Vardø Kystopprøret

In mid February 2022 I made a sort of mini art festival in Vardø in collaboration with NNKS Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter and a lot of great local venues and people. All the works I made grew out of field work done in Vardø, with focus on the coastal fishing community (which resulted in a series of 3d scan works) and a community green house project (light installation).

For the full documentation of this project check out my blogpost

I made a series of works entitled Vardø Kystopprøret, based on 3D scans of some of the fishing equipment used by the coastal fishers. I was fascinated by the very intense colors of especially the fishing lines (which apparently have no practical value as they are used so deep in the ocean that there is no light), and how these very concrete objects turned into abstract point of colours.
I capture the objects and environments using a lidar scanner (which captures depth information) combined with a camera (which captures colour information). From this a point cloud 3d model is calculated, which is the departure point for the work I do in the 3D software: Work with lighting and the virtual camera and render the result as animations, holograms or still images.
One animation was presented on a big flat screen in the window of local radio station Radio Domen, visible for passersby.
I also created 3D animations presented on small holographic screens placed at various locations in the city: the local grocery store Knut Bye, Nordpol kro (a pub established in 1864!) and the café at Strandtorget, trying to reach an audience that might not actively go to see an exhibition.
Finally I made three light boxes (50x35cm) with still images from the 3d-scans in the windows of Barentskrummelurene and Galleri Luna, also very visible for passersby.

A big thanks to all the generous and helpful people in Vardø, Karolin Tampere from Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter and BEK for letting me use DeepBEK for rendering.