Idunn Sem

Research interests

• practice-based inquiry of digital media
• electronic arts, embodied interaction, choreography & digital scenography
• interaction design, performativity
• electronic mediation of research (research rhetoric)

Qualifications

M.A. Media & Communication (Cand. Philol.) , University of Oslo (2006)

Current Projects

• gRig(in progress)
  Collaborative project investigating 1. participative poetics of mixed reality arts and 2. online collaborative and multimodal research mediation involving European artistic and cultural operators. Partners: FoAM, The Interactive Institute, KIBLA, Nadine, Time's Up.
• Tapet/ITU
  ITU-funded re-designing and -installing of Tapet installation for conference/gallery-event. See kurator text
  Experience 1
  Experience 2
• Åpen arkeologi
  Collaborative project on blikis involving Kulturhistorisk Museum, UiO.
• Gidder
  Gidder is a collaborative project part of Digital Design initiative at UiO, exploring wiki and mobile phone technologies to support high school students interpreting works of contemporary art. Partners: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Apparat.
• Narrahand
  One of the NFR/InterMedia-financed projects into genre-building (INVENTIO) aiming to investigate collaborative narrative innovation with respect to mobile technologies and locative media.
• TransActions (in progress) - learning, knowing and identity in the information society
  TransActions (site in progress) is a a collaborative project aming to explore intericiplinary on online collaborative and multimodal research mediation. Partners: Institute for Educational Research.
• Lab design
  Internal project on lab design - creating a versatile work space and resourceful tool kit for the broad range of research projects related to the Digital Design initiative at UiO.
• TWEAK
• encode 1.0

Former projects

• CMC conference 2007/conferece template (2007)
  Internal project on research communication.

• CronICT (2006)
  Collaborative project on blikis involving Senter for skjeldne diagnoser, Rikshospitalet. Part of KP-Lab (Knowledge-Practices Laboratory)

• Tapet (2005)
  Interactive installation 12

• Designing Design (2004)
  Conference series

• Extended + (2004)
  Multimedia dance performace

• Extended (2002)
  Multimedia dance performance series

• Beauty parade (2002)
  Vintage web-storeInterMedia

Memberships and representations

InterMedia (2004)
Digitale Medier (2004)
Mediert (2002-2003)

Publications - productions

Morrison, Andrew. Sem, Idunn. & Havnør, Martin. (2007 forthcoming). 'Behind the wallpaper: performativity in mixed reality arts'. In Morrison, A. (2007 forthcoming). (Ed.) Inside Multimodal Composition. Creshill: Hampton Press.

Andreassen, Ingvild. Sem, Idunn. (2007) "Blogg og wiki - kikkehull inn i arkeologisk feltarbeid" Ringer i vann. Fleksibel læring - Kvalitetsreformen i praksis.

Morrison, Andrew. Sem, Idunn. (2007 forthcoming) Production-based media education and emerging digital literacies. Digital Kompetanse.

Sem, Idunn (2006) Practice-based Method. Exploring Digital Media through the Dynamics of Practice, Theory, and Collaborative, Multimedia Performance. Master thesis, Institute of Media and Communication, UiO.