Program (quick overview)
10:00-10:45
Animation and Music Notation
Trygve Selnes Nielsen
NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology / Volda University College (1st year presentation)
Moderator: Knut Olaf Sunde
11:00-11:45
An exploration of line and characters in feminist worlds
Solveig Wiig
NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology / Volda University College (1st year presentation)
Moderator: Knut Olaf Sunde
13:00-13:45
Fungal Future
Mari Koppanen
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Design (1st year presentation)
Moderator: Knut Olaf Sunde
Animation and Music Notation (Trygve Selnes Nielsen)
The project will through experiments in animated film create expressions that are suitable for animated notation - animated film images for reading or writing music. Animated pictures as guide to performing music can be traced back to the 1920s and Fleicher studios bouncing ball sing-along films. The last decade the development has taken up speed, and animation has e.g. been used widely in digital music learning apps and explored by experimental contemporary composer. This development has mainly come from a technical or musical perspective. This project would like to develop the field from an animation perspective: how are the unique properties of animation, e.g. to produce metamorphosis, the ability to create an illusion of life, or make invisible or impossible movements possible, suitable to express music. The project outcome will mainly take the form of short animated films. These could either be directly connected to the creation of music, or the could be apt to stimulate the viewers to create their own sound-picture analogies or musical ideas.
An exploration of line and characters in feminist worlds (Solveig Wiig)
In this artistic work, I will utilize my background as an illustrator, animator, and art and film theorist. The project will involve drawing a comic book and to develop one of these stories into an animated short film. The design of this project means that several interesting interfaces between comics and animated films will arise in the process, both in terms of the line, characters, narrative (s) and the universe (s) presented – related to both technique and aesthetics in the two artworks. The competence from both drawing and film can be combined to provide new knowledge and experience to both artforms. The exploration of line will happen trough the design of feminist worlds and the work will be part of an important gender discourse.
Women are still underrepresented within both the film and game industries. The journalist and author Perez argue that women are still structurally discriminated.By drawing a female body, a female movement that is not included in the preconstructed forms of how a positive female role model appears, I connect to a feminist tradition to create characters that can present a wider range of identification. The project involves tackling complex topics and drawing complex female characters with simple means and the use of paper media.
There are long traditions in both drawing and animation where observation is a central method for creating credible interpretations of our surroundings, in form and in movement. Through linework, you can work with a language that is condensed. A distillation of observation through a simplified line representing body language, acting and character. I want to explore "simplification issues" or “amplification through simplification” to find new ways to iconize female characters.
When working in popular cultural expressions, you can reach a wide audience, also those who are not concerned with feminism.
Mediating Uncertainties (Sara Eliassen)
Mediating Uncertainties is an ongoing artistic research project, thinking around how ideology is normalized through contemporary images, technologies and moving image culture. The project aims to explore how image- and screen materials can be used to question and counter dominant versions of recent histories. If following on from Marshall McLuhan’s observations that form became content in the twentieth century, what modes of aesthetic resistance could be mobilised today, bearing in mind the many different contexts and urgencies we now face? How might we subvert documents of the past and archival materials with the explicit aim of undoing certain subjectivities, to build new political imaginaries? The project suggests this might require strategies that operate beyond a conception of simply producing an alternate narrative or making a counter move. How might we rather multiply narratives, connections, methods and techniques in order to rethink how knowledges and histories are being produced? In attempting this, the project also seeks to explore the apparatuses of circulation we use, and the possibilities of developing new channels of distribution.
Fungal Future (Mari Koppanen)
Fungus is our oldest ancestor, a living organism crucial for our everyday existence. We are part of it, and it is more of us than we want to believe. Fungi allow us a more holistic view about and into nature than any other organism or material. Fungal materials are considered as future materials as they are not widely used in the industries. This research investigates the value of the fungal organism as a material resource in the field of design.
The project strongly emphasizes the symbiosis between science and art. It challenges the boundaries of contemporary design and material possibilities. Where artistic implementation makes the materials easier to illustrate, offers science concrete solutions for their implementation. The project aims to garner an understanding of possible future applications on fungal materials, yet it calls attention to approach this huge organism with sensitivity and respect.
My presentation focuses on showcasing the background and an early experimentation phase of my Ph.D. project. It provides more information about the fermentation process of a microbial (fungus-bacteria) community, different techniques to treat the material as well as an overview of the value of cultivating your own materials and making your own pigments. Above all, it explores the interaction between human and fungus.
PLANT TO UNPLAN - exploring precarious spaces between ”homo sapiens” and ”homo ludens” (Lisa Streich)
Research field: Performing Precarity in Music Performances. Project core: writing a book called BOOK OF CHORDS.
My focus will lie on precarious writing for large formations. Writing for large ensmebles, orchestras and choirs, I have been using recordings from choirs that sing imperfectly, found on the internet, where I find a certain beauty in the imperfection of known chords. Those Imperfections I try to amplify in my music. To explain my work with chords, I often show a picture by Sally Man called ”The Perfect Tomatoe” where the tomatoe on the table is in focus, but what the perceiver looks most at is the child, not in focus, lifting its arms, appearing like an angel. So in my chords, the original chord or interval, for example a minor chord is still there and in focus but everything that is wrong in the spectrum, or special to the spectrum, given by the human voice or imperfection in intonation, is amplified and becomes the main focus. (Red notes: loudest, blue notes: less loud, uncoloured notes: background) In the Artistic Research Spring Forum 2022 I would like to present my so far work on the book ”BOOK OF CHORDS”. I would like to share thoughts about content, layout and the role of the recipient (musician, non musician). And how the Research Catalogue could go beyond the books content for the expert reader.
