KATE PENDRY
(UK, Resident in Oslo)

Multi-artist/author/director, known for the political precision and occasional controversy of her solo performances in Scandinavia.Trained at Mountview Theatre School (London) and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

Solo works - performed internationally - include “Sex In The Warzone” , “Marilyn Peepshow” an “An Evening With Johnny Johnson”, “Dead Diana”, “Tales From A Wicked Child”, “Free Speech . An A to Z”, “The Gospel According To Sister Ruby Tuesday”

Currently writes and presents “Sister Ruby Tuesday’s Sixties Soul Show” )a satirical, maverick weekly radio show on Radio Orakel, Oslo. Within the electronic art field has exhibited at Kunstnerneshus Oslo, the Melbourne Biennale 99; “Electra 96” at Henie-Onstad Art Centre, the 5th International Biennale in Istanbul, DEAF-Rotterdam; Awarded an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica ’96 for “sense:less” (w. mork/stenslie/watz)

Pendry was awarded Best Stage Performance 2003 – National assoc. for Performing Arts (Norway); Woman Of The Year 2003 – Radio Orakel (Oslo), ‘Gledesglas’ (Norwegian Playwrights Assoc.) 2005, Person of The Year 2006 Istra News (Croation newspaper)
Her spoken word presentation of heavy metal lyrics “Toxic Poetry” had been performed at numerous rock festivals, and her performance the A-Z of Freedom Of Expression premiered at the Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo.

HILDUR I. GUDNADÓTTIR
(Iceland, Resident in Berlin)

Sensing Channels

Sensing Channels brings together 3 artist groups from different parts of the Nordic region, with the aim of creating three new works pushing the boundaries of the art of interactive, moving images. The 3 groups (Performing Pictures/Sweden, Oncotype/Denmark and SOLU/Finland & Spain), will produce one new work each; and disseminate these through exhibitions/events, open labs and a seminar.

Although the artists have their roots in different practices, they have three characteristics in common: the first is that they have adopted the associative bond (i.e working as a group or collective) as their way of behaving as artists, the second is that they use the moving images as their medium, and the third is that their artistic expression involves advanced technological developments and inventions, which are strongly intertwined with the artistic expression. The use of video is the nexus joining these dual associations on a pragmatic-artistic level.The artists involved in the project Sensing Channels will work with moving images in relation to the following keywords: the flexible/elastic, the mobile, the changeable/reactive and the temporal (and in some cases the multi-channeled).

In personal renegotiations of the channeling ‘contract’ made up by/within established video/movie formats (the feature film, the tv-series, the youtube-video-blurb, the art video loop in a gallery). The groups have all had different (and highly personal) reasons to question these formats. Some have wanted to investigate issues around language and montage or other constituating models for cinematic expression, some of us have simply wanted to express/build something that couldn't be done in another way than by renegotiating how a 'movie takes place'.

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