Amanda Steggell
Born in Yokohama, 1965
Lives in Oslo
Works all over the place
Academic positions
Since 2013
Professor, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Academy of Dance
Choreography
(Project leader of Amphibious Trilogies 2016-19)
2011 – 2015
Affiliated member of YOUrban research project, Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2010 – 2011
Visiting professor, University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm
Choreography
2008 – 2010
Associate professor, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Department of Fine Art
Performance time-based and new media art
2007-2008
Visiting lecturer, Hedmark University College, Entertainment Industry and Interactive Media
Concept art in game design
2002-2006
Research Fellow, Østfold University College, Norwegian Theatre Academy
Synaesthesia and contemporary live art practice
Education
2004-2007
Norwegian Theatre Academy, Østfold University College
National Programme for Research Fellowships in the Arts (equivalent PHD programme for artists in Norway)
1991-1994
National College of Ballet and Dance, Oslo
Diploma in choreography
1982-1985
London College of Dance and Drama
Diploma in dance/teachers training
Artistic profile
Choreographer
Co-founder/director of the Motherboard project with Per Platou 1996-2008
Video artist of Verk Productions 2007- 2010
Co-founder (with Ross Dalziel, UK) /curator /producer of Currently 2012 – 2016
Residencies and commissions (*Motherboard)
2013 Residency at Takashi Ikegami Laboratory of Artificial Live, Tokyo University
One month residency for the project “Beautiful and irrational. Conversations between science, art and choreography”
2012-13 Studio-based residency, Tokyo
Three month research residency for “Atom Bonds – a choreography of lives”.
2010 Art Villa Garikula, Georgia
Four week residency for the continuation of the text “Desert Walker. The Impossible Mission”, plus any number of possible re-enactments. The results will be shown at the villa during the International Festival of Contemporary Art, with its main base in Tblisi in October 2010.
2008 ROM3 art and industry partnership initiative, Skien
Development and production of the Electromagnetic Fountain with engineers at NLI Engineering AS organised via ROM 3, an art and industry partnership initiative for rejuvenating Grenland’s redundant industrial areas.
2005 St Mary Magdalene Church and Gardens, Islington, London
Temporary public art commission by funk.co.uk to transform a plain church windows into a “living” stained glass fresco via an interactive video projection animated by sound. Made both for the asylum group housed within the church and the public outside.
2004 BEK (Bergen Centre for Electronic Art), Bergen
Commissioned by curator Ellen Røed as moderator of “Come on Petunia”, a two week international worklab exploring emergent strategies for structuring perceptions as experienced in time-based media.
2003 Plugin Gallery, Basel*
Commission – “Staging Dynamic Interferences”, a collaborative, networked live art laboratory for exploring the notions of interference, glitch and social interaction and their potentials for creative work networked live art.
2002 Steim Institute and the WAAG Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam*
Six week research residency for developing new performances with live video, streaming, wireless, and physical interfaces within connected space(s).
2001 BANFF New Media Institute, Banff Contributor in “Hot Wired Live Art II, Airwaves”, a collaborative live art lab experimenting with digital media and wireless technologies in multi locative performance curated by Michelle Teran.
2001 Baltic Art Centre, Visby, Gotland*
Ten day residential collaborative live art lab for exploring the potentials of emerging software for artists and networked performance.
2000 BEK (Bergen Centre for Electronic Art), Bergen*
Co-production with BEK for “Hot Wired Live Art”; a two week residential collaborative live art lab for exploring the potentials of emerging software for artists and networked performance.
2000 Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
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Commission for the Annual Art Exhibition to develop “Sement”, a large scale, collaborative networked installation covering a floor of the museum, as well as colourful lights installed in the tower that could be controlled by the public via the internet.
1999 Bilderwerfer, Vienna*
4 week worklab with the mixed ability dance theatre company Bilderwerfer to develop “Chat-in-progress”, a networked performance/installation.
1998 The School of the Arts, Chicester College of Higher Education.
Machines and Migratory Bodies.*
A ten day residential performance and new technology workshop with guest artists from Europe.
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Separate exhibitions (installations and performances) (*Motherboard, ** Verk, *** Michelle Teran)
2016
If I were the Ocean. Curator/producer /artist.
International working exhibition produced on behalf of Currently in cooperation with the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the local branch of the countrywide Coastal Federation.
Norwegian Maritime Museum, Bydøynes, Oslo.
2014
Currently 2014. Curator/artist.
Journey-based project sailing between Norway and England. Maritime Festival, Oslo and National Maritime Museum, Liverpool.
Greenwash. Social Beach
Art Villa Garikula, Kaspi Region, The Georgia
2013
Currently – curarting conditions: Two hackspace events (co-curator with Ross Dalziel)
Static Gallery and Liverpool Docks UK & Lavetthuset, Hovedøya, Oslo
Energy Bank Crank & Go!, street level interventions in Shubuya, Tokyo and Oslo Central Station area
2010
Emotion Organ, WARC Gallery, Toronto, Sound of Mu, Oslo, The Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo
2009
Play Alter Native, Black Box Theatre, Oslo**
Electromagnetic Fountain, National Research Days, Porsgrunn City square
2008
Desert Walker, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah*
Answering Machine, Black Box Theatre, Oslo**
2007
Emotion Organ, Norwegian Short Film Festival (festival artist), Grimstad
Emotion Organ, Lydgalleriet, Bergen
2005
The 8th Sister, off the coast of Træna, Nordland, Norway*
2003
Ultra Hot Wired Live Art, Afri Arts Centre, Kampala*
2002
Glitch, National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo*
Ultra Modern. Very Social, Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen*
2001
Please try to speak English, Endless Theatre Oslo, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall Bergen, Avant Garden Trondheim*
Mirage, Baltic Art Centre, Visby, Gotland*
Hot Wired Live Art II, Airwaves, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff***
2000
Hot Wired Live Art, BEK (Bergen Centre for Electronic Art), Bergen*
1999
Idoru, Mercer Union Gallery, Trinity Square VideoToronto, Electronic Media Arts Center***
M@ggie’s Love Bytes, Arc Theatre, Stockton on Tees, UK*
Botball, Samtidskunst Forum, Oslo*
1998
Switch Bitch, Black Box Theatre, Oslo*
1997
Digital Mosque: Disappearing bodies. Half veiled truths, Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo**
Digital Mosque: Virtual Wash, Zoolounge Café, Oslo**
1995
Arena II, Black Box Theatre, Oslo
Group exhibitions (installations and performances)
2018
The Temporary Library of Norwegian Media Art, Meta.Morf 2018, Trondheim
2015
Piksel 15, Bergen, Norway
Strandloppa, Oslo, Norway
Do it Anyway Festival, Sheffield UK
2014
Coastal Fedaration Maritime Festival
Bjørvika, Oslo
2013
Performance Now 4, Bergen, Norway
Late Night at the Museum, Norwegian Museum of Science and technology, Oslo
2012
Piksel X. Kernel Panic, 10th festival for free art and technology, Bergen
Black Box ++, Blackbox Theatre, Oslo
New Frontiers, Oslo
2011
Soft Technologies, Galleri 3,14 Bergen
აქეთ, OVER HERE, PAR ICI, Europe House, Tbilisi, The Georgia
2010
Fest i Nova, 2nd International Festival for Contemporary Art, Garikila, The Georgia
2009
Ultima Festival of Contemporary Music, Oslo
Festival of Contemporary Theatre, Oslo
2008
Article 08 Exhibition for Electronic and Unstable Art, Stavanger
ACM Interactive Arts Exhibition, Science World British Columbia, Vancouver
2007
Close Encounters, University College of Dance, Stockholm
2006
Prosjektrommet 93-06, Gallery F15, Moss Bryggeri Utstillingshallen, Moss, Norway
2005
Ultima International Festival of Contemporary Music, Oslo, Norway
Imagining St Mary Magdalene, St Mary Magdalene Church, London UK
Sold Out Festival, C6, London UK
2004
Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
2003
Viper Festival, Basel
Written in Stone, a net. art archaeology, curator Per Platou, Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
2002
Stunt Club, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) London UK
2001
Treff Exhibition, Bergen Kunstmuseum
Urban Festival, Zagreb
Stand Art Festival, Gothenburg
2000
Prosjektetrommet, Galleri F15, Moss
Høstutstillingen, Bergen Kunstmuseum
Momentum, Moss
Images Independent Film and Video Festival, Toronto
1999
International Festival of Puppetry for Adults, Vienna
1997
E~on Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Hyperstate III, Oslo Spectrum
1996
Electra Festival, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
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Single channel video screenings
2009 Projektion im Freien, kjubh-Kunstverein e.V. Kooperation, Cologne
2008 Festival De Film et Video De Creation, Lebanon
2005 X Film Festival, Sophia
2003 Moov Festival, New York
2003 Independent International Film Festival, Barcelona
2003 Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo
2003 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
2002 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
1995 Oslo Film Festival
Grants and awards
Government Grants for Artists
Artist work grant (2 year) 2011-2013
Travel grant 1997, 1995 a
nd 2009
Studio grant 2006
Establishing grant 2002
Artist work grant (3 years) 1998-01
Equipment grant 1998
Arts Council Norway
Project support 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
Manuscript development grant 2008, 2009
Choreographic development grant 1995, 1997, 2006, 2010, 2016
Oslo Municipality
Project support 2014, 2016
Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation
Travel grant, 2011, 2013
Fritt Ord Foundation
Manuscript development grant 2012
Public Art Norway
Project support 2010
Office of Contemporary Art
Travel grant 2002, 2004
Norske Dansekunstnere
Video Award 1996, 2008
Artist talks, papers, books, panel debates and moderation (selected)
2015
The Emotion Organ, book chapter (p. 235.255) in Spår av Musik (Östersjö Ed), Lund University Press
2013
Re:placing the cinematic, ANX, Atelier Nord, Oslo
Future Choreographers, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Dialogue Cafe, Dansens Hus, Oslo
2012
Open Source City, OggCamp, Liverpool, artist talk with Ross Dalziel
2011
Never or Now Performance Seminar, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, lecture
2010
Art Villa Garikula, The Foundation for Revival and Development of Cultural Heritage of Shida Kartli, Georgia, artist talk, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, lecture
2009
Piksel 09, Bergen, moderator
ArtDate, Weld/Stockholm Institute for Electroacoustic Music, artist talk
Upgrade! Berlin BBQ, artist talk
kedjaOslo – Dance and New Media Conference, Dance Information Norway, Oslo, artist talk/panelist
2008
Perfusion, pollution, pervasion. Article 08 Conference, Stavanger, panelist
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Annual Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver, artist talk/panelist
HKS (Hordaland Art Centre) in cooperation with BEK, Bergen, artist talk
2007
2nd International Conference for Digital Live Art, University of Leeds, paper presentation
Close Encounters, University College of Dance, Stockholm, artist talk
2006
Uk Synaesthesia Association Annual Conference, University College of London, artist talk
2005
Sensuous Knowledge 2, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Solstrand, keynote
Generator X, Atelier Nord, Oslo, panel debate moderator
Uganda Artist Association, Kampala, artist talk
Centre for Research in Digital Aesthetics, University of Aarhus, artist talk
2004
Come on Petunia, BEK, KHIB, artist talk and moderator
2003
pixelACHE, Helsinki, artist talk
Digital 2 – International New Media Discussion, Artists Association MUU ry, Helsinki, artist talk
Norwegian Animals Seminar, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo
2002
ISEA (Inter Society for the Electronic Arts), Nagoya, artist talk/panelist
Arts Research Centre, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, artist talk
Steim Institute, Amsterdam, artist talk
NoTAM (Norwegian Network for Technology, Acoustic and Music), Oslo, artist talk
2001
IETM (European theatre meeting), Prague, panelist
1997
6Cyberconf, Annual Conference on Cyberspace, Oslo, artist talk
Screens Festival and Conference, Trondheim, artist talk
1996
Connecting Bodies Symposium, School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, artist talk