Creative Lighting Digital Photography Tips and Techniques / A color Atlas of Photosynthetic Euglenoids
Randi Nygård, 2012, books
Growth and Movement
Randi Nygård, books, 2010/2011
Theodore Roosevelt gave name to the Teddy bear after he refused to shoot a bear tied to a tree. The toy bear was invented at the same time as the bears were extinct in Germany. The old Norse name for the animal is thought to have disappeared due to the fear that the bear would appear if mentioned by name, the word bear originally means brown.
Installation view The Nordic House, Reykjavik
Mirror neurons and the world history since the film was invented
Randi Nygård, 2011, interactive installation, texts, dvd, camera, 2011
Exhibition view from Project 0 at The Nordic House, Reykjavik
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when a human acts and when the human observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behaviour of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. If your arm is numb and you see somebody else being touched on an arm, you will feel the touch.
Shell shock after Verdun
Mussolini
Silent polish Jews
Hitler deligheted by the sucsess of his submarines
Shipwrecked english ship crew with almost no chance of surviving
German neighbours visiting the nazi concentration camps
Rescued camp prisoners
Cuban revolution
Fidel Castor holding a speech
Mao Tse Tong presented as God of his nation
The chinese cultural revolution
Martin Luther King I have a dream
Vietnamese Boat refugees
The mothers of the plaza de mayo
Victims of apartheid
The opening of the Berlin Wall
Velvet revolution Prag 1989
Nelson Mandela released
East Congo refugees
Barack Obama the election night
Obama wins - the world reacts
Jong Tae-see crying for North Korea
Egypt 25th of January
Fukushima workers make progress in tackling the reactor
Forms of ev (evolve - to unfold, open out, expand)
Randi Nygård 2011, installation, video (26 min, dvd, colour, sound), dictionary, photo collage.
During a cruise with scientists in the fjords of Svalbard the summer 2010, I started thinking about the very long time span in the evolutionary processes and how we as individuals relate to this. Since words as evangelical, evaporate, evolution, every, ever, evoke all start with ev, I wanted to find out if there were other connections between words on ev than the syllables. My project departs from all the words on ev listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, and it looks for a form they might have in common. Word with the same beginning often have visual connections, words in germanic languages starting with str most of the time describe something long and thin, and words on kn something little and round. I have first tried to find visual representations to each word on ev, but not all can be represented visually and for those I have found definitions and origns from an etymological dictionary. I have enlarged a dictionary and added the images and the definitions. The video shows all the images I have found and the sound is the definitions of the words I didn`t find visual representations to. I found out that the ev-words don`t have a simple form in common, there are more complex movements appearing to be what many of them describe (examples: evacuate, evade, evaluate, evanescent, evaporate, ever, everyone, evangelize, evicerate, evict, evoke, evolve). To visualize this, I have put all the images on top of each other and cut figures and forms out of them, so they rise out of the pile and become connected in a complex three-dimensional form.
Installation views from Tromsø Kunstforening
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