Norway

Photography

• Marcus Selmer, photographer from Denmark, opened his photo studio in Bergen in 1852. [1] [2] [3] [4]
• Knud Knudsen, learnt photography probably from Selmer, opened his photo studio in Bergen in 1864. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
• Anders Beer Wilse [12] [13]

Events

• October 1840, daguerreotype exhibition in Bergen.

Literature

• Liv Hausken, Om det utidige. Medieanalytiske undersøkelser av fotografi, fortelling og stillbildefilm, Rapport. nr. 38, Institutt for medievitenskap, Universitetet i Bergen, 1998.
• Gunnar Iversen, Yngue Sandhei Jacobsen (eds.), Estetiske teknologier 1700-2000, Scandinavian Academic Press, Oslo, 2003. [14]

Avant-garde

Events

• The Avant-Gardes in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950: History, Culture and Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen, 3-5 October 2013.

Resources

• Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, 2004-2009.

Literature

• Per Bäckström, Bodil Børset (eds.), Norsk Avantgarde, 2011, 790 pp. ISBN 9788270996490. (in Norwegian) [15]
• 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. [16]
• Ellef Prestsæter, "The Avant-Garde as Network. Interview with Tania Ørum", Kunstkritikk, 23 April 2012.

Experimental film

Literature

• Gunnar Iversen (ed.), Estetiske teknologier 1700-2000, Vol. 3, Scandinavian Academic Press, Oslo, 2006. ISBN 9788230400173. [17]

Video

Resources

• Videokunstarkivet, Norwegian video art archive, run by Per Platou.

New media art, Media culture

Cities

Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim, Kvinesdal, Grenland, Barentsburg (Svalbard), Sandnes, Tromsø, Kirkenes, Rjukan, Grimstad, Kristiansand.

Initiatives and groups

http://m-cult.net/?lang=en&page=actors

Literature

• Björn Norberg, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, "The Nordic pioneers of New Media Art", Ars Hypermedia, 2009.
• PNEK, Overview of electronic arts in Norway, 2010.
• Gunnar Iversen (ed.), Estetiske teknologier 1700-2000, Vol. 2, Scandinavian Academic Press, Oslo, 2004. ISBN 9788230400012. [18]
• Norsk Medietidsskrift journal. [19]

Resources

• New media art in Norway - Overview
• Nor Noise – 12 Portraits about Noise Music, documentary film by Tom Hovinbøle.

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