FoU rapport for 2011

still from video "Looking backwards, recording now" single channel video, 10 min duration, 2011

Area of focus

Focus areas are Installation, performance and live video processing.

Investigations into the cinematographic panorama and cinesensory experience. Looking into questions like " is it possible to "travel" into cinematic panorama?, Can it track the viewer/performer, connected through sensors, can it track the movements in actual space, to generate movement/temporal shifts in cinematic space?

Further developement of live video performance by Undersentralen aka Kjersti Sundland and Anne Bang-Steinsvik is an ongoing project. The video performance i s using sampling of live video footage, using Isadora software.Using real time video processing software, the video streams are controlled independently from two separate control computers, enabling the operators to playback, and manipulate the video material on all three screens, synchronized, or independently of each other. In this way, each performance is changing in duration, narrative and sound.

In Glipe, Undersentralen is investigating the notion of haptic visuality[1], through questions relating to cultural identity and how rural way of life has been changed by technological advance.Glipe is made with the support from the Norwegian Cultural Fund, Art and New Tecnology and Bergen kommune. Programmed in Isadora by Eirik Sælen Jørstad.

[1] "haptic visuality, a kind of seeing that use the eye like an organ of touch"- as described by media theorist and curator Laura U. Marks, as an expression connected to an sensual remembrance through visual representation.

Exhibitions exploring different aspects and various installations has been exhibited in the following venues; "Enduring portrait", invited by BEK to present the installation in Borggården USF Bergen. "Looking backwards, recording now" video installation exhibited at Kathrineholm Kunsthall,as part of group show, curated by Truls Olin. video screening at Håkonshallen Bergen as part of 750 years anniversary. Invited by BEK, with works of HC Gilje, Bjørg Taranger, Kjersti Sundland and Jeremy Welch.