Articles by: Tinna

Digital Craftsmanship

Digital Craftsmanship

In September of 2014 the educational project Digital Craftsmanship was launched. The project emphasizes the union of creativity and sustainability and is designed for fifth, sixth and seventh graders in primary schools around the east fjords. Students are taught how to produce their own pigment and paint from locally found raw materials; stones, clay etc. They then transfer the colors into digital form using smart technology and create their own color pallet. The participants take on the role of researchers and carefully record and log each step of the process using photography that is swiftly shared through Twitter, online social […]

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No time to look through the mountains?

The Bookshop – Projectspace March 7-8, at 18:30 – 20:30 No time to look through the mountains? is a site-specific project by Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (GR) developed especially for the Bookshop – Projectspace during a one month residency at Skaftfell. The artist questions exactly the nature of her residency. What can be perceived in just 30 days in an a unknown place? Merely outlines. The first and strongest impression remains the encirclement by the mountains. But do the mountains stand as a metaphor for enclosure or an orientation to open up? By means of abstraction, the house itself with its windows […]

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