ALFREDO CASTRO
CURRICULUM VITAE:
Born 1950 in Santiago de Chile. Resident in Umeå since 1972. Swedish citizen since 1976.
Student at Bellas Artes in Valparaiso 1966-68, painting and architecture.
Moved to Paris and pursued independent art studies and worked as a photographer at P. Valenzuela's advertising agency and as an assistant at Gallery Daniel Gervis.
Studied philosophy, photography and art history.
Worked as an editor for the culture magazine Hjärnstorm and freelanced as an art writer and lecturer.
Qualified art teacher in 1979.
Initiator and organizer of several symposia, including Konstkritik, Bildmuséet in Umeå with, among others, Ingela Lind and Ola Billgren, and 90s aesthetics also at Bildmuséet in Umeå, with the participation of, among others, Max Book and Göran Sonesson.
Organizer of the congress in art studies, "about the modern", (Umeå University, Idé history, Literary studies, etc.).
Formed in 1991 together with Hans Anders Molin, the art constellation Casmo Info.
AICA (international art critic association), art critic member.
A Semiotic Circle in another University, UmeŒ, created in 1977 with Anders Marner, was reinstated in 1994 by Alfredo Castro.
Image teacher, Art scholar.
Debater, writer, artist, project manager, conference organizer
Educational material producer.
Speaks six languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Swedish.
TRAINING
High School: 1967. Chile
Bellas Artes -Art department, equivalent. Evening courses. 1965-68. Chile.
Architecture: Equivalent, one year. 40 p. 1968. Chile.
Course in group dynamics and group psychology as well as language learning for adults. Umeå 1973
Drama teacher: Umeå University. 40 p. 1976.
Economic History. 10p. 1979. Umeå University.
Art teacher. Umeå. 1979.
Art science. 80 p. 1980. Umeå University.
Doctoral education - Art science-.120p. 1985. Umeå University.
Computer graphics. NRA Stefan Lindberg Umeå. Corel Draw, Photo Styler 1993.
Multimedia course. The teacher training college high. (Kjell Ove Grönlund, etc.)
Data ext. Word for Windows. Umeå. 1991. Svante Haggström.
Project manager training: Hans Magnusson. Umeå Municipality, KK Foundation. 1996.
Semiotics: With associate professor Göran Sonesson (Lund) (Congresses, symposia, etc.).
Teacher course. Telia Internet @ School. Course leader: Ronny Andersson.
Participant in Umeå Municipality's project learning roles. 1997-98-.
Participant in a number of courses concerning pedagogy, art, and culture.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1991
Alfredo Castro: Artists' Council SEK 25,000
1992
Casmo Info has received a cultural grant from Västerbotten County Council of SEK 23,000. 11,500 per capita.
1993
Casmo Info for the Kombi-Nation project, Sweden picture:
o The Artists' Committee SEK 90,000
o The Swedish Institute SEK 40,000
o Umeå Municipality SEK 45,000
1994
Svenska Institute SEK 60,000
Svenska Institute SEK 3,000
Cultural Council SEK 25,000
1995
Casmo Info: Swedish Institute SEK 34,500
1996
Umeå Municipality and Business Services. Umeå. SEK 40,000.
1997
KK foundation. Image teacher project, Cd- semiotics 1. Together with Hans Anders Molin. Approximately SEK 120,000.
1998
KK foundation. SEK 150,000. Bildlaromedel's project CD- semiotics 2. Together with Anders Marner and Hans Anders Molin.
2003
Artist profile of the month in Umeå Municipality.
2005
The golden apple. Best teacher in Sweden in 2005.
ARTICLES - BY SELECTION
1973- 1974
20th century art in Mexico and the presence of the Past. Ed. Håkan Wettre. The Gothenburg Museum of Art. Is there any Mexican art? Alfredo Castro talks to the artist Arnold Belkin.
1974 - The magazine: The Power of Music. On the meaning of Atahualpa Yupanki's music.
1980-1994, Mexico City – Gothenburg and various other locations
1984 - Narcissus' cracked mirror. The journal Hjärnstorm.
1985 - Conversation with Arnold Belkin. The magazine Hjärnstorm.
1985 - The myth of the Mexican in Mexican painting. The journal Hjärnstorm.
1987 - The magazine: Paletten. No. 2/1987. The shot in the mirror. About Bruno Liljefor's aesthetic significance and his painting. "Dustman and fox" from 1885.
1989 - The magazine: Paletten. No. 3. 1989. Postmodernism before la.tex-t-ur(e), or we are inaccessible in being.
1991 - Res Publica. No. 18. Göran Sonesson is interviewed by Alfredo Castro. Beyond structuralism and postmodernism. B Östling book publishing symposium.
1991 Res Publica. No. 18. A Castro / A Marner. Göran Sonesson, Pictorial concepts. B Östling book publishing symposium.
1988 - On the modern Con(s) text. About the modernism: An art project and Symposium arranged by NSU (Nordic Summer University) and Umeå University in collaboration with Gallery Eklund, Umeå. Umeå University: Swedish and international participants.
Västerbottens Kuriren. A number of articles.
Västerbottens Folkbladet. A number of articles.
1994 – 1995 Heterogenesis. Art magazine. No. 8-9. Several articles.
Wrote in several newspapers, cultural magazines during the 70s, 80s and 90s. etc.
o 1990 - Av script. Gallery Brage. Paletten Nr. 1990: Alfredo Castro - In search of the semiotics that exist.
1995
The article in VK: by A Castro. Engdhal's cunning and naivety.
Essay: The electronic eye. Studies in Art History 1995:9. Umeå University.
Everything that is volatile becomes solid. Heterogenesis. 1995.
Wstep. (Introduction). 1995, Panstwowa Galleryria Sztuki, Sopot/Gdansk. (Polish translation of introduction.). A. Castro.
Sonesson G. Za progiem domu ludu, in Kombi-nacja, obrazy swecji, Panstwowa Gallery Sztuki, Sopot 1995 (Polish translation of Beyond the threshold of the Peoples Home, in Castro, Alfredo, ed., Combi-nación imagen sueca. Casmo Info : Umeå 1993; 47-64)
Introduction. In Exhibition catalog "Combi-Nacion Imagen sueca ".
1996 - 1999
The journal Heterogenesis. Article. Pixels in the visual rhetoric of the information society. 1996
Recipes. Text for the exhibition book for the Smitta exhibition at the modern Museum. 1996.
A Castro / A. Marner. Cd semiotic. Image with semiotic focus - a work material for grades 7 - 9. In Marner A, (ed.). Report from CD-semiotics- semiotics and modern media in the subject of images. Inst. For aesthetic subjects. Report No. 6 1997.
Image forum. Article. About the image subject.
Digital Contagion. Malmö 1997. Magazine for exhibition in Malmö.
Installation: No one can be safe. Text for the symposium on the Holocaust. Umeå University. 1998.
New ways of working for the 21st century. Image semiotics labs. A Castro / A. Marner. 1998. Working material.
VK. The lost honor of the teacher. VK. 28.02.1998. Debate.
The teacher and the control. The school office newspaper.
The visual blind curriculum. Arts in school.
Marcel from the country: VK ht.1999.
Participates in foreign press with articles and debates.
2000 - 2009
o The debate about the school. Three articles during the spring. 2000
o Debate in VK. Chile's economy. 2001
o Article about Picasso VK. 2002
o Article about John Duncan "Corpse in the Closet". VK. 2002
o The Västerbotten Kuriren. A number of articles. 2003 and 2004
o Two articles in VK. Integration and pedagogy. 2005
o All you need is creativity. Journal: attractive school. 2005
2006 - 2010
o Six articles in VK about Chile and Argentina. 2006
o An article in IT in school, as well as an article in Computer in school. 2006
o Integration. About immigration policy. 2006
o VK debate on immigrant issues. 2007
o Zlatan and the Sweden Democrats. 2007
o VK Debate: On the subject of apartheid. 2007
o VK debate article about the school. Design. 2008
o VK culture article about the book "Superclass". 2008
o VK culture. Saint Goran and the dragon. 2009
o VK debate: About our contempt for old age. 2009
o VK Debate: The school. 2009
o VK Debate: About snuff. 2009
2016 – 2018
o VK. Culture. About H Engdhal.
o VK. Plural articles.
o VK. Culture. About The Square
LECTURES – BY SELECTION
1974-1995
Several lectures at Universities, Teachers College, Museums, Art Associations, etc.
1984
The Bildmuseet & Västerbottens Museum. Cinema Abelli. Is there any Mexican art? 1984.
The Bildmuseet in Umeå. Art criticism. Debate with critics from Dagens Nyheter. Ingela Lind, etc.
1997
The Bildmuseet in Umeå. 1997. The shot in the mirror. About Bruno Liljefor's aesthetic significance and his painting. "Dustman and fox" from 1885.
1990
"90s aesthetics" Bildmuseet in Umeå. Symposium. Initiator and lecturer. John Peter Nilsson, Max Book and others
1992
Umeå University. "The meaning of the periphery "Aesthetics or communication." 3.12.1992. Communication meetings. Umeå University. Department of History of Ideas.
1993
The University of Photography in Gothenburg. Invited by Professor: T. Lindström. 1993
"Image society"-The importance of the image in information society. Data conference arr. Computer Teachers' Association.
1994
The widow's house. Sthlm.
Rix. Lindköping.
Lund Art Gallery.
Umeå. Västerbotten Museum.
Image teacher training: Image semiotics. Cultural policy orientation.
1995
Umeå University, Art Studies. About computer and photography.
Umeå University. Art science: About photography and art.
Umeå Univ. Summer University. The electronic eye. Studies in Art History. 1995:9.
Gothenburg's photo fair. Computer graphics and the image society.
Art teacher education Umeå, University. Image semiotics.
1996
Lunda Symposium: Visual Rhetoric. Post mythological perspectives.
"Pixels from the image rhetoric of the information society". The Semiotics Symposium at Lund University. Org. Docent Göran Sonesson.
Contagion. ABF. Symposium. The Smitta project. Stockholm. The final battle. ABF building, Z hall. Oct. 7
Invited to lecture at the National Conference. Create and learn with the computer as a tool. It for school and library. Ronneby. "The electronic eye - in the company of dead masters". About the IT society and its consequences for art, image and pedagogy".
1997
Invited to lecture at the Dentist Congress of de Chile. Professor, Dr. Hector Silva Olivares.
Cd-semiotic. The project for the KK foundation. Umeå. The image society.
1998
Umeå University. Romantic or semiotic image pedagogy. The institution for pedagogy and KK-S.
Global culture. Invitation to lecture by Prof R Ambjörnsson - Idea History. Umeå University. The image rhetoric of globilization. Or romantic vs. semiotic image rhetoric. Interdisciplinary doctoral course. 25.11.98).
Also held in the seminar on global culture about my talk. (26.11.98)
Department of Aesthetics. Art teacher ext. 44.5 hours of teaching on image methodology. Umeå University.
Supervisor to two students at the Department of Aesthetics. Art teacher training. Ht 1998. The special work on the subject image. Picture dialogues.
Invited by Umeå municipality and KTH, to lecture on art and IT. The community House. Studio. Ht.1998. The rhetoric of image society.
1999
Computers and pedagogy: Umeå University. Litu.
Mediation vs. Constructivism: Art teacher institute. Umeå Univ. Ht.1999.
2000
Dialogue pedagogy and collaboration. Simrisham municipality.
2002
Dialogue pedagogy. Umeå University. The September Eleventh Symposium.
2004.
Dialogue pedagogy and collaboration. For all art teachers in the county. (Hour lecture in Umeå.
The Piteå conference organized by the school board: About aesthetic learning processes. My pedagogy.
2005
Västangårdskola. About Al-6 pedagogy.
Umeå University: About my dialogue pedagogy.
Umeå University: About al-6 pedagogy.
Regio Emilia. Lecture on pedagogy.
Incredible. Umeå municipality. Lecture on pedagogy.
2006
School forum in Stockholm. INTEGRITY = INTEgration.
4 hours of debate and integration and school and society together with Jonas Hasan Khemir, professors of language and linguistics and others.
Lecture in Stockholm for all art teachers from Sweden. 200 people registered. Carl Johan de Geer et al.
2007
Lecture in Piteå about pedagogy and society for politicians, principals and school staff. Piteå University of Music.
2009
Umeå University on visual pedagogy, For A. Marner's course in aesthetics.
Invited to debate in P1 studio one. About the nicotine ban.
REFERENCE LITERATURE A. CASTRO / CASMO INFO.
The palette. No. 1. 1991. Göran Sonesson. Ceci n ést pas un Castro. Allegory of Western pictorial history.
The express. Tommy Hammarström. Less cream, more fair. 14.03.1992.
Aftonbladet. During the 1990s.
Satisfied Guide. Milou Allerholm. 1992.
Västerbottens Kurieren. On several occasions.
Västerbottens Folkbladet. On several occasions.
Noted in Dagens Nyheter, on three occasions during the 90s.
Lars O Ericsson. Who is grilled in the box? Daniel Birnbaum, Kjell Jonsson, 28.03. 1990. Lars Gustaf Andersson. Big brother tells. 12.12.1991.
Several radio programs. P1. (Culture program) and TV in Umeå.
Teachers' Newspaper. No. 8/1996. Torsten Arpi. The computers renew the image subject.
Tv 1 Current. Exhibition at Forum. Outside/Inside. Stockholm.
Tv 2 Report. Exhibition at Forum. Outside/Inside. Stockholm.
Features in several regional newspapers from all over Sweden.
Made several catalogs.
Semiotics docent Göran Sonesson's lectures in Sweden, Canada and Spain.
Göran Sonesson. Treatise on the manufacture of signs. Umeå 1992. Wide reading literature to some Castro and a number of Molin. Umeå 1992.
Hans Örtegren's thesis "The aesthetics of paraphrase" 1992.
Interviewed on Mexican Radio and Tv 4 and Tv 11.
A number of Mexican newspapers in Mexico City.
Polish press. Poland, Gdansk. Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot.
Sweden Radio. P4. Personal tone. Maria Stoltenberg interviews A Castro. 1994.
Siksi. Art magazine. 1994.
Sonesson G. The Culture of Modernism. Arts of transgression/ Transgressions of art. The Culture of Modernism. Arts of transgression/Transgressions of art. Goran Sonesson. Models for a history of Modernism. The historicity of...
Heterogenesis. Art magazine. No. 8-9 1994. 1995. 1996. 1997.1998. Ximena Narea. Limes. Limites - Limits. October 1996.
Newsletter. Journal from Inst. for history of ideas. Umeå 1994 No.7.
Görans Sonesson's articles in Casmo info's catalogs.
Polish TV and Polish newspapers.
Church newspaper: 1995. Sundbyberg.
Polish publication about Swedish art. Author: Göran Sonesson.
The magazine 90s. Anders Marner. No. 20.
The magazine Bang. Ulrika Sten & Maria Lind. Gallery boys infiltrate the advertising. 1992. No. 4.
Sonesson G. Semiotics in the Nordic Countries, in Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of the IASS, Berkeley, June 12-18, 1994 Rauch, Irmengard, & Carr, Gerlard F. (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1997; 165-168.
The journal Respublica. Two articles.
The magazine Visio. Göran Sonesson: Approaches to the lifeworld core of pictorial rhetoric. Visio, Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle. International Journal for Visual Semiotics. www.fl.ulaval.ca/hst/visio. Quebec, Canada. Université Laval. Vol, 1. Theories de l´image.
Sonesson G. In search of the Swedish Model in Semiotics. Considerations on a body of literature in the process of constitution; in Semiotica, 90:1/2, May/June 1992; pp. 31-123.
Göran Sonesson. Studies in CasmoPolitics. Forum. Stockholm 1992.
Göran Sonesson. Image meanings. Lund: Student Literature 1992.
Ximena Narea. Imagen y Naturaleza. Red Fernando Flores Morador. Seminario Latinoamericano de filosofia e historias de las ideas. University of Lund. 1997.
1998. Marie Palm & Kristina Pauser Lindgren. Review of curriculum outline. New ways of working for the 2000s. (Image semiotics labs).
A Marner. Casmo Info's Theater Europe: The centrifugal concept of art, transfer and rhetoric. Heterogenesis. 1995.
G Sonesson. The mediation of the world of life. Communication in a cultural semiotic framework. In Media texts and media interpretations. An anthology edited by Claes-Göran Holmberg & Jan Svensson. Norway 1995.
Göran Sonesson. In search of Swedish Nature, and the Polish translation W Poszukiwaniu Szwedzkiej Natury, in Magazyn Sztuki, 8, 4/95, pp. 12-61, Gdansk, Poland.
Canadian Journal? Art by Göran Sonesson and Jimena Narea. Compendium. Art teacher education Umeå Univ. 2000. Idea A. Castro. Compiled by Castro A, Kindefors M, Lindh J, Nra Kopia.
A cultural school for all - Book by A Marner and H Ötrtegren. Research in focus, no. 16. The Norwegian School Development Authority. 2004.
OTHER MERITS
CD-ROM production. “Bild Images 2000”
Image semiotic tasks. Together with A Marner, A Milton, Robert Scherdin (Students from primary school). 1995.
Cd-Semiotic 1. Casmo Info. A project created by Casmo Info. Participating in the CD-rom production: Casmo Info, A Marner, G Sonesson, students from Tegs Central School. Lay out. Love Ersare.
In the eighties participated in the production of the Art Teacher Training Board's course plans.
Mass media ext. at the picture museum "Postmodernism in school" together with students from Tegscentral School. 1985
Layouts: Catalogues, books, etc.
First in Sweden together with Kjell Ove Grönlund to produce a method for producing music videos for primary schools,1985.
Data course vt and ht. 1993. In Photo styler and Corel draw. NRA, Umeå.
Initiator and organizer of several symposia: Bildmuseet, Umeå University, etc.
Art criticism: The Bildmuseet: I Lind, O Billgren, Bo Nilsson and others. The New Critic, 1984. Initiator.
About the modern: An art project and Symposium arranged by NSU (Nordic Summer University) and Umeå University in collaboration with Gallery Eklund, Umeå. Umeå University: Swedish and international participants. Organizer.
Aesthetics of the 90s: The Picture Museum. A symposium on the aesthetics of the 80s with an eye towards the 90s. Max Book, G Sonesson, Leif Larsson, L Nylander, Lars and others. Initiator.
Editor for the culture magazine "Hjärnstorm". 1982-87.
Editor for Nordic Semiotics magazine. Semio-Nordica. Official organ of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies. 1994-
Teacher in a course in media technology for primary school teachers. 1994.
Editor-in-chief for the magazine SEMIO-NORDICA. Academic journal from NASS, (Nordic Association for Semiotics).
University teacher: The cultural worker line in the late 70s.
Exhibition at Bildmuseet together with primary school students. Teg’s central school. Postmodernism.
I have worked as an art teacher in Umeå municipality since 1979 and through my interest in media I have equipped the art department with a focus on photography, video, video editing and computer graphics.
In 1984-85, together with Kjell Owe Grönlund (Video and media teacher at the Teacher Training College), I worked out a model to be able to work with music videos in primary schools. As far as we know, this was pioneering work not only in the municipality but in the country as a whole. I have since then further developed this model and worked with it in my image teaching at school.
I have participated in the curriculum work at the visual arts teacher training center in Umeå. A couple of years ago. (80s).
I have not only worked with video, computer and photography during my tenure as an art teacher, but also as an active artist in the artist group Casmo Info. (A Castro / H A Molin) and also earlier, as can be seen from the rest of the merit list.
I worked as an artist in close contact with one of Sweden's most complete media companies, NRA-kopia, with whom I have a very intimate collaboration.
Has been editor of the culture magazine Hjärnstorm, half of the 80s.
1993 SEBRA: Theater project together with Ögonblickteatern and students from Tegs Central School. (Photo, paintings, computer graphics).
1994 BEARDED LADY: Apt. together with students from Tegs Central school (Photo Computer images) in Gallery 60 and the electronic sign at the entrance to Folkets hus.
Lay out work: Resehuset's KB. Umeå.
Participating in TV 2. Spring 1998. Taxi April 1998. About hypochondria and art.
Compendium 2000 and 2001, as well as the Bild 2000 CD-ROM.
Learning material: Bild-2000. Compendium and CD-ROM.
Six articles from South America published on VK kultur.2006.
Interview in the magazine IT i skolan.
2005 - The price of the golden apple. Leading pedagogue in image and IT in Sweden in 2005.
Interviewed in the University's journal about IT and pedagogy. 2005
Debater in newspapers VK, etc.
Educational material producer.
PROFILED
Private collections in Chile, France, Italy, Mexico and Sweden. Art clubs, the National Arts Council, County Councils, Municipalities, the Housing Foundation, Schools, Health Centres, etc.
EXHIBITIONS
Including separate exhibitions by Alfredo Castro
1967
o Patmos (Chile, Vina del Mar). "Concrete". Separate ext.
1968
o American Center (Chile). "No". Separate ext.
1970
o Patricio Valenzuela (France, Paris). "Solo" Separate ad.
1972
o Universum (Sweden Umeå). Separate ext.
1986
o Scharinska villa (Umeå). Group exhibition. Brain storm.
1987
o Dragon school's art association (Umeå). "Roman antiquity" Separate ext.
o Gallery Eklund (Umeå) "About the modern". Group exhibition, together with O Billgren, J Håfström, B Wreivik, HA Molin and others.
1988
o Gallery Eklund (Umeå) "Hybrids" Separate ext.
1989
o Brage Gallery, "Byside Sidewalk" (Umeå). Group exhibition.
o Osterbotten Museum (Finland, Wasa). Group exhibition. Represented Umeå Municipality in Wasa.
o Konstnärshuset (Stockholm). Group exhibition. Represented Umeå Municipality in Stockholm.
o Västerbotten Museum. (Umeå). Group exhibition.
o Nordanå Art Gallery (Skellefteå). Group exhibition.
o Gallery Eklund. Sollentuna Art Fair (Stockholm). Group exhibition.
1990
o Gallery Brage (Umeå). Separate ext.
o Arcus Art Fair. (Luleå). Group exhibition.
1991
o Härnösand Art Gallery. "Deed", together with Lars Ahlström, Hans Anders Molin OCH Stig Sjölund.
o Norrtälje Art Gallery with Ahlström, Molin.
o Lund. Heterogenesis: Homogenesis.
2018 - Grubbe bibliotek.
2019 - Umedalens Bibliotek
2020
o Grubbe bibliotek
o Tegs kyrka,
o Umeås Kyrka
o Johannes kyrka i Vännäs
o Galleri OSS, Kristallnatten
o November progromen.
PUBLIC DISPLAYS
1989 - Vårdhögskolan (Umeå). Display assignment. "Archeo-Lodging".
1995 - Casmo Info: Alfredo Castro / Hans Anders Molin, Sports medicine. Umeå.
OWN EXHIBITIONS: Casm Info.
1990 - Gallery Brage. Umeå.
1991 - ROCKED, Gallery Ahnlund and various shops in Umeå.
1992 - Casmopolitics, Gallery Forum Arnault, Stockholm.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS / GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
1992
o Stockholm Art Fair, "The Apartment" Gallery Forum Arnault.
o The Only Road, LIDO, Stockholm.
o Crossing Boundaries, an exhibition in collaboration with NASS 2nd congress, Lund.
o Inside - Outside, Vasaparken Stockholm, arr. Gallery Forum Arnault, Stockholm. Jean Claude Arnault, Katarina Frostenson, Ulla Stenberg.
o Autumn salon, Västerbottens Museum, Umeå.
o Against Aids, Gallery Ahnlund, Umeå.
o Re-Vision, Bildmuseet, Umeå.
1993
o The Bearded Lady, 1993 Gallery Forum Arnault, Stockholm. Gallery 60, Umeå.
1994
o Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg.
o COMBI-NACION, Imagen Sueca, a project initiated, organized and carried out by Casmo Info, 1993, Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City,
o Enkehuset, Stockholm,
o RIX, Linköping,
o Lund Art Gallery, Lund,
o Västerbottens Museum, Umeå,
o Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
o Art week. City Hall, Umeå.
1995
o Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot/Gdansk.
o Art in the Church, Sundbyberg Church, Sundbyberg. The project includes a total of 10 churches in the Stockholm area and the same number of artists. Casmo Info has been assigned to Sundbyberg's church. "Feast of the Cross."
1996
o SMITTA, an interdisciplinary seminar at the ABF building in Stockholm. Casmo Info lectures and shows the video The Last Battle.
o At the Time, Modern Museum, Stockholm. Participates in FA+ installation "Dinner event" which is part of the project "Smitta".
o Sweden for everyone! Stockholm.
o Art on Campus, Umeå University, Umeå.
1997
o Table, set yourself! Kulturmejeriet, Umeå.
o Cosmopolis, Röda Sten, Gothenburg.
o SMITTA, Malmö art museum and internet.
o Anne Frank - isolation, Museo de Arte Contemporano, Rosario, Argentina.
o Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
o III Electronic Art and Video Biennial. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile. Casmo Info participates with the video "El último combate".
1998
o SMITTA .Stockholm. The Academy of Arts, Gallery west. Together with A. Ponton (England), Lennie Lee (England), Nicola Pellegrini (Italy), Fa + (Sweden) and ibg - molecular biotechnology - Uppsala University).
o Umeå University. No one can be safe. Installation. Aula Nordica.
o Stockholm project Smitta. Old Art College. December month.
o Student exhibition. Tegs Central School. 1999, as well as the State House. The intelligent is the beautiful.
2000
o Mail Art. Video "The Last Battle". Paris, Musée de l'Hotel-Dieu.
2005
o By side walk. Umeå. The community House. Together with Lisa Castro.
o The celebrant. The Västerbotten Museum. Together with Lisa Castro.
OWN PROJECTS: Casmo Info.
1993
De Sadé's Marat, Umeå. An independent comment in connection with Ögonblickteatern's production of the play "Marat's death".
COMBI-NACION, Imagen Sueca. Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City.
1994
Theater Europa, Umeå/Gdansk. A project with rented advertising spaces on local buses in both cities. Casmo Info Invited to participate in an international multi-media project "WYSPA" in Gdansk, Poland.
COMBI-NACION, Imagen Sueca. Enkehuset Stockholm, RIX Linköping, Lund Art Gallery, Västerbotten Museum Umeå, Amos Anderson Art Museum Helsinki.
Wolf times - The wolf is coming, Casmo Info and Kim Stenlund. Flyers thrown from airplanes and sounds on the ground, central Umeå.
1995
COMBI-NACION, Imagen Sueca. Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki Sopot.
Blowing in the Wind, an interactive internet project launched in September 1995. The project will be continuously updated and expanded depending on participation. Artists: A. Jarr, etc.
1996
Blowing in the Wind, continues in 1996, 1977 and 1988
The Last Battle, Umeå. An action in connection with the Social Democrats' demonstration on 1 May 1996 in Umeå.
Net-Art, Umeå. A computer graphics project for young people between the ages of 15 and 20 from all over the Nordics. Interactive internet part during the spring as well as a one-week seminar in June in Umeå.
CD semiotics, Umeå. Project to develop the visual subject with the help of new technology in school supported by the KK foundation.
CD semiotics, 2. Teaching aids in Image. Umeå. Project to develop the visual subject using new technology in school supported by the KK foundation.
Time out, Umeå. A 24-hour project on the pedestrian street in central Umeå.
2002
Ume Glokal. Newspaper plus website: www.umea.se/umeglokal.
The ice cube with young people. Umeå. Tegscentral School.
Homogenesis with youth. Umeå People's House. Tegscentral School.
2003
Guidance: with young people. Umeå People's House. Tegscentral School.
2005
Moll scenography for theater set for MOLL. Peter Killgård (author) with young people. Umeå People's House. Tegscentral School. Arne Berggren (Director).
2017
Chile. University of Vina del Mar. Casino's art gallery
Sweden. Grubble library in Umea.
2019
Teg's Church in Umea
2018 - 2021
The Vasterbotten Museum. Phoenix. Starting on April 23, Grubbe B, Umedalehs B, Gallery Oss.
OTHER WORK BY CASMO Info.
Lectures:
o 1993 University of Photography, Gothenburg
o 1996 ABF Stockholm. One of several lecturers in a seminar on contagion as part of the project "Contagion".
o Curators, organizers etc. for the exhibition project COMBI-NACION, Imagen sueca.
Consultants:
1995 Advisor and project developer for the Cultural Administration, Umeå Municipality for an online interactive youth art project about Nordic identity during the first half of 1996. Net- Art.
Editors:
Casmo info together with Anders Marner since autumn 1994 constitutes the editorial board for the magazine Semio-Nordica.
Articles
1995. Everything that is volatilized becomes solid. (Todo lo que se evapora permanena fijo), Heterogénesis no. 11, 1995.
Several articles in newspapers and magazines in Sweden and abroad including Latino-America.
Reference literature:
Treatise on the character description. Göran Sonesson, 1991.
Studies in CasmoPolitics. Göran Sonesson, 1992.
La construction du réel dans les images technographiques. Göran Sonesson, lecture at Deuxième Congrés de l´Association international de semiotique visuelle, Bilbao Dec 1992. Under publication.
Guerrilla boys infiltrate advertising. Ulrika Sten & Maria Lind, BANG no. 4 1992.
Beyond the threshold of the people's home. Göran Sonesson, Cat. COMBI-NACION, 1993.
Casmo Infos Theater Europe. Anders Marner, Heterogenesis no. 12, 1995.
A new view of art in the information society. Anders Marner. Picture in school no. 1, 1995.
Art in the church. Christer Zetterberg, Swedish Church in Sundbyberg parish magazine no. 3, 1995
Les silence parlant des images. Göran Sonesson, 1995.
In Search of Swedish Nature - Going Beyond the Threshold of the People's Home. Göran Sonesson. Anthology of Swedish culture published in Poland in autumn 1995.
For Sweden in the world. Sören Hjelm, the journal Idea no. 3 1996.
The net's most sought-after picture. Patric Moreau, Västerbottens.kururen, 1997.01,28
The rumor of the death of painting is not exaggerated. Anders Marner, the magazine 90-tal, no. 20, 1997.
The cultural semiotics of the visual society. From mechanical reproduction to digital production. +Göran Sonesson. The journal Heterogénesis no. 20 1997.
Net Art, Centrifugality and the Semiosphere. Anders Marner, 1997. http://www. It-+center.se/casmoinfo
Göran Sonesson. Final Showdown in the people's Home. Art as a rhetoric of nationality, and of art. Visio, Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle. International Journal for Visual Semiotics. www.fl.ulaval.ca/hst/visio. Quebec, Canada. Université Laval. Vol, 2, number 3. Forms Identitaries.1997.
Ximena Narea: Migration and cultural transformation. Artistas latinoamericanos en Suecia. Visio, Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle. International Journal for Visual Semiotics. www.fl.ulaval.ca/hst/visio. Quebec, Canada. Université Laval. Vol, 2, numero 3. Formes Identitaries.1997.
Göran Sonesson: Approaches to the lifeworld core of pictorial rhetoric. Visio, Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle. International Journal for Visual Semiotics. www.fl.ulaval.ca/hst/visio. Quebec, Canada. Université Laval. Vol, 1. Theories de l´image.
PRESS, RADIO AND TV
During the period 1991 - 1997, Casmo Info has received attention through articles in most major daily newspapers with several features on radio and TV's various channels in Sweden and abroad (Chile, Mexico, Finland and Poland).
PUBLIC DISPLAY:
o 1992 Sports Medicine, Umeå University Hospital. Entrance and waiting room.
o 1994 Nurse School, Umeå.
COVER DESIGNS:
1992 Cover for "The Aesthetics of Paraphrase", PhD thesis by Hans Örtegren
1993 Cover for information folder, Sports Medicine Umeå University Hospital.
1990 The catalog for the exhibition project "COMBI-NACION, Imagen sueca".
1995 Poster for "Antisemitism a research conference". Umeå University.
1991 Cover of Heterogénesis no. 11.
1996 Cover for Heterogénesis no. 15.
2000 Brochure and website together with Aron Mattson. "The image-music-media line” at Tegs Central School.
1995 - 2008. Picture 2000, teaching aids. Dialogue pedagogy. Image semiotics. Digital program made by Svante Hagström.
STUDY AND WORK TRIPS:
o Chile: 1973, 1996
o England: 1974
o France: 1975, 1997.
o Soviet Union: 1977
o Cuba: 1978.
o Mexico: 1980, 1993
o Iceland, Nordic Summer University, 1988
o Poland: 1995
o Finland. 1995
o Chile: 1994
o Spain: 1999
o Egypt: 2005
o Chile & Argentina: 2006
o Thailand: 2007
o Spain: 2008
o Chile, Argentina: 2016