Trine Wester

Trine Wester is an Associate Professor in 3D Printing/dForm at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Department of Arts and Crafts. Her artistic practice investigates the intersections between analog and digital technologies, employing traditional workshop production methods alongside new production technologies. She exhibits through traditional galleries like Kunstnernes Hus and Drammens Museum, creates performance works at the Museum of Contemporary Art, collaborates with theater productions at Nationaltheatret, and publishes artist books.

• Core research focus on technology's consequences in artistry
• Develops hybrid analog-digital artistic methodologies
• Active in exhibition curation and educational technology dissemination

Her recent work includes the 2023 collaborative project CRAFT Decoding Ceramics, exploring digital fabrication in ceramic arts, and the ongoing Technosublime project at KHiO. She has produced multiple museum exhibitions examining digital infrastructure themes, including the Belly of the Monster series (2019-2020) and Blindprint (2019) which investigates tactile digital art forms. Her work has been presented in virtual reality drawing experiments through the 2018 #TryDrawinginVirtualReality exhibition.