User:SimenHelsvig

BIOGRAPHY
4 Sentence Bio Simen Helsvig was born in Oslo, Norway, where he attended Oslo Fotokunstskole (Oslo School of Photographic Art) from 2002-2004. He is in the third year at the Fine Art Photography department at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland (curretly on an exchange programme at the San Francisco Art Institute) and he has participated in group exhibitions in Oslo (2003, 2004, 2005), Los Angeles (2003), Bangkok (2004) and Glasgow (2005). His practice is photography-based, but recently he has tried to move beyond the restrictions of traditional photography, which has led to use of found negatives, collages, appropriated stock-photos and video and sound works. His work deals with memory, construction of identity, chance, and current projects include portraits derived from appropriated family photos, and an installation about dictators in their youth.

2 Sentence Bio Simen Helsvig is a Norwegian photpgraphy-based artist, who studies at San Francisco Art Institute/Glasgow School of Art. His projects deal with issues of memory, indentity and chance and includes use of photographs, text, installation and video/sound.

2 Word Bio

Beyond photography.

wwww.simenhelsvig.com

What experience do you have with HTML and the web?
I made my own website about 8 years ago that was horrible both in content and looks, but nothing since.

What experience do you have with programming and what kind?
None

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming?
I don't know much, but I'm interested to learn more and as a good comrade all for free sharing.

What type of installations / performances have you done?
I've done several exhibitions, but not played a very active part in them which is something I want to work on. Never done anyting performative.

Have you done any public speaking?
no

What do you want to get out of this class?
First of all I want to make a website so I can present my work and have somewhere to put smaller pieces that won't be shown elsewhere. Second I want to improve my (lack of) organizational skills; I want to find alternative spaces to show work of myself and others, the big problem with this is actually getting people to come, so I want to learn how to approach media and get publicity.

What field trips would you like?
I'm new to the city so I'm not sure. Anywhere inspirational.

What is your website?
Don't have one ...

What is your myspace account page?
Don't have one