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

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and

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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 David Liddle. 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 *"Trip Light," 2009, 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 American emigrants to Norway Artists from Silver Spring, Maryland New York University alumni University of Michigan alumni Norwegian contemporary artists