By Ida Grøn/Id Giha
IDA GRØN AKA ID GIHA, BORN 1979, AARHUS, DENMARK.
MA student at The National Film and Television School in London, Department of Documentary (2007-2009).
Invited director to the first Berlinale Talent Campus in (2003).
Invited director to the Russian International Festival for Anthropological Film, Salekhard (2006). Directed 'Klara – Thoughts from the Taiga’ (2004) funded by the Danish Film Institute, The Film Workshop, shown on Danish National TV and several international festivals.
Exhibited on Netfilmmakers.dk Docu Slash edition, 2006.
Produced and directed several programs for the experimental TV cooperation tv-tv in Copenhagen.
Co-founder and member of Tagging Art – organization for moving images.
Co-founder, curator and fundraiser of Made In Video – International Festival for Experimental Video 2006 in Copenhagen.
BA in Art History (2005) and MA student in Visual Culture (2005 -), University of Copenhagen.
Further more educated at The European Film College in Denmark (2002-2003) with focus on documentary and camera operating, and educated at the art college Kunsthøjskolen in Holbæk, Denmark (1998).
Volunteer work as still-photographer, draughtsman of settlements and interview assistant on international ethno-archaeological expeditions to Siberia (1998, 1999, 2000).
Inside is outside is inside is…
Plato’s allegory of the cave was my initial association when entering SL. Now, this allegory is in my opinion a rather hierarchal way of dividing people in terms of what kind of insight and reasoning they have. In my opinion the shadows on the wall in the cave and the bright light from the sun are all a part of the same reality, one not more or less real than the other.
Plato’s allegory is about not taking things for what they seem to be - not just use sight, but insight. I think, though, that things are also what they seem to be, this is also a part of their nature. This also tends to be my opinion about SL and real life now. So I have come to the conclusive metaphor that SL and real life are in contact in the same way as inside and outside is in contact in a Klein Bottle.
This is the outer frame of my work, while the real life man I stream into SL is still the real life person seeking contact in SL, through which I thematize the form of contact between real life humans/avatars in SL and the form of contact between real life human and his own avatar in SL - who controls who. Can the real life person I stream into SL be anything but the representation of a real life person, and therefore no more or less than the avatars surrounding him?
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