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Ida Z Mathistad, blog editor for PNEK

Per — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:33:53 +0000

Norwegian artist/writer Ida Z Mathistad will be responsible for content on the PNEK blog as from March/April 2010. She can be contacted at ida@pnek.org

Showcase series in Paris

pepe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:46:32 +0000

PNEK is collaborating with La Société de Curiosités in Paris to let emerging Norwegian artists make small showcases in Paris, focussing on sound & performance works. The series will consist of 8-10 concerts during the spring.

These dates are confirmed so far (more soon):
Feb 24: Signe Lidén
March 10: Andreas Meland
March 24: Jenny Hval (aka Rockettothesky)

More info (in French) here

New PNEK brochure

pepe — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:47:02 +0000

We have designed a handy little 48-page brochure in A6-format, which comprises some of the activities planned for 2010 among the PNEK nodes, plus links and other useful info about festivals and friendly structures in Norway. We’ll bring it along wherever we go during the spring, e.g. the Rotterdam Film Festival (Jan 28-Feb 3), Transmediale (Berlin, Feb 3-7), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, Feb 25-28), and the Qwartz Awards (Paris, April 1-3). The snappy design is made by our friends @ Upstruct Berlin/Oslo.

We’ll happily send you one or more copies by post, just send us an email. Or you can download the folder here (< 18 Mb, pdf)

Peter Sinclair presentation in Bergen

pepe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:08:52 +0000

Peter Sinclair, english sound artist based in Marseille, will give a short presentation of his work at the Art Academy in Bergen, C Sundts gt 53 on friday Oct 9th, 2pm-4pm.

Sinclair is one of the founders of the Locus Sonus soundlab, co-hosted by l’École Supérieure d’Art en Provence, Aix, and Villa Arson, Nice.

He has just started an artistic PhD-program at the London University of the Arts, under the leadership of Angus Carlyle.

The presentation is given in connection with an informal PNEK network meeting in Bergen, culminating with the exhibition opening Blink by HC Gilje, who is just about to complete his three year artistic research fellowship program at Bergen Academy of the Arts.

Free entrance!

CC survey finished!

pepe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:40:41 +0000

Our survey on Norwegian copyright holders’ knowledge about and attitude towards the CC licencing system is just ready, and can be dowloaded in pdf format in English version here. Original Norwegian version here.

btw: The statistical material is available here (in Excel or Open Office format) for those wanting to crunch the numbers themselves.

The report itself is licensed as CC by-nc-nd 3.0.

Commision: Outdoor art in Kvinesdal

pepe — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:42:05 +0000

Utsikten Kunstsenter in Kvinesdal are open for artistic proposals in connection with a new, semi-permanent outdoor artwork to be exhibited from April 2010, under the label Digital Perspectives. The artwork should be using sensors (preferably organic ones), and have a production budget of NOK 220.000. The four best proposals will each receive NOK 10.000.

More information on the website of Utsikten Kunstsenter (Norwegian only). Deadline for proposals is November 9nd, 2009.

We have a winner!

pepe — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Tom Erik Davey, Oslo is the lucky winner of a high-end portable sound recorder with binaural microphones after we concluded our opinion poll on Creative Commons amongst Norwegian copyright holders. Congratulations!

The results from the CC poll will be published at the end of september, stay tuned!

New PNEK board

pepe — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:54:16 +0000

Kvinesdal, May 2009: The general assembly elected a new PNEK Board for 2009-2010:
Chair: Torill Haugen, Kvinesdal (artistic director, Utsikten Kunstsenter)
Trond Lossius, Bergen (artist, BEK director)
Beathe C. Rønning, Sando (artist)
Synne Bull, Oslo (artist and chairwoman of the Atelier Nord board)
John Øivind Eggesbø, Stavanger (artist, principle at Rogaland School of Art)
Hilde Methi, Kirkenes (curator)

Survey on CC amongst Norwegian copyright holders

pepe — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:26:46 +0000

PNEK is currently conducting a survey amongst Norwegian artists/copyright holders, to quantify their knowledge about and attitude towards the Creative Commons licences.

This will be the first investigation of its kind in Europe. The results will be published here in September.

Ivar Smedstad new director of Atelier Nord

pepe — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:50:43 +0000

Ivar Smedstad has been appointed new artistic director for Atelier Nord, starting from Aug 1st 2009. Ivar has worked with video art and electronic media since the early 1980s and participated in several international video festivals. He holds a BFA in Performance/Video from San Francisco Art Institute (1988). Technical Manager at Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, (1988–92) and Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (1992– 2000). He currently holds the position as Associate Professor and institute chair at the Intermedia department of Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

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