Visitors 2009

Lars Laumann is an artist. He draws his inspiration from the outskirts of popular culture in the form of found texts, images and objects. By sampling and re-editing, he creates collages, books or videos. Mixing different media and techniques to create idiosyncratic worlds, the results are, at times, absurd and unsettling revelations of our collective modern mythologies. Recently his work has been shown at White Columns, Foxy Productions and MoMA in New York, USA; 5th Berlin Biennial in Berlin, Germany and in the summer of 2009 he will present new works at Trænafestivalen on the Island of Træna in North of Norway.

Susanne Ø. Sæther, PhD., (b.1972, in Oslo, Norway) is a researcher and curator based in Oslo. She has curated several exhibitions of camera-based and media art, among them 'Comme au Cinéma: The Cinematic as Method and Metaphor'(2008) at Fotogalleriet, Oslo with Ida Kierulf, and 'Ghost in the Machine'(2008) at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo with Elisabeth Byre. Her most recent publications include Arkivets estetikk in 80 millioner bilder (ed. Ekeberg/Lund, 2008) and Between the Hyperrepresentational and the Hyperreal. A sampling sensibility? in Sutton, Brind and McKenzie (eds.), The State of the Real. Aesthetics in the Digital Age (2007). Her PhD. dissertation The Aesthetics of Sampling: Engaging the Media in Recent Video Art (2009) discusses the repositioning of different media and archival material in contemporary cinema and art. Sæther is a curatorial student from the Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA, 2005-06.