Year: 1998–2000 
 The Globe Village is an internet-based installation exploring network culture, global connectivity, and the ideological promises embedded in early visions of the World Wide Web as a borderless, frictionless space of communication.

Year: 1999 
 JoyStuck III – Perpetuum is a video installation work from the JoyStuck series, which explores the relationship between physical effort, movement, and the experience of mediated space and consumer environments. 
 Download video documentation (Ogg/Theora)

Year: 1999–2004 
 JoyStuck III – The Walker is an interactive video installation. A gymnastics treadmill is placed in a semi-dark room facing a large video projection covering most of the wall. The video shows a still image from a busy shopping mall or street. 
 Once a participant starts walking on the treadmill, the…

Year: 1999 
 The FaceBot is an installation that investigates facial recognition and surveillance technologies, turning these systems back on themselves to expose their ideological promises and technical failures. Like much of Frøysland’s work, it implicates the audience as user, observer, and unwitting performer. 
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Year: 1999–2003 
 Easy Listening is an installation that uses speech recognition technology to play with the conventions of the café situation. Microphones continuously monitor conversations at selected tables, feeding the audio to a computer that attempts to transcribe speech into text. The results — based on a vocabulary drawn from a typical American business…

Year: 2001–2005 
 DodoNews is an internet-based installation that investigates the “hype traps” promoted by the media and technology industries. News feeds and network traffic are turned into raw material that exposes the absurdities and blind spots embedded in digital media culture. 
 More info at dodonews.org →

Year: 2004 
 Tempest Karaoke is an installation that exploits TEMPEST technology — the phenomenon whereby computer monitors emit electromagnetic radiation that can be received and decoded by a standard radio receiver. In this work, the computer’s own emissions become a broadcast medium, turning the act of display into an involuntary transmission. 
 The piece…

Year: 2013–2015 Kjankaren is an interactive installation work by Gisle Frøysland. For full documentation and project information, visit the dedicated project site. More info at kjankaren.no →