Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology  2023-2026, Trondheim

The ocean is dramatically changing; coastal ecosystems are in the process of adapting to new ocean realities. Fish populations are declining or migrating from their nested ecologies, while the gelatinous migratory ctenophore mnemiopsis leidyi (hereafter also referred to as ctenophora) and jellyfish seem to thrive and continue their cyclical survival choreographies. Scientists are predicting that the biomass of ctenophores and jellyfish will increase in the ocean, possibly with less biodiversity of other marine species. In other terms, oceans are becoming more gelatinous which already has, and will have an impact on intergenerational ways of connecting the sea and her inhabitants. The artistic research project Gelatinous Epistemes: Interspecies Hydrochoreography and the expanded moving image"  focuses on the ontological uncertainty of gelatinous oceans through a trans-local and trans-disciplinary engagement with the ctenophora.The project deploys choreography and expanded moving image practices to shed light on oceanic forms of communication and emerging ontologies. 

Center for Art, Design and Social Research 2018- 

Since 2018 Elly Vadseth has been affiliated with the Center for Art, Design and Social research taking part in the research residencies Indegenous Knowledges and Sustanable Pasts/ Futures  (co-faciliator and photographer), Cosmological Gardens, Un-Writing Nature and  Con, Crit, Tech as a independent artistic researcher. The Center for Arts, Design and Social Research is founded on the principle that creative work is essential to all human cultures and the foundation for building sustainable and interdependent global societies. The Center’s core programs include fellowships and residencies for artists, designers, scientists, technologists, writers, and humanities and social science researchers. The Center convenes people from diverse backgrounds and experiences to share knowledge addressing urgent issues in global societies. Knowledge is cooperatively generated and openly shared through workshops, residencies, exhibitions, publications, seminars, and collaborative research projects. The Center is a site for experiments in the arts, technology, and research methodologies, and creating the future shape of planetary cultures.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University 2018-2019, Boston 

Vadseth was a Tufts institute of the environment fellow at Tufts University 2018-2019. her research was carried out through creative fieldwork with the organization  Mountain Time Arts taking part in, and researching the works of artists Mary Ellen Strom, Dr Shane Doyle and choreographer Ann Carlson. Through camerabased and performative research she delved into two largescale artprojects in public space: Cherry River, Where the Rivers Mix & The Symphonic Body Water. Mountain Time Arts (MTA) is an organization that drives change through the cultivation of bold and engaging public art projects and programs that explore the history, culture and environment of the Rocky Mountain West and its Sovereign Nations. MTA projects have engaged internationally-known artists along with hundreds of local participants including ranchers, environmentalists, scientists, Native American scholars, and local politicians to learn about the region’s complex land and water systems and diverse cultural heritages. This opens critical conversations among all of these groups.  

• Creative Documentary
• Visualizing the Deep Sea in the Age of Climate Change