Project Details
Work titles:
“Bindings” · “Signals” · “Portals”
The Bergen Trilogy is a series of video-based electronic literature and digital poetry works taking place in
and around Bergen, Norway. Although experimentation occurred all around the city and in the mountains and green spaces,
there were three exhibitions taking place at the UIB Bibliotek, Bergen Sentrum and Mt. Fløyen.
‘Bindings’ is designed,
created, and installed by digital artists Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson. The purpose of this installation is to find
new ways of activating public spaces through electronic literature and digital art, and to use the idea of a library as
a space for public reading and learning in the artwork itself to create an animated digital story. The other purpose of
‘Bindings’ was to use old, unused, or recycled technologies and materials. It is a large, site-specific public rear-projection
display for a public library in Bergen, Norway. It is around 3m high by 9m long.
‘Portals’ site-specific library activation
is a series of electronic literature works created for Bergen Public Bibliotek, Norway. Over a series of months, the works were
created installed around the library using pre-loved and restored technologies and projectors. Of particular interest was
activating the space through rear-projection that mapped to the library’s interesting windows, allowing passers-by outside
to believe something was happening within the building.
‘Signals’ is an electronic literature and site-specific digital art
festival/event that took place over a series of evenings on Mt Fløyen. It used hidden battery-powered projectors within forests
to give visitors a unique experience of interacting with digital stories in a natural space and large-scale text-image
projections on the side of Mt Fløyen, reaching its audience in the city 320m below.
Published & exhibited
Bergen Bibliotek, 2017: https://bergenbibliotek.no/tjenester-a-a/utstillinger/portals
UiB Humanities Bibiotek, 2016:
http://www.uib.no/en/rg/electronicliterature/102415/digital-art-and-literature-university-library-caf%C3%A9