Sweden

Avant-garde

Artists

• Karl Isakson. [1]
• Viking Eggeling. [2]
• Siri Derkert. [3]
• Arthur Carlson Percy. [4]
• Ivan Aguéli. [5] [6]
• John Sten
• Nils von Dardel. [7]
• Jean Börlin, choreographer and dancer. [8] [9]
• Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN). [10] [11]
• Otto Carlsund
• Erik Olson
• Waldemar Lorentzon
• Bengt Österblom
• Vera Meyerson. [12]
• Rudolf Gowenius. [13]
• Viking Dahl. [14]
• Knut Lundström. [15]

Magazines

• Thalia, 1910-13, a magazine for scenic art and music.
• flamman [The Flame], 1917-21. Edited by Georg Pauli.
• kontakt, 1931.
• Spektrum, 1931-33.
• Karavan, 1934-35.

Events

• Exposition Internationale L'Art d'Aujourd'hui exhibition, Paris, December 1925. Exhibiting artists included Otto Carlsund, Waldemar Lorentzon, Vera Meyerson, Bengt Österblom, as well as other Scandinavian artists (Franciska Clausen, Ragnhild Keyser, Charlotte Wankel). [16]
• Exhibition at the Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, June 1926, with paintings by Carlsund, Clausen, Kaarbø and Keyser. [17]
• Exhibition at the Galerie Aubier, Paris, March 1927, with works by Carlsund, Clausen and Kaarbø. [18]
• Exhibition at the Galerie Mots et Images, May 1928, with works by Carlsund, Erik Olson and Christian Berg. [19]
• The Avant-Gardes in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950: History, Culture and Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen, 3-5 October 2013.

Initiatives

• Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, research project started in 2004 with the aim to produce a series of four international conferences on Nordic avant-garde art, each to be followed by a book. The first was dedicated to analysis of the period 1900-25 and was held in Copenhagen in 2009 (with a volume published in 2012, see below); the second one (1925-50) is to be held again in Copenhagen, in October 2013.

Literature

• Claes-Göran Holmberg, Upprorets tradition. Den unglitterära tidskriften i Sverige, Stockholm: Symposion, 1987, 307 pp. (Swedish) [20]
• Tania Ørum, Ping Huang, et al. (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012, 680 pp. ISBN 978-90-420-3620-8. [21], Preview, Review.
• Ellef Prestsæter, "The Avant-Garde as Network. Interview with Tania Ørum", Kunstkritikk, 23 April 2012.
• Mats Jansson, "Crossing Borders: Modernism in Sweden and the Swedish-Speaking Part of Finland: Thalia (1909-13); Ny konst (1915); flamman (1917-21); Ultra (1922); Quosego (1928-9); kontakt (1931); Spektrum (1931-3); and Karavan (1934-5)", in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 3 (Europe, 1880-1940), New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 666-690. [22]
• Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, 1930/1931: Swedish Modernism at the Crossroads, Stockholm: Axl Books, 2014, 86 pp. (Swedish)/(English)/(German)
• Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Ørum (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950, Leiden: Brill, and Boston: Rodopi, 2019, 968 pp. [23]

Experimental film

Viking Eggeling

Literature

• Erik Hedling, Mats Jönsson (eds.), Välfärdsbilder - svensk film utanför biografen, del 2, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [24]
• Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [25]

Concrete poetry

Literature

• Jesper Olsson, "Kneaded Language: Concrete Poetry and New Media in the Swedish 1960s", Modernism/modernity, Volume 18, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 273-288.

Electroacoustic and experimental music

Literature

• Sanne Krogh Groth, To musikkulturer - én institution: Forskningsstrategier og text-ljudkompositioner ved det svenske elektronmusikstudie EMS i 1960'erne og 1970'erne, Copenhagen University, 2010, 224 pp. Ph.D. thesis. (Swedish) [26] [27]
• Sanne Krogh Groth, Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music. A Study of EMS - Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964-79, foreword Peter Weibel, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2014, 272 pp. A book on the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. [28]

Computer and computer-aided art

Events

• Visions of the Present festival, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, 1966.

Literature

• Gary Svensson, Digitala Pionjärer. Datakonstens introduktion i Sverige, Stockholm: Carlssons, 2000, 211 pp. (Swedish)
• Anna Orrghen, "Collaborations between Engineers and Artists in the Making of Computer Art in Sweden, 1967–1986", History of Nordic Computing 3, Springer, 2011, pp 127-136.

Video

• http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:609971/FULLTEXT01.pdf

New media art, Media culture, Media theory

Cities

Stockholm, Malmo, Gothenburg, Lund, Karlstad, Linköping, Växjö.

Literature

• Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Pelle Snickars (eds.), 1897 – Mediehistorier kring Stockholmsutställningen, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [29]
• Mats Jönsson, Pelle Snickars (eds.), Medier & politik – om arbetarrörelsens mediestrategier under 1900-talet, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [30]
• Solveig Jülich, Patrik Lundell, Pelle Snickars (eds.), Mediernas kulturhistoria, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2009. (Swedish) [31]
• Björn Norberg, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, "The Nordic pioneers of New Media Art", Ars Hypermedia, 2009.
• Jonas Harvard, Patrik Lundell (eds.), 1800-talets mediesystem, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. (Swedish) [32]
• Lars Björk, Jānis Krēsliņš, Matts Lindström (eds.), The Story of Storage I. Kompendium, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. (Swedish) [33]
• Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell (eds.), Från pressarkivet 1800-1899. En källsamling, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2012. (Swedish) [34]
• Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Frans Lundgren, Per Wisselgren (eds.), History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750-2000, Routledge, 2012. Contents

Resources

• New Media art in Sweden blog, [35]
• Initiatives and groups, [36]

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