Nils Claesson
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| birth_name = Nils Taki Claesson
| birth_date = 1958
| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
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Nils Taki Claesson (born 1958 in Stockholm), is an artist, filmmaker, author, and artistic researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.The Swedish Film Institute. (n.d.). Nils Claesson – The Swedish Film Database. In The Swedish Film Database. The Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved from http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=person&itemid=191874Andersson Broms, Å., Anoushirvani, S., Claesson, N., Hansson, K., Hasselberg, P., & Kentros, G. (n.d.). Work a work. Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Retrieved 12 September 2018, from https://www.kkh.se/en/karin-hansson-project-leader-asa-andersson-broms-shiva-anoushirvani-per-hasselberg-george-kentros-nils-claesson/
Life
Claesson received his PhD in fine arts from the Film and Media Department at Stockholm University of the Arts with the dissertation The Ghost Machine: Seven changes and transitions – animation processes in animated film.{{Cite web |title=LIBRIS - Spökmaskinen. |url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/21145951 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=libris.kb.se |language=sv}}{{Cite book |url=https://libris.kb.se/bib/19923414 |title=Konstnärliga forskarskolan 2010-2015 |date=2016 |isbn=978-91-639-0019-8}}
Claesson joined the newspaper ETCETC. – Stockholm. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/8261711 1979–1984, where he was a co-owner for a while.{{Cite web |date=2016-04-25 |title="Vi tyckte att många inom vänstern var tråkiga" |url=https://www.etc.se/inrikes/vi-tyckte-att-manga-inom-vanstern-var-trakiga |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Dagens ETC |language=sv}}Claesson, N. (1996). Sommar. Sweden: Sveriges Radio. He had acting roles in two films in the 1980s, among other things in Stig Larsson's film Ängel,{{Cite web |title=Ängel (1989) - SFdb |url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=17124 |access-date=2023-12-06 |language=en}} but he has mainly directed, written manuscript and worked with animated films and radio documentaries. He has been working with digital media since the mid-1990s, and has played a central role in the development of Swedish digital art through his work for the artistic creative space for art and computing (CRAC), where he was chairman from 2002 to 2005.{{Cite book |last= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHkk5HfkcD4C |title=Cyberculture en Europe Inventaire Sélectif Des Structure Spécialisées Dans L'art Et Les Nouvelles Technologies |date=1999-01-01 |publisher=Council of Europe |isbn=978-92-871-3873-6 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2005-02-08 |title=Nätkonstnärer tvingas till neddragningar |language=sv |work=Dagens Nyheter |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/natkonstnarer-tvingas-till-neddragningar/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |issn=1101-2447}} In connection with this, he established a broad international network, and organized international exhibitions such as "Money, a comment on the new economy”,{{Cite web |date=2001-06-16 |title=Pengar speglas i konst |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/pengar-speglas-i-konst/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}
{{Cite web |title=pengar |url=http://www.temporaryart.org/money/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.temporaryart.org}} as well as seminars and exchange projects with other media labs in Europe. He also led the network for media labs in Norway, Pnek 2001–2002, and was one of the artists behind the Association for Temporary Art [a: t] a platform for art online (1997–2007).Association for Temporary Art. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.temporaryart.org/Hansson, K. (2015). Accommodating differences: Power, belonging, and representation online. Stockholm University. He has also been active in the artist-driven galleries Tegen2 and ID:I gallery.{{Cite web |date=2009-11-20 |title=Nils Claesson {{!}} ID:I |url=http://idigalleri.org/tag/nils-claesson/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |language=sv-SE}} Claesson has exhibited extensively in Sweden and Europe.
The book The Blueberry Machine,Claesson, N. (2009). Blåbärsmaskinen. Ruin. published 2009, is about his father Stig Claesson.
Radio and film
; Directing
- 2016 Love and solidarity
- 2012 sliN
- 2006 Snow – from the white you rememberClaesson, N. (2006). Snö – ur det vita man minns. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/11371956
- 1998 The little horror movie package
- 1995 Chameleon
- 1995 People’s movies
- 1995 The world's longest Christmas Eve
- 1994 Three minutes each summer
- 1993 Moon face
- 1986 Man who shaves at Seine
- 1984 The one looking away is a rat
; Manuscripts
- 2006 Snow – from the white you remember
- 1995 Chameleon
- 1993 Moon face
; Roles
- 1989 Angel
- 1987 The Awakening
Books, book chapters and articles
- 2017 Seven changes and transitions – artistic processeses in animated moviesClaesson, N., Du Rées, G., Hansson, K., Östlind, N., & Stockholms konstnärliga högskola. Institutionen för film och media. (2017). Sju Förändringar och Förflyttningar – gestaltningsprocesser i animerad film. Stockholms konstnärliga högskola. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/21145951
- 2016 We are not yet seeing the results of artistic researchClaesson, N. (2016). Vi ser ännu inte resultatet av konstnärlig forskning. (S. Slöör, Ed.)dialogen : Tema Konst- och arkitekturundervisning. Stockholm: Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna.{{Cite web |title=Omkonst - Dialogen- Nils Claesson: Konstnärlig forskning |url=https://www.omkonst.se/16-dialogen-claesson-nils.shtml |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.omkonst.se}}
- 2014 When photographs were pictures, not artClaesson, N. (2014). När fotografi var bild och inte konst / When photographs were pictures, not art. Mellan verkligheter fotografi i Sverige 1970–2000, 100–105. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/21518379
- 2013 The lab: 12 voices about laboratories and librariesClaesson, Nils, et al. (2013). Labbtanken : 12 röster om laboratorium och bibliotek. (N. Claesson & M. Lempert, Eds.). Stockholm: Stockholms dramatiska högskola. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/14703766
- 2012 sliN, Performing the CommonClaesson, Nils (2015). sliN, book chapter in Hansson, K. (Ed) Performing the common. Revolver publishing. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/20136754
- 2012 The road to Husby
- 2012 Introduction to the animated moving imageClaesson, N. (n.d.). Introduktion till den animerade rörliga bilden. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/20844913?vw=full
- 2009 The blueberry machineClaesson, N. (2009). Blåbärsmaskinen. Ruin.
- 2002 MoneyHansson, K., & Claesson, N. (2002). Money. (K. Hansson & N. Claesson, Eds.). Stockholm: Swedish Institute. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/11558754
- 1998 The family and everything about the meaning of lifeClaesson, N., Julén, Y., Gedin, M., & Elander Berling). (1998). Familjen och allt om meningen med livet : en antologi för ungdomar i alla åldrar. Almqvist & Wiksell.
- 1985 I and Angela DavisClaesson, N. (1985). Jag och Angela Davis. Fotograficentrums bildtidning, 1985 (8:2–3), [43]-[46] : ill.
Art projects
- 2018 You have no choice
- 2018 Books no one reads
- 2015 Lost and found in translation
- 2016 A train to SpainA Train to Spain. (n.d.). Retrieved 12 September 2018, from http://www.atraintospain.com/
- 2013 The Shadow machine
- 2012 sliN, Performing the commonHansson, K., & Claesson, N. (2002). Money. (K. Hansson & N. Claesson, Eds.). Stockholm: Swedish Institute. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/11558754
- 2009 The Contract
- 2007 Body in the netClaesson, N., & Hansson, K. (2007). Kroppen i nätet [The body in the Net]. Retrieved 13 September 2018, from http://temporaryart.org/xxxpressen/
- 2007 SWIZHE
- 2006 Video-Dnevnik
- 2006 Re-approaching new media, Ram 7
- 2005 Re:productionHansson et al. (2006). re.produktion. Retrieved 13 September 2018, from http://www.temporaryart.org/re.produktion/
- 2005 40 years of victory
- 2004 Solidarity without heroes
- 2002 The Pudas Box{{Cite web |date=2002-09-30 |title=Nedslag/ID:I galleri: Vill du hungerstrejka Pudaslådan tjänar både som bild och som plats för aktion |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/nedslag-id-i-galleri-vill-du-hungerstrejka-pudasladan-tjanar-bade-som-bild-och-som-plats-for-aktion/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}
- 2002 Money, an exhibition about the new economy{{Cite web |date=2001-06-16 |title=Pengar speglas i konst |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/pengar-speglas-i-konst/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}
- 2001 The Public Opinion{{Cite web |date=2002-08-23 |title=Vem är medelmedborgaren |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/vem-ar-medelmedborgaren/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}
- 2000 The Art of organising
- 2000 The Minsk connection
- 2000 Speak to Ingmar{{Cite web |date=2000-09-16 |title=Konst: Konstens betraktare står mitt i |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/konst-konstens-betraktare-star-mitt-i/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}
- 1998 "Say Voff"
- 1998 Time Viewers
- 1998 Travel to countries that are no longer available
- 1998 Opens in a thousand years – a message to the future from Vallhornsgatan in Rågsved, Port
- 1997 Movies of the memory (Minnets filmer)
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