Media and sound artist
Lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. Works irregularly in Finland.
Contact: richard.widerberg at gmail dot com
Phone Sweden: +46708977452
Phone Finland: +358 407774671
Skype: rwiderberg
Note: the Works section of this webpage is under reconstruction. Until it is ready you can check out my activities on the Dånk! collective’s webpage.
Selected activities
Sonic Sunrises, group exhibition in Gallery Titanik, Turku 2009
ISCM-World New Music Days festival, Gothenburg 2009. Performance, workshops
and installation
Flow festival, Makasiini space, Helsinki 2009. Yellow Splitch sound and light installation with Dånk! and curating the music programme for the Makasiini stage.
Moving Space festival Copenhangen 2009. Velophonik workshop with Dånk!
Fear and gender in public spaces, Bangalore 2009. Exhibition and workshop
Fête des Lumières 2008, Lyon. Yellow Splitch light and sound installation with Dånk!
Megapolis festival 2023, Helsinki, 2008, Kaupunkiääni soundinstallation
Various events and performances with Dånk! collective, Göteborg, 2008-present
GEIGER music festival, Gothenburg 2008. Program selection and organizing
Pixelache Festival of Electronic Subcultures, Helsinki, April 2007, Performing.
Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition, Linz, 2006, Exhibiting and performing.
Interferenze New Arts Festival, San Martino Valle Caudina, 2006, Performance
Futuresonic Urban Festival for Art, Music and Ideas, Manchester, 2006,
Presentation.
Digital Art Weeks Symposium, ETH University, Zurich, July 2006, Performance.
The Interactive Art of Öyvind Fahlström, Baltic, Gateshead, England. 2002.
Exhibiting.
Teaching and workshops
Running the Locative sound workshop at Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2008 – present
Teaching at C:Art:Media Master’s programme at Valand School of Fine Arts, Göteborg, 2008 – present
Experimental Pop summer course at Valand School of Fine Arts, Göteborg, 2009
IMPROVe workshop. sound workshops around the region Västra Götaland, Sweden
Teaching Media and Sonic arts at Centre for Music & Technology, Sibelius Academy Helsinki, 2009
Mobile Sound Workshop at Stadia polytechnic school in Helsinki as part of the Hearing Helsinki project, 2007
New Media Production, University of Skövde, Sweden, 2002-2004
Publications
The mobile phone as a medium for heightened sonic perception (pdf)
Published in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 159:
Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Education
Master of Arts in New Media, Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2004-2007
ImproMasters workshop, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, 2005-2006
Course in free improvisations with analogue and digital instruments
Interaktiva Medier, Dramatiska Institutet, National School for Film, TV and Radio, Stockholm, 2001-2002. One year education in storytelling with interactive media. The education was done in collaboration with The Interactive Institute of Sweden.
Electroacoustic composition, EMS (Electroacoustic Music in Sweden), Stockholm, 2001. Course in electroacoustic composition in the EMS-studio in Stockholm.
Exchange studies, University of Vienna, 1999-2000
One year exchange studies. Studied Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction.
Bachelor degree in Social Science and Informatics, University of Lund, Sweden, 1996-1999