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, 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, 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, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Elva er et annet sted – Bilder fra tømmerfløting på Glomma, afterw. Per Petterson, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Blaker: Guttormsgaards arkiv, 2022, 138 pp. A story in pictures from the last years of log driving on the Glomma River in Norway. The book is both a work of art and a manual, an ‘ABC’ of log driving. Publisher. (Norwegian)
- The River is Elsewhere – Images of Log Driving on the Glomma, afterw. Per Petterson, postf. Ellef Prestsæter, trans. Alison McCullough, Oslo: Torpedo Press, and Blaker: Guttormsgaards arkiv, 2024, 138 pp. Publisher. (English)

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.