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1980
Autodidact Establishes her first studio at Storhaug Gård, Stavanger. Starts working for the independent theater company Chameleon Circus, founded by Randy Naylor, with Jan Grønli, Svein Slagsvold and Annika With as members of the ensemble. Performed at Club 7 and Hot House in Oslo, Stavanger Jazzclub and Hulen in Bergen.
Makes her debut with an oil painting at the West Norway Exhibition. Chameleon Circus performs at the New Age Festival, Trondheim. “No title” oil on canvas,
“Self Portrait”
180x135, 1980
oil on paper, 50x70cm, 1979
“Winter landscape” oil on canvas, 60x70cm, 1979 Painting accepted at West Norway Exhibition, 1980
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1981 Shows oil painting at the West Norway Exhibition
Clockwise from top: “No title”, oil on canvas, 180x135, 1991.
“Mobiles”, oil on canvas, 150x120, 1981. “Blue Prose”, oil on canvas, 130x105, 1980. Painting accepted at West Norway Exhibition, 1981.
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“Suffragette City”, oil on canvas, 135x140cm, 1981
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“City Animals”, oil on canvas, 140x190cm, 1983
1982
Participates at the West Norway Exhibition and The National Annual Exhibition of The Visual Arts. First solo show, with Randy Naylor, at Gallery RuDolpH. Starts performance group “MX and The Blind Passenger” with Randy Naylor.
Installation with painted TVs, chairs and transparent bed with plastic duvet, mixed media, Gallery RuDolpH. Art Attack
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“Lady in Swimsuit”, double canvas, one transparent silkscreen with pink insert, 150x120. Top right: “Night Music”, mixed media painting, 1982. Painting accepted at West Norway Exhibition, 1983. Middle right and bottom: “Figures”, part one and two, oil on canvas, 190x140.
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1983 Solo exhibition, Haugesund Art Society. Opens “Light House Creatives” in Stavanger, an alternative space with exhibitions of unique clothes and artworks. Commissioned by Cafe Sting and Terje Vallestad to paint the ceiling of this newly opened venue. A kind of unofficial collaboration takes place with Kjell Jansen, who experimented with radical hairstyles. Myrvold and Jansen share about 50 loyal customers, who with colorful and creative design and beauty aesthetics make a visual impact in the city. Mixed media painting at the West Norway Exhibition. Painting bought by Haugesund Museum of Fine Art.
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Pia Myrvold wearing her hand painted clothes in front of canvases in outdoor studio, Valberget, Stavanger.
“Woman on Chair” acrylic on black vinyl, 140x120cm
“Woman with interior” Friends and models wearing “Post Punk” collection posing
acrylic on black vinyl,
in environment with Myrvold’s and Naylor’s large paintings.
140x120cm
Randy Naylor’s “Perception sticks” and painting;
“Figure with stones” acrylic on black vinyl,
top and middle photo:
Kjell Jansen is on the left in the middle photo.
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1984 During the early eighties Myrvold begins working with experimental art projects, making the art alliance “Art Attack” with American interdisciplinary artist Randy Naylor. The two work together on multimedia projects, videos, performance art, urban planning, interior design, and costumes, alongside Myrvold’s career as a painter and designer. Starts selling collections of hand painted jackets in Bonaparte and Try Us, Oslo, with customers including Anita Skorgan and Anne Grete Preus. Oil painting at the West Norway Exhibition.
Clockwise from top:
“The suicide note” acrylic on black vinyl, 160x140cm
“Composition with woman and dress” oil on canvas, 170x140cm
“Normal Madness” oil on canvas, 165x145cm. Painting accepted at West
Top:
“Clubbing”,
Norway Exhibition, 1984.
“Old Ladies talking”
oil on canvas, 165x140cm
acrylic on black vinyl
Bottom:
“Homeless Shadows”,
“Listen Mirror” oil on
oil on canvas, 155x138c.
canvas, 185x140, 1983
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“Desires and Illusions” 1984, 190x180cm. Model wearing painted and silk-screened wearable art in front of painting, at Bergen Art Society. Randy Naylor and Pia Myrvold with model, with wearable art, in front of painting installation by Randy Naylor. Model with wearable art in sound and video installation
“The Grey Room”, by Myrvold/ Naylor 1985 Clockwise from top: “Woman Sleepless” interface
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acrylic on canvas 1984, 140x190cm. “Nature” acrylic on canvas 1984, 135x185cm. Painting accepted at West Norwy Exhibition, 1985. “Fans”acrylic on canvas 1985, 190x140. interface
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1985 Art Attack wins competition for outdoor installation at the Nordic Textile Triennial, involving giant textile figures suspended from trees and architecture in the Gallery F15 Park. Art Attack exhibition featuring paintings and performance art, Husets Udstillinger, Copenhagen. Exhibition “Art Transplant” at the Bergen and Drammen Art Societies. Oil painting at the West Norway Exhibition.
Model Veslemøy wearing hat, shirt and pants designed by Pia Myrvold in art installation by Randy Naylor. Opposite page, clockwise from top:
“Dawn”, acrylic on canvas 1985, 190x140cm “Night”, acrylic on canvas 1985, 190x140cm “No title”, acrylic on canvas 1985, 140x200cm
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1986 March Establishes Gallery Art Attack, Stavanger. July Art Attack initiates and curates the Sola International Art Festival, at Sola Beach, with 30 international contemporary artists. It is the first time an independent art group in Norway works and curates outside the established institutions on this scale. Invited artists include Arvid Pettersen, Ragnhild Monsen, Torgeir Norheim, Ellinor Flor, Morten Børresen, Bill Viola, Kjartan Slettemark, Michael O’Donnell, Steinar Christensen, Kristina Elander, Eva Grøttum, Iodine Jupiter, Peter Andersson, Anne-Marie Norden, Hans Casper, Jan Erik Willgohs, Groupe Værst, Christian Lemmerz, Michael Kvium, Sonny Tronborg, Ingunn Jorstad, Hexakin Dance Group, Simon Nicholson, Andrej Nebb (Holy Toy), Pathrick Saytour, Martin Koeppl, Jørgen Knudsen, Rainer Mang, Pjeroo Roobjee, Joan Jonas, Something Else Theater, Y.Oerlemans.
Top:
Detail, mural, café section of the Lucky Star Night Club
From “Multiple Reality”
Top
installation, with painted
“Multiple Reality” I and
boats, Sola International
II, acrylic on canvas,
Art Festival
185x145cm
Bottom left:
Bottom right:
Boat seen from the ocean,
“Multiple Reality”
“Multiple Reality Listening Seminar”
installation, with painted
acrylic on canvas,
boats, Sola International
200x180cm
Art Festival
Bottom left:
Bottom right:
“Wearable Art”, costume
“Multiple Reality Hello” acrylic on canvas,
for horse and rider
150x120cm
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1987 Gallery Horneman, Trondheim, solo exhibition. Samfundet, Samfundet Cultureweek, with exhibition based on collections. Study grant at Scandinavian Foundation, Rome. Art Attack conceives of large-scale performance installation “Land, Air and Sea”, commissioned by Stavanger Chamber of Commerce, using caterpillars, airplanes, horses and the largest firefighting vessel in the world. Create interior design and art for Lucky Star Nightclub, Stavanger, with Torgeir Norheim and Randy Naylor. The National Annual Exhibition of The Visual Arts with installation from Sola International Art Festival.
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From performance “Land, Air and Sea”. Colored lights were set on the giant water canons of the world’s largest firefighting ship, here reaching up to 250 meters. Rosenberg Verft shipbuilding cranes seen in the background. Bottom:
From the Banner series “New Silhouette” acrylic on paper, 98x65cm, Rome 1987,
“Balance” acrylic on paper, 98x65cm Rome 1987
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1988 Study trip to New York. Group show with large paintings on display, Neo Geo in Soho Gallery. Art Attack create second large-scale performance installation “Riders of the Arts” using cement trucks and dancers and musicians from Stavanger’s hotbed of talents, to inaugurate Storhaug Tunnel.
Top:
“Construction in Naples Yellow” 150x120cm Bottom right:
“Slow Emotion” acrylic and grass on canvas, 170x140cm Bottom lef:
“Here and then” acrylic on canvas, 170x140cm
From performance
“Riders of the Art” by Myrvold/Naylor
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1989 Solo show, Stavanger Art Society. Art Attack initiates and curates the exhibition “Enter This Way” in Gallery Sala 1, Rome, with the support of the Norwegian Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Invited artist include Kjell Erik Killi Olsen, Ellen Bang, Michael O’Donnell and Inghild Karlsen. Myrvold is awarded first prize for “Best Installation of the Year” by prestigious art magazine in Rome for her installation “Central Voyage” in Sala 1.
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From installation “Central Voyage” in Sala 1, which won first prize for best installation in Rome 1989. Painting “Slow Emotion” acrylic and twigs on canvas, 170x145cm Private collection of Christian Buch
Collaborative installation Myrvold/Naylor: “The Tide” in Førde, Norway. Assisting the montage is architect Vibeke Jensen.
Wall sculpture “Slow Emotion” in steel, copper, aluminum, brass and rotating panel Wall sculpture “Silent Partner” welded iron with video screen and color bar video loop “Construction in Red” acrylic on paper, 160x140cm
Top 4 photos:
Installation “The Tide” abandoned boats in Førde, telephone poles and mirrors, at the old festival site in Førde, neglected since 1960 and the arrival of roads. By Myrvold/Naylor. Bottom 1,3,4,5:
Collection Haute Couture Bottom 2 from left:
Display for 6 pairs of glasses, commissioned by Insight Collection, courtesy of Hans Christian Buch, Stavanger.
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1990 Solo show “MetaRT Operative”, Oslo Art Society. Performance “MetaRT Operative”, opening of Museum of Contemporary Art, Samtidsmuseet, Oslo. Solo show, Hå Gamle Prestegård Painting on paper, bought by Rogaland Museum of Fine Art. Installation “Sub-Ob-ject”, Sola Culture House.
Above: Outdoor installation, textile figure, Hå Gamle Prestegård Left: View from exhibition installation, “Slow Emotion” Oslo Art Society Opposite page:
Installation “Sub-Ob-ject” with stainless steel, stock market index of Financial Times, wooden sticks, broken glass, thin rope that attaches glass to wall Sola Culture House, Stavanger 4 photos: Collage and ink drawings, studies for the installation “Sub-Ob-ject”, 30x40cm
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Receive grant to work in Paris, at the Cité Internationale des Arts, from Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation. Invites Naylor to join her in Paris, where they receive commission by Bernard Tschumi, the architect of the Parc de la Villette, to make textile installation on the basis of previous textile sculptures. Designs collection of hand knits, sponsored by Sandnes Uldvarefabrik AS.
Red and white coat. “Metro
Angels”. These coats where designed to be worn as a backpack on the metro in Paris, where crowded trains made it hot even on cold winter days.
Opposite page:
Knitwear collection made for first Paris show, planned as two events at the Norwegian Club and the nightclub Kasbah, cancelled due to coorganizer (another Norwegian designer) pulling out at last minute. Collection sponsored by Sandnes Uldvarefabrikk.
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July-August: 500 meter long textile installation project “Urban Upwind” in Parc de la Villette, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and Norwegian Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Passage”, acrylic and metal paints on canvas, 120x150cm
Clockwise:
Modular grid design, for ephemeral architecture installation, “Urban
Upwind” Parc de la Villette, by Myrvold/ Naylor. The design was later bought by Eric Wappler for the façade of newly opened Restaurant
“Stavanger Identity”
Quai Ouest at Saint Cloud, Paris.
collection, created entirely
Prototypes of cup, saucers and
and T-shirt logos from
plates, made with Figgjo, Norway.
Stavanger institutions,
from plastic bags
nightclubs, rock
“Yellow Talker” textile
bands, supermarkets and
installation, Parc de La Villette.
gas stations.
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Façade design for Elle Design Boutique, Paris, by Myrvold/ Naylor.
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1994
Designs a collection “The Cocoon”, that Myrvold presents to avant-garde boutiques in Paris. First client is Gago, in Aix, a very influential fashion boutique in France.
January – The Cocoon Collection Exhibition in Charivari, New York. Reviews of collection follow in New York Times, W and American Elle.
Designs concept “Stavanger Identity” made by T-shirt logos and plastic bags after receiving invitation to join government sponsored design awareness project in Stavanger, creating much controversy among organizers.
October - Chamber Syndicate De La Couture Parisienne, Paris, France. (French Federation of Fashion Designers) invites Myrvold to present her collection “In-Formation” as part of the Official Calendar. Myrvold continues to show her work every season under the protection of the prestigious syndicate until fall 1999.
Exhibition Elle Design Boutique, Paris with paintings, furniture, textile installation and hand painted silk collection. Invited by Claudine Delalande.
Clockwise from top:
Model wearing dyed “Cocoon Collection”
Hand painted crinoline and deconstructed ruffle shirt.
dress at Hellestø, Norway.
Hats from the “Cocoon” and “Winter Rose” collections. Deconstructed jacket, wool with feathers,
Photo shoot of the “Cocoon Collection” in Stavanger Museum. The historic display was built in 1900.
from “Urban Reality” collection.
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Lithographs based on original watercolor from 1995 “Energy”, 15.5x14cm
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March – “The Urban Reality Project”, rue Keller, Paris. Suzy Menkes, fashion editor International Herald Tribune, gives her first review of Myrvold’s collection. Myrvold and Naylor dissolve their working relationship. October – “Extensions Project”. Music track and collection presented at Esmod, Paris. Sponsored by Lancôme. Thibault Vabre does the makeup for the show. Lithographic print edition, Atelier Clot Bramsen, Paris.
Lithographs based on original watercolors from 1995. Top row, left to right:
“What is there to say..” 10x10cm, “Guessing your mind” 10x10cm, “Bad Connection” 10x10cm Second row, left to right:
“A few words now” 10x10cm, “Tomorrow”, 10x10cm Bottom row, left to right: Left to right top:
“The Harbor” 10x10cm, “The Heart” 10x10 cm, “Reflection” 10x10cm
“Paris Identity”
“The Louvre”, dress and raincoat. “Paris Identity”,
“Rough Trade”, alternative record store and label.
Left to right top middle:
Pia in studio, cutting 1 cm plastic strips from plastic logos and sewing onto material. “Paris Identity”
“Flammarion Centre Pompidou”, bookstore in the Pompidou Center. “Paris Identity”
“International Herald Tribune”, international newspaper based in Paris. Pia Myrvold with models at the end of “In-Formation” presentation.
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March – Myrvold makes a multimedia presentation “Interface” at the Divan du Monde, Paris. Besides the collection based around the theme “Interfaces”, she composes the music, choreographs the models and dancers, create multiple video and camera installations and makes first direct transmission over internet in the fashion world with the help of sponsor IBM. Collaborates with Thibault Vabre, artistic director of Lancôme, for the look of the models. Swedish National Television makes 30-minute reportage of the Interface project. October – Inauguration of concept “Clothes as Publishing”, presented as installation in Le Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris. Myrvold invites artists and architects Jean Nouvel, Bernard Tschumi, Dimitri from Paris, Norbert Hillaire and Jacques Denarnaud to publish their contributions to the theme “Paris identity”, on a collection of clothes. Myrvold invents the word cybercouture and registers the domain name www.cybercouture.com Lithographic edition “The Source” printed at Atelier Clot Bramsen, Paris
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Advertising image for invitation and press release
“Interface” project. Makeup: Thibault Vabre, artistic director, Lancôme. Hair: Benoit Pauliac Photo: Jacques Denarnaud Portrait: Pia Myrvold. Makeup:
Thibault Vabre, artistic director, Lancôme. Interface silk screened bodysuit with transparent back, photographed by Jacques Denarnaud.
Top left and right: Pia Myrvold preparing the order of entry for the “Extensions” presentation, photo Jacques Denarnaud. Bottom left: Pia Myrvold, self-portrait. Bottom right: Pia Myrvold with models at finale of “Extensions”. Hair: Benoit Pauliac interface
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1997 February - Commissioned by The World Ski Championships and Telenor to make a oneyear installation for the Thyholt Tower in Trondheim. March - “The Body Theory Collection”, Rue Berger, Paris. Collaborates withThibault Vabre, artistic director of Lancôme, for the look of the models. July - Steve Lacy and Irene Aebe, invites Myrvold to Berlin, to design the costumes for the opera “The Cry”, based on the lyrics of Talisman Nasrin. October – Collaborates with composer Rolf Wallin and Notam to make the first interactive collection; “Dada Memory”, where models presses buttons on clothes to activate sound loops, thus using the clothes as architectural interfaces. Collaborates with Thibault Vabre, artistic director of Lancôme, for the look of the models. Launches the website www.pia-myrvold.com, with Myrvold’s first interactive interface “Dada Memory” as a 6 loop music palette. Collaborates with Spill.net for web design. Lithograph edition “Century Memory” printed at Atelier Clot Bramsen, Paris December – Solo exhibition, Gallery Amare, Stavanger.
Lithograph, from series
“The Source” printed at Atelier Clot Bramsen, Paris
Clockwise from top left:
Clothes as Publishing Edition#1
“ Jean Nouvel - Institute Monde Arab” Clothes as Publishing Edition#1
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“Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette” The Tyholt Tower in Trondheim with the installation “The Source”,
Pia Myrvold at finale of “Dada Memory” presentation, with interactive glove. The four gloves with three interactive buttons and wire for signal transmission being prepared in the studio.
including 270 square meter transfer prints and yellow filtered lighting
The hardware for transmission, designed by Notam and Henrik Sundt.
Models with makeup for “Body Theory” presentation
Assistant Kari Ann Brevick in studio at 65, Boulevard de Strasbourg.
Thibault Vabre preparing makeup for “Body Theory” presentation
The Dada Memory Circles were interactive for the website www.pia-myrvold.com, made in collaboration with Nicholas Chaikin, Spill Industries.
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Composer Rolf Wallin testing music samples before the presentation of “Dada Memory”, the Norwegian Club, Paris.
Lithograph “Century Memory” presented as part of the “Dada Memory” project, printed at Atelier Clot Bramsen, Paris
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1998 March - “Osmosis” project, presents two events, the first at Rue Cadet, for a classic winter collection. Collaborates with Thibault Vabre, artistic director of Lancôme, for backstage performance, where models where painted as Jackson Pollock canvases. The other event takes place at a newly opened nightclub in rue Berger, where singers Emiko and Sophie perform interactive suits with six sound and image loops. Image programming collaboration with the team of Fabrice Bourrelly. September – Installation “Fashion Is…” at SEHM, commissioned by Naco Architects. October - “Post Machine” videoinstallation in rue Martel. Produces and directs the video installation, music track and collection “Post Machine”. Collaboration for sound and image with Delphine Charrueau and Laure Milena. Machine sculpture for rotating collection in collaboration with Pierre-André Martin. Performance at nightclub Les Bains “Fashion Is…” with 12 French and American rappers. December - “Art Works” exhibition, mixed media paintings, acrylics, watercolors and prints, at Gallery Galtung, Oslo.
Clockwise from top left: “Sky Objects” lithograph 57x9cm.
Pia Myrvold photographed old typewriters at the Clingancourt flea market in Paris for the images
Clockwise from top left: “Another Game” acrylic on canvas, 100x81cm.
Invitation project “Osmoses”. Pia Myrvold directing singer Sophie, before “Female Interface” performance. Pia Myrvold
in the “Post Machine” collection. Watercolor “Situationist International Anthology”. Stills from the video installation “Post Machine”. Model
backstage, talking to the press. “The Beginning had no name” acrylic on canvas, 81x65cm. Pia Myrvold in front of paintings suggesting the Pollock makeup for the “Osmoses” presentation.
wearing Clothes as Publishing Edition#1 “Faycal - Louvre” at presentation, the Norwegian Club, Paris. Painting for “Post Machine” project; mixed
“Fashion is what you Read..” suit, part of the project “Fashion Is…” Middle: Pia Myrvold backstage with press, before the “Osmoses” presentation.
media, with clothes from the collections “Paris identity”, “Dada Memory” and “Post Machine”, as well as transfer print on canvas.
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1999 March - “Fast Forward”- performance – Les Bains, launching video and music track, Fast Forward, Jazzland Remix. October - Web Bar, Paris. Launch of first interactive design studio and the website www.cybercouture.com, with project “Dream Sequences”, the first interface project in which Myrvold completely integrates paintings, prints, video, music, the internet, an interactive design studio and a design collection, also marking her departure from the twice a year fashion shows in Paris. Collaborates with Spill.net for web design. Porsgrund Porselen commissioned 6 cups to be designed as part of their Millennium Celebration project. December – Solo exhibition, Galleri Amare, Stavanger.
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Entrance for fashion week party “Fast
Forward” at Les Bains, Paris. Stills from video,
“Fast Forward” Pia Myrvold singing and performing in “Fast Forward” video. Backstage preparations for “Fast Forward” performance at Les Bains. Dancers recruited by dance choreographer Patrick O’Hara.
“Fast Forward” performance, five classically trained ballerinas are carried by strong male dancers in poses around the crowded club nights of David and Cathy Guetta. Left: Teet Kask in still from video “Dream Sequences”. Top middle: Mixed media painting “Dream Sequences” with excerpts of text by writers, artists and philosophers from the last 3000
years. Right: Cups from Millennium countdown project, Porsgrund Porselen. Middle bottom: Knitwear collection to complement “Dream Sequence Collection”, using fishing nylon for transparent blocks in machine knitted wool.
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February - Opening exhibition for Bergen European Capital of Culture 2000, curated by museum director Jorunn Haakestad, at The West Norwegian Museum of Decorative Art. Exhibition includes performances in collaboration with Carte Blanche Dance Company. Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway officially opens www.cybercouture.com with version 2 interactive design studio. Web design sponsored by Nextra.
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Dancers from contemporary dance ensemble “Carte Blanche”, Bergen, performing during press conference for
July - performances and shows based on the Bergen Identity project in Helsinki, Finland and Reykjavik, Iceland. Gallery exhibition during the Paris Haute Couture week, where composer Steve Lacy and singer Irene Aebe inaugurate exhibition.
exhibition at the West Norway Museum of Decorative Arts. Teet Kask performing in blue screen environment in Duran film studios in Paris for “Interference” video project. Dancers from the Dybvik dance ensemble, preparing dance segment for “Women Show The Way”, choreographed and produced by Pia Myrvold. The infrastructure for cybercouture.com version 2, made with Flash, programmed by web artist Phil Wood. Dancers from the Estonian National Ballet, performing in the Duran film studio, choreographed by Pia Myrvold. Icelandic model wearing cybercouture, Reykjavik. Photo by Pia Myrvold.
December - Exhibition of new paintings, watercolors and prints at Gallery Galtung, Oslo.
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Top row, one and two: Stills from 3 screen video installation, “Inspirations”, shot with handheld camera, edited in real time. Middle row: Dancers Snelle Hall and Siri Jøntvedt and actor Kyrre Hellum performing last scene of interactive children’s play
“Paintbox”. Directed by Un-Magritt Nordseth. Video and lighting design by Inger Johanne Byhring. Music by Pia Myrvold, Lasse Myrvold and Laurent Mauvais. Bottom: Children wearing costumes by Pia Myrvold for “yellow scene” in interactive children’s play “Paintbox”.
Sunglasses simulate video camera glasses, which were an important element in the original script by Pia Myrvold.
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Pia Myrvold backstage with press before cybercouture presentation, in tent in Bryant Park, 7th on Sixth. Front row invitations with gift bags organized by Fonte PR office and Breanna Alexander. Breanna Alexander and Pia Myrvold at The Museum of Modern Art, Fashion Week Opening Party. Pia Myrvold with Teet Kask at cybercouture after party. Co-producer and hosts Breanna Alexander, Wayne Correia. Left: Model opening show, wearing cybercouture jacket
with 4 built-in speakers, sound generated by the jacket. Right: “Red Lady” lithograph, 9x53cm
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2002 Moves to New York in the fall of 2001. Industrial designer Karim Rashid, who had been at cybercouture presentation in Bryant Park in 2001, asks Myrvold if he can collaborate on a project. Myrvold starts a “work in process” project “The Bridge”, as a publishing project, selecting six of Karim Rashids prints for the collage print Hypermix, creating designs for ink jet printing. In the collection “Cyber Wear”, Rashid incorporates his own graphic interpretations into her designs. Collaborate with composer/producer Nile Rodgers for the soundtrack. The project presentation is delayed because of the terrorism attacks and loose funding, but is presented at the New York Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in September 2002, at Fellisimo Design House. Myrvold uses the momentum of the project to launch the 3rd version of the interactive design studio on cybercouture.com, where all garments are designed in digital files and sent to printers and producers over the Internet. Collaborates with Phil Wood for web design. Project sponsor; Scanachrome, Paris.
Dress from the “Hypermix” collection, created in digital files, allowing a draping of motifs, so that the graphics connect at the seams, with different images on the front to those on the sides and back.
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Backstage photo shoot, organized by Anne Senstad. Artist Megan Lang getting a good spanking from designer/ husband Karim Rashid. Finished show, waving to the press, Nile Rodgers, Pia Myrvold and Karim Rashid, who collaborated on “The Bridge”. Pia Myrvold with hair and makeup team.
“The making of Eve”, first synthetic model for cybercouture. Backstage photo shoot, organized by Anne Senstad, Nile Rodgers, Pia Myrvold and Amy Sacco.
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March – Myrvold moves back to Paris, where her daughter Isa is born. Presents showroom “Post Machine” collection. October - Group show “100% Norway” at the DeLuxe Gallery, London, curated by Bradley Quinn. Showroom exhibition with one of a kind ”Reflexology” collection, Paris. November – Group show “Scandinavia Beyond The Myth”, 2004-2007, by curator Widar Halen, opens in Berlin, then travels to Design Museums in Milan, Gent, Prague, Budapest, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Oslo, Vigo and Corunna, Spain, Belgrade and Croatia. December – Solo exhibition, Gallery Amare, Stavanger.
Lithograph printed at a lithographic workshop in Stavanger. Details of spring collection, using tearing techniques, hand dyes and reflective collage details.
Top left: Illustration for Amnesty
International. “The War happening in our homes” Text reads: “The Government has just announced that fresh air will be free for one more year!” Top right: Illustration for Amnesty
International.
“Schooling”. 8 year olds discussing statement by media that top model Karen Mulder is dismissive of feminism. Girl to the right says that maybe she (Mulder) is dismissing all human rights! Girl to the left responds “It is probably just a blond joke (by the media)!” Left: Pia Myrvold and daughter Isa, 5
months, in Dusaviken, the scrap yard for North Sea oil installations, photographed by Knut Bry for book project.
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2004 April – Group show “The Fashion of Architecture”, at the DeLuxe Gallery, exhibition curator Bradley Quinn. August – Official ONS (Offshore North Sea) Artist. The Majesties King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway opens exhibition, Gallery Sult, Stavanger. – “Perspectives 1” land art performance, Stavanger, published in Stavanger Aftenblad. September - February 2005 – Presentation interface - project and performance “Female Interfaces 2.0” at the “Ecoute” exhibition, part of “ Sons et Lumières”, joint exhibition project by Centre Pompidou and Musée national d’art moderne. Exhibition curator Boris Tissot. Dancer Teet Kask performs with Myrvold, Neurotika gives technical support, web design and collaborates on images. Sound collaboration with Rolf Wallin and Bugge Wesseltoft. Support by The Norwegian Embassy, Paris. November – “Slow Emotion” exhibition at Gallery Rom for Idé, Oslo, an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring paintings, sculptural furniture and carpets. Sponsored by Peugeot, Myrvold designs the exterior and interior of a car. During the year, Myrvold contributes six illustrations to Amnesty International Norway Members Magazine. Top left: Pia Myrvold’s home in Rue St Martin, with signature paintings, textiles and carpets. Photo: Sylvie Dos Santos, Elle Interiør. Top right: Pia Myrvold designs exterior and interior print cover for Peugeot, in connection with the
exhibition “Slow Emotions”, at the gallery Rom for Idé, Oslo. Middle right: Ring and necklace design “Riss”, for Hillestad AS. Left: HM Queen Sonja of Norway opening the official ONS exhibition, in conversation with Pia
Myrvold. Bente Gundersen of Galleri Sult in the background.
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From the performance “Perspectives I” at Sola Beach, Stavanger. Pia Myrvold in front of painting at exhibition opening, The Official ONS Artist 2004. Installation view from exhibition “Slow Emotions”, at the gallery Rom for Idé, Oslo. "Change of mind" acrylic on canvas 2004, 130x97cm.
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February – Performs Female Interfaces 2.1 at the Oslo Fashion Week. Technical support Samantha Longoni, Neurotika.net. May – Jubilee Exhibition at Galleri Hillestad, Norway. The second land art performance “Perspectives 2”, published in Agderposten. June – Arendal Culture House. Art Building Performance “Perspectives 3”, published in Agderposten. – Festival artist, Porsgrunn International Theater Festival, Øvre Frednes Culturehouse, Porsgrunn. Paintings, digi-graphics, video-installations and the third land art performance “Perspectives 4”, published in Varden and VG.
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Opposite page, top left: 1. Painting on cover of the catalogue for
exhibitions at Hillestad Gallery and Frednes Culture House, Porsgrunn. 2 & 7. Pia Myrvold
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Hillestad of Hillestad Gallery during preparations for “Perspectives II”. 3. Pia Myrvold directing the shoots and
ground staff from the helicopter. 4. The helicopter in front of Hillestad Gallery. 5. “Perspectives III”,
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“Perspectives IV” by the entrance of
Frednes Culture House, Porsgrunn.7. Barbro Hillestad and Pia Myrvold discussing the strategy of the ground team. 8. “Perspective II”, starting at Kjevik
Airport, Kristiansand, with six locations before arriving at Hillestad Gallery. 9. Watercolor from exhibition at
Frednes Culture House, Porsgrunn. Top: Pia Myrvold with technical team, Raphael Hue and Samantha Longoni, before Oslo Fashion Week performance.
Two interactive interfaces, performed by Pia Myrvold and Teet Kask, in interactive exhibition “Ecoute”, at the Pompidou Center. Bottom row, four on the left: Jewelry collection for Hillestad AS, photographed by Ron Contarsy. Bottom right: Pia Myrvold performing “Female Interface 2.0” for the opening of the “Ecoute” exhibition at the Pompidou Center. 9.
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2006 January – Groupshow “The Fashion of Architecture” opens at the Center of Architecture, New York, collaboration “Freeze Dubbeldam”, with Winka Dubbeldam and Phil Wood, exhibition curator Bradley Quinn. June - Pulpit Rock Festival asks Myrvold to design an architectural plan for a 4-day rock festival for Stavanger Culture Capital 2008. Myrvold makes a 3-D max video with animations and creative programming, with exhibitions, children projects, international VJprogram and live interface interactions with audience. Designs “Lateral” collection for Woolin AS, Norway, to be part of Design 100% Risør and London Design Fair with 100% Norway. Designs collections “Riss” and “Stardust” for Hillestad AS (www.hillestad.no). November – Solo show “Fluid Identity” featuring paintings, digital prints and carpets at Gallery Rom for Idè, Oslo.
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Planned workshop for children at Norsk Form, with interactive interface “New Media Lab”, where children can make paper objects like airplanes, puppets and clothing. Planned façade for the Norsk Form exhibition, with textile banners printed using the live cybercouture production unit at the exhibition. Digi-graphic “Osmoses III”, 30x30cm. “Infill” project with computerized lighting plan, giving the building a different colored design for each day of the week. Entrance design with textile tunnel, leading the public into the main stadium space, for Pulpit Rock Festival, Stavanger 2008. Mixed Media painting “Hypermix”, using cybercouture clothing from the “Hypermix” collection. Photos taken from Wayne and Breanna’s penthouse apartment on 6th Avenue, with yellow cabs below, as well as reflective PVC materials melted into the canvas. View of the live cybercouture production unit, which allowed customers to follow the process from interacting in the design through to seeing the printouts and finished models. Middle: View from inside the exhibition
“Interfaces” at Norsk Form, where videos, furniture, textiles, carpet designs and live performances from retrospective programs and computer stations for interactive interfaces were included as part of the exhibition plan. Top left: Roof garden, maquette created in 3-D max, for “Infill” project, Oslo. Middle left and bottom left: Interface for “Freeze Dubbeldam” on cybercouture.com, where Winka Dubbeldam’s architectural virtual shapes are overlapped in a
random program created by web artist Phil Wood. The dress shape lets the client decide when to freeze the image, to create a unique dress. Project presented at the exhibition “The Fashion of Architecture”, at the Center of Architecture, New York. Right: Back of hooded coat, with Winka Dubbeldam’s virtual architectural motifs, created at MIT Media Lab, Boston.
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2007 Designs the “Pia Myrvold 2007” signature collection for Woolin AS. Designs the jewelry collections “Pebbles” and “Moon” for Hillestad AS (www.hillestad.no). USBL commissions Myrvold to create plans for art and design identity for “In-Fill”, an urban housing projects by Element Architects, Oslo. May – “Interfaces” exhibition to open at Norsk Form, Oslo. Due to organizational problems at the Norsk Form Museum, the exhibition opening was replaced by an improvised performance, with 60 live models standing in for missing mannequins in the exhibition space during the official opening. During the school year 2006-2007, directed the Masterclass educational project “Arendal Identity”, for Strømsbu senior high school, culminating with performance at Arendalkonferansen in June. Supported by Arendal Kommune, AustAgder Fylkeskommune and Sparebanken Sør. www.cybercouture.com/Arendal-ID Developed New Media Lab for children at cybercouture.com/ newmedialab with the support of Norsk Form and kulturnett.no. Collaborated with Phil Wood for webdesign. November – Launch of the book “Pia Myrvold-Interfaces” in Norway with publishing company Innoventi/Kilden. – Exhibition “In-Formation” at the Rogaland Museum of Fine Art. Sponsored by Hitech Vision, Acta and Noreco. Launch of New Media Lab, Phase 2. – Solo show “Watermarks”, Galleri Bi-Z, Kristiansand. December – Solo show, Galleri Amare, Stavanger.
www.pia-myrvold.com • www.cybercouture.com
Top: New Media Lab interface, with freeze image print function, to create infinite variations of graphic artwork. By Phil Wood/ Pia Myrvold.
Link: www.cybercouture.com/newmedialab/picture.html. Middle: Dada Memory Interface, six sound loops composed by Pia Myrvold give a new way for the user to enjoy music and composition. Link: www.cybercouture.com/newmedialab/music.html. Bottom right: New Media Lab allows children to create a paper doll, with front and back. Parameters include choice of gender, hair, hats and masks, shoes, color designs for the clothes and a separate sweater, to build a series of individual silhouettes. Link: www.cybercouture.com/newmedialab/design.html. Bottom left: “Red Biomyth Lady” lithograph, 23x22cm.
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Top left: Performance using live models, substituting exhibition mannequins that had not arrived, for the opening of the “Interfaces” exhibition at Norsk Form. (Norwegian Museum of Design and Architecture). Middle left: Students presenting “Arendal Identity”, a New Media Art Educational Program made by Pia Myrvold as a master class for dedicated students at Strømsbu sixth-form college during one school year. Each student worked on a video presentation of “Arendal ID”; made two “no tech” outfits based on the palettes derived from their videos, and finally had a skirt produced with their individual palette in cybercouture.com. Link: www.cybercouture.com/arendal-ID. Two on bottom left: Carpets designs from “Pia Myrvold Collection 2007” for Woolin AS. Top right: “Material Connect III” digi-graphic printed at Atelier Clot Bramsen, Paris. Bottom right: “New Code I” digi-graphic limited edition, 98x98cm.
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Top left: “Liquid Distortion, Yellow” lithograph, 23x22cm. Bottom left: “Liquid Distortion, Red” lithograph, 23x22cm. Top right: “Biomyth Meeting” lithograph, 23x22cm. Bottom right: “The four sources” lithograph, 23x22cm.
“Phantom Love” lithograph, 23x22cm
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