Camille Norment (born 1970) is an Oslo-based multimedia artist who works with sound, installation, sculpture, drawing, performance, and video. Norment also works as a musician and composer. She performs with Vegar Vårdal and Håvard Skaset in the Camille Norment Trio.

Education and career

Camille Norment was born in

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in 1970. She studied interactive technologies at

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and literary science and history of art at the

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. In the late 1990s, Norment worked at

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, a research and development technology laboratory co-founded by

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and

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. There, she worked on haptically manipulating media, among other projects. In 2015, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) selected her to represent Norway in the Nordic Pavilion at the

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, where she presented her work "Rapture". Additionally, Norment has completed several commissioned works to public spaces, amongst others the sound installation "Within the Toll" (2011) for

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and her 2008 work "Triplight", which in 2013 was featured at the entrance of the

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exhibition " Soundings: A Contemporary Score." In 2017 Camille Norment presented a solo exhibition at

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. This constituted her first solo presentation in Norway.

Public art

* "Dead Room", 2000, The Project, New York. * "Light Like Air," 2007, Vøyenenga Middle School Technical Center,

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, Norway *"The Moss Project," 2007,

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, Norway *"Triplight", 2008, September Gallery, Berlin, Germany * "Crystallin", 2010 *"Within the Toll", 2011,

*"Rhythm Wars - Interval", 2016, Løren train station, Oslo, Norway *"Pulse - Formations", 2018, Thailand Biennial

Musical work

Within the Camille Norment Trio, Norment notably plays the

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, electric guitar, and the

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. Her own armonica is composed of 24 glass bowls ranging two octaves. Norment has described the sound of the armonica as "...extremely visceral. It's a very pure crystalline sound."

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Norment, Camille 1970 births Living people 21st-century American women artists 21st-century Norwegian women artists New York University alumni University of Michigan alumni Norwegian contemporary artists