Stenslie Stahl

Stenslie Stahl is working on the development of different interface technologies and tools for the digital culture within the fields of art, media and network-research. Lives and works as media artist, curator, scientist and media researcher in Oslo and Cologne. Specializes working on cognition and perception manipulative projects as well as conducting PhD studies in New Media. He became one of the Fathers of Cybersex after he built the worlds first full-body, tele-tactile communication system in 1993 (cyberSM). He has been exhibiting and lecturing at major international events (ISEA, DEAF, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH). He represented Norway at the 5th biennial in Istanbul, Turkey, the organizer of e~on and arcart 02, co-organized 6cyberconf (Oslo '97), won the Grand Prize of the Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs, and was a founding member of mem_brane -network research laboratory- in Mediapark, Cologne, Germany. He was moderating the Ars Electronica 2000 Symposium (Next Sex). (source: www.stenslie.net)

2001 Professor at The Media Academy of Cologne, Germany
1999 Ph.D. Studies in new media at The Oslo School of Architecture
1998 Project member of the digital culture group planning the Norwegian Information Technology Centre at Fornebu, Norway
1997 - 2001 Leading the experimental electronic art project group of "Norwegian Travelling Exhibitions". Curator of their grand national exhibition DETOX touring Norway and Iceland 1999 - 2001
1997 Scientific researcher at Norwegian Telecom (Telenor) Research Institute, Norway
1997 project leader of the project "Content of the future Internet"
1995 - 1997 Scientific researcher at Norwegian Telecom (Telenor) Research Institute at Kjeller, Norway. Head of design at the TeleVR group
1992 - 1994 The Media Academy in Cologne, Germany, Masters in Audio-Visual Media
1991 - 1992 The Art Academy of Düsseldorf, Germany
1988 - 1992 The Norwegian Art Academy, Oslo, Norway, Diploma
1987 - 1988 The Norwegian Arts and Crafts school, Oslo, Norway
1986 - 1987 "Grunnfag" in Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
1985 - 1986 "Mellomfag" in Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway
1983 - 1985 Lester B. Pearson College, United World College, B.C., Canada, International Baccalaureate