CV

MARTIN PALMER

www.xenogenetic.net


Full CV on LinkedIn

Lecturing at RMIT Vietnam, 2010

Photo: Elise Adamsrød

RA/DEC: ω=2π/T performance, 2012

WORK EXPERIENCE


2016 / Present


Project coordinator


Technician / Exhibition installer (freelance)



Producer / curator

  • Co-curated and installed the jubilee exhibition BODØ:KUNST 1816-2016 on the occassion of the 200th anniversay of Bodø city and the 70th anniversary of their local art society with Anne Kristin Myrseth.


Writer


Ghostwriter

  • Wrote project proposals for two established Norwegian artists.




2015

                                                   

Simply Superior Agent

  • Since September 2015 I'm a Simply Superior agent by invitation, working with investigation and research, booking and execution of arrangements for Simply Superior events and activities. #Reference.


Producer/curator


Writer

  • I started writing for Norwegian art journal KUNSTforum, and remain a regular contributor.


     

                                                   

2014   

                                                 

Producer/curator


Trondhjems Art Society

I worked part-time as a gallery sitter at Trondhjems Art Society, with some promotion and poster responsibilities


Project coordinator

  • I worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) on their F2F project in the  MSF Fundraising Department. I had line-manager and HR responsibilities, including recruiting and training, admin.tasks (finance, reporting), and planning and prep. for all activities in the Trøndelag region. #Reference.




2013

                                       

Store clerk

  • I have worked in several stores and with online processing in the Ark bookstore chain. My tasks included customer service, sales, assistant management, and purchasing management of classical, art and non-fiction literature. I still work for them occasionally.


Video documentation

  • I worked with artist Anne Kristin Myrseth documenting pre-school children in interaction with contemporary art exhibitions and during creative projects and collaborations on their own, as research for her Master thesis in Humanities and the Arts.




2012   

                                               

Producer/curator

  • Concert producer and exhibition installations:

Meta.Morf Biennale for Art & Technology.




2011 

                                       

Digital cinema technician


Writer

                                                   

Producer/curator




2010

                                                   

Producer/curator




2009 - 2010 

                                           

Project coordinator


NTSD took me to CIANT workshops and meetings in Prague, TransISTor in Telč (a CIANT project in cooperation with FAMU, supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union), Ars Electronica in Linz, Hanoi University of Science and Technology and RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City for presentations and workshops, and back to Trondheim and the Meta.Morf Biennale.




2004 - 2011

                                           

Projectionist

  • I am a certified cinema projectionist and worked with several digital and analogue cinema systems in Trondheim Kino and the Kosmorama Film Festival. I also worked as a shift leader, and was responsible for the cinema membership program Kinosonen. From 2008-2011 I was elected union representative and thus employee representative on the board.


Trondheim Kino was testing several digital cinema solutions at an early stage, which later led me to work with Unique Cinema Systems and the digital rollout program.




2001 - 2004

                                             

Store Clerk

  • I worked for the independent bookstore Øksendal in Trondheim (now closed). My tasks included customer service and sale.




2000 - 2001

                                             

Military Service

  • I served my mandatory military service in the Armoured Battalion (Panserbataljonen) at Setermoen Garnison, where I trained in an armed security team and later served as assistant commander (ko-as) in the armoured mortar group of Combat Support Squadron 6.




ODD JOBS


  • I've worked at a chocolate factory, a dairy/cheese factory, a bakery, a youth club, and on various building sites.




PROJECTS


Støy på landet festival

  • An annual DIY festival, art project and social experiment dedicated to relational aesthetics, community and experimental music, founded in 2006.


Read more about Støy på landet at the concept and project page.



Klubb Kanin concert series


Read more about Klubb Kanin at the project page.



Forum Nidrosiae lecture series

  • A 'pub moot'  based around public lectures on  fringe subjects, outsider philosophies and esoteric topics. I have produced 50 events under this banner.  I am the founder of the project and do  all booking, logistics and promotion in cooperation with a small advisory circle.  In 2012, I expanded Forum Nidrosiae to include the Here To Go series.


Read more about Forum Nidrosiae at the project page.




PUBLICATIONS


  • Here To Go  2014 - Art, Counter-Culture and the Esoteric

Curator, preface, producer

Trapart Books, Films and Editions


  • Here To Go 2012 - Art, Counter-Culture and the Esoteric

Curator, preface, producer

Edda Publishing


  • "´´´´´´" (being an exposition and elucidation of an eternal work by The Hafler Trio)

Co-producer

Trapart Books, Films and Editions




SOUND AND MUSIC



Read more about my music and performances in the music section.




EDUCATION AND TRAINING


2017 - 2019

MFA

Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts


2014 - 2016

Bachelor program in Art History, NTNU

Wrote a thesis on the validity of the institutional theories of Dickie, Danto and Thierry de Duve.


2014 - 2015

Project management, BI Norwegian Business School


2006 - 2010

Bachelor program in psychology, NTNU

Additional courses: New Religious Movements (RVI2125); Media Audiences (PSY1051); Personnel Psych.(PSY1050); Research Practice (PSY1007)


2004 - 2005

Graphic Design, Merkantilt Institutt


2004

Cinema Technology, Film &  Kino


2003 - 2004

Rotvoll Art School 

Mixed media courses with artist Nirmal Singh Dhunsi


2001

Examen Philosophicum, NTNU


1997 - 2000

Arts, Crafts and Design, Upper Secondary School

Gerhard Schöning VGS, Charlottenlund VGS,  Gauldal VGS




DRIVING LICENCES AND CERTIFICATES


 

  • Driving licence Class B
  • Fork Lift Operator Licence
  • Personnel Lift Operator Licence

 




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