• © Andrea U.


  • Maia Urstad

  • maia.no



  • works at the intersection of audio and visual arts, primarily with site-specific and spatial sound installations. Technological development and communication technology are recurring themes in many of her works, often with the use of radio as a central auditory, visual, and conceptual element. These problematize the volatility of today’s technology and what traces and stories we leave behind when new inventions enter our everyday lives. Her work also tends to focus on flops, lost causes, and developments that are on the border of obsoletion.

    Many of her projects also derive from the interest in sonic characteristics of the various forms of communication; i.e. the human voice, with brief public information or instructions, such as numbers, train announcements, directions (north, south, west, east), news, or time and place oriented information. Also important is the surrounding soundscape of this information, like ethereal waves, interference, machine noise, railway tracks, hiss, wind or silence, and “just” a spatial presence. Many of the works are multi-channel, which helps to shape the experience of the sound sculpturally as a surrounding force of influence.


    Sendungen im Kunstradio:

  • 28 08 2022: Train Tables and Radio Waves

  • [TOP]




    BIOGRAPHIES