The photographic sequences of the different chapters are made up of imagery captured (an important verb since the artist clearly expresses his choice of an observational mode – rather than a directorial mode) from the world at large, imagery generated and collected over many years of praxis; the book does offer the sense of mining a rich archive of imagery.

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How can museums move beyond simply raising awareness and establish a dialogue both within and across communities and cultural boundaries? By examining the ways in which museums can involve refugees and asylum seekers Museums, New Media and Refugees explores this key question. This is the fifth book in the UNESCO series which is a collaboration with the Museum of London.

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Artistic research versus scientific research; In the past 10 to 15 years, much has been said and written about artistic research, in relation to both philosophy of science and educational politics. A recurrent theme is to compare it with, or distinguish it from, what is generally understood as scientific or academic research.

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Jeanette Christensen og Mieke Bal: Fragments of Matter

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The edition actually consists of two equal parts: a presentation by Alwynne Pritchard of her performance and then remarks and views on this by Roar Sletteland.

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Museums, the Media and Refugees reflects on museum practice and the contexts, stories, and images of asylum- seekers and refugees prevalent in our mass media.

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In the fourth edition of the Sensuous Knowledge series, author Klaus Jung introduces a new dimension into the discussion about where knowledge is located in relation to artworks and artistic production. Jung is a practicing artist and Head of the School of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art since 2002. He is a former Rector of the Kunstakademie Trondheim and the Bergen National Adacemy of the Arts

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The fifth edition in the Sensuous Knowledge series is written by the UK-based artist Duncan Higgins and describes a project he undertook on the island of Solovki in the remote parts of in North Russia. It is known as the site of Stalin’s first and largest gulag complex made famous by Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago”.

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Dan Mihaltianu, former Adjunct Professor at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Subject Area Photography, launched his book “Divided Files” in March 2008. The book is accompanied by a DVD and is a result of his research and development work at KHiB.

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Jan Pettersson, former Associate Professor at Dept of Specialised Art, Subject Area Printmaking, has recently launched the book “Photogravure. An Archaeological Research”. The publication is a result of an artistic research and development project at KHiB.

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Tone Saastad, Førsteamanuensis ved fagområde tekstil, har publisert boken "Forskyvninger" med undertittelen "En kunstnerisk arbeidsprosess tur-retur". Boken omhandler loggboken som en egen form for kunstnerisk arbeidsmetode.

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Johan Sandborg, Associate Professor at Subject Area Photography, released his new book "Biography of a photograph" coinciding with the FS-one Photographic Symposium on 9-10 February 2007.

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Sunniva McAlinden, førsteamanuensis ved Avdeling kunstakademiet, har med utgangspunkt i forestillingen om gitteret/nettet, satt seg fore å utforske natur, kjønnsrelaterte spørsmål og fortelling gjennom en serie fotografier og tekster i boka Pure and Promiscuous.

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If the urgency of an issue can be measured by the ferocity of the debates surrounding it, then the issue of ‘research in the arts’ is an urgent one. This is the second edition in the series Sensuous Knowledge: Focus on Artistic Resarch and Development.

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Research – also in the arts – is usually described, explained, and discussed employing vocabulary from traditional scientific theory. This is the third edition in the Sensuous Knowledge series written by Aslaug Nyrnes, professor at Bergen University College.

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Why “sensuous knowledge”? From where does this phrase stem as the name of a multifaceted, international project with conferences, publications, and a website as its main manifestations? This is the first edition in the Sensuous Knowledge series written by Professor Søren Kjørup of KHiB and Roskilde University.

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Challenge and Transformation: Museums in Cape Town and Sydney looks at how change takes place in museums. The book is built around a series of case studies outlining the way museums have come to terms with issues of diversity and change within ethnographic museums, historic sites and art galleries.

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Kipphoff examines the Public Spaces which are of historical importance of the 20th Century Europe; she looks at monuments representing the factual and figural expressions of the cultural politics of the time.

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Human Remains and Museum Practice is the second book in the UNESCO series Museum and Diversity – a series devoted to exploring diversity and promoting intercultural dialogue in museum practice.

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Kongedømmet Fusa har lansert sitt eget pass. Og 12. september 2005 var det folkeavstemning i Fusa. Det ble en travel høst for Visekongen.

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- Jeg har lenge hatt et ønske om å arbeide kunstnerisk med min egen bakgrunn, min familie og min barndom, sier høgskolelektor i fotografi, Claudia Reinhardt, i sin nyutgivelse No Place Like Home. Boken består av en serie fotografier av barndomshjemmet og hjembyen Viernheim i Tyskland, og personlige fortellinger fra Reinhardts barndom. Dette er, i følge Reinhardt, en identitetsutforskning som hun som kunster måtte gjøre før eller senere.

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Jorunn Veiteberg har skrive bok om endringane innan feltet kunsthandverk. Boka har tittelen "Frå tause ting til talande objekt" og vart lansert 1. desember 2005. Veiteberg er professor II ved Avd. for spesialisert kunst.

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With my focal point being borders both old and new, as well as hard and soft, I visited and photographed frontiers and frontier terrains. The 247 photographs of Border Horizons take you on a journey through Europe.

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It was the suicide of Sarah Kane which first started Reinhardts preoccupation with the subject of female artists who killed themselves.

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"An investigation of The Image is central to all aspects of my work, from the 1970's to the present times, even when that image is ostensibly absent, simply refferred to as a linguistic construct" Welsh remarks in the foreword. The publication contains projects and writings from 1988 - 2003 by Jeremy Welsh, Professor at KHiB.

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Public Spaces/Public Bodies (Öffentliche Plätze/Öffentliche Körper).

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Fotografen Christine Hansen innrømmer at hun er hektet på flyplasser. Og kanskje enda verre: Best liker hun områdene rundt flyplassene. Der folk aldri er.

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The interaction of geopolitical position, international life style, local cultural background and the global flux of information: water resources, financial resources, political aspects and liquor & food culture.

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I disse arbeidene stiller forfatterene seg fritt i forhold til nordnorske klisjeer, enten det dreier seg om fortellertradisjoner eller om forholdet til landskapet. Avstanden til hjemplassen har gitt ny innsikt og nytt perspektiv på deres egen bakgrunn og tilhørighet, selv om avstand ikke nødvendigvis betyr at man ser ting klarere.

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