EDITED BOOKS

Magic, Culture and The New Economy
2005. with: Löfgren, Orvar. Oxford: Berg.
Synopsis: What happens when economies 'heat up'? This book looks at the 1990s, years of intense economic experimentation, when buzz words such as 'network society', 'the experience economy', 'creative cities' and 'glocalization' were everywhere. A fascinating perspective on 'The New Economy' emerges as the authors explore the worlds of coolhunters, biotech brokers, career coaches, software entrepreneurs and event managers and tackle such questions as: How is magic used in the quest for newness and change? What happens when cultural techniques such as branding and styling colonize new arenas? And, what turns out to be just a flash-in-the-pan and what has a lasting impact? This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how economies operate in periods of rapid transformation [Order?]

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

Menuing
2006. In: Löfgren, Orvar & Wilk, Richard. (Eds.). Off The Edge. Experiments in Cultural Analysis. 2006. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Also published in Ethnologia Europea 2005.

It's in The Mix. Configuring Industrial Cool
2005. In: Löfgren, Orvar & Willim, Robert. (Eds.) Magic, Culture and The New Economy. Oxford: Berg.

Looking With New Eyes at The Old Factory. On The Rise of Industrial Cool
2005. In: O'Dell, Tom & Billing, Peter (Eds.). Experiencescapes. Culture, Economy and Tourism. Copenhagen: CBS Press. [Order?]

Claiming The Future. Speed, Business Rhetoric and Computer Practice in a Swedish IT Company
2003. In: Garsten, Christina & Wulff, Helena. New Technologies at Work. People, Screens and Social Virtuality. Oxford: Berg. [Order?]

Tools for The Electronic Frontier. The Real & Imagined Artefacts of IT-business
2003 In: Ethnologia Scandinavica 2003.

Click! Work, Play and LEGO
2002. In: Reflexioner 1/2002. [Download pdf].

Semi-Detached – Computers and the Aesthetic of Ephemerality 1999. In: Lundin, Susanne & Åkesson, Lynn. (Eds.) Amalgamations . Fusing Technology and Culture. Lund: Nordic Academic Press.

BÖCKER

Virtualiteter. Sex essäer
2006. HEX001. Lunds universitet (Red.) [Ladda ner pdf här]

ETN:HEM
2006. Etnologisk skriftserie 2006:2. (Red.) [ETN]

ETN:POP
2005. Etnologisk skriftserie 2005:1. Redigerad tillsammans med Malin Ideland och Carina Sjöholm. [ETN]

Framtid.nu - Flyt och friktion i ett snabbt företag
2002. Stockholm/Stehag: Brutus Östlings förlag Symposion. (doktorsavhandling i Etnologi) [se: www.framtid.nu] Avhandlingen belönades 2003 med Nordenstedska stiftelsens forskarstipendium.

BOKKAPITEL OCH ARTIKLAR

Paradiset bland bergen? – Ladakh som imaginär geografi. 2007. I: Ek, Richard & Hultman, Johan. Plats som produkt. Kommersialisering och paketering. Lund: studentlitteratur. [info]

Under ytan – Om digitala föreställningsvärldar och dold komplexitet. 2006. I: Willim, Robert. Virtualiteter. Sex essäer. HEX001. Lunds universitet.

Det obetydligas betydelse - dammets kulturella dynamik
2006. I: ETN. Etnologisk skriftserie 2006:2. [ETN]

Industrial Cool – Om det materiellas närvaro och industrisamhällets frånvaro
2006. I: Otto, Lene & Kragelund, Minna (red.) Materialitet & dannelse. Köpenhamn: Danmarks Paedagogiske Universitets forlag.

Extra allt
2006. I: Åkesson, Lynn (red.) Överflöd - Mellan minnesvärt och bortglömt. Kulturens årsbok 2006.

Aura och transparens – Möten och iscensättningar i en spektakulär fabrik
2005. I: Corvellec Hervé & Lindquist Hans (red.) Servicemötet. Multidisciplinära öppningar. Malmö: Liber. [info]

Återupptäckten av industrisamhället
2005. I: RIG. Kulturhistorisk tidskrift 2005:3.

Bastardpop – Om digital musikåteranvändning
2005. I: ETN. Etnologisk skriftserie 2005:1. [ETN]

Lönsamhet och LEGO. Vuxenlek i datavärlden
2005. I: Johansson, Ella (red.) Ting för lek. Kulturens årsbok 2005.

Full fart framåt! Kunskap och uppgradering i ett IT-företag
2003. I: Idvall, Markus & Schoug, Fredrik. (Red.) Kunskapssamhällets vardag. Retorik, Politik och pengar. Lund: Studentlitteratur. [Info]

Kopieringens virtuoser skapar originalitet
2003. I: Axess 4/2003.

Klick! Lek, arbete och LEGO
2002. I: Reflexioner 1/2002.

Drömmen om det ideella företaget
2002. I: Företagsminnen (2/2002).

Klick! Modulära associationsfält
2001. I: Kulturella Perspektiv 3/2001.

Bangalore Flow. Kulturella Dimensioner av Datorteknik i en indisk kontext
1999. I: Fägerborg, Eva & Westergren, Christina. (Red.) Mus och människa. Om IT som kulturellt fenomen. Stockholm: Nordiska museets förlag.

Gamla och nya gränser. Kommunikativa flöden med fokus på Istrien
1997. I: Lundalinjer 1997.

Tillbaka till framtiden. Om musiktrender och elektronik
1997. I: Kulturella perspektiv 2/1997.

SELECTION OF PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Walking Through The Screen. Digital Media on The Go.
2007. Presented at The Department of Anthropology, University College London. October 29th 2007. [Download pdf]

Walking The Cognisphere. Navigation and Digital Media on The Go. 2007. Presented at INTER. European Cultural Studies Conference. Norrköping. June 13th 2007. The paper was part of the session: Interpreting The Inconspicuous. The Cultural Dynamics of Small Things That Matter, which I arranged together with Tom O'Dell. [Download pdf].

Transformations. Between Art and Science. 2007. Presented at Connect. Signal to Noise at Malmö Academy of music March 30th 2007.

I'm taking a ride... Curve Surfing and Speed Mania
2006. Presented at Reboot 8.0 Copenhagen June1-2 2006. (Link).

Bastardpop – On Digital Sound Recycling
2004. Presented at Third Space Seminar. "Examining The Law" Malmö & Lund, Sweden November 26-28 2004 (Link).

Prefab Music – The Recycled Sounds of Digital Media
2004. Presented at the 8th SIEF-conference in Marseille, France April 2004.

It's in The Mix. The Magic and Rationality of Combinations
2003. Presented at NEFA, Nordisk etnolog- og folkloristkongres. Helsingör, Denmark, may 2003 [Download pdf].

Click! Lego and Modularity in The Factory of The Future
2002. Presented at EASA. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2002. [Download pdf].

Prefab Future – Practices and Rhetorics in an IT company
2001. Presented at: IT-users in an evolving socio-cultural context. May/June 2001. Norberg, Sweden. This paper was also presented in different versions at the 7th SIEF-Conference in Budapest, Hungary April 23-28, 2001, and at AAA. Nov 2000. San Francisco, USA. [Download pdf].

Fast Forward – Computers, Turnover and the Aesthetic of Ephemerality
2000. Presented at: Digital Borderlands 12-13 May 2000. Norrköping, Sweden. [Download pdf].

Dream Machines
1999. Presented at: AAA. 17-21 Nov 1999. Chicago, USA. [Download pdf]

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Home Made: The Cultural Production of the Inconspicuous. Swedish Science Research Council. 2006-2008. (Project leader: Orvar Löfgren)

Humanistisk kulturverkstad.
The Erik Philip-Sörensen foundation: 2005-2006. (Project leader: Greger Andersson)

Populärkulturella korsningar.
The Erik Philip-Sörensen foundation: 2004 (Project leader: Carina Sjöholm)

Two Nations for The Price of One: Tourism and the experience economy in the Øresund Region.
Øforsk: 2002-2006. (Project Leaders: Peter Billing & Tom O’Dell)

Imagining and Living the Global. Transnational Trajectories and New Junctures of Community.
Swedish Science Research Council: 2002-2003. (Project leader: Tom O’Dell)

AWARDS

Nordenstedska stiftelsens forskarstipendium
June 2003. For the book Framtid.nu - Flyt och friktion i ett snabbt företag.

Region Skånes kulturstipendium
September 2004. For the industrial Cool-project. Info as pdf.

ART PROJECTS

Domestic Safari - Home as a wild place
(2007) Domestic Safari is an experimental movie by me and video artist Anders Weberg.
What if we started to see the material worlds of domestic settings as wild places? Is there a potential for the exotic and uncanny in the inconspicuously mundane? Domestic Safari is a journey through three different homes in three different European countries.
The film and it's soundtrack is based entirely on manipulated recordings from the three places in Finland, Italy and Sweden.
This audiovisual excursion aims to call forth imaginaries and a profane illumination that disorient and estrange the materialities of everyday reality.

Project website: http://www.domesticsafari.com/

Mediaterrae - Irpinia Electronic Landscape
(2007) Together with video artist Anders Weberg I was invited to the residence project "Mediaterrae Vol.1 - Irpinia Electronic Landscape". The aim of the project was to produce audio and video art inspired by the Irpinia region.
Fourteen international artists were selected and hosted in the region in southern Italy for a period of five days (from the 19th to the 23rd February 2007). The participants spent some days in the little town of Montemarano during its suggestive and peculiar carnival, while the MediaTerrae Crew followed the artists in order to document the project. The residence project was combined with a live event at Teatro Gesualdo in Avellino and it also resulted in the production of a DVD.
The DVD was freely distributed (10.000 circulation copies) with the July-August issue of the magazine Blow-Up. It included seven tracks combining audio and video art made by the participants, as well as a documentary about the project.
The video artwork produced by me and Anders Weberg was combined with music made by Burnt Friedman. At the live event in Avellino we presented a longer verson of this artwork, which was combined with a liveset by Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit.
The event was produced by Gal Verde Irpinia in collaboration with MediaTerrae film commission. Read more.

Being There - Another kind of Travelogue
(2006) Being There is a web-based art project by me and video artist Anders Weberg. It is an attempt to twist the authenticity hunt of tourism and the experience economy. We offer six audiovisual excursions that disclose the nervous system that is underlying tourist experiences.

more info: pdf

project website: http://www.beingthere.se/

Valentina Tanni in Tafter on Being There and Surreal Scania. (in Italian)

• Exhibited at Live Herring. Nordic Net art Exhibition, 16-19 November 2006, Jyväskylä, Finland.
• Screened at New Media Meeting, 1-2 December 2006, Norrköping, Sweden.
• Screened at Connect. Signal-to-Noise, March 28-29th 2007 in Malmö, Sweden.
• Screened at 700IS in Egilsstaðir, Iceland 24-31 March 2007.
• Screened at Cartes Flux vol 2. Espoo, Finland, 17-24 April 2007.
• Screened at Simultan03. Video and New Media Art Festival in Timisoara, Romania, 24-26 May 2007 (part of Cartes Flux vol 2. line-up).
• Screened at Vertical, visual arts show in Catalonia, Spain. 1 June 2007 (part of Cartes Flux vol 2. line-up).
• Screened at Danger Zone , Studio 27, San Francisco, July 27th 2007.
• Screened at New Forms Festival, Vancouver. The screening took place outdoors in the Cathedral Park, September 7th 2007.
• Selected for Electrofringe, Newcastle Australia September 27th - October 1st 2007.
• Screened at SparkVideo, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, New York. September 27th 2007.
• Selected for Electrofringe 2007's ElectroOnline in Newcastle, Australia.
• Screened at Backup Festival; Weimar Germany, 18-21 October 2007.
• Screened at Transmediale 08 in Berlin, January 29 - February 3 2008.

Surreal Scania
(2006) What makes places attractive? Can a wet and dirty road running through a barren field be appealing?
What are the common denominators between a heavy industrial harbour and a nature reserve?
In the project Surreal Scania these questions are examined.
Digital video is combined with GPS-technology to explore different visual representation techniques.
At the same time processes of place marketing and branding are surrealized. www.surrealscania.se

Rhizome writes...
Cap & Design writes... (in Swedish)
Popnutten writes... (in German)

• Screened at the Digital a la carte section of Sonar 2006 in Barcelona.
• Screened at Interferenze, Valle de Caudina (2006).
• Screened at Perform.Media, Indiana University, Bloomington (2006).
• Selected for The 4th Screen, New York (2006).
• Selected for Electrofringe 2006, Newcastle, Australia (2006).
• Selected for The 2nd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, China, November 2006.
• Participating in Netartopen, by Stunned.org.
• Selected for 404 International Festival of Electronic Art, November 30th to December 3rd, 2006 in Rosario, Argentina.
• Exhibited at Live Herring. Nordic Net art Exhibition, 16-19 November 2006, Jyväskylä, Finland.
• Selected for On the edge. In-between function and disruption International Digital Art Festival, 29th October - 2nd December 2006, Århus, Denmark.
• Selected for Orilla#06, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Santa Fe, Argentina, 9th november - 3rd December, 2006
• Screened at New Media Meeting, 1-2 December, Norrköping, Sweden.
• Selected for the XIX Biennal Ibizagrafic’06 at The Museum d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa, Ibiza. December 06 - January 07.
• Screened at Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, February 24 - March 4 2007, Tokyo, Japan. At this event, the work was also recommended by the jury. It was selected among 1 808 works from 36 countries.
• Exhibited at "Undisclosed Recipients", the online digital arts exhibition that is part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), March 26 - 2 April 2007. Organized by Ithaca college, US.
• Exhibited at The First International ArtTech Media Congress in Tenerife Spain , May 8-11 2007.
• Exhibited at FILE, Electronic Language International Exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil. August 13th-September 9th 2007.

Lund 67-06
Together with Niklas Ingmarsson I produced a video installation at the museum Kulturen in Lund. It ran for two weeks during May 2006. The installation was based on the movie "Lund - en osentimental resa" by Gösta Werner and a remix of the film by Anders Weberg. The installation dealt with ideas about memory and identities coupled to different places. Read more (in Swedish). The installation was also screened at Kulturnatten, september 23rd in Lund.

SKIFTET
This is part two of the musical explorations of the Industrial Cool-concept. Science + Music...
What happens when some of Sweden’s most respected electronica-artists are forced to work according to the strict temporal forms that has characterized industrial work for decades? During an eight-hour shift eight electronica artists improvised together with their laptops and various instruments. The clock was ticking inexorably and the musical labour was only interrupted for lunch and coffee breaks. The eight hours of improvised electronica were recorded on tape, and at the end of the day each of the artists received one hour of music that they mixed and edited to one of the eight tracks on the CD SKIFTET (2006). The compilation also includes a 16 minute musical documentary by Anders Weberg based on interviews and occurences during the working shift.
All participants were interviewed during the day, by journalist Mats Almegård and me. The experiences during the day has also been destilled into a scientific paper (in Swedish).

In collaboration with New Media Meeting December 1-2 2006 The Museum of Work in Norrköping arranged an afternoon based on THE SHIFT-concept, with live electronica, film and lecture.

Industrial Cool
IC is a way to interpret the ways traditional manufacturing industries are going through changes.The term is meant to illustrate ways that traditional manufacturing industries throughout the Western world are aesthetizised in novel ways. IC can illustrate a number of processes of change in the industrial milieu and can be used to show how people are starting to look with new eyes at old factories. During the last couple of years several people have been working with IC and contributed with electronic music, video art, graphic design and performances.

I've written a number of texts on the topic (se left column), but the concept also include the experimental film Sugar Added - Further dimensions of Industrial Cool and the CD-album IC1 - The Birth of Industrial Cool (both 2004). For info: IC .

The project and concept has been presented in various places, eg. at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, in Stockholm. March 27th 2004. During an evening the museum had IC as it's major event, with a dance performance, inspired by the movie Sugar added, four live concerts, and a lecture on the ideas behind Industrial Cool.

Swedish national television broadcasted an hour long feature on Industrial Cool. February 26th 2007, Kunskapskanalen: Mera kultur.

Industrial Cool was the departure point and inspiration for a 4 month undergraduate course at The Department of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm during Autumn 2007.The students produced proposals of a rework of an old industrial estate in the town Eskilstuna. I held an inspirational lecture to start off the course.

In collaboration with New Media Meeting September 21-22 2007 The Museum of Work in Norrköping arranged a smaller live version of the IC1-concept, called "Sound of Norrköping". Sounds were recorded in factories and workplaces around the city, these were then transformed, interpreted and performed by electronica artist Christian Björklund. Dancer Emilie Bardon did a dance performance to the music. During the event I lectured on the Industrial Cool-concept and took part in the musical performance.

MUSIC

I've produced music and sound art as part of the following art projects (described above):

Domestic Safari (2007)
Being There - Another Kind of travelogue (2006)
Industrial Cool (2004)

Tracks released as Selko

Magikk. Track on: Electrixmas 2002 compilation. EX02.

Pneumatik. Industrial Cool-prototype track. Released online www.pleazure.org/ic1/ 2004

Conveyor. Track on: IC1 - The Birth of Industrial Cool 23HZCD 8. 2004.

Refinery. 4-track Online EP www.pleazure.org/selko/ 2004.

APPEARANCES

Through the years I've done a number of presentations in different fora. I also participate in interviews and discussions on radio and TV on a quite regular basis. Here are some of the larger appearences I've made outside of academia.

Industrial Cool on SVT II
February 26th 2007 the Swedish national television channel Kunskapskanalen will broadcast a program about Industrial Cool. Read more (in Swedish).

Skånska ljud
During autumn 2006 and Winter 2007 I made 10 performances in different parts of southern Sweden together with folk musician Christer Lundh and rap artist Behrang Miri. Our performance called Skånska ljud (Scanian Sounds) was a musical lecture and reflection on soundscapes, language and music. We performed in larger cities like Malmö and also in small places on the countryside.

Industrial Cool on SVT I
In march 2004 the program Musikbyrån on Swedish national television reported about IC1 - The Birth of Industrial Cool, and interviewed me and a number of the artists on the CD. Read more (in Swedish).