UNTITLED (FROLAND), 2009 95 x 130 cm ink-jet print on cotton paper framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
FINNISH HARRASMENT, 2009 variable dimensions paper, mdf, glass
COTTON BLUES, 2009 60 x 75 cm ink-jet print on cotton paper framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
DOOMSDAY CLOCK, 2009 46 x 58 cm silver gelatin print on baryta paper framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
Selected Works
VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT, 2009 60 x 75 cm silver gelatin print on baryta paper framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
HOTEL MOLAY, RUE DES ARCHIVES, 2009 40 x 50 cm silver gelatin print on baryta paper framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
LED ZEPPELIN, IV, 2009 53 x 54 cm silver gelatin print on RC paper framed & mounted on aluminium, printed mat board ed. 5+2
LED ZEPPELIN, IV, 2009 53 x 54 cm silver gelatin print on RC paper framed & mounted on aluminium, printed mat board ed. 5+2
INSTALLATION VIEW
STYX, PARADISE THEATRE, 2009 53 x 54 cm silver gelatin print on RC paper framed & mounted on aluminium, printed mat board ed. 5+2
THIS IS THE END, INSTALLATION VIEW, HAUGAR ART MUSEUM, 2010 185 x 110 cm neon sign ed. 5+2
INSTALLATION VIEW, PARALLAX, MELK, 2012
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INSTALLATION VIEW
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ECO´S ECHO, 2009 variable dimensions projected computer program ed. 5+2
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INSTALLATION VIEW
INSTALLATION VIEW
SILVER STARFIELD, 2009 70 x 100 cm silver gelatin print on baryta paper framed & mounted on aluminium ed. 5+2
SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL NORWAY AND NORWEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHY FUND
August 6th 1945 the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever to be deployed in warfare on the Japanese city Hiroshima. Two years later, when the Cold War was still in its early stages, nuclear scientists at the University of Chicago set out to inform the world of the mass destruction potential of nuclear arms. The Chicago researchers wanted to make the public aware of how fast the human race was moving towards total destruction by means of our own technology. In 1947 the board of scientist presented the Doomsday Clock, a visual analogy of the global threat situation. Twelve o'clock represents "catastrophic destruction", and the initial setting of the clock was seven minutes to midnight. Since then the clock has been depicted on the cover of every issue of the journal "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists". The minute hand has been moved back and forth over the years in coherence with the board's interpretation of the global threat situation. In later years climate-changing technologies and developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology have been included in the equation. During the Cuban Missile Crises in 1962 the clocked peaked at two minutes to midnight. The clock's earliest setting, 11:43, was made in 1991 after the fall of the Berlin Wall when arms reduction treaties were signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. December 2009 the clock is set at five minutes to midnight.
The manuscript, which also bears the name "the world's most mysterious manuscript", has been an enigma ever since its discovery in a villa outside of Rome in 1912. The script consists of more than 240 pages of handwritten code and drawings, yet to be deciphered. Researchers assume the script to be compiled between the year 1450 and 1520. Innumerous attempts to decipher the text and the corresponding illustrations have been made. But cryptologists are yet to agree on a solution to the mystery. During the Second World War top cryptologists in the allied forces worked together on the Japanese and German war codes. Some of the most accomplished military cryptologists, like H. Yardley and W. Friedman, spent their spare time trying to solve the Voynich Manuscript during the war. Even though these two individuals are responsible for breaking complex ciphers that were to change the outcome of the war, they got nowhere with "the worlds most mysterious manuscript". Suggested interpretations of the scripts content are numerous, and includes botany, alchemy, the science of engineering, optical experiments, medicine, astrology, suicide rituals, astronomy, etc. The manuscript is currently stored in Yale University's rare books and manuscripts collection.
Jaques De Molay (1244–1314) was the 23rd and last official leader of the Knights Templar. In 1307 the military order of the Knights Templar were in a long-standing conflict with king Philip IV of France. The reason for the dispute was the knight’s political and economical privileges. On Friday 13th of October the knights were faced with mass arrests and charges of blasphemy, sodomy and corruption. Some of the knights escaped the prisons walls and burning at the stake. The refugee knights are said to have fled the country, and there is no lack of speculations on what parts the exile-knights may have played in the forming of secret societies across Europe, including the formation of the first Masonic lodge in Scotland. The dramatic events are said to be the mother of all conspiracy theories regarding. After seven years in arrest Jaques de Molay was burnt alive on the island Île de la Cité in the river Seine in Paris, March 18th 1314. Today there are few traces of the dramatic events in the area where the temple was located in Paris.
During a court session in Sacramento, California, Led Zeppelins legendary "Stairway to Heaven" spins on the turntable in 1983. Researcher William Yaroll concludes in front of the assembly that subconscious messages hidden in music may affect the listener. To demonstrate the phenomenon the record is played backwards. After Yaroll's testimony it is not difficult for the assembly to discern the words that allegedly lie hidden in the music: “Oh here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He will give those with him 666. There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.” Under pressure from Christian lobbyists two bills were passed during 1983, in California and Arkansas. The laws refer to the albums Led Zeppelin - IV, Styx - Paradise Theatre and Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado. The legislation concludes that any release containing subconscious messages must bear a sticker with the following warning: ”Warning: This record contains backward masking which may be perceptible at a subliminal level when the record is played forward."
View Eco´s Echo online here. The novel "Foucault's Pendulum" by author and semiotician Umberto Eco takes place in a small Italian academic publishing house. The three friends who run the company have since long grown tired of the numerous manuscripts they are constantly receiving dealing with occult conspiracy theories. So when the owner decides that they are to publish a critical introduction to occult sciences and secret societies, both enthusiasm and moral runs low. The sceptical friends contemptuously gather individual sentences from the refused manuscripts, and feed them to the office computer. They set out to write a program that produces new conspiracy theories by randomly putting the sentences together in new constellations. All is well until the theories spin out of control and the borders between fact and fiction are getting increasingly diffuse. "Eco's Echo" is an automatic paraphrasing of Eco's novel. In a computer program the novel is fragmented in the same principal as described by Eco. The author's text is broken down into grammatical categories. The program then forms sentences by choosing random words from the databases, and project them on the gallery wall. Every sentence is shown for ten seconds, and while a sentence is being projected, the next is being produced. http://espengleditsch.com/ecos_echo/start.swfshapeimage_32_link_0
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