Åste Amundsen is an artist and researcher creating live interactive experiences that explore human and non-human interaction. Her work focuses on data-augmented human interaction in physical spaces, aiming to enhance audience immersion in shared storyworlds. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Personalised Performance at RHUL.
With over two decades of experience in creative, design, and production roles, Amundsen has delivered tech-enabled staging, interaction, and storytelling for various clients, including independent festivals, theatre installations, and immersive events for private individuals and brands.
Her notable projects include Computer Aided Theatre, which develops tools for live performance, and the interactive black-comedy The Apocalypse Gameshow.
Amundsen is a resident artist at the Pervasive Media Studio (Bristol, UK), and a recipient of Kulturrådet’s Arbeidsstipend (Oslo, Norway). Born in Oslo, she now divides her time between London and Berlin.
Image 1: Welcome to the Dark Ages KLF, 2017. Photo: Mark-Bean Sabino
Image 2: Underground Piano Bar, BBC 2 (photo of a TV screen), 1999
Image 3: Forest Spa: Artists Sanctuary, 2016
Image 4: Apocalypse Gameshow, audience induction form and top-trumps, 2012
