Thor Heyerdahl Monuments Thwarted
Our proposal for the two Thor Heyerdahl monuments in Larvik was weighed and found to light (or maybe to heavy in the case of paperboat intended for the pier).
Three 6-8 metre high Moai statues made of gold metallic Alucobond facets on an aluminium skeleton were to be placed at the new higway off-ramp at Bommestad, and a huge paper boat of silvermetallic Alucobond was proposed for the pier.
The three Moai were intended to give instant recognition to the drivers passing at 100km/hr (+) on the E18 highway - and point directly to Thor Heyerdahl and his voyage to Rapa Nui. The paper boat represented his childhood in Larvik and the dramatic voyage with Tigris, a boat made of the same reed used to make papyrus. Read More...
Artist Talk At TKS
Tomorrow 10th of march at 18:00 we will hold our artist talk at Telemark Art Center. We have dusted off and scanned the old slides (and even some paper copies) and will show work from the mid 90’s and up to the present. Welcome!
Papp on tour
Papp has been selected as one of the few projects to go on tour on the highschools of Telemark as a part of Kulturskatten, a govermentfunded cultural education program for school children. Some 6500 students will meet Papp and see our lecture on designer toys through the next autumn, winter and spring semesters!
We’re therefore filling up this monster bulletproof(ish) Pelicase with three Papp 1.0 robots, a bundle of beautiful Papp skins, a Macbbok with a funky Keynote presentation and loads of batteries!
by:Larm
Here are some pictures from our art-toilet-installation-thing at by:Larm music festival. And visit the webpage of the photojournalist Joakim S. Enger for some proper photos and the article featured in Varden! Read More...
Ceci n'est pas un pissoir
Our artpiece/stunt/urinal ”Ceci n’est pas un pissoir” is featured next weekend at Oslo by:Larm music festival and their art segment Nisjelandet. We’ll fill this funky retro-redneck-pissoir with a permanent party: monster woofers, lasers and shit will make this loo the place to be. A weird portaparty annoying the pee-needy, and a mix of Magrittes “La Trahison des Images” + Duchamp’s “Fontaine”.
Probably the best planned country-living-loo in existence; this pissoir was drawn in Rhino and detailed down to the last millimeter. Download the PDF and build your own; or the 3D-package (3dm and IGES)if you need a loo for your 3D-poo.
Link to by:Larm review here!
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Exit Habitat
Almost 18 months after we made the first sketch to Storøya Grendesenter, after 4Gb of generated data and some 270 pages of correspondance, the Habitat-project comes to an end. It should have been a fantastic laboratory for visiting schoolchildren and scientist, but sadly our customer could not allocate enough funds to complete the project.
We still believe the idea was sound but we are relieved to finally close the project down and put all our energy into Papp!
Decisive days for Habitat
Our neverending project Habitat is going through some decisive days at the moment. The future of the project is uncertain as we enter the next week, and these renderings of Habitat for our final presentation may be the last work to be done on the project... Read More...
Habitat 2.0 model
Habitat - our second-place art proposal for Storøya Grendesenter has found a new home! Our new client wants to more than double its size and use Habitat as a miniature biolab. We have just finished a preliminary design study and it looks as if we might start building this summer!
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2nd place for Habitat
It was a
close call; we finished as number two with our art
proposal for Storoya Grendesenter, but sadly the jury
did not choose Habitat.
Our proposal was to build a cross between a sculpture
and a science center for the kids at the community
center. Two 20’ containers created the space and a
nest of sibirian Larch beams with lasercut acrylic
glass branches surrounded it. This nest was to be
filled with a plethora of science equipment for the
kids.
Digital motion detection cameras from National
Geographic which the
kids would set up in the forest one day and bring in
the next too see which animals they ”caught” during
the night. Field microscopes, beautiful
Somso models of bees,
snakes and other fauna in the area, water and
soil-analysis equipment (too mention a few). On the
roof of Habitat a weather station would collect data
and make statistics which the kids could study and
compare with bird migration, the power output from
the sun and water power station of the school etc.
Here is the PDF with the 2nd revision of Habitat,
where we took into consideration the request from the
jury for a more ”sculptural”
piece.
(Norwegian text, 35mb)
View
the first PDF-presenation of the project
here. Norwegian
text, budget and work schedule omitted in both of
these online versions.
Click the Habitat or Storoya tag too see the model
and more information on this project.
Habitat
We have been working the last month with the proposal for an art piece for Storoya Grendesenter. The result of the competition will be published before the end of the month which leaves us plenty of time to jump whenever the phone rings and tentatively open our email. Read More...
Storøya Grendesenter
We have been picked out as one of the six artists to deliver a proposal for a decoration of Storøya Grendesenter in Oslo. The project has a budget of 1,2 mil. Work on the proposal has started and will be delivered before the first of October! Read More...
A perfect day
This little robot was made in 2001for an exhibition at Trans Art, a small gallery in Trondheim. Most of the time it hides underneath its cardboardbox. At intervals it lifts the box and starts running in search for a new place to hide. Read More...
Ghost
Ghost is designed to sabotage telesales. When the unwanted call comes, place the handset into the arms of Ghost and let Ghost talk with the telesales-operator. Ghost listens to the telephone line, when the operator is quiet for more than a couple of seconds it plays an audio file from its library. The audio-library is designed never to give an answer which could end the call, never "no" or "yes" but vague answers and questions. Read More...
Hopin' for it drawings
Look through all the 155 frames of our movie "Hopin for it"! Download the zipped packages and please do not use them without our permission! Read More...
New animation: Hopin' for it
Hopin' for it is made by Hilde & Bard. Hilde had the initial idea of a girl kicking a chair and shot the footage with Cecilie Nissen playing the angry girl. Hilde did the linework and Bard inked the black sweater and sneakers.... Read More...
Poeh
Poeh is Hildes first animation. She did all work from idea to pencil art and Bard did the Photoshop and computer stuff.... Read More...
Bredtvedt Resource Center
Bredtvet Resource Centre is a Norwegian national resource centre for special education, representing interdisiplinary expertise within the field of speech, language and communication disorders.
Bredtvet Resource Centre gives service to children, adolescents and adults with serious, specific and complex speech- and language disorders. The centre is responsible for 75% of the Norwegian population.
This five-panel painting, made by Hilde, was commisioned for the stairwell leading up to the library. Acrylic paint on canvas.
Deathrace
Deathrace series, 160x170cm, acrylic paint and permanent marker on canvas, Hilde Tordal 1999