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Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm Interview#1 – Magnus Wassborg -
links:
www.wassborg.se
www.centralgalleriet.se/aktuellt
www.tsnok.se/sv/2011/ett-verk/kortslutning/1176/
My name is Magnus Wassborg. I am a Swedish artist living in Eksjö.
I have a background in hard rock music and work as an attendant at various psychiatric clinics, 1990 I changed my career, I became interested in art and got into my first art school. After the two schools I was accepted at Konstfack fine art department 1993. During the 1990s I became interested in computers. Konstfack bought a computer in early 90ths which then expanded into a Medialab after a couple of years. There were no staff who could manage the computers so we did everything ourselves . It was extremely useful for our future knowledge. I graduated in 1998 with a Master of Fine Art. I then worked at the art departments Medialab in one year as an assistant. In 2000 I got a job as technical and education supervisor at CRAC (Creative Room for Art and Computing) there was a Medialab for professional artists. We had members from all over the world. 2004, I stopped at CRAC and began working at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm as a teacher to their video department. After a year I got a job at the Malmö Art Academy as teacher in fine art. I was there until 2008 but worked alongside last year in Malmo as a guest lecturer in video and interactivity at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. There, I continued as a guest lecturer until 2010 when I left to move to Eksjö. I wanted to have more time for my own art.
Short about my art.
I started painting in 1990 and continued with it until 1995, when I slid over to video, sculpture and installations. During the 2000’s I started to use computers in various ways. My work has always dealt with the psychosocial interactions with themselves, the objects have no clear interaction with their environment rather an aesthetic that only admired by the object and not with their environment. Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen wrote a text to my last show at centralgallery in Gavle. deals with the works in an ingenious way.
// Curiously. I have only used the word ‘curious’ once before and that was also about Magnus Wassborgs art. Usually I would say “strange”, or possibly “Remarkable damn weird” – all to avoid the “strange”, of course. //
// Wassborg has once again made an appearance in which he played the audio from a computer. Not sound that is in or out using the computer, but the sounds from the computer’s own operation. In all functionality, hidden in the design, there is a world of sound for no one, a world of impressions and sensation that is only and does not represent anything at all. It seems to be something similar to Wassborg to access all objects and relationships. I have the impression that things will turn out at two different levels in this exhibition. On the one hand are those where that apart towed object from which the energies seep as the sounds from the computer, through which the establish new connections to the surroundings and the viewer. On the other hand, they glide, large and slowly, past the spectator from right to left movie. They are quiet. They appear to testify on another world, other contexts, but they are also isolated as celestial bodies almost, their characteristic state has kind of become permanent, a new form. I get almost impression that they are so his items see themselves. When the “sounds” (like computers) makes the nothing: they are. Us without it. Without connections. //
My last digital piece is a lowtech game called casual game. I put it on the Internet 2010. The game involves finding hidden exits to private webcams. People who play must navigate through an old mac. os. operating systems, there are no clues were hidden outputs are, the reward is to find an individual’s webcam and sneak a look at what it shows. The work is on http://www.solo-show.com
video made by Magnus Wassborg
