Orson Welles talks about 'Citizen Kane'

The best interview I have ever seen with Orson Welles, speaking about the making of "Citizen Kane"– by many considered the best movie ever made. The film was made in 1941, when Welles was 25 years old.

Given that Welles did not really want to make a film he got a contract that gave him complete artistic freedom, and driven by what he calls "ignorance" he "didn't know that there were things you couldn't do". "It is only when you know something about a profession you are timid, or careful".

In the interview Welles gives tribute to cinematographer Gregg Toland, who came up with several new filming techniques that literally changed the world of cinematography. However, Toland  told Welles that "there was nothing about camerawork you couldn't learn on half a day." You don't learn talent though.



"Kane is everything that I am not: good and bad"

Morton Heilig's Sensorama (Interview)

I wrote a passage about Morton Heilig's Sensorama in my master thesis (hovedoppgave) back in 1994. It was intriguing back then, and it still is. I am coming back to this writing a paper about Auditor and Sonic Augmented Reality.

There are a lot of ideas worth noticing to in this short documentation and interview, done by Itsuo Sakane, about 30 years after Heilig's invention (in 1962).

Digital Technology in Arts Education

I am in the committee arranging DTAE 2017 – Digital Technology in Arts Education. May 30 - June 1, 2017 in Bergen. If you have not been to Bergen before, it is a nice town, and late spring is the perfect time for visiting.

The conference will be interdisciplinary, bringing together arts and education, researchers, educators, and artists, for 3 days of research presentations, performances, and hands-on workshops. I thik the keynotes will be great, and I do really look forward to the workshops (still to be planned in detail).

The aim of the conference is to bring together a multitude of voices and perspectives, and further encourage future development of this didactic field. 

And, for future reference, this is also the day when I formally accepted a new position as Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education at Bergen University College. Hopefully you find the design of the DTAE-webside acceptable, because I will be teaching the visual arts :)

Code in image - image in code

As Cypher explains in the first Matrix movie: "there's way too much information to decode the Matrix.".

The "Matrix code" of raining green characters and pictograms allows the Matrix program to be concisely represented and thus read more easily. Neo is the only character who can see the code of which avatars are composed while in the Matrix, and he is therefore able to see their "true" digital form.