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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  Woldhagen.org: Melhus, Martin’s Hometown
Melhus is located just south of Trondheim, which lies on on a peninsula on the southern shore of Trondheimsfjorden (Trondheims Fiord), where the Nid River empties into the fiord.
Melhus is a small traditional farming community in a wide river valley surrounded by low hills.
Martin was born in Melhus, Norway, on the family farm, Vollahågån, on June 28, 1888.
woldhagen.org /woldhagen/martin/melhus.htm   (1735 words)

  
 Gauldalen Valley Description
Melhus is an old village with ancient history, including the nationwide famous warrior Einar Tambarskjelve.
Melhus has some of the finest farmland in the central part of Norway.
From Melhus and down to the river mouth at Oeysand the valley is flat and becomes 2-4 kilometers wide.
web2.airmail.net /mitlyng6/gaul_desc.html   (1303 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Religious Desire
Melhus distorts the voices by changing the speed of the original recordings, creating absurd intonations.
Melhus strips the dialogue of most of the explicit christian language, resulting in a generic sermon.
Melhus' sinister corporate preachers revel in the soulless irony of televangelism, a rather grotesque incursion of capitalism into the easy territory of religious desire.
www.artnet.com /magazine/reviews/powhida/powhida10-17-03.asp   (620 words)

  
 StarBulletin.com | Features | /2006/01/01/
Melhus' video, on the other hand, draws attention to the fact that its characters are drawn purely from stereotypes in the artist's head.
In Melhus' videos, the images and especially the sound trigger a similar recognition, which he then perverts by splicing, altering and multiplying, as in sampled dub or hip-hop music.
Melhus, who brings a German awareness of propaganda to American television -- two excellent examples of which are screening in a separate gallery near the museum entrance -- "asks some very probing questions about what is of value in our culture today, (which) lead to some rather dark corners," Little said.
starbulletin.com /2006/01/01/features/story02.html   (1164 words)

  
 WCFCourier.com | The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online!
Melhus and Evans were both reluctant to discuss the details behind their resignations.
Melhus was hired as assistant city clerk in March 1997, but was promoted that September after then City Clerk Carol Bown was fired because of poor job performance.
Melhus earned $26,880 a year, Bender made $25,000 a year and Evan's annual salary was $18,432.
www.wcfcourier.com /articles/1998/11/05/export3665.txt   (1022 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool Culture - Bjorn Melhus
Though he enjoys a high profile on the continent Melhus' work has received little exposure on these shores.
In 'The Oral Thing' Melhus plays the role of host as a bizarre confrontation between two androgynous limbless figures takes place, in a piece which is both sinister and disturbing.
Melhus looks at the seductive and manipulative elements used in the selling of religion.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/culture/2004/01/bjorn_melhus/index.shtml   (206 words)

  
 Vekst Melhus
Melhus har en fortid fra sagatiden og en del av våre møbler har fått sine navn deretter.
Vekst Melhus AS er en av 200 Vekst - bedrifter i Norge og eies av Melhus Kommune.
Vi holder til i nye produksjonslokaler på Melhus i Sør-Trønderlag og sysselsetter i dag 41 mennesker.
www.vekstmelhus.no   (188 words)

  
 Umelec international
Melhus does this so well that at a certain point we are really unable to differentiate which material is original, taken directly from the war, and what is simply drawn from moviemaking.
But that, after all, is indeed one of the greatest things that Berlin resident Björn Melhus (born 1966), a prolific video artist who studied in Braunschweig and spent several years in the US on fellowships, manages to inspire in observers: an emotional reaction paired with intellectual criticism of the creations of an Americanized media culture.
Melhus is very critical of American politics and consumer culture shows, without falling into the close-minded hatred of America that so many European intellectuals have, and is inclined to be count himself among its vociferous critics, albeit with a certain degree of ambivalence.
www.divus.cz /umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=443&roc=2005&cis=2   (1641 words)

  
 THE BROOKLYN RAIL - ART
The films that Melhus samples are decidedly pulp fare, Event Horizon, Prince of Darkness, The Bodysnatchers, but they are all films that explore notions of bodily takeover by malevolent forces, either demonic or alien.
Melhus seems to want viewers to lose their sense of self and be absorbed by the situation.
Melhus is an astute observer, able to distill primitive emotions from the pop culture of America.
www.thebrooklynrail.org /arts/winter03/bjornmelhus.html   (926 words)

  
 Melhus Videregående Skole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
At Melhus we had prepared a programme which included visits in the local community as well as in Trondheim, but we wanted to spend more time at school this time, and we also wanted a variety of classes to be involved, as can be seen from the enclosed programme.
In Oslo Melhus vgs had organised sightseeing (see programme for details) and a meeting at the FNS, where Ragnhild was in charge of a most useful discussion concerning the teachers’ and students’ experiences in, and impressions of Norway, as well as the exchange programme.
Melhus and Timbila have been working with an exchange for four years, and as this is something we want to continue doing, we found it wise to initiate a project that can be carried on, even in periods the schools don’t visit each other, and also not dependant on which students that participate.
www.melhus.vgs.no /kenyarapport_2002.htm   (15479 words)

  
 ARTL!ES
Curator Jennifer Jankauskas juxtaposes �stylistically divergent� pieces by Leech, Bj�rn Melhus and Caveh Zahedi, �who all investigate how individuals forge their identity in relation to the people they surround themselves with,� writes Jankauskas in the exhibition�s press release.
For the logo, Melhus appropriates the Olympic rings in silver, red and blue to create an ironic icon; each ring and color corresponds to one of the characters.
Melhus, Zahedi and Leech all address the self, the other and the group as an interface for validation.
www.artlies.org /article.php?id=72&issue=44&s=1   (1172 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut Magazine KuBus - Previous issues - 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Bjørn Melhus and the group "visomat.inc" featured here are two representatives of a young generation of German media artists whose creative work is strongly influencing the current electronic media art scene.
Born in 1966, Bjørn Melhus belongs to a generation that grew up with the mass media phenomenon television and the parallel experience of reality as well and virtual reality, taking up - consciously or subconsciously - the options for identification offered up by television.
Melhus almost always bases the concepts for his pieces on the sound element, employing acoustic material culled from film classics, television and pop music to build a sound construction to the rhythm of which he then sets his fantasy images.
www.goethe.de /wis/pre/kub/kub/kwa/004/en186105.htm   (1140 words)

  
 Melhus Videregående Skole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Still, this is not enough, and Melhus vgs has to spend quite a lot on substitutes, living expenses, sundry costs and other.
Then Mister Kimaro was given a medallion from the county of Melhus as a greeting from the mayor.
Melhus vgs was in this case only an intermediate – whether contact will develop further will be up to the two parties.
www.melhus.vgs.no /kenyarapport.htm   (11707 words)

  
 Call for Nominations for I.E. Melhus Student Speaker Symposium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The APS Virology Committee is sponsoring the 7th I. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium at the 2007 APS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Melhus, a plant disease epidemiologist, was a renowned teacher, innovative researcher, and outstanding administrator at Iowa State College.
Melhus served as president of APS in 1926 and was elected a fellow of APS in 1965.
www.apsnet.org /foundation/melhus05.asp   (546 words)

  
 ART IN REVIEW; Bjorn Melhus - New York Times
The German-born artist Bjorn Melhus, who contributed a couple of strong videos to the Whitney Museum's recent ''American Effect,'' has a single new piece at Satellite, the SoHo outpost of the Brooklyn gallery Roebling Hall.
Melhus), he might be a lounge singer or a game-show host.
Melhus is playing off the tradition of the televangelist; in fact, the words he uses are lifted from the Trinity Broadcast Network.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9900EEDB1531F937A15753C1A9659C8B63   (226 words)

  
 Inst för medicinska vetenskaper
H Melhus is one of the investigators of EUDRAGENE, a European collaboration establishing a case-control DNA collection for studies of the genetic basis of severe ADRs.
Melhus H, Kindmark A, Amér S, Wilén B, Lindh E, Ljunghall S. Vitamin D receptor genotypes in osteoporosis.
Melhus H, Michaëlsson K, Kindmark A, Bergström R, Holmberg L, Wolk A, Mallmin H, and Ljunghall S. Excessive dietary intake of vitamin A is associated with reduced bone mineral density and increased risk for hip fracture.
www.medsci.uu.se /fogrupp/osteoporos/osteoporos.htm   (297 words)

  
 German video artist criticizes Western stereotypes of Japan - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Later, when Melhus graduated from the Braunschweig School of Arts and traveled to Los Angeles on a fellowship to study at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, these images returned to haunt him.
Shows like Melhus' are part of the Honolulu Academy of Art's broader effort to earn its stripes as a full-service metropolitan art museum.
Whatever reception "Eastern Western Park" receives at the academy, the best outcome of Melhus' visit would be a project in which he turns his eye for stereotypes and mistranslation to the 50th state.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2006/Jan/01/il/FP601010323.html   (953 words)

  
 APS Foundation - Melhus Award
Irving E. Melhus, was a renowned teacher, innovative researcher, and outstanding departmental administrator at Iowa State College.
In 1918, as an assistant professor at Iowa State College, Dr. Melhus was among the early leaders of a nationwide effort to control stem rust through the eradication of the common barberry.
From 1929 to 1946, Dr. Melhus served as chair of the school’s Botany Department, during which time he was instrumental in leading the department to national prominence.
www.apsnet.org /foundation/awards/melhus.asp   (336 words)

  
 E-Flux : Bjorn Melhus: Eastern_Western_Park - (2005-12-19)
As Melhus himself admits, his interpretation of such images are “solely based on imagination and media influences.” As such, the video installation Eastern_Western_Park plays on two coexisting sets of imaginary perceptions, simultaneously widespread and naive.
Melhus’s exhibitions are known for their rapid assault of images, washes of color, and barrages of audio snippets, often using multiple video monitors and projectors to accomplish exciting and provocative multi-media installations.
Melhus has exhibited his work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and a variety of museums in Europe and Japan.
www.e-flux.com /displayshow.php?file=message_1135045418.txt   (420 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut Los Angeles - Film - 2006
Coming from the generation of a 'first TV-childhood' in Germany, Melhus makes use of different phenomena related to TELEVISION: the apparatus of identification, the mirror of doubles and multiplication of an electronic virtual life.
Bjørn Roald Melhus was born in 1966 near Stuttgart/ Germany.
Melhus exhibits internationally and is the recipient of countless prizes and awards.
www.goethe.de /ins/us/los/acv/flm/2006/en1120672.htm   (168 words)

  
 Hjem
Melhus kommune har et innbyggertall på 13.416 og ligger ca 15 km sør for Trondheim.
Her har Melhus Mannskor gledet mangt og meget i snart 80 år med et variert reportuar.
De fleste av oss bor i Melhus kommune, men har også medlemmer som tar turen fra Trondheim til Melhus for å være med på sangøvelse hver mandag.
www.melhus-mannskor.org   (107 words)

  
 Expression of Cytokine Genes during Pneumococcal and Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Acute Otitis Media in the Rat ...
Articles by Melhus, A. Articles by Ryan, A. Infection and Immunity, July 2000, p.
Westman, E., Melhus, A. The treatment of Haemophilus influenzae acute otitis media with amoxicillin protects against reinfection but not against structural changes.
Melhus, A. Effects of amoxicillin on the expression of cytokines during experimental acute otitis media caused by non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae.
iai.asm.org /cgi/content/abstract/68/7/4024   (660 words)

  
 Peter Melhus
Peter Melhus is the Principal of E3 (E-cubed) Consulting Services, which specializes in sustainable economic development.
Melhus chairs the board of directors of the Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership.
Melhus completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art in New York City and his master’s degree in business administration at the University of Santa Clara.
melhus.biz   (197 words)

  
 Melhus - Wikipedia
Zu Melhus gehört ein Ort namens Korsvegen, das am schönen Gaustadvatnet (ein See) gelegen ist.
In Melhus und Umgebung waren (wie auch in Trondheim) schon die Wikinger aktiv; so erklärt sich auch das Wappen.
Durch Melhus fließt die Gaula, ein bekannter Lachsfluß.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melhus   (102 words)

  
 cinovid database
Bjørn Melhus is a filmmaker and video artist who creates short, cyclic fairy-tales about movie myths, new media, eternal childhood, cloning and split personalities.
Bjørn Melhus processes found fragments of language from films, television or pop music, structuring these in a new way and using them as a basis for his stories and fables.
Melhus takes the phenomena of original and reproduction, reflection or virtual image as his theme, for example in DAS ZAUBERGLAS (1991), a modern media fairy-tale.
www.cinovid.org /person/1475   (362 words)

  
 Bjørn Melhus' "Weeping" at Roedling Hall (Norway - the official site in the United States)
Bjørn Melhus is displaying his work ”Weeping” at Roebling Hall this fall.
Norwegian artist Bjørn Melhus’ second solo exhibition in New York – “Weeping” – is a powerful and incantatory two-channel video installation.
Working with multiple levels of sound, language and image derived from preexisting acoustic material, Melhus assembles images and spoken text into enveloping fields—punctuated by rhythmic, spatial and temporal sequences—which often contain sharp commentary on America’s globalizing culture.
www.norway.org /culture/Visual+Arts/Bj%C3%B8rn+Melhus.htm   (146 words)

  
 Melhus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melhus is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
Agriculture is important, and the extensive lowland areas in the almost flat valley near the river Gaula are dominated by grain fields.
Many inabitants work in Trondheim, a 20 min drive north of Melhus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melhus   (89 words)

  
 THE BROOKLYN RAIL - ART
The narrative layer, a montage of bad American television tropes, is acted out by cyborgian Melhus clones and mirrored in the abstract language of the televisions.
As with “Sometimes,” where Melhus sampled John Carpenter, there is a stylistic debt to American cinema, although this time, it is not obvious or even certain; it is simply appropriate for Melhus’s non-condescending tone.
However Melhus uses video and television not merely as formal devices, but rather as characters in his hypertextual narrative, going beyond the physiological experience of works like Vasulkas’ “Noisefields” (1974) or Paik’s technology jamming.
www.thebrooklynrail.org /arts/oct04/4.html   (834 words)

  
 MELHUS cemetery records - documents 1 to 2
Documents 1 to 2 of 2 matching the query " MELHUS ".
Newspaper obituaries containing the surname " MELHUS ".
Uploaded family histories based on the " MELHUS " surname.
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 Bjørn Melhus - Moviefone
Bjørn Melhus is a German media artist of Norwegian ancestry born in Kirchheim/Teck, Germany in 1966.
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