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Tracing the Spirit – NSU 70th Anniversary

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Can creativity be automated? What the future of #t

Can creativity be automated? What the future of #tech hold?

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND RESEARCHERS to explore the human-technology relationship.

Apply to #NordicSummerUniversity
Grants available for your #scifi or #artsresearch pieces! Follow the link in the bio

What counts as home? Nordic Summer University invi

What counts as home? Nordic Summer University invites scholars, emerging researchers, artists and activists to be part of our Summer Symposium! Study Circle no. 1 investigates the relationship between home and belonging.
Follow the link in our bio to find out more :-) #cfp #research #arts #home #belonging #urban #university

CALL FOR arts research traces! The #NordicSummerU

CALL FOR arts research traces!

The #NordicSummerUniversity are offering grants for events, discussions, #readinggroup s, experiments end #artsresearch pieces.

Follow the link in our bio for ideas drawn from our 70 years of #artsresearch and scholarship.
Be inspired by our explorations of Nordic-ness, Nordic identity and NSU’s tempestuous history, through the #tracesofnorth project by @the.nordics.

#grants #research #cfp #nordic #university #arts #artsfunding #researchfunding #play #playfulness #documentary #photography #drawing #theatre

CALL FOR feminist philosophy traces! The #NordicS

CALL FOR feminist philosophy traces!

The #NordicSummerUniversity are offering grants for events, discussions, #readinggroup s, experiments end #artsresearch pieces.

Follow the link in our bio for ideas drawn from our 70 years of #feminist activism and scholarship.
Follow our explorations of Nordic-ness, Nordic feminism and NSU’s tempestuous history, through the #tracesofnorth project by @the.nordics.

#grants #research #cfp #feminist #nordic #university #arts #artsfunding #researchfunding

When listen to someone’s voice, one is shaken. L

When listen to someone’s voice, one is shaken. Literally. If it is a rattle or a sway, a quiver or a surge, a swell or a drop... Follow one of our artist/researchers exploring the materiality of sounds, voices and aural soundscapes.

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#arts #research #voice #sound #tracesofnorth

One of our artists @giulia_mangione lets us into h

One of our artists @giulia_mangione lets us into her process:

For my project Oleana I decided to work with analog film photography. The process is a bit lengthy but, in my opinion, totally worthy. In my working flow I alternate digital and analogue techniques to reach the final print. After the rolls of film have been developed by the photo lab, I usually go to the darkroom to make some contact sheets. On these prints I can see small reproductions of the entire negative on one sheet of photosensitive paper. Through these, I make a rough selection of the images I think are more interesting or better framed, and mark them. After that I move to the digital lab and I scan the images I selected in high resolution in order to see them in large size on my computer screen. After making the very final selection, I go back to the darkroom and print only the one image from one shooting session that I think looks best.
#tracesofnorth #arts #research #photography #darkroom #archive @the.nordics

View and explore EŦNICITY INC - the extraordinary

View and explore EŦNICITY INC - the extraordinary relic crafted for NSU's Anniversary Project!

The piece is based on a Saami spoon and questions homogenous notions of ‘Nordic’ identity. Stories are carved into the clay, showing the complexities of #sustainability when intersecting with ethnicity. Follow the link to read the whole story.

This piece is part of arts-research piece 'Into the Forest', Nathanael Le Bret and Luka Zabret have crafted a relic that will be incorporated into a VR installation exploring a future post-human vision of the #NordicSummerUniversity.

Our Summer Session in Norway just got even more exciting... https://tracingthespirit.com/category/into-the-forest/

#TracingTheSpirit #Nordicness #TracesOfNorth
@nathanael.lebret @the.nordics

What is the experience of (not) being a keynote?

What is the experience of (not) being a keynote?

One of our arts-researchers is mixing memories of #NSU with themes of journeying and everyday life. The #openness of the Nordic Summer University has always allowed playful subversions of “normal” academic practice.
Known for their “flat hierarchies”, #Nordic countries embody a tension between the desire to succeed and humbleness in the wake of traditions of superiority - like the elusive position of being a keynote... The latest film by @zu.thun_und.lassen can be found at tracingthespirit.com/2019/12/16

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics #arts #research #humbleness #nordic #keynote #uni #artsresearch #film

* Letterpress Printer / Artist wanted! If you kno

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Letterpress Printer / Artist wanted!

If you know someone with a unique letterpress practice, who is excited about experimental collaborations, Nordic-ness and research, share this unique opportunity with the #NordicSummerUniversity.

Find out more on our Opportunities page. You can also see more from the leader of this project @redplatepress
#tracesofnorth @the.nordics #academia #research #archive #arts #artsresearch #artsfunding #letterpress #printing

What brought a Norwegian violinist to this log-cab

What brought a Norwegian violinist to this log-cabin?

Our documentary photographer @giulia_mangione is finding #tracesofnorth in the experiences of those who emigrated with #OleBull.

Notes from her journey:
The major challenge of the Oleana project is to find a way to visually recreate the parts of the story that are buried deep in the past. Oleana was founded in 1852 at a time where photography was in its infancy and it was still quite rare to see photographs reproduced in newspapers. In addition to this, the colony lasted only a little over a year, which made it difficult to find some time to document it.

#art #research #archives #photography #nordicsummeruniversity #NSU #norway #usa #utopia #oralhistory #emigration #history

“I guess I’m trying to subjectify the world, b

“I guess I’m trying to subjectify the world, because look where objectifying it has gotten us” - Ursula K Le Guin
Follow the link in our bio to find insights from our Lake Vättern research - tracing Nordic values using Arts/Research. .
Our @jagjord_jagvatten project tells the story of Sweden’s largest supply of sweet water, and the communities fighting to protect it. Follow Arci and Phil as they create an original documentary and explore what drawing up a ‘Bill of Rights’ for the lake tells us about Nordic and international networks advocating for environmental harm to be recognised as such legally.
#TracesOfNorth #arts #research #ecosystem #advocacy #nordic #ecology #film #filmmaking #documentary #billofrights #earthrights #environment #climatechange #ursulakleguin #lakevänern

When does an #Archive gain its meaning? Dr Myna T

When does an #Archive gain its meaning?
Dr Myna Trustram searches in the depths of
@rigsarkivet
for insights into the history of the @nordicsummeruni - arms full of #Derrida & head full of questions.
Follow our 10 journeys using the link in our bio - tracing the spirit DOT COM
#TracesOfNorth #ArtsResearch
@the.nordics

,An average brain takes at least 0.25 seconds to p

,An average brain takes at least 0.25 seconds to process visual recognition. But sound? One can recognize a sound in 0.05 seconds.

LIVED ANTHOLOGIES is one of our 10 projects exploring Nordicness using #artsresearch. The archives of the #NordicSummerUniversity are coming to life! Just what has Eduardo been listening to?

@the.nordics #tracesofnorth #soundart #research #archive
Tracingthespirit.com

In the forests of “New Norway”... . #History:

In the forests of “New Norway”... .

#History: When the emigrants entered the Susquehannock forest in 1852, it did not look like they had imagined it. They were looking for fertile ground to grow cereals and vegetables. Instead, a virgin forest of giant hemlocks, pines and maple trees presented itself before them. The forest was a natural habitat where wild animals such as brown bears, coyotes, bobcats, locusts and rattlesnakes lived. .

However, during what was later defined as the Timber Age (1850s-1900s), due to the lack of legislation regulating the usage of the forest, most of the old-growth was cut down, making the Allegheny mountains look barren and naked. In the following years, the need for laws regulating tree cutting became apparent and trees have been replanted making the forest thrive again. Today only a small portion of the giant, secular hemlocks remained untouched, protected from the lumberjack's speculations in the Hammersley Wild Area. .

#TracesofNorth follows @giulia_mangione ‘s journey back through Norwegian journeys to the USA. Find out more: www.tracingthespirit.com
@the.nordics #tracesofnorth #history #norway #documentary #utopia #travel #research

‘Marxism’ has become entwined with outside vie

‘Marxism’ has become entwined with outside views on Nordic countries.
Click the link in our bio for #tracesofnorth and questions as diverse as “what does Marx means to Nordic identity?”. Why was #nordicsummeruniversity called “the bloodless revolution”? Our 10 projects uncover lost worlds using #Arts and #Research
#marxism #history #nordic @spaceascanvas

Puzzles and Adventures... For all the dynamism of

Puzzles and Adventures... For all the dynamism of history, the clashes of arguments and the passions of debate, where does our history end up?

Special places like @rigsarkivet house the collective history of groups like the #NordicSummerUniversity. Who knows what seemingly random piece of paper you handle today may well be preserved here someday?

Follow Nicole as she Traces the Conversations amongst Nordic partners over our radical 70 year history: www.nobeyni.com/tag/Nordic-summer

#research #arts #nordic #tracesofnorth #archive

How much do you adapt to live in a Nordic Country?

How much do you adapt to live in a Nordic Country?

Standing firm in a new climate can make you feel as weathered as a stone statue. But how fixed is Nordic culture? New insights from archaeology show that Ancient Nordics and Celts made huge changes (like going from hunter-gathering to farming) in stops-and-starts.

Changing subtly to fit-into a new culture is called ‘acculturating’, and #NordSummerUniversity researchers are exploring how Ancient Nordic and Celtic traditions survived by doing just that!

Read and prepare for a post-humanist VR by following ‘Into the Forest’ through our bio!

@the.nordics #arts #research #ancient #vr #history #experimentalarchaeology #posthuman #nordic #celtic #sculpture

Project 10: Conversations flow over a journal tex

Project 10:

Conversations flow over a journal text being scribed, between Manchester, Oslo, Berlin, Berkeley and Tallinn…
Four NSU artistic researchers - Per Roar, Camilla Graff Junior, Luisa Greenfield and Myna Trustram – will summon a collective performance essay from the NSU archive. Mixing their individual practices of writing, film, choreography and performance art, the group offer an insight into the hybrid possibilities of new research methods.

@the.nordics #nordicsummeruniversity #arts #research #archive #artisticresearch

Project 9: Enter, through fragments, to an experi

Project 9:

Enter, through fragments, to an experimental “Ganzfeld” (a whole field). Interdisciplinary visual artist Karima Klasen explores a participatory act of presentation and creation, where texts, materials, and objects will form sculptures. Visitors to Time in Space become part of an artwork with the opportunity to participate, draw, read and interact with NSU’s history of perceptions.
We are reminded of hidden traces on contact. The eye touches a surface. A hand sketches. The mind connects pieces to lived experience.
Follow @spaceascanvas

@the.nordics #nordicsummeruniversity #arts #research #visualart

Project 8: Seeding a posthuman future. Crossing t

Project 8:
Seeding a posthuman future. Crossing thresholds of nature.
Virtual design artist Luka Zabret hosts a crack team of VFX, sound design and sculpture specialists to materialise the NSU’s role in a posthuman future. Leaving the spaces that humans occupy and experiencing time at the scale of nature, we will be lead through deforestation and the remnants of a lost Nordic land. Follow @lukazabret
@the.nordics #nordicsummeruniversity #posthuman #research #arts #virtualreality

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reflecting on a tumultuous past – with the University Histories blog!

We’re thrilled to have explored our history, and how Arts/Research is boosting our archiving, with the University Histories blog from the University of Manchester. #NordicnessInMotion
70 Years of Activism, Research and History with the Nordic Summer University — University Histories

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Posted on 27th January 2020Author tracingthespiritCategories Små HistorierTags archives, history, Nordicness, nordicsummeruniversity, research

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