Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
The virtual reality “MIND CATHEDRAL” is a metaphor for our mind, our private cathedral. When we put on the VR goggles, we are confronted with another world, real and not real at the same time. We are a entering a virtual mental space where images and letters dance and float in fantastic formations, exciting to explore and interactwith but also offering a possibility to let our mind wander in a peaceful way. The notion of a boundary between the interior and exterior life is smaller than we think. With the threshold of inside versus outside governing much of how we understand the world, Mind Cathedral exposes the visitor to a visual provocation, where unexpected exposure encounters deliberate connection as an incitament to instant decision-making. From inside the body to the outer world, a physical as well as psychological experience.
Teresa Wennberg is a multi discipline artist, born in Sweden. Studied law, economics and languages at Stockholm University, followed by studies in classic oil painting at Atelier Harburger and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. Worked with Neal Slavin, John Cage and Nam June Paik on photography, sound (and silence) and video. One of the very first artists to make video at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1978, she went on to explore the digital world of computers, 2D and 3D animation, which she studied in Japan, France and Sweden. She is founding member of Video Nu in Stockholm and Grand Canal Video in Paris. 1997 – 2010 AiR at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm, experimenting with computer animation and VR technology and also writing about digital media. Her multidisciplinary background has fueled an interest in cognitive functions such as language, memory and perception, which often consist a foundation for her work. She has received numerous grants and awards and has participated in several major international exhibitions such as: Biennale de Paris; Ars Electronica Linz; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbon; Centre G. Pompidou Paris; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm; Kulturhuset Stockholm; ICC InterCommunication Center Tokyo; IMEREC Marseille; Royal Institute of Technology KTH Stockholm; Aalborg University Aalborg; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santiago de Chile. Currently she is showing a big video installation at the Moderna Museet Stockholm, creating stained glass windows for a baroque church in the Pyrenees mountains in France and writing Haiku poetry.
