Palle Torsson (born 1970 in

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) is a

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working with

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works, live

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and

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. He received a MFA from Royal College University of Fine Arts

in 1998, where he also met up with artist colleague

Tobias Bernstrup Tobias Bernstrup (born 1970 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live performances and electronic music. He received an MFA from Royal College University of Fine Arts Stockholm in 199 ...

Career

In 1995, Torsson closely collaborated with artist Tobias Bernstrup with whom he got international recognition as the first group of visual artists to use computer games in their art practice. Their project, Museum Meltdown, consisted in a series of site specific computer game installations in European art museums. Using the graphic engine of existing video games such as ''

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'', '' Quake'' and ''

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'' they transformed the

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into violent

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games where the museum visitor could wander around inside a virtual version of the museum killing and blowing up master pieces. Torsson and Bernstrup's early video game based projects and game representations of museums have later been followed by other by artists such as Florian Muser & Imre Osswald, Felix Stephan Huber (Germany), Feng Mengbo (China) and Kolkoz (France). After his collaboration with Bernstrup, Palle Torsson have continued to work with game related work like Sam exhibited at

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, Paris in 2001 and Evil Interiors. Since 2005, he is also working with the Swedish anti-copyright organization

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, especially with the website Art Liberated.org.

Notable works

* Assvideo (1996 - 1997) - videos and video performance * Museum Meltdown I - computer game (1995) at the

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(with Tobias Bernstrup) * Museum Meltdown II - computer game (1997) at the Contemporary Art Centre of

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(with Tobias Bernstrup) * Museum Meltdown III - computer game (1999) at the

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(with Tobias Bernstrup) * Minus Porn - photographs and website (1999) * Pippi Examples - (2001) censored video based on Pippi Longstocking * Sam - (2001): Half-Life computer game modification about the five-year-old girl Sam, Palais de Tokyo,

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* Text Voyeur - (2002), real-time 24hour streaming-work based on Limewire, Kiasma,

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* Evil Interiors - (2003) computer game reconstructions from movies like '' Psycho'', ''

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'', and '' Scarface'' * Artliberated.org - (2005) website for freedom of speech

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* of Palle Torsson {{DEFAULTSORT:Torsson, Palle 1970 births Living people Artists from Stockholm Swedish video artists Digital artists Video game artists

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