Adrian Førde Andersson

Areas of responsibility

Project manager at Fluks - Centre for Young Art, with a particular focus on the online community Trafo.no. Project manager/advisor at SFU CreaTeME (Centre for Excellence in Creative Use of Technologies in Music Education) and MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, where I primarily work with project administration, communication, and dissemination. I have been employed in the faculty administration at the Faculty of Fine Arts since 2011.

Background and Experience

(2018 -) Project manager for Trafo.no, a national initiative for young artists aged 15-25

(2011-) Led and worked on numerous externally funded talent development projects in the arts and culture sector, such as Cultiva Ekspress, Platform Nord, Nordic Noise, Barnas Rutpluks, MyMachine, etc.

(2019-2023) Project administrator, Erasmus+ strategic partnership, "Encounters between Arts, Ethnography and Pedagogy"

(2015 - 2023) Representative on the faculty board, Faculty of Fine Arts, UiA

(2012 – 2017) Program coordinator, Master in Music Business and Management, UiA

(2008 – 2011) Research fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Education, UiA

Areas of Expertise

• Project management / Project finance
• Talent development - Children and youth / Cross-disciplinary collaborations
• Communication / Websites / WordPress
• Student recruitment / marketing
• Project applications and external funding
• Erasmus+
• Grant schemes
• Conference / Events

Educational Background

• Master in Media Studies, Visual Communication (2007), NTNU
• Bachelor in Humanities - Art, Media, and Communication (2005), Roehampton University/NTNU

I have published various articles and book contributions on topics such as multimodality, digital cultural dissemination, music video, media aesthetics, and media influence.