Atelier Nord presents film- and video art at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad
As the first part of our initiative to present video art and film art through the new Norwegian digital cinema system, Atelier Nord presents a program curated by Susanne Ø. Sæther at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, Friday 18.6 at 12:00
Participating artists
This program is a presentation of younger Norwegian artists who have made their mark on the national and international scenes through their film and video works, along with selected individuals that are recent graduates. All have studied art, the majority at Norwegian art schools. While some work across both the film and art scenes, for most of them the gallery space is a more natural screening location than the cinema. In these galleries film and video can happily take their place as part of a larger installation comprising several video projections, the spatial presentation of which is fundamental. And yet an increasing number of film and video artists desire optimal screening conditions, with full control of light and sound, meaning traditional gallery spaces are more frequently resembling the darkened cinema theatre. It might seem, therefore, that the institutionally imposed division between film and art is, in some areas, beginning to break down. Read more
Saturday June 5th, 14.00
Atelier Nord Project Room
Diffus is a Danish/French design duo with a practical approach to art, design and new media. At the end of 2009 they launched The Climate Dress, a piece of clothing which senses and visualizes levels of pollution in the environment through hundreds of small LED lights inserted into the embroidery. The duo is now developing solar cells sized and formed as sequins.
The presentation is the culmination of a week long worklab at Atelier Nord with the topic E-textiles and alternative energy. A group of textile artists, media artists and designers have worked together to form an E-textiles installation which senses and communicates environmental conditions through physical changes in the textile. Experiences and results from the worklab will also be presented.
The presentation and the worklab is part of Soft Technology, a project aiming at research and competence building within electronic textiles and textile electronics in Scandinavia.
See also http://diffus.dk
Ivar Smedstad and Herwig Weiser present electrochemical scenography for the stage production of Øyvind Rimbereid’s poem Solaris Korrigert during the Ad Hoc festival at the Oslo National Theatre on May 25th at 19.30 hrs.
The project, which is a part of Atelier Nord’s focus on Live Video, combines a video projection of a live chemical process by the Austrian artist Herwig Weiser with directly generated sequences of Ivar Smedstad’s video art. For tickets and more information www.nationaltheatret.no
