Theories of perception, instrumental uses of images and visual technologies.
In the ongoing project, 'Technics of Thinking,' she endeavours to develop a nonrepresentational theory of symbolic mediation. She is also conducting a parallel project, 'Photographic Difference,' which does the same thing while focusing on one particular case, namely, photographic instrumental portraits (mugshots, composite portraits, etc.).
Technics of Thinking: Investigations into the Multidimensional Space of Meaning (forthcoming 2009)
Form and Technic: Reading Ernst Cassirer from the Present (edited) (fothcoming 2008)
Photographic Difference (forthcoming 2009)
Ernst Cassirer: Form og teknikk – utvalgte tekster (edited), 2006, Oslo: Cappelen. No. 54 in Cappelen’s unpopular writings series, 198 pages. ISBN 978-82-02-26405-5. Edited by Ingvild Folkvord and Aud Sissel Hoel, translation by Folkvord and introduction by Hoel.
”Fotografisk mening og makt: En fremstillingsfilosofisk kritikk av postmodernistisk fototeori.” 2005, Norsk medietidsskrift, Vol. 12, No. 4.
“Cassirer’s Dynamic Conception of Form.” In: Gunnar Foss and Eivind Kasa (eds.), 2002, Forms of Knowledge and Sensibility. Ernst Cassirer and the Human Sciences. Oslo: Norwegian Academic Press
”Reframing the Image.” The Visible and the Audible, Nordic conference organized by the Nordic network The Bodily Turn in Aesthetics. Lysebu, Norway, August 13-15, 2007.
“Photographic Difference.” Who’s Afraid of Photons? A Symposium on the History of Photography, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, USA, April 20, 2007.
“Thinking ’Difference’ Differently: Cassirer’s Theory of Mediation.” Form and Technics: Reading Ernst Cassirer from the Present, international Conference, NTNU. Trondheim, Norway, December 7-8, 2006.
“The Spectacle of Deviancy: Reflections on a 19th Century Police Album”. The Human and Its Others, international conference organized by the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University. Princeton, United States, March 23-24, 2006.
“Rethinking the Crisis of Perception, Visuality, and the Image.” Modes of Seeing, international conference organized by the project Aesthetic Technologies, NTNU. Trondheim, Norway, November 6-8, 2003.
