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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).

Final day at National Gallery, Denmark

We had the honor of housing a whole class from a technical school today, also Albertslund local radio came by to say goodbye: a very interested lady with a lot of nice questions, a few teenagers who used the computers for personal purposes, and people who were just curious, two librarians who knew SL very […]

DURING THE EXHIBITION > KEEP IN TOUCH

What a relief to finally exhibit after all the hard work, tests, tests and tests. I find it somehow strange that working on an art piece in the virtual world can manifest itself so demanding and profoundly on my physical body, extreme tiredness after hard work.
 
My virtual work seems so fragile in this virtual […]

KEEP IN TOUCH

My work has now found the title KEEP IN TOUCH
 
It has been a long excavation and exploration of the possibilities and limitations of SecondLife.
 
The final work is a kind of status of the moment, a status of where I have arrived in this process of exploration – for the moment. This is in opposition to […]

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 […]

Contact Control

My SL work issues the relation between ‘real life’ human and second life avatar. Who controls who?This is derived from the immediate and obvious thought what is real life? When taking my first steps in Second Life my thoughts were quite fast entangled with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (look further down for an outline […]