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About

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