9. Session Oslo
November 17-28 2008
Two weeks of workshops and lectures
Program
Monday
Everyone arrived
Lecture by Pedro Rocha, sound curator from the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal http://www.serralves.pt
He presented the museum and a series of works and projects that had been exhibited there. The museum has had focus on soundbased works and has had a great number of important figures doing projects there. From Achim Wollschied to Akio Suzuki
Aeron presented the week program
After that moving in to the hotel boat M.S. Innvik
Tuesday
Aeron Bergman did a lecture on the topic of space and installation, with the offset in ancient gardens in China and Japan, moving over examples of Botanical gardens, Architectural interventions to examples of art such as Smithsons Spiral Jetty and minimalism.
Individual critique sessions with Pedro Rocha
Wednesday
Aeron Bergman did a lecture on architecture, art and installations with the offset in Kurt Schwitters’ merzbau
There were individual critique sessions with Pedro Rocha
Thursday
Lecture by Pedro Rocha on the nature of sound art as an experimental artform investigating the possibility of sound making.
Later there were individual critique sessions with Pedro Rocha
In the evening there was an opening of the sound art exhibition at Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, the result of the soundart competition by NOTAM
Friday
In the afternoon Group critique session with Pedro Rocha, Aeron Bergman, Petr Svarowsky
Sunday
There were a screening of a series of movies of Michel Auder (http://www.michelauder.com)
Monday
Lecture by Michel Auder.
Did an screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
Tuesday
First day of workshop with Petr Svarovsky on interactive installations. Introduction to working with the software “processing”, arduino
Wednesday
Second day of workshop with Petr Svarovsky
Thursday
Third day of workshop with Petr Svarovsky
In the evening there was an artist talk by Aeron Bergman and Allejandra Salinas at Atelier Nord
Friday
Fourth day of workshop with Petr Svarovsky