Contact: cerpina.zane@gmail.com
Zane Cerpina is a multicultural and interdisciplinary female curator, producer, author, and artist, working with the complexity of socio-political and environmental issues in contemporary society and in the age of the Anthropocene. Cerpina earned her master’s degree in design from AHO – The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a bachelor’s degree in Art and Technology from Aalborg University. She resides in Oslo and is a project manager/curator at TEKS (Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre). She is also a co-founder and editor of EE: Experimental Emerging Art Journal. From 2015 to 2019, Cerpina was a creative manager and editor at PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art, Norway).
Her most recent large-scale research project explores innovative and creative approaches to future food crises from technological, social, and cultural perspectives. The project culminated in a book, "The Anthropocene Cookbook: Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes," co-written with Stahl Stenslie and published by MIT Press in 2022.
Cerpina is internationally active as a lecturer and presenter. She has participated in several academic conferences and introduced her work internationally at numerous venues, including ISEA - International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Vancouver 2015, Hong Kong 2016, Manizales 2017, Seoul 2019, Barcelona 2022), V2_ (the Netherlands, 2016), STRAND (Serbia, 2016), Extravagant Bodies by Kontejner (Croatia, 2019), LABVERDE (Brazil, 2017), The Stockholm Design Week (Sweden, 2019), and the Opening Conference of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (Norway, 2019), among others in the UK, Lithuania, Latvia, and Norway.
Her extensive body of work includes curating and producing the FAEN (Female Artistic Experiments Norway) project series, The Dangerous Futures Conference (2018), Oslo Flaneur Festival (2016), The Anthropocene Kitchen event series (2016-), as well as the Meta.Morf Biennale 2022: Ecophilia and Meta.Morf Biennale 2024: [up]Loaded Bodies. Cerpina has initiated and contributed to several important archival and research projects, such as The Norwegian Media Art Library, and is one of the editors for the Book of Electronic Arts Norway. She has also worked on the editorial team at The Journal of Somaesthetics (2014-2017) and has written for Neural Magazine.
Work Experience
2017 - Project Manager, curator at TEKS, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre / Meta.Morf - www.teks.no & www.metamorf.no
2016 - Editor / Manager at EE - Experimental Emerging Art (online/printed magazine) - www.eejournal.no
2015 - Independent curator, organizer
2015 - 2020 Creative Manager / editor at PNEK, Production Network for Electronic Art Norway - www.pnek.org
2014 - 2017 Editorial work / design at Journal of Somaesthetics, www.jos.aau.dk
Education
2017 - 2019 MA in Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
2012 - 2015 BA in Art & Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
books / texts / articles
BOOKS
The Anthropocene Cookbook: Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes
Zane Cerpina, Stahl Stenslie
MIT Press, 2022.
www.anthropocenecookbook.com
Elektronisk Kunst i Norge: Bind I: Kunstnere og verk fra 1960 til 2020
Jøran Rudi, Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.)
TEKS.press, 2021.
www.ekunst.no
BOOK CHAPTERS
Chapter Twenty-Six: Interview with Graham Harman
by Zane Cerpina in Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader, edited by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh.
Columbia University Press, 2021.
PAPERS
Ecopornography in Digital Arts
Full paper, ISEA 2022 proceedings.
Plant-Based Bio-Drone for Environmental Monitoring in The Amazon
Paper, ISEA 2019 proceedings.
Global Change App: Managing the Earth in the Age of The Anthropocene
Paper at Going Digital: Innovation in Art, Architecture, Science and Technology, STRAND, Serbia, 2016.
ARTICLES
Leonardo's 50th Anniversary Event Series - Article in the Neural Magazine, 2019
Master / Slave exhibition by Quentin Destieu, Dardex Collective - Article in the Neural Magazine, 2019
Global Control: RIXC Art Science Festival 2018 - Article, Neural #61: Speculative pink, 2018
EDITED
Meta.Morf 2024 - [up]Loaded Bodies, Biennale Catalog
Espen Gangvik, Zane Cerpina (eds.), TEKS.press, 2024. ISBN 978-82-93778-07-3
Meta.Morf 2022 - Ecophilia, Biennale Catalog
Espen Gangvik, Zane Cerpina (eds.), TEKS.press, 2022. ISBN 978-82-93778-05-9
META.MORF X - Digital Wild, Biennale Catalog
Espen Gangvik, Zane Cerpina (eds.), TEKS.press, 2020. ISBN 978-82-93778-03-5
PNEK Catalog 2019
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2019
The PNEK Files (No 5): Transitions
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2019
Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art: Norwegian Media Art in Print 1992 - 2018
Zane Cerpina, Espen Gangvik, Alessandro Ludovico, Stahl Stenslie (eds.). TEKS Publishing, 2018. ISBN: 978-82-998211-8-6
www.mediakunstbibliotek.no
Meta.Morf - A Beautiful Accident
Espen Gangvik, Zane Cerpina (eds.). TEKS Publishing, 2018 ISBN: 978-82-998211-7-9
EE Experimental Emerging Art #4: Art after AI
Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.). TEKS Publishing, 2023 ISSN: 2464-448X
eejournal.no
EE Experimental Emerging Art #3: Dangerous Art
Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.). TEKS Publishing, 2018 ISSN: 2464-448X
eejournal.no
EE Experimental Emerging Art #2: Beyond Nature
Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2017 ISSN: 2464-448X
EE Experimental Emerging Art #1: The Bigger Picture
Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2017 ISSN: 2464-448X
The PNEK Files (No 4): Piksel Festival 2017 / Winter Solstice 2017
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2018 ISBN: 978-82-690269-8-6
The PNEK Files (No 3): Technology and Emotions / Screen City Biennial
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2017 ISBN: 978-82-93658-00-9
The PNEK Files (No 2): Dark Ecology
Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2016 ISBN: 978-82-93658-03-0
The PNEK Files (No 1): Piksel 2015
Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina (eds.). PNEK, 2016 ISBN: 978-82-93658-02-3
curatorial WORK / PRODUCTIONS
Meta.Morf 2024 - [up]Loaded Bodies - Concept co-developer, co-curator, 2024
Art+Food+Next Generation - concept developer, project manager, 2022-2023
Meta.Morf 2022 - Ecophilia - Concept developer, curator, 2022
Meta.Morf 2022 - Ecophilia Conference - Curator, producer, 2022
Meta.Morf 2022 - Ecophilia exhibition @ K-U-K Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst - curator, 2022
Meta.Morf 2022 - Ecophilia exhibition @ TSSK Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art - curator, 2022
Meta.Morf 2022 - Ecophilia exhibition @ TEKS.studio - co-curator, 2022
Meta.Morf 2020 - Digital Wild - Concept developer, curator of the Digital Wild conference, 2020
FY FAEN SÅ DIGITAL! Online exhibition 2020 - Curator, producer, 2020
FY FAEN SÅ BRA! Exhibition at Meta.Morf Biennale 2020 - Curator, producer, 2020
Norwegian Media Art Library - Curator of the collection at Meta.Morf X - Digital Wild main exhibition, 2020.
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway - Exhibition and symposium program - producer, curator, 2019
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway Symposium - Curator, producer, moderator 2019
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway Exhibition, Curator, producer, 2019
Dangerous Futures Conference 2018 - Curator, producer, 2018
Art Science & Cocktails: Dangerous Edition - Co-curator, 2018
Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Arts - Co-curator, producer 2018
The Anthropocene Cookbook - Event series, Co-curator, organizer (2017- )
O.F.F. Oslo Flaneur Festival 2016 - Co-organizer, co-curator, 2016
lectures / presentations
The Desire to Collaborate with Plants: Ecoporn or Mutually Beneficial?
Lecture at Symposium: Co-creation with plants. Making new kinships from art and science, FeLT, Oslo Met, March 14, 2023.
Book Launch: The Anthropocene Cookbook by Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie
BioArt Arena –NOBA, Vitenparken, Ås, hosted by Nora S. Vaage, February 28, 2023.
Ecopornography in Digital Arts
Full paper presentation, ISEA 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre
Institutional presentation, ISEA 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
ELEKTRONISK KUNST I NORGE – Bind I: Kunstnere og verk fra 1960 til 2020
Book launch, lecture @ Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, November 19, 2021.
ELEKTRONISK KUNST I NORGE – Bind I: Kunstnere og verk fra 1960 til 2020
Book launch, lecture @ Literaturhuset Trondheim, Trondheim, November 13, 2021.
The Anthropocene Cookbook
Intervention at the Nordic Environments: Opening Conference of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH), Oslo, Norway (2019).
Plant Based Bio-Drone for Environmental Monitoring in The Amazon
Paper presentation, ISEA 2019, Gwangju, South Korea.
The Anthropocene Cookbook & Meal-in-a-pill served by Anthropocene Kitcen’s Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie - Talk & edible performance @ Thinking Through Matter: Exploring BioArt and Design in a Norwegian Contemporary Context, NOBA, Vitenparken at Ås, Norway (2019)
The Anthropocene Cookbook - performance, The 8th Inter-Format Symposium on Rites and Terrabytes, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania, 2018.
The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art - Exhibition opening, KiT, Trondheim, Norway, 2018.
EE #3 : Dangerous Art - talk at Meta.Morf 2018 - A Beautiful Accident Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 2018.
The Anthropocene Cookbook - a lecture at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017
The Anthropocene Cookbook: Food Utopias & Dystopias - a lecture on TAC research, RUCKA, Cesis, Latvia, 2017.
The Anthropocene Cookbook: Opening Event - Project presentation and a lecture on TAC research topics under "The Ecological Catastrophe Dishes", RUCKA, Cesis, Latvia, 2017.
The Anthropocene Cookbook Goes Amazonian - project and research presentation @LABVERDE - Art Immersion Program in the Amazon www.labverde.com, Manaus, Brazil, 2017.
The Anthropocene Cookbook- Eating for Our Future Survival: Artist talk @ISEA 2017, Manizales, Columbia.
EE - Experimental Emerging Art Norway: Institutional presentation @ISEA 2017, Manizales, Columbia.
Global Change App: Managing the Earth in the Age of The Anthropocene - Paper presentation at Going Digital: Innovation in Art, Architecture, Science and Technology, STRAND, Serbia, 2016.
Body Fluids - Paper presentation at Conference Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art, London, 2016.
Global Change App: 100 Questions for a Change - Project presentation at ISEA 2016 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Hong Kong.
Global Change App: Global Democracy Online - Project presentation at ISEA 2016 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Hong Kong.
Body Fluids - Project presentation at Scenekunstfestivalen 2015, Oslo, Norway.
Earth Cancer - Project presentation at ISEA 2015 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Vancouver, Canada.
Selected Works
Ecobordello II - Novi Sad, 2022.
Ecobordello I - R.E.D, Eina, 2022.
The Anthropocene Cookbook: Eating for Our Future Survival - Artistic research project on the future of food. (Link)
Opinify App - mobile application to break through your social media echo chambers.
Global Change App - A social network representing a radical solution for a better future.
BIO_DRONE - A hybrid plant-based ecological surveillance drone.
Earth Cancer - An action based project exploring the most important resource on the planet - our soil.
Body Fluids - A performance piece. A collection of jewelry objects made from frozen human bodily liquids, such as menstrual blood, semen and breast milk.
Flow w/ Sound - Public sound installation, Karolinelund Park, Aalborg, Denmark.
Six Directions - Installation at Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark.
SELECTED Exhibitions
Ecobordello II (Stahl Stenslie & Zane Cerpina) - Novi Sad, 2022.
Ecobordello I (Stahl Stenslie & Zane Cerpina) - RED, Eina, 2022.
The Book of Love Bites @Group exhibition - Extravagant Bodies: LOVE, Kontejner, Zagreb, 2019.
Drone Dancing in the Anthropocene as part of an audiovisual installation for the exhibition “Paralogical Machines; When images meet us in Time and Space" @Weiling GalleryContemporary, Kuala Lumpur, 2019
PETeasy @Reshaped Future - Group exhibition @ Stockholm Design Week, 2019.
#YouToo @Group exhibition Between the Lines – the artists’ response to #MeToo @Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway, 2018.
The Anthropocene Cookbook - exhibition @Science Night, Cesis, Latvia, 2017.
The Anthropocene Feast: Cooking the Last Dragon - Experimental food performance, Cesis Medieval Castle, Latvia, 2017.
Artguns – Criminal Aesthetics @EXTRAVAGANT BODIES: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT @Kontejner.org, Zagreb, Croatia, Belgrade, Serbia (Concept: Stahl Stenslie, 3D design: Zane Cerpina).
Opinify App - Group exhibition @ Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2016, V2_, Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Body Fluids - Performance at Scenekunstfestivalen 2015, Oslo, Norway.
Press / media coverage
Publishers Weekly: “The Anthropocene Cookbook: Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes”, 2022 (link).
Atlas Obscura: “A Cookbook for Surviving the End of the World”, 2022 (link)
Dezeen: “Ten experimental designs that tackle the food challenges of the Anthropocene era”, 2022 (link).
We Make Money Not Art: “The Anthropocene Cookbook. Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes” (link).
Tommy Olsson, Klassekampen: “Den klaustrofobiske planeten”, 2022 (link).
We Make Money Not Art: “ISEA 2022: Porn and ecoporn in digital arts”, 2022 (link).
We Make Money Not Art: “Meta.Morf 2022: What does it mean to love nature when many of us doubt that it still exists?”, 2022 (link)
Norsk kunstårbok 2021, “Kunsten i virtuelle landskap”, 2021.
Neural #65, Redirecting Networks, “FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway 2019” (link).
Grazia Magazine, “Zane Cerpina: “Za mene gristi znači voljeti”, 2019 (link).
We Make Money Not Art: “Dangerous Art”: the latest issue of the (free) Experimental Emerging Art Magazine”, 2018 (link).
Latvian National Radio, program: "How to Live Better", 2017 (link).
Latvian National Radio, program: "Known in Unknown", 2017 (link).
We Make Money Not Art: "Bodily Matters", 2016 (link).
residencies / projects
RUCKA Residency, Cesis, Latvia, 2017
LABVERDE - Art Immersion Program in the Amazon, Brazil, 2017
Summer Sessions at V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2016
Dark Ecology Journey - Participant, 2015
GRANTS
Art+Food+Next Generation (2022-2023)
EEA grants programme „Local Development, Poverty Reduction, and Cultural Cooperation.
Project partners RUCKA (LV) and Vitenparken (NO).
Ecobordello, 2022
Prosjektstøtte, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV), NO.
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway (Online exhibition, Meta.Morf Biennale 2020)
Ekstraordinær utlysning i forbindelse med koronakrisen, Kulturrådet, NO.
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway (Exhibition at Gallery KiT, Trondheim, Meta.Morf Biennale 2020)
Prosjektstøtte visuell kunst, Kulturrådet, NO.
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway (Symposium, artistic and archival program at Atelier Nord ANX, 2019) Prosjektstøtte visuell kunst, Kulturrådet, NO.
FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments Norway (Symposium, artistic and archival program at Atelier Nord ANX, 2019)
Oslo Kommune.
Journalism
NEURAL MAGAZINE
Leonardo's 50th Anniversary Event Series - Article, Neural #63, Surveillance Surveyed, 2019
Master / Slave exhibition by Quentin Destieu, Dardex Collective - Article, Neural #63, Surveillance Surveyed, 2019
GLOBAL CONTROL: RIXC Art Science Festival 2018, Article, Neural #61: Speculative pink, 2018
EE JOURNAL
Jurij Krpan “Curating Dangerously”, EE Journal #3, 2018
Alex Andriaansens “Dangerously Unstable”, EE Journal #3, 2018
Marnix de Nijs “Art of Fear”, EE Journal #3, 2018
Marko Markovic “Eating Yourself”, EE Journal #3, 2018
Alexandra Murray-Leslie “Fashionably Dangerous”, EE Journal #3, 2018
Max Dovey “Are Artists Just Bug Fixers?”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Richard DeDomenici “Making Unprecedented Art”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Notto J. W. Thelle “Notam - Past, Present, Future”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Marieke Verbiesen “Loud Matter @ANX Gallery”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Kenneth Korstad Langås “Library & Experimental Arts”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Hanan Benammar “Art Should be Free”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Kirsty Kross “Art for the End Times”, EE Journal #2, 2017
Graham Harman “On Art and Ecology”, EE Journal '#1, 2016
PNEK FILEs
Ida Lykken Ghosh “Atelier Nord”, PNEK FILEs #5, 2019
Daniel Slåttnes “Vegetal Connection”, PNEK FILEs #5, 2019
Asbjørn Blokkum Flø “Electric Rain”, PNEK FILEs #5, 2019
Christian Blom “Transitions at Notam”, PNEK FILEs #5, 2019
Magnus Bugge “Soundtrack for Webcams”, PNEK FILEs #5, 2019
Boris Kourtoukov “Machines that Judge Us”, PNEK FILEs #5, 2019