In year 2006 I was invited to participate in a group show at the Natioanl Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. For the exhibition I produced the work “platform” that consisted of a long corridor that one could walk in.
The installation consisted of 14 spotlights that hang in two lines along the platform.There where triggers under a carpet that followed the whole corridor that were activated when walked on. Each trigger had a soundtrack and a lightspot linked to it and these where activated when you walked on a trigger. Each sound was a small sequence from Frank Sinatras “New York, New York” and when the sound sequence stopped the spotlight was turned off. If one walked along the whole platform from the beginning to the end and in the right order one could play the whole tune.
The exhibition was produced by The Interactive Institute in Stockholm and curated by Björn Norberg.
During the fall of 2006 I was Artist in Residence at The Interactive Institute Art & Technology Program. During the residency I worked with so called speech recognition technology, where digital technology is used to translate from speech to text.
The work progression part 2 consists of two big flowerlamps made of epoxi that are gradually littened up. The work was exhibited on the fasade of the Culture House in Stockholm during the Stockholm Culture Festival “Under Construction” in 2005.
Text from my press release: The last few years I have been working with interactivity. Lights, motors, sensors and electronics are the materials trough which I aim to change the room. By using playfulness I tempt the viewer into a fantasy world. I, myself, am seduced by the materials I work with and the products that arise from the process are meant to seduce others.
In the work seduction I used a picture of Marilyn Monroe printed on acrylic-glass. From her billowing dress pushes fiberoptics trough and makes the image three dimensional. In the image there are stripes that are transparant and trough these stripes pushes strong light trough. With playfulness in my work I want to tempt the viewer into a fantasy-world.
In Year 2002-2003 I participated in a workshop that was hold by Eva Koch, a Danish artist. The goal with the exhibition was to work with video-screenings in outdoor-spaces in Stockholm.
In the work OBSESSION I made a pink robot that was programmed to react on movement. When a person got in to the area of registration, the robot started to move towards this person for 5 seconds and then stopped.
