Now I see things for the way it is (2019)Aske ThibergHD video, 29:54 min. A few years ago Thiberg discovered a chat room online for youth who had isolated themselves from society by staying indoors. He decided to make an artwork recreating four of the users’ bedrooms in 3D animation, using the pictures and descriptions that were sent in the…
Centarium (2020)Aleksander Johan Andreassen4K Video, 21:58 min. Centarium is staged and filmed in selected shopping centres around Mo i Rana in Norway. During mostly normal opening hours, a chain of events starts with a mannequin coming to life. A cleaner gets a glimpse of this, and the film follows these two characters’ meetings and movements in, at times, identical settings.…
In Thure Erik Lund’s writings, technology seems to be a springboard for reflection on nature and culture, and man´s transformations during a digital era. In his last essay collection, Romutvidelser (2019) he raises the question if nature and technology can merge. He has been called a kind of “techno-mystic”, who is continuously approaching the indiscernible future. Lund is currently working…