https://www.arj.no/tags/art-and-creativity/ Recent content in Art and Creativity on ARJ (English) https://www.arj.no/images/_F8A4088_doc6pg1cufjdr42ycbfd0e.jpg https://www.arj.no/images/_F8A4088_doc6pg1cufjdr42ycbfd0e.jpg Hugo -- 0.152.2 en-us Alexander Refsum Jensenius. CC-BY-SA 4.0 Sat, 16 May 2026 22:46:00 +0200 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/drunk-ai/ Sat, 16 May 2026 22:46:00 +0200 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/drunk-ai/ The 'Drunk' AI. Earlier today, I wrote about AI and photography based on an interesting panel conversation at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo. During the Q&A session. https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/ai-photography/ Sat, 16 May 2026 18:02:00 +0200 https://www.arj.no/2026/05/16/ai-photography/ AI and photography. Today, I took part in an interesting panel conversation at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo in connection with the exhibition What We Call Real by. https://www.arj.no/2026/01/04/ai-creative-history/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2026/01/04/ai-creative-history/ The History and Future of Creative AI. Yesterday, I wrote about the history and future of AI in general. Today, I am continuing my explorations by examining. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/14/mishmash-name/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/14/mishmash-name/ MishMash – the name. Several people have asked about the story behind our name, MishMash. Some also wonder whether it is an acronym for something. It is not. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/12/mishmash-introduction/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/12/mishmash-introduction/ MishMash – A Short Introduction. Yesterday, we learned that MishMash has been funded. Many people are asking about our plans, so here is a quick overview based. https://www.arj.no/2025/06/11/mishmash-funded/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/06/11/mishmash-funded/ MishMash receives funding!. Yesterday, I received a brief phone call from the Research Council of Norway, where I was asked to come to UiO's University Library. https://www.arj.no/2025/02/07/creativity-spirituality/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/02/07/creativity-spirituality/ I have been interested in creativity for some time but have not yet thought about the relationship to spirituality. Hence, I am writing this blog post to sort my thoughts. https://www.arj.no/2025/01/22/cc-by/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/01/22/cc-by/ Why Choose CC-BY Over CC-BY-NC-ND for Academic Publishing. Many researchers have requirements for publishing their articles Open Access. However, what that. https://www.arj.no/2025/01/15/mishmash-submitted/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2025/01/15/mishmash-submitted/ MishMash application submitted. Today we submitted the proposal "MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity" to the Research Council of Norway's call for Norwegian. https://www.arj.no/2024/08/07/creativity/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2024/08/07/creativity/ Creativity. I have been pondering the term "creativity" lately. Creativity is a term that "everybody" knows but nobody manages to define. Here, I will describe. https://www.arj.no/2023/06/19/barefoot-shoes/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2023/06/19/barefoot-shoes/ Wearing Barefoot Shoes. I have used "barefoot shoes" for more than a decade. Only occasionally, I wear something else. It started with a pair of Vibram five. https://www.arj.no/2022/09/05/starting-ambient/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2022/09/05/starting-ambient/ Starting up the AMBIENT project. Today, I am starting up my new research project AMBIENT: Bodily Entrainment to Audiovisual Rhythms. I have recruited a great. https://www.arj.no/2021/10/12/arts-humanities-infrastructures/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/10/12/arts-humanities-infrastructures/ I have just been involved in a new committee that will advise on national research infrastructure in Norway. I guess my appointment to this committee is partly based on my experience with building up a medium-sized infrastructure on my own, the fourMs Lab. https://www.arj.no/2021/04/26/strings-on-line-installation/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2021/04/26/strings-on-line-installation/ Strings On-Line installation. We presented the installation Strings On-Line at NIME 2020. It was supposed to be a physical installation at the conference to be. https://www.arj.no/2020/12/02/meeting-new-challenges/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2020/12/02/meeting-new-challenges/ Meeting New Challenges. Life is always full of challenges, but those challenges are also what drives personal development. I am constantly reminded about that. https://www.arj.no/2018/12/22/open-research-vs-open-science/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2018/12/22/open-research-vs-open-science/ Open Research vs Open Science. Open Science is on everyone's lips these days. But why don't we use the term Open Research more? This is a question I have been. https://www.arj.no/2017/02/05/universities-as-matrix/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2017/02/05/universities-as-matrix/ Universities as a matrix organization. As Head of the Department of Musicology for the last four years, I have been acquainted with the inner workings of the. https://www.arj.no/2014/01/01/summing-up-2013/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2014/01/01/summing-up-2013/ Summing up 2013. The year started off with my second daughter being born on 23 January. She is a lovely little person, but I have come to realise that the. https://www.arj.no/2013/07/15/nime-project/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/07/15/nime-project/ Documentation of the NIME project at Norwegian Academy of Music. From 2007 to 2011 I had a part-time research position at the Norwegian Academy of Music in a. https://www.arj.no/2013/06/26/timelapse/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2013/06/26/timelapse/ Visualisations of a timelapse video. Yesterday, I posted a blog entry on my TimeLapser application, and how it was used to document the working process of the. https://www.arj.no/2012/12/05/sverm-video-3/ Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/12/05/sverm-video-3/ Sverm video #3. Video artist Lavasir Nordrum hast just posted the third of four short movies created together with the Sverm group. The first short movie was. https://www.arj.no/2012/10/10/sverm-video-1/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/10/10/sverm-video-1/ Sverm video #1. For the last couple of years I have been involved in an artistic research project called Sverm, in which we investigate the artistic potential. https://www.arj.no/2012/08/02/force-eject-a-stuck-dvd/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/08/02/force-eject-a-stuck-dvd/ Force eject a stuck DVD. What to do when a DVD is stuck in the drive on an old iMac, and it refuses to booth up? There are numerous ways of doing this. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/02/music-on-the-metro/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/02/music-on-the-metro/ Music on the metro. Travelling on the excellent (and frequent) Valencia metro this morning, I noticed that music was played in the background. Or, to be more. https://www.arj.no/2012/02/01/virtual-park-at-amsterdam-airport/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2012/02/01/virtual-park-at-amsterdam-airport/ Virtual park at Amsterdam airport. I just discovered that it is possible to create blog posts from TextMate (see introductions here and here), so this is my. https://www.arj.no/2011/07/16/cloud-storage/ Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/07/16/cloud-storage/ Cloud storage. I have been using Dropbox occasionally over the last few years to sync files (installers, etc.) between multiple computers. I never felt. https://www.arj.no/2011/05/10/automatically-create-folder-with-date/ Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2011/05/10/automatically-create-folder-with-date/ Automatically create folder with date. To organize files I have for a while been creating folder names that start with today's date. I typically create a. https://www.arj.no/2010/12/22/where-to-document-things/ Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/12/22/where-to-document-things/ Where to document things?. Documentation is a necessity for both researchers and artists. Both scientific and artistic output requires an audience, people in a. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/31/interdisciplinarity-uio-strategy/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/31/interdisciplinarity-uio-strategy/ Interdisciplinarity in UiO's new strategy. I am happy to see that the first point in the new UiO strategy plan is interdisciplinarity, or more specifically. https://www.arj.no/2010/08/22/why-open-file-formats-matter/ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/08/22/why-open-file-formats-matter/ Why open file formats matter. Cleaning up on my hard drive, I came across a couple of .wks (MS Works spreadsheet) documents from 1994-95. I don't really need. https://www.arj.no/2010/06/03/xdif-wiki/ Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2010/06/03/xdif-wiki/ New GDIF + SpatDIF wiki: xDIF. Today I am starting my post-semester activities. Not that all grading is finished yet, and all administrative meetings are over. https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/bergensbanen/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/12/21/bergensbanen/ Remix Norwegian mountains. NRK (the Norwegian national broadcaster) has decided to release a HD recording of the entire "Bergensbanen" trip they broadcast last. https://www.arj.no/2009/10/23/linux-mint-and-hp-laserjet-p1005/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2009/10/23/linux-mint-and-hp-laserjet-p1005/ Linux mint and HP LaserJet P1005. Linux Mint has become my favourite Linux distribution as of lately. It is built on Ubuntu but with the added benefit of. https://www.arj.no/2008/09/16/journler/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/09/16/journler/ Journler. Feeling that DevonThink was a bit too CPU-heavy and too cumbersome to work with, I have started using Journler for managing snippets of information. https://www.arj.no/2008/08/04/formatting-wd-1tb-drive/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2008/08/04/formatting-wd-1tb-drive/ Formatting WD 1TB drive. I bought a 1TB Western Digital hard drive the other day, and it came preformatted with FAT32. Since I will only be using this on OS X. https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/idea-concept-product/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/09/25/idea-concept-product/ Idea, Concept, Product. Earlier today I went to the release seminar of a new book on creativity and idea development called Slagkraft - Håndbok i idéutvikling. https://www.arj.no/2007/03/08/delete-button/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/03/08/delete-button/ Delete-button. I need to be better at using the delete-button. Computers have made it so easy to write and save lots of text, probably too easy. Since there. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/bc-spreadsheet/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/20/bc-spreadsheet/ BC Spreadsheet. I have been looking for a lightweight spreadsheet software, as Excel isn't in universal yet and is nearly as slow as NeoOffice to start up. https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/trond-lossius-fellowship-report/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2007/02/17/trond-lossius-fellowship-report/ Trond Lossius' fellowship report. I spent my flight to Montreal (which became much longer than I expected when I was rescheduled through Chicago) reading Trond. https://www.arj.no/2006/11/08/auto-completion-in-os-x/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/11/08/auto-completion-in-os-x/ Auto-Completion in OS X. Just learned that it is possible to get auto-completion with the Esc and F5 Keys in all Cocoa applications. Just start typing, hit the. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/30/trond-lossius-on-sound-art/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/30/trond-lossius-on-sound-art/ Trond Lossius on sound art. In an interview, Trond Lossius discusses his take on sound art. He mentions how he treats video as an advanced spotlight, giving. https://www.arj.no/2006/10/16/nomute-2006/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/10/16/nomute-2006/ NoMuTe 2006. Just back from the 1st Nordic Music Technology Conference organized by NTNU in connection with Trondheim MatchMaking organized by TEKS. This is. https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/myron-computer-vision-for-artists/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/09/19/myron-computer-vision-for-artists/ Myron - Computer Vision for Artists. Myron is the cross-platform, cross-language, open source, video capture and computer vision plugin. One core C object gets. https://www.arj.no/2006/08/02/unhappy-hour-new-york-times/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/08/02/unhappy-hour-new-york-times/ Unhappy Hour. I found (via Trond's blog) the funny story Unhappy Hour about a group of people getting stuck with a jukebox playing Brian Eno's Thursday. https://www.arj.no/2006/07/31/khronos-projector/ Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/07/31/khronos-projector/ Khronos Projector. The Khronos Projector by Alvaro Cassinelli is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an. https://www.arj.no/2006/06/22/nime-06-installations/ Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/06/22/nime-06-installations/ NIME 06 Installations. Still trying to get through all my notes from Resonances... Of the many installations at NIME 06, I found three of them particularly. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/27/deep-listening-institute-ltd/ Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/27/deep-listening-institute-ltd/ Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.. Doug pointed me to Deep Listening: Deep Listening is a philosophy and practice developed by Pauline Oliveros that distinguishes. https://www.arj.no/2006/05/15/laser-sound-performance/ Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/15/laser-sound-performance/ Laser Sound Performance. A memorable show during the Elektrafestival was the Laser Sound Performance by Edwin van der Heide. He used two lasers and (I think). https://www.arj.no/2006/05/11/designklicks/ Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/05/11/designklicks/ DesignKlicks. Nils showed me this nice picture site called DesignKlicks from Spiegel Online. It is this 3d-picture space where you can move around and look at. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/28/live-images-on-bjorks-medulla-web-page/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/28/live-images-on-bjorks-medulla-web-page/ Live images on björk's MEDÚLLA web page. There are some simple gif animations that start playing when you hover over some of the images on björk's MEDÚLLA web. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/24/turntable-controlled-vibrating-chaise-longue/ Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/24/turntable-controlled-vibrating-chaise-longue/ Turntable-Controlled Vibrating Chaise Longue. {.imagelink}Daito Manabe has developed a Turntable-Controlled Vibrating Chaise Longue where it is possible to. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/art-of-cobra/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/23/art-of-cobra/ Art of Cobra. I went to see the McGill improv ensemble perform Art of Cobra by John Zorn. Usually, I find it more interesting to play free improvisation than. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/20/ball-state-university-interactive-wireless-sculpture/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/20/ball-state-university-interactive-wireless-sculpture/ Ball State University Interactive Wireless Sculpture. Ball State University Interactive Wireless Sculpture is an outdoor interactive digital installation. https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/teatrix/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/04/02/teatrix/ Teatrix. Last week I participated in the Teatrix workshop organized by BEK at USF Verftet in Bergen. The idea was to explore technology in a stage setting. The. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/29/daniel-rozin-wooden-mirrors/ Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/29/daniel-rozin-wooden-mirrors/ Daniel Rozin Wooden Mirrors. Daniel Rozin has made some Wooden Mirrorsfrom various materials. Any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/24/fogscreen/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/24/fogscreen/ Fogscreen. The Fogscreen is a new invention which makes objects seem to appear and move in thin air! It is a screen you can walk through! The FogScreen is. https://www.arj.no/2006/03/17/scrambledhackz/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/03/17/scrambledhackz/ sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!. sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! is a Realtime-Mind-Music-Video-Re-De-Construction-Machine. It is a conceptual software which makes it possible to work with. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/20/traerphysics/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/20/traerphysics/ traer.physics. {p94 .imagelink}traer.physics is a particle system physics engine for the Processing video programming environment. The user community of. https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/smart-os-x-dictionary-function/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/02/02/smart-os-x-dictionary-function/ Smart OS X Dictionary function. Read on macosxhints: When running a Cocoa application, you can control-click on any word and select "Look up in Dictionary". https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/into-great-silence/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/into-great-silence/ Into Great Silence. Film director Philip Groening has made Into Great Silence, a film about a Carthusian convent where the monks are living in complete. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/quartz-composer/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/23/quartz-composer/ Quartz Composer. I just got to know about Apple's Quartz Composer, which has been hiding secretly on my computer for a long time (it is installed with the. https://www.arj.no/2006/01/09/nonlinearity-hypertext-hypermedia/ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2006/01/09/nonlinearity-hypertext-hypermedia/ Nonlinearity, Hypertext, Hypermedia. The ideas of nonlinear thinking and writing has developed quickly with the growth of the Internet, but dates back much. https://www.arj.no/2005/12/30/flat-earth-on-wikipedia/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.arj.no/2005/12/30/flat-earth-on-wikipedia/ Flat Earth on Wikipedia. In a rather bizarre Wikipedia discussion about the flatness of Earth, I found an interesting statement: \- At the scale of less than.