What are the historic precedents of the computer? How can compuational thinking be applied to explore artistic creativity and the inner workings of the human soul?

We have conversed with philosopher and international Ramon Llull-expert Amador Vega on these exciting questions which were the topic of a recent exhibition at the Art Lab at EPFL in Lausanne.

In collaboration with art group The Molecular Ballet Elementa have the pleasure to offer a small series of limited edition art prints from their Molecular Axes series.

The project is based on a 256 "image seeds" collected anonymously from artists and non-artists, designers, researchers, musicians and others - to produce an experimental visual language during the course of 10 years.

During Designers Saturday and Oslo Art Weekend in September we had the pleasure to host Swedish artist Roberto Peyre at Elementa - and follow his Lövaman for an adventure in the streets and galleries of Oslo.

Daniel Eugene Lacey-McDermott - better known as Captain Credible, is an uncompromising Norwegian electronic artist that has been pushing the limits of electronic music releases and building his own hacked instruments since 2008.

The short film Axis Coryphe by Elementa collaborators at The Molecular Ballet (^O^) is chosen for screening at the Norwegian Short Film festival in Grimstad this June.

In collaboration with the art group ^O^, in 2017 we are kicking off The Molecular Ballet - a project which intends to use music, performance and cinema to explore contemporary themes of design, technology and mind expansion. 

In the new exhibition at OCA, language and technology common to the field of science fiction creates the backdrop to an exploration of human nature and how we position ourselves in an ever-expanding environment.

A painting from 1922 by the seminal Indian modernist Gaganendranath Tagore serves as a vantage point for the exhibition. The painting, which is loosely based on what is known as a preliminary science fiction story written in the Bengali language, depicts the ascending of a humanized entity to a celestial or spatial sphere removed of its earthly bounds

While it has been suggested that era of the object is behind us, Norwegian art- and design studio Kneip are infusing their objects with meaning, beauty and a real sense of wonder.

Find below an account of our recent conversation with Stian of Kneip on their work, object culture and on natural corrosion.

At Elementa we are hugely inspired by all kinds of true explorers of the hidden recesses of the mind. The first big retrospective exhibition of the Swedish mystic artist Hilma af Klint’s work, originally organized by Moderna Museet is now on display at Henie Onstad art centre - and is allegedly the last chance to see this show for a long time. 

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