ANNETTE FINNSDOTTIR
(Iceland/Denmark, lives and works in Cph)
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
2007 M.A. in Visual Culture, Institute for Culture- and Art Science, University of
Copenhagen.
2004 B.A. in Film- and MediaScience and Design, Institute for Film- and Media Science, University of Copenhagen.
2000 Multimedia Design, MultiMedia Institute (MMI), Copenhagen.
1995 Screenwriting, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
1990 Screenwriter, The National Danish Filmschool, The Screenwriting Department
Workshops:
2010 "Territorific" Workshop in Videotage, Hong Kong by Annette Finnsdottir, Zeenath Hasan and Rune Søchting. (http://www.videotage.org.hk/)
2009 "Instant Curating", Alt_Cph, The Alternative Copenhagen Art Fair (http://www.altcph.dk) with Stine Thiesen, Asta Gylfadottir, Hallur Halldorson and Brennan Young.
"Collaborative Curating", Hyper Island, Karlskrona, Sverige with Asta Gylfadottir and Hallur Halldorson.
"Emotional Digitality", Krea09 - The European Year of Creativity and Innovation (http://www.krea09.dk/) with Stine Thiesen, Asta Gylfadottir, Hallur Halldorson and Brennan Young.
Netfilmmakers Presentations and Installations:
2009 Alt_Cph, The Alternative Copenhagen Art Fair (http://www.altcph.dk)
Krea09 - The European Year of Creativity and Innovation (http://www.krea09.dk/)
2008 Alt_Cph, The Alternative Copenhagen Art Fair (http://www.altcph.dk)
”VideoKunst Nu”, Den Gule Villa, June 2008
At ”Dorkbot”, Cph, May 8th, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
2007 ”The Sound of Boiling Water” Special Curators Talk, CWS, Total Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
”Moving images, net and relations” Seminar with AirPlay at AltCph07 (http://www.altcph.dk).
”Focus on different approaches to moving image-content” at the Webgrrls,
BerlinerSalon ”Youtube, Joomla, Youhoo?!”
MediaLab, The University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Alt_Cph, The Alternative Copenhagen Art Fair (http://www.altcph.dk)
Half-Machine-06, interactive art installations, dance performance and concert event - collaborative art experiments involving the audience. (http://www.halfmachine.org)
2005 ”Art after work”, Gallery Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden
Talks:
2010 "Territorific" About online territories. Videotage, Hong Kong (http://www.videotage.org.hk/)
2008 ”Collective Memories”, Next Now ART INNOVATION -Art in new
technologies; art in design, marketing and businesses”. MultimediaDesign,
MIK, Copenhagen.
“Relational Art”, Virtual Moves Conference, May 16th, Statens Museum For
Kunst, Copenhagen.
“Virtual Moves”, Danish National Art Gallery and Karriere, Copenhagen
2007 ”Reflections on Social Media Applications and art” at the seminar ”Art
loves your computer” by Jakob Lillemose. The Royal Danish Academy of
Art, Copenhagen
2006 ”Random Portraits”. Presentation of artproject with soundartist Darren
Copeland, at AGM06 DISCOMPACT and SOUNDPICTURE/AIRPLAY,
Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
2004 ”WarCube, two-dimensional image representation”, University of
Copenhagen
2003 ”The Filmic Arcitecture used in The Spiders from Mars by Franz Jacobi”,
Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art.
ArtDirecting and Curational Work:
2010 "Departure", Netfilmmakers Screening Program for the National Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria.
With videoart by Mogens Jacobsen, Nikolaj Recke, Zven Balslev & Malene Bang, Elin Kroman, Søren Thilo Funder, Isabelle Schiltz and Miska Knapek.
2008 ”Interference” with carlos katastrofsky(AUT). Curator of exhibitions series
online at 14. edition Netfilmmakers and physical at Mikrogalleriet, Cph and
Spanien19C, Aarhus.
”Tenselessness II” Netfilmmakers 13. edition with Sergei Sviatchenko,
Brennan Young and Lisskulla Moltke-Hoff. Co-curator
”Trivia in Megalopolitan”, Episode 4 Korea, Coffee With Sugar, April-May,
in Riccos Kaffebar and Restaurant The Bubble in Cph, organized by
Interspace, Nomad, Lab.Preparat, Bubble Contemporary Art and
Netfilmmakers.
Curator of ”Close Window. Refresh”, Senko Frame Project, www.senko.dk
With videoart by Mogens Jacobsen, Eric Olofssen, Tayeoon Choi, Hrafnkell
Sigurdsson, Sachiko Hayashi and Daniel G. Andujar.
2007-08 ”Virtual Moves”, Co-organizer of 4 exhibitions simultanously in Second
Life and at Statens Museum for Kunst. Responsible for blog and design.
2007 Co-Founder of Tagging Art, organization for working with Mixed Reality.
”Boiling Water” Co-curator on the Special Netfilmmakers edition for Coffee
With Sugar, Seoul, Korea.
”BlogArt/Blog_umentary”, Netfilmmakers 11.th Edition. Curator
”Cut Up”, Netfilmmakers’ 10.th Edition. Co-Curator
2006 ”Docu_Slash”, Netfilmmakers’ 6.th Edition, Curator
”Pathology of Everyday life”, Netfilmmakers’ 5.th edition. Curator
2005 ”Memory Box”, Netfilmmakers’ 4.th edition. Co-Curator
”Gravitas”, Netfilmmakers’ 3.rd edition. Co-Curator
”Schein”, Netfilmmakers’ 2.nd edition. Co-Curator
Film, Video and Artprojects:
2008 ”MemorySLot", interactive art/net art. ”Virtual Moves”, Second Life and The
Danish National Art Gallery, Copenhagen.
”Random Portraits” video/audio made on mobilephone shown at Orebro
International Videoart Festival 2008, at the Malmø Festivalen august 2008, AltCph09,
Rauland Kunstforening, Norge 2009.
2007 ”Random Portraits” video in ”Reflection” VideoCompilation from Fast Video.
”Random Portraits” part of ”Video Waves from Denmark 2007”
Alternative Film and Video Festival 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia.
2006 Invited artist at ArsElectronica, Festival for Art, Technology and Society in
Linz, Austria. Workshop at the Electrolobby in programming
mobilephone. Curated by David Cuartielles
”Random Portraits”. Sound and videoproject created on and for
mobilephone by Annette Finnsdottir and the canadian soundartist
Darren Copeland. AGM/AirPlay/LaB
”Link while you drink” Interactive artproject. Exhibited at HalfMachine.06,
Copenhagen
”Feed me. An ActionAlgorithm for a movie filmed by cellphone.” by
Schack Lindemann, Annette Finnsdottir and Pipaluk Supernova,
HalfMachine.06
”Variables”. Video, 7:26 min. FastVideos Videocompilation ”Digital
Creatures”
”The Art of Experiencing” About Experience Economy. Documentary
together with Chamber of Public Secret for the alternative tv-station TvTv,
Copenhagen
2005 ”Absolute Exotic in experience-economical perspective”. Video-interview
with the performance- and videoartist Lilibeth Cuenca.
2004 ”Where are you?”. Netfilm for Netfilmmakers’ 1.edition: ”Territory”
2000 ”The Hyena in Greenland”, Flash-animation, MMI
”Joergensen for subletting”, Interactive Flash-video
1994 “Re-union with a stranger”. Shortfilm. 7 minutes. Direction and manuscript:
Finnsdottir. Produced in cooperation with The Danish Filmworkshop.
1990 “Leaving”, “The Pursuit” and “One Morning”. 3 shortfilms. Filmdirector and
manuscript Annette Finnsdottir. The National Danish Filmschool.
1988 ”Musicians paint...” Photography. Groupexhibition Overgaden - Institute of
Contemporary Art
Manuscripts for Film, TV, Theater and Radio:
2007 ”A guest for coffee” 10 short dramapieces for radio. ”Vupti”.
DR-Drama/P2.
2006 ”Idiot 1-10”. 10 short dramapieces for radio. ”Vupti”.
DR-Drama/P2.
2004 ”Samurai Jack 23” and ”The Bone from the Sea” interactive drama on
the internet and radio for children (9-15 years old). DR-drama,
2003 ”The Snubbs and the Retards” TheaterDrama, Taastrup Teater
2000 ”The Hotel” Dramaseries for television. Episodewriter. TV2 /Jarowskij.
1999 “There you hear” Writer on an interactive cd-rom about noice for
the Council for WorkingEnvironment and Mondo A/S. Won a
goldprice at ITVA.
1998 ”Loser”. Shortfilm. Comedy. 43 min. Manuscript Finnsdottir/Nilsson.
Director Jessica Nilsson. Productioncompany: Angel Film and The
Danish Filminstitute.
1997 “Butterfly Banquette”. Musicvideo. Concept and producer: Finnsdottir
1996 “Me and my big sister” series in 3 episodes for children. Idea and
manuscript: Finnsdottir Produced by (Ada bader) B&U/DR-TV
1994 “Susanne” Shortfilm. Director Niels Reiermann. The National Danish
Filmschool
1993 “Songs by Sirenes in the Wilderness”. Series in 12 episodes for children.
Idea and manuscript: Finnsdottir. Produced by B&U/DR-TV
StageDirector (selection)
1988 ”Heartbeat” written by Finnsdottir/Gybel, Theater in Wurst, Cph
1987 ”Everything from Scratch” written by T.S. Høeg, Theater in Wurst, Cph
1986 ”Sister Beatrice” written by Maurice Maeterlinch, Theater in Wurst, Cph
1985 ”Port of Passion” written by Bo Hr Hansen, The Mermaid Theater,
Copenhagen
Assistant Director for Kirsten Delholm/Hotel Proforma, Staffan Valdemar Holm, Niels Reiermann, Jessica Nilsson etc.
Performance
1988-98 Performer in the PerformanceGroups: ”Kom De Bagfra”,
”Kvium/Lemmerz”, ”Hotel Proforma”, ”Master Fatman” at Århus Festuge,
1988, Louisiana – Museum of Modern Art, 1989 etc.
1986-88 Theaterdirector in Wurst, Copenhagen
1986-88 Performer in the Performancegroup Hell Sisters
1980-86 Singer and musician in the avantgarde punkband Cinema Noir
Jurywork, co-ordinator and councelling:
2002 Projectconsultant. The Danish Filmworkshop.
2001-02 Coordinator of dramareadings. Danish Playwrights’ and Screenwriters
Guild
1996 ”Year 2002. A multicultural North” Workshop in video art for youngsters
(15-16 years old)
Meeting between artists and youngsters from the nordic
Countries. A Nordic Multimediaproject. Øksnehallen, Copenhagen
1996-98 Screenwriters Copenhagen. Co-founder.
1992 Member of the Jury. Copenhagen Film & Video Workshop Festival
1992 Project editor The Danish Filmworkshop
1991-92 Festival co-ordinator The Danish FilmWorkshop
Consultant for websites as Crossroads Copenhagen, FastVideo, De Vilde Læreprocesser, Skandinavia - filmmagernes egen tvkanal mv.
Writings for art-, film and architecture-catalogues and magasines online as offline as Kopenhagen, Sidegaden, Tusind Øjne, Scope, Afart, Replikker, Vague Terrain etc.
Grants from The Danish Art Council, The Danish Film Institute, Danish Playwrights’ and Screenwriters Guild, The Litterature Council, The Goethe Institute etc.
For more information, questions, portfolio, documentation, articles and works:
Annette Finnsdottir
mobile: +45 22747827
nettska@netikette.org