Ghost Publishing

Ghost Publishing
publishing the unseen

www.ghostpublishing.org

Founded in 2015, Ghost Publishing is an independent publishing house with locations in Oslo, New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo, and Beijing. Specializing in avant-garde and challenging works, Ghost Publishing is dedicated to “Publishing the Unseen” — providing a platform for bold, unconventional projects that explore the fringes of art, culture, and human experience.

Among Ghost Publishing’s notable publications are:

The Book of Love Bites (2019) by Zane Cerpina
ISBN (Print): 978-82-999888-7-2

An intimate and visceral exploration of bodily desire, The Book of Love Bites is a collection of close-up photography documenting the artist’s repeated love bites on a chosen body over four years. This book captures the evolving imprint of passion, power, and somatic expression on the skin, transforming the body into both medium and message.

The New Cookbook: Delights for the Anorexic (2015) by Stahl Stenslie
ISBN (Print): 978-82-999888-2-7

This provocative cookbook challenges the boundaries of taste by delving into coprophagy and other extreme culinary experiences. Intended as an “aesthetic treaty on taste and the edible,” it pushes readers to consider the psychological and cultural intersections of food, identity, and desire.

Dead Beauty (2015) by Stahl Stenslie
ISBN (Print): 978-82-999888-3-4

Dead Beauty examines the representation of martyrs and martyrdom across digital and social media. Stenslie presents a curated selection of martyr images, inspired by his own artistic projects, such as the Suicide Fashion Show and Mothers of the Nation series. The work confronts the complex aesthetics of sacrifice and idealized death.

Ghost Publishing redefines the boundaries of conventional publishing, giving readers access to provocative, often unseen perspectives that challenge and expand the discourse on art and society.

META.MORF 2024 - [up]Loaded Bodies

Meta.Morf 2024
[up]Loaded Bodies

Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology
Norway – The Netherlands / April – October, 2024

Meta.Morf 2024 – [up]Loaded Bodies explores the physical and technological body caught between virtual ecstasy and digital obesity.

Time and again, we have been attracted by grand narratives of digital escape. The decades-old travel brochure advertises a one-way ticket to a limitless experience inside your perfect avatar body. It sells a utopian dream of a never-ending party on the other side of the screen. Yet, while the mind indulges in spectacular virtual tourism, the body is put into the bargain.

While we are eager to board the shiny flight toward the digital world of ecstatic meta-fun, we are still stuck in the departure hall. In this liminal space, our bodies are repeatedly squeezed through security checks and buying overpriced data snacks. Once on board, we fasten our digital extensions to the Internet of Bodies and find ourselves strapped between the physical and the virtual world, remotely controlled and monitored. Loaded with digital anticipations, our disengagement with the physical world is growing. Yet to no avail. The physical reality never truly disappears.

All digitally tangled bodies—human and non-human—endure extreme tension. While technology blurs the horizon between the virtual and the real, the bodies stick with their materiality. Even entities such as the Internet, AI, and the gadgets enabling our virtual voyage have their physical footprint. Everyone has to carry their own oversized luggage.

On- or offline, the turbulent digital itinerary continues to affect bodies and shape identities. Whether a human longing for a digital beach or an AI looking for a foothold in physical reality, this is no holiday. This is life as we know it in the 21st century.

—Zane Cerpina / Boris Debackere / Espen Gangvik / Florian Weigl, 2024

www.metamorf.no/2024

Art + Food + Next generation (2022-2023)

ART + FOOD + NEXT GENERATION

Activities for children and youth from 10 to 18 years

Project “Art+Food+Next Generation” uses art and food as a medium for critical reflection on the ongoing environmental crises. The project aims to help the next generation to creatively address and deal with anxieties and uncertainties related to climate and geo-political unpredictability.

A series of online and onsite activities are created in close collaboration between the Rucka Art Foundation in Latvia and Vitenparken in Norway, targeting children and youth in Latvia between 10 and 18. The project brings together an international and interdisciplinary team from Latvia and Norway. The experts come from fields such as visual arts, performance, design, media arts, technology, bio-arts, environmental sciences, and gastronomy.

“Art+Food+Next Generation” enables children and youth to shape and co-create their own future through art and culture. The project takes a sustainable approach to food as an artistic material and product. The participants are directly involved as co-creators of the artistic events, art objects, and the final exhibition in Cesis.

The project “Art+Food+Next Generation” (Nr. EEZ/2022/2/23) has been realized with the support of the European Economic Area (EEA) Grants Financial Mechanism funding period 2014. – 2021. program “Local Development, Poverty Reduction, and Cultural Cooperation” open call “Support for the Creation of Professional Art and Cultural Products for Children and Youth”.

The project’s realization period is from 1 October 2023 until 30 November 2023. The project’s total eligible costs are 164,958.33 EUR. The project receives a 140,214.58 EUR grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway through the EEA Grants and a 24,743.75 EUR grant through national co-financing.

Project manager in Latvia: Oskars Goba
Project manager in Norway: Zane Cerpina
Project curator: Stahl Stenslie

www.next.rucka.lv

THE ANTHROPOCENE COOKBOOK (MIT Press, 2022)

www.anthropocenecookbook.com
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047401/the-anthropocene-cookbook/

The Anthropocene Cookbook

Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes

By Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie
Forthcoming at MIT Press, October 18, 2022

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The Anthropocene Cookbook is by far the most comprehensive collection of ideas about future food from the perspective of art, design, and science. The book is unique in the way it connects food, art, thinking, and science. It talks to the new generation of aesthetically aware environmentalists. It promotes ecological thinking from a radically different perspective: what happens if we embrace the coming environmental catastrophes as an opportunity and not as doom? 

The book speaks to the large, worldwide, and international audience concerned about current environmental catastrophes. 

It is a thought-provoking book about the connections between art, food, and eating in the Anthropocene –The Age of Man– and the age of catastrophes. The book investigates humanity's future cuisine from an artistic perspective in a time when humankind shapes, models, and engineers the Earth beyond recognition. In our age of constant environmental upheaval, the book poses the following question about our menu to be: how can we survive and thrive in the future?

Although food is the topic, the content is as much about how to think and act differently through the arts. Presenting more than 60 artistic and explorative projects, it is mapping out ways we can and will feed ourselves on a planet changed beyond repair by human activity. 

The Anthropocene Cookbook explores a wide range of artistic ideas and projects such as: modifying the human body to digest cellulose, turning plastic into food, tasting smog, extracting spices and medicines from sewage, growing meat, fish, and even human flesh in the lab, making cheese using human bacterias, enabling human photosynthesis through symbiosis with algae, producing liqueur from body fluids, bringing back extinct species only to eat them again, and many more. 

META.MORF 2022 - Ecophilia

Meta.Morf 2022 • Ecophilia

Trondheim international biennale for art and technology,
April 1 – July 31, 2022.

Main curator: Zane Cerpina

Ecophilia can be defined as our deep desire to connect with nature. But what is nature? And what is ecophilia in the age of the Anthropocene? When borders between nature, human, and technology have become blurred, even obsolete? 

How is ecophilia manifested today? Fighting climate change? Giving legal rights to non-humans? Advocating the devolution of the human species – for the better of the planet?

Or should a true ecophile love and care for a nature transformed with all its strange new habitants? What about saving plastic Christmas trees, protecting artificial landscapes and putting genetically modified organisms in the list of protected species?

How do the many varieties of ecophilia affect nature? And what happens when our relationship with nature turns into an ecosexual fetish? Can one be too much of an ecophile? Do we even need to be in nature to be ecophiles? Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to solve all the environmental crises just by running numbers. Now technoecophile’s love for nature can be amplified through screens, apps and endless gadgets.

Meta.Morf 2022 – The seventh Trondheim international biennale for art and technology – manifests a critical take on mankind’s relationship to nature. The biennale will, through conferences, exhibitions and performances, critically question what it truly means to be an ecophile in the age of the Anthropocene?

www.metamorf.no

Book: Elektronisk Kunst i Norge

ELEKTRONISK KUNST I NORGE

ELEKTRONISK KUNST I NORGE

Bind I: Kunstnere og verk fra 1960 til 2020

Redaktører: Zane Cerpina, Ståle Stenslie og Jøran Rudi
Utgiver: TEKS.press

ELEKTRONISK KUNST I NORGE – Kunstnere og verk fra 1960 til 2020 er den første kunsthistoriske oversikten over elektronisk kunst i Norge. Det har ikke vært skrevet mye om denne betydelige kunsten her til lands, og boken bidrar til å fylle dette hullet i kunnskapen om utviklingen fra 1960 og frem til nå. Norske kunstnere som har arbeidet elektronisk og digitalt er til dels mer kjent i utlandet enn i Norge. Mange har vunnet internasjonale priser, stilt ut ved de største biennalene og fått oppmerksomhet i utenlandske medier. Boken presenterer historiene deres som et historisk, billedlig og kunstnerisk narrativ over verk, utviklingstrekk og samtidige kontekster. Til sammen 100 kunstnere er med i boken.

www.ekunst.net

DIGITAL WILD CONFERENCE

DIGITAL WILD CONFERENCE

MARCH 6 – 7, 2020, DOKKHUSET, TRONDHEIM
Curator and moderator: Zane Cerpina

BRUCE STERLING / JASMINA TESANOVIC / JURIJ V. KRPAN / ADAM ZARETSKY
RACHEL ARMSTRONG / RICHARD DeDOMENICI / DISNOVATION.ORG / DANIEL ROURKE
TONJE HESSEN SCHEI / ØYVIND BRANDTSEGG & AXEL TIDEMANN
ALEX MURRAY-LESLIE / THE CENTER FOR GENOMIC GASTRONOMY

www.metamorf.no/digital-wild-conference/

Digital Wild Conference bends and twists our ideas and illusions about the digital. What happens outside of the ordinary, problem-oriented scheme of thinking? Where do things get wild, untamed and kinky? How to twist the purposes of technologies? Or better; get rid of the obvious and question the rational?

Digital Wild wanders into the digital wilderness, with the safety lock off, out-of-control and freely roaming about in -or even out of- the technosphere. We need to look into the dark corners where our digital tools have found their own agendas and purposes. We explore the surprising and unforeseen uses of our digital creations.

Digital Wild speakers investigate the wild from several perspectives and a wide range of creative disciplines. In a world gone totally wired, we must push the reflections and critical discussions about our relationship to the digital. Digital Wild conference does so by debating the digital technology in a playful manner, pushing us to unsee and unlearn our ordinary perceptions of the digital.

What does it mean to be Digitally Wild? What about these examples: What if your parrot falls in love with the virtual voice assistant Alexa? Has technology then gone wrong? Or found its real purpose?

Are you scared of Artificial Intelligence stealing your job in the future? What about AI becoming the artist itself? Or perhaps your partner in the ultimate art-crime that you have been looking for?

Why do all smartphones look the same? They did not always. The sleek, uniform looks of today’s technologies are the result of innumerous, wildly looking iterations. What about rewilding them again?

Is the future fashion DNA? Emerging techniques are about to let us genetically modify and design babies. How will emerging anti-aesthetics give your future kid a rather unexpected look?

And what if the next cryptocurrency came fully analogous and even knitted? How to turn the unreal into real coinage, disrupting the complex concepts of technological black boxes, letting users pocket actual authority over the digital?

Digital Wild Conference gathers a wide selection of experts to take us on a tour between our wildest digital dreams and darkest technological nightmares.

–  Zane Cerpina

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Dangerous Futures Conference

dangerous futures conference

Conference @ Meta.Morf 2018 / Dokkhuset, Friday May 4 & Saturday May 5, 2018 / Curator and moderator: Zane Cerpina / Co-curator: Espen Gangvik 

ERICH BERGER / ORON CATTS / CERPINA ZANE / BORIS DEBACKERE / ORIT HALPERN / KIRSTY KROSS / MELISSA E. LOGAN / KOERT VAN MENSVOORT / ALEXANDRA MURRAY-LESLIE / STELARC / STAHL STENSLIE / PETR SVAROVSKY / HEGE TAPIO / LIAM YOUNG

Gaia is a tough bitch. The catastrophe has already happened. The word “crisis” is the default mode in this age of the Anthropocene. We are obsessed with the ecological apocalypse. Scared shit-less by the propaganda on global terrorism while waiting for Donald to hit the nuclear switch. We build our society on fear. Are we f***ed?

ARE WE F***ED? Art, science and technology continue to explore the very future extremes. How crazy, wild and different can we make it? The Dangerous Futures gathers a wide selection of experts to discuss the most radical and debatable ideas, asking provocative questions, presenting possible utopias and likely dystopias while drinking dangerous cocktails.

Why Dangerous Futures? The global warming debate and End of the World scenarios are abundant. But, hey, no need to worry. According to Timothy Morton the ecological catastrophe has already happened. What is beyond the ordinary blindfold of apocalyptic debates? Our future survival is at stake.

So, what now in the age of the post-catastrophe? How to move on? Should we dance at the end of the world? Or explore the dark and unforeseen possibilities on planet Earth in the age of the Anthropocene? Bruno Latour thinks that Mother Nature and the goddess Gaia has forsaken us. We humans are now the lone players in the game of survival. We have become the architects of our own world, lives and likely extinction. What next?

Can we genetically modify ourselves to make the right decisions? Should we merge our bodies together with algorithms – or rather with plants? How will we fuel our dark desires in the future? Science and technologies are providing new ways to upgrade ourselves and everything around us. And we just can’t resist to say yes! What are the dangers of these decisions?

Dangerous Futures Conference is produced and financed by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, Curated by Zane Cerpina.

www.dangerousfutures.com

www.metamorf.no/dangerousfutures

THE ANTHROPOCENE KITCHEN

THE ANTHROPOCENE KITCHEN

The Anthropocene Kitchen is an artistic research project investigating the future cuisine of humanity. To sustain the soon-to-be 9 billion global population we cannot count on Mother Earth’s resources anymore. The project investigates the most innovative and speculative ideas about new foods within the field of arts, design, science & technology. The project rethinks our eating traditions, challenges food taboos, and proposes new recipes for survival in times of dark-ecological catastrophes. This takes the form of public food experiments, cooking performances, and discussion evenings.

Humans have been cultivating animals and plants for more than 10000 years. But we can no longer live of mother Earth’s resources the same way as we did before. With the presence of the new geological epoch – the Anthropocene (The Age of Man), it becomes evident that “the ecological catastrophe has already happened” (Morton). We have to adjust now if we want to survive. What will the future generations have to eat but the left-overs of today?

The Anthropocene Cookbook:
what's left of the anthropocene feast

29.09.2017, Science Night 2017, Cesis, Latvia.
Project exhibition: project video and the leftovers of the Anthropocene Feast. 

The Anthropocene Cookbook:
Food Utopias & Dystopias

20.11.2017, Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
Artist talk and tasting by Zane Cerpina. 

The Anthropocene Feast: Eating the Last Dragon

12.08.2017, Cesis Livonian Castle Garden, Cesis, Latvia.
The Anthropocene Feast connected the past and the future into one imaginary food experiment – cooking the last dragon on the Earth. The event aimed at provoking the visitors to reflect on how has our kitchen has changed due to the Anthropocene and fantasize on the food futures.

The Anthropocene Cookbook Opening Party

14.07.2017, part of TAC event cycle 2017, Rucka Artist Residency, Cesis, Latvia.
Project presentation and an experimental lecture on “Post-Catastrophe Dishes” including such topics as Anthropocene Specials, Post-Catastrophe dishes, Bug Buffet and Body as a Restaurant. During the talk audience could taste Ant(i) Pasti: ant pate made from forest ants, and prepared by the local chef Jānis Sproģis. 

The Anthropocene Cookbook goes Amazonian

22.07.2017, LABVERDE Seminar, Manaus, Brazil.
Talk by Zane Cerpina about the project and research of future foods in the Amazon rainforest during the LABVERDE 2017 (Art Immersion Program in the Amazon). 

Food Utopias and Dystopias

08.08.2017, @ Rucka Artist Residency, Cesis
A lecture on “Food Utopias and Dystopias” including such topics as Fake Foodies, Future Junk Food, Future Super-foods, Invasivore Diet and Sexy Foods.

The Anthropocene Cookbook:
eating for Our Future Survival

15.06.2017, ISEA, Manizale, Columbia.
Artist talk by Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina at ISEA 2017 (International Symposium on Electronic Art).

The Anthropocene Cookbook

20-24th June, 2018, The 8th Inter-Format Symposium on Rites and Terrabytes, Nida, Lithuania. TBA

FY FAEN SÅ DIGITAL!

FAEN (Female Artistic Experiments Norway): FY FAEN SÅ DIGITAL! 

FAEN: FY FAEN SÅ DIGITAL! 
Online at digital.faen.today 
October 17 - 31, 2020

An online exhibition by four young female artists based in Norway transforms the Covid-19 canceled FAEN exhibition into an interactive and experimental online experience. In this third edition, the FAEN artists explore new creative ways to transform physical, living, interactive, and tactile projects into digital works of art: the new standard format in times of the Covid-19.

Darknet spa meditation from your living room? Digital scenography made with your microbes? Algorithms making you a better lover? An immersive deep dive into our ancestral past and possible futures? FY FAEN SÅ DIGITAL! is the third group exhibition by four young female artists based in Norway: Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir (IS/NO), Annike Flo (NO), Anne Cecilie Lie (NO), and Anja Malec (HR/NO), curated by Zane Cerpina (LV/NO). FAEN Online Exhibition is organized and curated by Zane Cerpina / TEKS. This exhibition is part of the META.MORF X – Digital Wild | Chapter II. Program and is kindly sponsored by Arts Council Norway. 

FAEN ONLINE EXHIBITION

FY FAEN SÅ DIGITAL! transforms the Covid-19 canceled FAEN exhibition into an interactive and experimental online experience. In this edition, the FAEN artists explore new creative ways to transform physical, living, interactive, and tactile projects into digital works of art: the new standard format in times of the Covid-19.

Many art installations are now impossible for the public to experience. Artworks in enclosed spaces, physical and intimate interactions, and group experiences don’t fit with the guidelines of social distancing and current health and safety regulations. The FAEN online exhibition takes on the challenge and explores the alternatives. 

How can physical and interactive artworks translate onto the screen? How to keep the performative, live aspect of works when put online? How to break out of the boundaries set by digital tools? What experimentation with these tools lead to new and playful discoveries? How can text, image, video, 360 videos, and live streaming be recombined with physical artworks in an innovative way? How to mix the digital with the physical in real-time?

The FAEN online exhibition is a result of an exploratory and experimental approach to tackle these exciting questions. The new edition of FAEN artworks experiments with new technologies and art dissemination methods for better art experiences online. 

EXHIBITED WORKS

Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir’s The Darknet Spa is a guided meditation through anonymous internet browsing on the Dark Web. From the comfort of your own home, the participants are offered to leave their body and temporarily merge into the physical infrastructures of our global networks. 

Annike Flo’s  s h i f t   d i g i t a l  is a performative scenographic experiment reacting to the pandemic by tying together our digital lives with the microbes we share our bodies and spaces with. S h i f t   d i g i t a l   investigates how and where do we start to feel like metaorganisms? 

Anja Malec’s No Strings Attached: a profound doubt explores the heavy use of algorithms in self-help apps and softwares found online. The artwork plays with our mental state when caught up fighting for perfection in love-life. By offering a set of dysfunctional self-help tools, it haunts your dating life.

Anne Cecilie Lie’s Intersected Waterbodies is an online continuation of her artistic research project criticizing the deep-sea mining industry. The work investigates what real-life consequences the material and energy used to create this online artwork have on the already painfully excavated earth surfaces, seafloor, and exploited labour.

FAEN ACADEMY

FAEN Online Exhibition is made by the FAEN Academy – a pilot project supporting the development of new artworks by young female artists working with experimental art in Norway. The FAEN Academy focuses on art productions from concept to exhibition-ready work in close collaboration with FAEN partners. 

The FAEN Academy is needed to give production and exhibition opportunities for young female artists working with cutting edge art and experimental artistic approaches. The FAEN Academy offers an interdisciplinary, supportive, and reflective environment for producing experimental art. It is for artists that address and challenge contemporary issues in society, politics, culture, and ecology: art that makes the audience question and reflect on the world through new, unique experiences and perspectives. 

FAEN EXHIBITION AT META.MORF

FAEN EXHIBITION: FY FAEN SÅ BRA!

Meta.Morf X – FAEN EXHIBITION: FY FAEN SÅ BRA! / Gallery KiT, March 8 – 22, 2020
Curator / Producer: Zane Cerpina

www.faen.today www.metamorf.no/faen

Darknet spa for meditation? Scenography made in collaboration with fungi? A love story between a woman and her plant? A deep-sea dive into our biological origin and possible future? FY FAEN SÅ BRA! FAEN (Female Artistic Experiments Norway) Exhibition: FY FAEN SÅ BRA! is the second group exhibition by four young female artists based in Norway: Annike Flo (NO), Anne Cecilie Lie (NO), Renate Synnes Handal (NO), Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir (IS/NO) and curated by Zane Cerpina.

FAEN AcademyFAEN Exhibition is made by the FAEN Academy – a pilot project supporting the development of new artworks by young female artists working with experimental art in Norway. The FAEN Academy focuses on art productions from concept to exhibition-ready work in close collaboration with FAEN partners. 

The FAEN Academy is needed to give production and exhibition opportunities for young female artists working with cutting edge art and experimental artistic approaches. The FAEN Academy offers an interdisciplinary, supportive, and reflective environment for producing experimental art. It is for artists that address and challenge contemporary issues in society, politics, culture, and ecology: art that makes the audience question and reflect on the world through new, unique experiences and perspectives. 

FAEN Exhibition 2020During Meta.Morf 2020, FAEN is showing a selection of works that have been further developed especially for the exhibition at Gallery KiT in collaboration with FAEN. The selected works explore the contemporary challenges of co-existence with each other, non-human species and ecological phenomenons, as well ourselves and our role in this age of crisis called the Anthropocene. 

Exhibited WorksAnnike Flo’s “c o c r e a t : e : u r e s :  s h i f t” is a performative aesthetic experiment created in collaboration between the artist and non-human guests that already live at the Gallery KiT. Her work invites visitors to see themselves as a meta-organisms. 

Renate Synnes Handal’s installation “Polyphilia” challenges us to fall in love with plants. “Polyphilia” derives from her project “Another Partner” that follows a romantic relationship between a lady and her plant. 

Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir invites the audience into “The Darknet Spa” to investigate the dark side of our digital hive-mind and experience the collective psyche we have formed through the digital technologies.

Anne Cecilie Lie’s bio-digital art installation “Intersected Waterbodies” is the result of an artistic research project that dives into the deep-sea mining industry investigating our biological origin and imagining our possible future.

OrganizersFAEN Exhibition is organized and curated by Zane Cerpina / TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre. The FAEN experts include Kirsty Kross, Kristin Bergaust, Hege Tapio, Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Ståle Stenslie and others. 

The FAEN exhibition at Meta.Morf is sponsored by Arts Council Norway and TEKS. 

FAEN - Female Artistic Experiments

FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway : Too Many Untold Stories

Exhibition, symposium and archival program

Many Norwegian female artists have achieved outstanding success in the field of experimental arts both in Norway and internationally. However, to this date most of their success stories remain hidden from the public. Now it’s time to tell their amazing histories to a wider audience.

FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway is a three week long exhibition program at Atelier Nord ANX in Oslo, October 17 – November 3, 2019. FAEN is the first edition of a planned event series focusing on different aspects and sub-themes that can be discovered from the project Temporary Library Norway. FAEN is inspired by the Temporary Library Norway project, produced by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Art Centre, and utilize the library as the base for discovering and discussing different areas of experimental arts in Norway. The FAEN is initiated and organized by the emerging curator and experimental art practitioner Zane Cerpina (NO/LV) in collaboration with Atelier Nord. Other partners include: PNEK, TEKS, BEK, i/o/lab, Videokunstarkivet and the book project: Elektronisk Kunst i Norge.

i) The Exhibition “Female Artistic Experiments Norway” is a curated selection of experimental art works by both: young emerging female artists as well as the established ones. The selected works will vary in experimental mediums from sound based art, video art, installation art to bioart. The final exhibition will be a result of a year long curatorial and talent development process in collaboration with established artistic institutions: PNEK – Production Network for Electronic Art Norway, BEK – Bergen Electronic Art Centre and i/o/lab – Centre for Future Art.

ii) The Symposium “FY FAEN SÅ BRA – eksperiment av norske kvinnelige kunstnere” reflects on the history, current state and the possible futures of the experimental art scene in Norway through the perspective of female artists and art practitioners. The symposium takes a historical and critical perspective – using archiving and publishing projects as critical tools to discover historical tendencies and important turning points in the field. The main questions the symposium will pose are: Who are these female artists? What did they do? When? Why was it important?

iii) The Archival Program consists of two artistic programs:

a) The exhibition of The Temporary Library Norway, produced by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Art Centre. TEKS will show the second edition of the project with new publications added. As well the new printed catalog with the complete collection will be launched during the exhibition. Read about the project at: temporarylibrary.no
b) The video Art Screening Program will be realized in collaboration with Videokunstarkivet and PNEK. videokunstarkivet.org

BACKGROUND

Many Norwegian female artists have achieved outstanding success in the field. They have exhibited as well as received awards both on a national and international scale. Examples include: Jana Winderen has performed all over the world and won the Golden Nica, Ars Electronica, 2011 award for Digital Music & Sound Art; Cecilia Johnson received a honorary mention in Hybrid Arts at Prix Ars Electronica 2017 and won the Bio Art & Design Awards in (NL), 2016; Sissel Tolaas with her exquisite practice on perfumes and smell has won recognition through numerous national and international honours; Pia Myrvold have built a broad international carrier working with art and electronic fashion; Hanne Rivrud have participated at a number of exhibitions in Norway and abroad, including the Venice Art Biennale and Ars Electronica; Amanda Steggell co-founded live art project Motherboard in 1996 and is a recognized pioneer in the field; and Maja S. K. Ratkje was the first composer to receive the Norwegian Arne Nordheim Prize in 2001; Natasha Barrett, contemporary music composer specialising in electroacoustic art music has received many awards, including the Nordic Council Music Prize for 2006. Several female artists have also contributed through writings and publications, including Janne S. Dahl, Anne L. Stenseth.

GENDER SHIFT IN EXPERIMENTAL ARTS

Although too many untold stories, there are also recent stories of success and achievements. The field of arts is currently seeing a shift towards female artists heading major art institutions such as: PNEK (Gyrid N. Kaldestad), Atelier Nord (Ida L. Ghosh), Lydgalleriet (Julie L. Porter), Vandaler (Hanan Benammar), i/o/lab (Hege Tapio), not to mention the more established institutions such as OCA (Katya García-Antón), Henie Onstad (Tone Hansen), UKS (Rhea Dall), Karin Hindsbo (National Museum), Anne H. Neset (Kunstnernes Hus). Will this finally provide a chance for the female artists to shape the future of the field?

ORGANIZERS & PARTNERS

The FAEN - Female Norwegian Experimental Artists is the first edition of planned event series focusing on different aspects and sub-themes of experimental arts in Norway. The events are initiated and organized by the emerging curator and experimental art practitioner Zane Cerpina (NO/LV) in collaboration with Atelier Nord. Other partners include: PNEK, TEKS, BEK, i/o/lab, Videokunstarkivet and the book project: Elektronisk Kunst i Norge.

EE Journal

EE Journal

EE is an independent art magazine run by Stahl Stenslie and Zane Cerpina. EE ISSUE 1,2 was supported and financed by PNEK - Production Network for Electronic Art, Norway. EE #3 : Dangerous art is financed and published by TEKS, Trondheim Electronic Art Centre.

EE -Experimental and Emerging Art- documents important contributions to all what art can be. The works and tendencies we present are major additions to the field of emerging aesthetics. EE focuses on experimental art projects – the stuff that somehow stretches and challenges established notions of what art is. We believe the field of art is -and should be- in a constant flux, challenging the otherwise market and cash driven understanding of art. If innovation always comes from the periphery, then EE will also move at the rim of aesthetics. We also defend our right to sometimes fall into its core. And at other times out of it.

WELCOME TO THE BIGGER PICTURE
OF WHAT ART CAN BE.
ONE MAGAZINE AT A TIME.

EE’s format is multiple; part magazine, newszine, part website and it spans across several media formats. While the printed issue is for sale, EE is also freely downloadable online at eejournal.no as a PDF based magazine. Often EE articles are more visual than textual, but online you will find additional background material such as texts, original sound files, video, photos and other Zeitgeist documents to our coverage.
 
EE is In Medias Res and we believe our magazine to be a necessary publication both to be informed about and document a field in constant and rapid change. EE endorses these fluctuations in thinking & doing and see them as essential components of the experimental and expanding field of art. One of EE’s main purposes is to support the interesting, the subversive, the abject, the striking but also intriguing, wondrous and the beautiful in the ongoing human project of making art. Whatever art might be or become.

eejournal.no

Temporary Library Norway

The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art

Concept and co-curator: Alessandro Ludovico
Curators: Zane Cerpina / Stahl Stenslie
Produced by TEKS

The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art represents the most comprehensive knowledge and documentation of media arts in Norway, in terms of history, artistic activities, artists, and developments in the field.

The edition is a collection of printed publications covering the Norwegian Media art field, and is produced for the Meta.Morf – The 5th Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology in 2018. At the end of the Biennale, the collection will be donated to the library of Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. It will be available to be temporary lent as a whole, under specified conditions.

The project aims at strengthening the media art field’s presence in the broader art scene in Norway. The intent is also to contribute to the future development of the media art field in Norway, through providing a solid basis of the field’s history and collected knowledge in one, complete archive. The project further encourages a growth in media arts publications in Norway, which is necessary not only to provide an overview of the historical importance of media arts in Norwegian culture, but also to ensure an ongoing development of the field in the future.

The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art has collected 100+ printed publications. These are all important documents and references to the media art field’s development and presence in Norway. The research has not only to gathered well-known works, but also uncovered what Alessandro Ludovico defines as “sleeping knowledge”: publications that have been published only in few copies, and in several cases forgotten in some storage.

The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art is curated by Alessandro Ludovico in collaboration with Stahl Stenslie (NO) and Zane Cerpina (NO/LV). It is produced and financed by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre.

About The Temporary Library project
The Temporary Library project breaks out of the classic boundaries of libraries. It intends to bring publications in places where they’re not necessarily known, expanding and redefining the public role of libraries in a contemporary sense.
The Temporary Library project is an initiative by Alessandro Ludovico and each edition has a particular focus. The three previous editions are: The Temporary Library for Transmediale, 2017 (Berlin, Germany), The Temporary Library of Latin American Media Art for ISEA, 2017 (Manizales, Colombia) and The Temporary Library of Portuguese Media Art for xCoAx, 2017 (Lisbon, Portugal).

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O.F.F. – Oslo Flaneur Festival

O.F.F. – Oslo Flaneur Festival
Go O.F.F. Get Lost!

What? The OSLO FLANEUR FESTIVAL is a three day celebration of the flâneur — the stroller, the explorer, the passionate wanderer, the timeless image of the human on the move, the nomad, the urban explorer, the wanderer, the new pilot of humanity in a world in rapid change. O.F.F. transforms the flaneur’s walk into action based urbanism. Together we explore not just the city, but also human wanderlust, nature and culture.

Who is s/he? The Flaneur lives inside all of us. We all recognize the lone walker and the urban explorer. The Flaneur is alone. S/he is the one who removes oneself from the world while standing right in the middle of its steaming heart. Alone – and together with all other flaneurs. During O.F.F. everyone in Oslo becomes a flaneur.

For Whom? Anyone and everybody – whether City-Natives, Anarcho-Absurdists, Urban Arcadians, Urban explorers, New Countrymen or just lost tourists, we welcome anyone to this walk O.F.F. the beaten path.

Join us. Walk with us. Walk your way.

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Documentation: here