasteocene” opens the fall ARTEC Seminar Series devoted to the humanities, technology, ecology, and the arts. The event is free and open to the public!
About Marco Armiero: Armiero, the Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory and the founder of ToxicBios, an archive of personal stories of contamination and resistance at the KTH / Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, is one of the most recognized environmental historians and environmental humanities scholars. His research focuses on toxic waste, migrations and environment, and climate change, the city, science, and power in ecological conflicts, and he works on environmental justice at global, local, and transnational scales. Armiero is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy, and a (co)editor of groundbreaking Environmental History of Modern Migrations, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, and Teresa e le altre. Storie di donne nelle Terra dei Fuochi, and A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories. He serves as a senior editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism (T&F) and an associate editor of Environmental Humanities (Duke UP). At KTH, he leads the Occupy Climate Change! project researching grassroots innovations in New York, Istanbul, Rio, Stockholm, and Naples.
Want to play Fictionary with your friends and get some pizza and drinks for free? If yes, then come join us this Friday to play with Tappetina. We are conducting a study to examine the relation between one's ability to empathize (how well you can walk in others' shoes) and how good a storyteller one is. We would like to invite you to experience the game and enjoy delicious pizza on Friday 20th April at meeting room in IT-Bygget (122).
TAPPETINA Letizia, Javier and Kshitij
Gallery KIT – Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, March 12 – 25, 2018
About: The exhibition THE TEMPORARY LABORATORY at Gallery KIT – Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, presents the Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art. The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art collects the most comprehensive knowledge and documentation of media arts in Norway, in terms of history, artistic activities, artists, and the development of the field. The Temporary Laboratory exhibition relates to the Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art with a contextual ...contribution to the collection. The exhibition centers on Trondheim and the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art as a locality and timeline in order to bring out specific events, individuals, and practices connected to the history of digital art and culture in Norway. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter a display of audiovisual works, objects, mind maps, and additional printed material which intend to activate and reflect on parts of the collection of printed publications. The exhibition focusses on certain periods and modes of artistic production coming out of Trondheim. The establishment of the Intermedia department within the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in the early 90s opened up an important arena for both students and professors engaged in a media-based art practice, which is exemplified by a display of older and more current works. Posters, objects and video coming from the Klubb Kanin event series of sound and performance art which has been running since 1997 bring to the foreground the avant-garde and post avant-gardist currents in Trondheim’s cultural underground. The year 1997 also features prominently within the exhibition through Screens, a project developed for the city of Trondheim’s 1000th year anniversary celebrations. Visual and text archival material generated from the city-wide event reappraises the ways in which the screen becomes a consideration in the production of art, either as a medium, interface, a tool or a reference. During the exhibition, invited curators acting as tour guides will activate sections of the Temporary Library, by making selections from the publications and offering their subjective interpretations of the printed publications and other material displayed in Gallery KiT.
Artist and choreographer Amanda Steggell will be the first tour guide during the opening of the Temporary Laboratory exhibition, who will performatively map out the Temporary Library collection.
14.03.2018 - 19:00 to 20:30
Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, Innherredsveien 7
Neural magazine has been published in the las 25 years, and it has incorporated since its birth experiments in graphic design, artists’ interventions and distribution tactics into its own scalable economy. A brief history of specific cases will show how technologies can be critically integrated into the printed page and how the involvement of artists can enlighten new strategies, bridging the traditional infrastructure of publishing with the infinite world of digital.
Archiving these practices is essential, too. Inspired by the historical experiments in ‘mobile libraries’ (or ‘bookmobiles’), there are two models of alternative models of libraries, we’ve been testing in the last few years. The first is the ‘distributed library’, integrating relevant small/private collections of specialised knowledge accumulated elsewhere, possibly at some point joining the traditional library system without structurally intervene in it. The second is the creation of a few ‘temporary libraries’ to fill specific knowledge needs during cultural events, becoming then permanent resources in referential libraries, when the event ends, but also potentially keeping a ‘mobile’ feature, combining preservation and mobility issues.
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Alessandro Ludovico is a researcher, artist and chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He received his PhD degree in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Lecturer at Parsons Paris – The New School. He has published and edited several books, including the widely read Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, and has lectured worldwide. He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. He is is one of the authors of the award-winning Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook). Currently Alessandro is part of the research group AMT (Archeologies of Media and Technology) at the Winchester School of Art.
Alessandro's lecture takes place within the frame of The Temporary Laboratory of Norwegian Media Art, an exhibition that accompanies the Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art collection presented during the Metamorf Biennale for Art & Technology, March 8 - May 6, 2018. The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art collects the most comprehensive knowledge and documentation of media arts in Norway, in terms of history, artistic activities, artists, and the development of the field.
Financial support provided by ARTEC
The event is partly sponsored by NTNU ARTEC, Trondheim Kommune, Gunnerus Library, and IDI NTNU. It t will be organized as an International Conference for teenagers. Parents and educators also welcome. It will offer dissemination speeches about science and culture by International researchers and artists from Japan and Europe and NTNU professors and Master students; practical activities in which the teen agers will try state of the art games and experience developed by the researchers and artists.
The event will go on in English, so the prerequisite is to master the English language.
Nobumitsu SHIKINE from the Entertainment Computing Lab (Japan), lead by professor Junichi HOSHINO, is visiting NTNU ARTEC and IDI.
Shikine will give a lecture and demonstrate his NOVELICA tool. NOVELICA is a game to make people forget their negative feelings on mathematics.
NOVELICA's main advantage is making easier to do pacing in a lesson.
This research is also led by professor Toshimasa YAMANAKA (Kansei Science Lab)
The lecture will last 45 minutes including questions and answers.
The lecture is sponsored by NTNU ARTEC
06.02.2018 - 16:00 to 18:00
Kunstarken, Industribygget
What does information look like? And why does it matter? Data visualization has quickly become one of the dominant ways we see the world, ranging from personal calendars to planetary futures. It is widely seen as a key to innovation, but many of the basic forms we rely on predate modern theories of information — sometimes by centuries. In this talk, Ted Byfield discusses concrete examples across a range of fields — opinion polls, molecular biology, oceanic cartography, and the social science — to untangle conflicting ways of seeing data. He shows how conventional ‘best-practices’ approaches, far from advancing our understanding of complex issues, have often hindered our ability to recognize the implications of rising tides of data.
Ted Byfield is a New York–based independent writer and researcher. For thirty years he has worked internationally across the fields of art, activism, design, education, publishing, and new technologies — as an artist, director, advisor, organizer, and editor — with a wide range of civil society entities, foundations, and academic and public-interest entities. For a decade and a half he served on the faculty of the New School / Parsons School of Design, where his research focused on transparency issues in academic governance. More recently, he co-founded the Open Syllabus Project, a growing research network dedicated to transforming university-level syllabi into a large-scale resource for quantitative and qualitative analysis. He is currently writing a cultural history of images of information (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
Spætt Film AS invite you to take part in our open screening during «Minimalen Short Film Festival 2018» in Adressaparken the 26th of January.
There will be two screening sessions:
17:00-18:00 - Short films for children
21:00 -22:00 - Short films for adults
This event has been held twice before with great success!
You’re most welcome!
2017
30 November – 1 December, Tromsø.
Presentation about the ARTEC and the DARIAH initiative at NTNU.
14 November, DansIT.
Workshop about motion tracking and music with the American composer Wayne Siegel.
13 November, Kunsthall Trondheim.
Artist talk with the American composer Wayne Siegel, known among other things for his work with live-electronics, interactive dance and multimedia composition.
10 November, Budapest.
Workshop about local/regional cooperation, the institutional systems, good practices, cooperation opportunities across borders and the benefits of the international infrastructure.
7 November, Sentralen Oslo.
Conference about bridging technology, science, innovation and art.
2-3 November, Olavskvartalet.
The seminar will include concerts, presentations and talks from leading international researchers/artists.
November, Århus
23-24 October, Trondheim.
Meeting between the Nordic members of DARIAH to discuss further collaboration, opened by a session with scientific talks.
12-13 October, Folkebiblioteket.
Course on art and code for girls about how to develop interactive games.
26-28 September.
12 September, NTNU Dragvoll.
Seminar with Krista Caballero, Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity program at the University of Maryland in College Park.
24 August, Trondheim Kunsthall.
Hannah Mjølsnes and Mike Leisz presented their art installation Current.
