Staying with the trivial (pairing)
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| Harald Østgaard Lund (NLN) & Jan Pettersson (em. KHiO) (photo-time)—10:00-11:00 |
20 |
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| plenary | 20 |
| Joint abstract—Photography’s invisibility and photogravure’s adaptability converge in exploring how images both reveal and obscure. Lund shows photography’s omnipresence through material strategies—cropping, repetition, meta-pictures—making hidden layers visible. Pettersson highlights photogravure’s capacity to mimic and transform, bridging memory, print, and digital confusion. Together, they frame photography not as a fixed medium but as a shifting interplay of visibility, materiality, and reproduction, where images oscillate between presence and absence, authenticity and illusion. | |
| Siv Frøydis Berg (NLN) with Geir Harald Samuelsen (KMD/inv. KHiO) (after the ball)—11:00-12:00 |
20 |
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| plenary | 20 |
| Joint abstract—Berg’s Homunculus and Samuelsen’s Time lines both explore how imagination and material presence traverse history. Goethe’s half-formed figure embodies unresolved questions of life, nature, and spirit, travelling through cultural origins as a “trivium” of literature, science, and technology. Samuelsen’s installation similarly activates memory and heritage through gestures that resonate with architecture, body, and sound, transmitting traces across eras. Together, they show art as a medium of temporal passage—whether through poetic speculation or sensory intervention—where human inquiry and materiality converge to reframe origins, presence, and transmission. | |
| you get one hour lunch! | 60 |
| Jana Sverdljuk (NLN) & Kirsti Bræin (KHiO) (presence__—digital and tactile)—13:00-14:00 |
20 |
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| plenary | 20 |
| Joint abstract— Sverdljuk’s digital technè and Bræin’s wool project both probe how materials mediate learning and value. In the DH-Lab, students engage digital infrastructures as cognitive environments, discovering limits and potentials of computational methods. In Connecting Wool, design practice reactivates cultural and ecological worth in a fibre at risk of neglect. Both frame technè—whether digital or tactile—as a mode of disclosure, where engagement with material processes fosters reflexivity, connects past and present, and reveals hidden dimensions of culture, subjectivity, and place. | |
| Lars Johnsen (NLN) & Theodor Barth (KHiO) (small steps—14:00-15:00 |
20 |
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| plenary | 20 |
| Joint abstract— Johnsen’s interface and Barth’s learning theatre both reframe the trivial as generative. In digital hermeneutics, each click multiplies meaning, turning archives into active collaborators. In the learning theatre, trivial involvements become memory-machines, weaving timelines into readiness and resonance. Both show knowledge as iterative and dialogic: interfaces disclose unseen textual layers, while theatre remediates writing into art and science. Together, they propose hermeneutics not as problem-solving but as a practice of multiplying connections, where trivial gestures open pathways to relevance, collaboration, and renewed sense-making. | |
…peering (some Zen for the participants): the seminar is a case in point for voluntary connecting: between the contributors and the institutions (NLN and KHiO). It also aims for a three-way conversation (trivium) involving the audience as 3rd intervener/party. Featuring the trivium as the encounter between intervention 1 (NLN), intervention 2 (KHiO), intervention 3 (the audience).