Born in 1969 in Kongsberg, Norway. Lives and works in Berlin and Bergen.

HC Gilje has moved between installation, experimental video, live performance and set design since he graduated from the intermedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim in 1999. He constructs real-time environments using video, audio, and space; as installation, set design and performance, as well as working with space within the frame of single-channel video. Gilje has focused on alternative channels for presenting his work throughout the world: in music, theatre and cinema venues, and through several international DVD releases. He is a member of the video-impro trio 242.pilots, and is also the visual motor of kreutzerkompani.