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THE AUTHOR

Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, painting and performance. Her practice deals with identity and the body, informed by technology and the internet. Olafson's work has been presented at the heart of international exhibitions: the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), SECCA - SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), OchoYmedio (Quito, Ecuador), The National Arts Center (Ottawa), Sequences Real Time Media Arts Festival (Iceland), CounterPulse (San Francisco) and Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). Olafson has benefited from residencies, notably through EMPAC - Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York) and Counterpulse (San Francisco). The artist holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute and is currently  Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of York (Toronto).