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• 6. PhD - KMD 2022 PhD - KMD 2022
• 5. PhD - KMD 2021 Thesis under evaluation
• 4. Articles Various articles published in the KMD portal.
• 3. Crisis Collective - contributions to a lost conference Crisis Collective - contributions to a lost conference
• 2. PhD - KMD 2019 Finished thesis. 2019
• 1. Past projects - 2018 and prior Projects KMD

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  Reading out loud (2023) author(s): Juliane Zelwies Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  English: With the research project Reading out loud I tried to draw attention to a specific blind spot. There is a strong tradition in the visual arts of introspection, critique and performative behaviour.
  While hierarchies, dependencies and structures of the institutional apparatus (often represented as The Museum or The Gallery) have been frequently critiqued and examined by visual artists as part of their practice, artists seldom turn their gaze on themselves as propagators and contributors of cultural traditions within the increasingly globalised art world(s).
  During my research, I have explored and developed approaches to describe, analyse and understand the artist ́s habitus (i.e. beliefs, codes and behaviour) that I and my colleagues express in professional and informal settings. In particular I have been interested in examining situations in which artists seem to violate unwritten rules or conventions and their peers ́ response to such violations.
  The project resulted in a series of posters, video works, an artist book and a set of public readings. While the poster series Words of Mouth is based on quotes which I collected at various informal occasions from my peers and other art professionals, the video OFF THE RECORD examines the identity artists have of themselves and their working environment more methodically. The artist book artistic research has been written in the form of a script from my memories of a summer academy for artistic research that was held on the island of Utøya. Other versions of the text have been presented publicly, providing an insight into the struggle with the text and the changes and edits it went through before eventually becoming a work of fiction.
  Norsk: Med forskningsprosjektet Reading out loud prøver jeg å rette oppmerksomheten mot en bestemt blindsone. Det er en sterk tradisjon i billedkunsten for introspeksjon, kritikk og performativ atferd. Mens hierarkier, avhengigheter og strukturer i det institusjonelle apparatet (ofte representert av Museet eller Galleriet) ofte har blitt kritisert og undersøkt av billedkunstnere som en del av deres praksis, vender kunstnere sjelden blikket mot seg selv som formidlere og bidragsytere av kulturelle tradisjoner innenfor den stadig mer globaliserte kunstverdenen(e).
  I løpet av min forskning har jeg utforsket og utviklet tilnærminger for å beskrive, analysere og forstå kunstnerens habitus (dvs. tro, koder og atferd) som jeg og mine kolleger uttrykker i profesjonelle og uformelle omgivelser. Spesielt har jeg vært interessert i å undersøke situasjoner der kunstnere synes å bryte uskrevne regler eller konvensjoner og deres fagfellers respons på slike brudd.
  Prosjektet resulterte i en serie plakater, videoverk, en artist book og et sett med offentlige opplesninger. Plakatserien Words of Mouth baserer seg på sitater jeg har samlet ved ulike uformelle (kunst)situasjoner fra det profesjonelle kunstfeltet. Videoarbeidet OFF THE RECORD er en mer metodisk undersøkelse av forståelsen kunstnere har av seg selv, sin kunstneridentitet og sitt arbeidsmiljø. Kunstboken med tittelen artistic research er skrevet i form av et manus basert på mine minner om et sommerakademi for kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid som ble holdt på Utøya. Andre versjoner av teksten har blitt presentert offentlig, noe som gir et innblikk i kampen med teksten; endringene og redigeringene den gikk igjennom før den til slutt ble et skjønnlitterært verk.
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  Wheels within wheels: Distortion (2022) author(s): Ruben Sverre Gjertsen published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  The project explores expressions found through interactions between performers of early music and composers. This part of the documentation is focused on the collaboration between Ruben Sverre Gjertsen and Ensemble Currentes, parts where the project has moved outside the field of historically informed performance, and into the experimental field.
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  SYNSMASKINEN (2022) author(s): Frans Jacobi published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  SYNSMASKINEN: an inquiry into contemporary political crises SYNSMASKINEN is a new artist-group and an inquiry into contemporary political crises. The project will consist of art projects, each exploring a certain aspect or manifestation of contemporary crisis. Together these visions are attempts to unfold a contemporary cosmology; a new political horizon. SYNSMASKINEN is an artist-group in the sense that each production is made in collaboration between a small group of participants. Each art project will be made by new groups of artists and thinkers. In this sense SYNSMASKINEN will probe the concept of the research-group: What kind of insights does artistic thinking provide? How can collectivity address the political issues of topics in a critical manner? The name, SYNSMASKINEN is taken from the Danish and Norwegian translations of Paul Virilio’s seminal book on the techniques of perception, La Machine De Vision. The name SYNSMASKINEN contains the methodological program: SYN=vision / MASKIN=machine SYNSMASKINEN is the third large-scale research-project at Bergen Academy of Art & Design. Following Re-Place and Topographies of the Obsolete the project offers a continuation of and an addition to the new tradition of kunstnerisk utvikling/artistic research at the core the Department of Art. SYNSMASKINEN is organised by professor Frans Jacobi, artistic-research leader Åse Løvgren and research assistant Benedicte Clementsen. www.synsmaskinen.net
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  KVA(M) NO (2022) author(s): Linda H. Lien published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  A search for new forms of identity programs for places; with emphasis on democracy and non-commercial resources. Research fellow project (2011), the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.
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  Topographies of the Obsolete (2022) author(s): KMD, Arild Berge published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  Topographies of the Obsolete is an artistic research project initiated by Professors Neil Brownsword and Anne Helen Mydland at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) in collaboration with partner universities/institutions in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK. In 2012 the British Ceramics Biennial invited Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) to develop a site-specific artistic response to the former Spode Factory in Stoke-on-Trent as a key element of their 2013 exhibition programme. The project explores the landscape and associated histories of post-industry, with an initial emphasis on Stoke-on-Trent, a world-renowned ceramics capital that bears evidence of fluctuations in global fortunes.
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  Emotional Machines - Composing for Unstable Media. (2022) author(s): Thorolf Thuestad published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
  Emotional machines – composing for unstable media. Thorolf Thuestad In partial fulfilment of PhD in artistic research The Grieg Academy, Department of Music, Faculty of Art, Music, and Design, University of Bergen, 2021 The artistic research project Emotional machines - composing for unstable media explores how non-representational kinetic objects may afford affective and emotional responses, in particular experiences of kinship and relation between an audience and animated objects. Further possibilities for artistic expression are opened through composition and dramaturgy, in works where the animated objects perform alongside human performers and other media, such as light and sound. How may such animated non-representational physical objects be developed? How does animating the physical objects change the potential for experience of kinship and relation between audience and object? How does context modulate the potential for experience of kinship and relation between audience and animated physical object? How does the potential experience of kinship with the animated object differ for the creator of the object, and audience? These questions have been investigated through the creation of a set of animated kinetic figures. These figures have performed in a series of artistic presentations such as gallery exhibitions and stage presentations. The artistic research concludes with two complementary public artistic presentations taking place in bergen in June/July 2021; a time-based stage production at Cornerteatret and a gallery exhibition at Lydgalleriet. The presentations are considered connected and have the common title For one – for many – for all. This is an exposition of the research that presents the kinetic figures, the process of developing them, the questions they have contributed to explore, resulting artistic works (with particular emphasis on the final artistic presentations taking place in June/July 2021), the additional artists contributing to these public presentations, and a series of reflections resulting from the research. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emotional machines – composing for unstable media Thorolf Thuestad. Denne eksposisjonen presenteres som del av gjennomføring av doktorgrad i kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid ved Griegakademiet, Institutt for musikk, Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, Universitetet i Bergen, 2021. Emotional machines - composing for unstable media utforsker hvordan ikke-representative kinetiske objekter kan skape affektive og emosjonelle responser hos mennesker. Spesifikt opplevelse av slektskap og relasjon mellom et publikum og animerte objekter. Det åpnes ytterligere muligheter for kunstneriske uttrykk gjennom komposisjon og dramaturgi i verk der de animerte objektene opptrer sammen med menneskelige utøvere og andre medier, som lys og lyd. Hvordan kan animerte ikke-representative fysiske objekter utvikles med dette startpunktet som inspirasjon? Hvordan endrer animasjon av de fysiske objektene potensialet for opplevelse av slektskap og relasjon mellom publikum og objekt? Hvordan modulerer konteksten de animerte objektene presenteres i potensialet for opplevelse av slektskap og relasjon? Hvordan er den potensielle opplevelsen av slektskap med det animerte objektet forskjellig for skaperen(e) av objektet, og publikum? I Emotional machines – composing for unstable media har spørsmålene har blitt undersøkt ved hjelp av en gruppe animerte kinetiske figurer. Disse figurene har opptrådt i en rekke kunstneriske sammenhenger hovedsakelig galleriutstillinger og scenepresentasjoner. Prosjektet ble avsluttet med to utfyllende offentlige kunstneriske presentasjoner som fant sted i Bergen i juni/juli 2021: En tidsbasert sceneproduksjon vist på Cornerteatret og en galleriutstilling vist på Lydgalleriet. Presentasjonene er tilknyttet hverandre og har fellestittelen For one – for many – for all. Denne eksposisjonen presenterer de kinetiske figurene, prosessen med å utvikle dem, spørsmålene de har bidratt til å utforske, resulterende kunstneriske verk (med særlig vekt på de endelige kunstneriske presentasjonene i juni/juli 2021), kunstnerne som bidro til disse offentlige presentasjonene samt en rekke refleksjonstekster drevet frem av arbeidet med prosjektet.
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