Olle Essvik
Olle Essvik is an artist and teacher working and living in Gothenburg. He works with themes relating to the digital and technology in a human context, touching on notions of everyday life, repetition, and time. The outcome could be a book, a publication, or a sculpture in which traditional materials and techniques like wood and bookbinding converge with programming and code.
He has written books about the history of media art in relation to utopias within the research project Virtual Utopias. Since 2014 he has been working with the art and research project The Enemies of Books, a project about bookbinding in relation to digital media, time and code. His research has been focused on materials, craft, social based art, pedagogy in relation to digital media and open source. He has also been involved as an artist and writer in research projects about computer games and algorithms as an art form.
He works as a senior lecturer at the art education department (BVK) at the University of Gothenburg and teaches in media-theory, semiotics and courses in animation, bookbinding and art. His main interest is in media-archeology and social based art forms in relation to pedagogy and open source. (2022)
- Links
- Website
- Royal, publishing house run by Olle Essvik and Joel Nordqvist
- Profile at U Gothenburg
