Ellef Prestsæter

Ellef Prestsæter is an art historian and a member of the art and research group Institute for Computational Vandalism. He graduated in aesthetic studies from the University of Oslo. Recent curatorial projects include The Gutenberg Galaxy at Blaker, Guttormsgaards arkiv, These are Situationist Times and Open Creation and Its Enemies: Asger Jorn in Situation and Warren Brodey: Earthchild - A Time Journey. He lives in Oslo. (2024)

Publications

• editor, with Karin Nygård, Rett Kopi dokumenterer fremtiden: Manifest, Rett Kopi, 2007, 222 pp. (Norwegian)

• editor, with Karin Nygård, Report from the Gutenberg Galaxy (Blaker), vols. 1-2, Blaker: Rett Kopi, 2015, 38 & 90 pp. (English)/(Norwegian)

• editor, with Karin Nygård, Report from the Gutenberg Galaxy (Blaker), 3: Archive Has Left the Building, Blaker: Rett Kopi, 2017, 70 pp. (English)

• editor, These are Situationist Times! An Inventory of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, and Transformations, Oslo: Torpedo Press, 2019, 352 pp. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. [1] [2] (English)

• editor, with Hans Hamid Rasmussen and Per Petterson, Elva er et annet sted - Bilder fra tømmerfløting på Glomma, Oslo: Torpedo, 2022, 138 pp. Publisher. (Norwegian)

• editor, Open Creation and Its Enemies: Asger Jorn in Situation, Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), 2023, 284 pp. Exhibition. [3]. (English)/(Catalan)/(Spanish)

• co-author, Earthchild - A Time Journey, 2024. Digital interface of a revised edition of Warren Brodey's Earthchild (c.1980), with a video interview with the author conducted in 2021-2022.

• editor, with Karin Nygård, Warren Brodey. Anthology, Blaker: Guttormsgaards arkiv, 2024, [43] pp.

• Articles in Kunstkritikk

• Academia.edu

See also

• Guttormsgaards arkiv
• Institute for Computational Vandalism