Olle Essvik

Olle Essvik is an artist, publisher and senior lecturer working and living in Gothenburg. Essvik works with themes relating to the digital as well as to technology in a human context, touching on notions of everyday life, repetition, and time. The outcome of his art practice could be a book, a publication, or a sculpture, in which traditional materials and techniques like wood and bookbinding converge with programming and code.

Essvik have written books about the history of media art in relation to utopias within the research project Virtual utopias. Since 2014 he has been working with the art and research project The Enemies of Books, a project about bookbinding and publishing in relation to digital media, time and code. He has also been involved, as an artist and writer, in research projects about computer games and algorithms as an artform. Essvik has exhibited in national and international museums and have lectured and conducted workshops at various institutions. He also runs an experimental publishing house rojal.