Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen

About this portal
The portal is used as an environment for presentation, and development of Artistic Reesearch done within the University og Bergen.
contact person(s):
Anne-Len Thoresen 
url:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1310123/1435694
Recent Issues
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10. Projects
KMD Research projects and artistic results
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9. PHD 2025
KMD Artistic Research
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8. PHD 2024
phd fellows
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7. PhD 2023
PhD 2023
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6. PhD - KMD 2022
PhD - KMD 2022
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5. PhD - KMD 2021
Thesis under evaluation
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4. Articles
Various articles published in the KMD portal.
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3. Crisis Collective - contributions to a lost conference
Crisis Collective - contributions to a lost conference
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2. PhD - KMD 2019
Finished thesis. 2019
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1. Past projects - 2018 and prior
Projects KMD
Recent Activities
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ARKADIA
(2025)
author(s): Anne Skaansar
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
Med utgangspunkt i kunstneriske framstillinger av Arkadiamotivet, og med pastoralen som optikk, vil dette prosjektet utforske «utopiske» forestillinger om fortiden, gjennom arbeid i ulike kunstneriske uttrykksformer, i tekstil, skulptur og tekst.
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Unmaking Abstractions
(2025)
author(s): Magnhild Nordahl Øen
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
This exposition contains documentation of the artistic result of Magnhild Øen Nordahls artistic research PhD project Unmaking Abstractions. The exposition also contains the artistic reflection for the same project. On the exposition's landing page the reader can access its different components by clicking different sides of the unfolded cube. The rotating cube in the upper right corner will bring the reader back to the landing page.
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INTERDIMENSIONAL ARTISTIC REFLECTION: Speculative movements through Spatial, Digital and Narrative Media
(2025)
author(s): Sidsel Ditlev Christensen
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
PhD Candidate: Sidsel Christensen
Project title: INTERDIMENSIONAL ARTISTIC REFLECTION: Speculative movements through Spatial, Digital and Narrative Media
Period: 2020 - 2024
Host institution: The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
PhD supervisors: Brandon LaBelle, Frans Jacobi and Sher Doruff
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In a Place like this
(2025)
author(s): Johan Sandborg, Duncan Higgins
connected to: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
published in: Research Catalogue
In A place Like This sets out to investigate and expand the issues and critical discourses within Sandborg and Higgins' current collaborative research practice. The central focus for the research is concerned with how art, in this instance photographic and painted image making and text, can be used as an agent or catalyst of understanding and critical reflection.
The research methodology is constructed through photography, painting, drawing and text. This utilises the form of an artist publication as a point of critically engaged dissemination: a place for the tension between conflicting ideas and investigation to be explored through discussion.
The research question is focused on how the production of the image and the act of making images can communicate or describe moments of erasure or remembering in terms of historical and personal narratives with direct reference to moments of violence and place.
This is seen not in terms of a nostalgic remembrance of the past; instead as one that is rife with complicated layers and dynamics where recognition is denied the ability to locate a physical representation. Embedded in this is an exploration of particular questions concerning the ethics of representation: the depiction of ourselves and other? In this sense it brings into question an examination of the act of remembering as a thing in itself, through the production of the image and text, contexts of knowledge and cultural discourses explored through the form of an artists publication.
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Odd New Spring: Towards Evolving Landscapes and a Reorientation in Design Practice (2024)
(2024)
author(s): Siren Elise Wilhelmsen
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
"Odd New Spring: Towards Evolving Landscapes and a Reorientation in Design Practice" is an artistic research PhD project that explores methods for designers to engage with local environments, interdisciplinary communities, and professional fields in new ways. The project repositions unwanted plants, specifically Invasive Alien Plant Species, as a foundation for knowledge creation and new local activities. This approach challenges the perception of these plants as strictly agonistic and reframes them in the context of sustainability, production, and resource management. Through the artistic practice, the plants are connected to stories from the past and visions for the future, encouraging reflection on current classifications and relations.
The work culminated in the exhibition "Odd New Spring" at the University Museum in Bergen's Natural History Collections. Here, experimental artefacts, storytelling objects, interdisciplinary dialogues, and reflections point towards a new design position. The project envisions the designer as a bridge-builder across disciplines, fostering sustainable practices and coexistence within local landscapes.
Supervised by Mette L'orange (architect MNAL and visual artist) and Tim Parry-Williams (Professor of Art: Textiles, KMD).
Photo: Odd New Spring 2024, Siren Elise Wilhelmsen
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Ars Memoriae
(2024)
author(s): Maarten Vanden Eynde
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
Ars Memoriae, The Art to Remember analyzes the role of art within the larger history and evolution of external memory devices. It looks at material traces of remembering and the invention of an ever-changing body of language expressions, like signs and symbols, to enhance communication capabilities. I followed the process of externalizing emotions, knowledge, and information, starting in the Palaeolithic Stone Age about 3 million years ago, until, in a speculative future, it will be internalized again using artificial wetware, neuro-computers, and DNA coding. > Click on the image to download the PDF.