….the DigitalPoetic processes In these projects, the images, texts and sound with poetic intent is written, sampled and evolved in conjunction with each other. Simultaneously, by one hand or one sentiment. Kneaded… like sculpting with clay. Traditionally multimedial collaborations shaped into “one-hand” expressions. Now from the sound or the text-side, now from the image-side. Hopefully [...]
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After working on the 4 poetic loops with micromovements inspired by the ”Sverm”-project at UiO, I investigated other angles of this project. I was curious to see how the individual loops would develop in the context of a swarm-environment. The flocking or swarming of birds, (and schools of fish for that matter), have been much [...]
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(…stretching time to its breaking point) Coming to timeline-based expressions from still-photography, I experience the expansion occuring in the storytelling when sequencing the still images. Yet, in my mind, performing these digital adventures, I have the same formal approach. I try to explore and understand the changes in perception when a combination of two still [...]
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Two events at the National Film Institute in Oslo: Sunday Nov 6th, and Sunday Dec 4th, 2011 Live remixed poetic film and sound-pieces. Sequenced stills-animations with music performed live. Sound-loops and text, reflecting events and experiences. Poetic observations and insights into the human condition. The work was presented “freeform”, with image-loops in fragmented versions. Text [...]
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My father died in 2002 He was a musician, a trumpet player, who had a few radio-hits in the 50’s. “Mr. Wonderful” was one of these. A cousin had them digitized from the old (Triola) 45’ My fathers version here is an instrumental. In the early eighties, Stephanie and I got married, lived two years [...]
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A stopframe animation-project from the Gibraltar strait. A glance upon the European continent, from Africa, across the Gibraltar strait. ..and from the European continent onto the African. I cannot verify this, but I once heard someone say that any country’s border, which has lasted more than 50 years, was never moved by wars or [...]
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Oslo 1999. Also shown at the National Film Institute (NFI) Oslo 2000 and Published on the DVD: “4” in a “two-up” onescreen version A very significant step for me. My first exhibition with moving images. I couldn’t go back to just exhibiting still images after this. The interest for my work at galleries, collections and [...]
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DVD-publication and exhibition with 4 loops shown in the Film-museum at the Norwegian film-institute NFI, Oslo 2000. 4 projections and 5 images on photographic paper mounted on aluminum size 110 x 165 cm The images exhibited in large format were the pictures of the DVD-cover. They told a continuous story throughout the project. Front Cover [...]
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The Rocket Machine was built to show twin film-loops. Loops from “The Sea”, “Approximately Infinite”, “4” and others. Inside the strongly colored flight-case there is a floating 16U rack with two 17” CRT monitors. When open, two DVD-players would hide under the Rocket Machine, positioned in such a way that a handheld pointed controller would [...]
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This project is based on the Norwegian author Olav Duuns last book “Flood-tide of fate” (Menneske [...]
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A live projection for the Astra Gallery in the vacated Unceta weapons factory in Gernika April 26, 27, and 28. – 2007 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the bombings in Gernika in 1937. Some impressions from the production in 2005-06 and from one of the events in April 2007. Filmed by Dani [...]
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A 24 hour projection of 12 twin loops projected randomly in the Cinema hall of the Norwegian Film Institute in Oslo. From Saturday 12.00 to Sunday 12.00, October 2002. One loop was projected onto the large cinema-screen. Another loop, in full sync, was displayed on a 17” video-monitor, facing the big screen, placed in the [...]
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In 2007, I had six different performances in a project I called “D-Cinema Dualities”, using the, at the time, newly installed digital projector at the Norwegian Film Institute in Oslo. This was a live or realtime project containing sequenced stills, time-lapse loops and multichannel sound presented in the Digital Film standard format, 2K. Some impressions from [...]
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Rhythms, patterns and coded meaning The last twenty-five years or so, my work has been assembled on computer screens. “One, seven, three, five” is an ongoing project, re-visiting the many analog projects I have been part of. It allows for many ways to re-enter the stories, re-living the sentiments in the photographic negatives. Samplings [...]
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