Gisle Frøysland
studied computer science, information science, TV production and arts in Bergen.
Since the early 80s he has been working as a musician, VJ and visual artist. He is a founding member of
BEK - the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art and initiator/director of the
Piksel festival for free technologies in artistic practice.
Gisle Frøysland has been the receiver of grants and has held numerous exhibitions,
many of them in Norway but also abroad.
"Frøysland's work is an inquiry into what he himself calls the "hype traps
that the computer and media industry wants us to believe in". In pieces like
"Dodonews" and "the FaceBot", he turns these traps into dialogic scenes,
thereby revealing hidden power structures and presumptions. The dislocations
of Frøysland form a media critique that questions not only the cybernetics of
the net but also its utopian claim; neither browsing nor digital
interpretation can free itself from contextual references. "
- Electrohype 2002