Amanda Steggell

Amanda Steggell

Amanda Steggell was born in Yokohama. She is a British citizen and has lived in Oslo since 1986. She works with installations, network performance and video art. Her main interest is the seductive and “unheimliche” aspect of technology and the gadgets she surrounds herself with in daily life. Her interdisciplinary work combines and alternates between the borders of performative, visual, tonal and medial art. She has been working with digital and communication technology since the mid nineties, the period in which she also founded the art project Motherboard along with Per Platou.

In 2007 she completed her scholarship about various ways to test synaesthetic means placed within an artistic context. One of the results, The Emotion Organ, is a synaesthetic simulacrum device, that is, an instrument in which the player not only creates sound, but by means of different sensory effects and psychedelic means, intends to act upon emotions (inspired, among other things, by Philip K.Dick and the mood organ in the Sci-Fi classic We can build you from 1972).