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Nina Lager Vestberg

Nina Lager Vestberg

Professor of Visual Culture
Department of Art and Media Studies

nina.vestberg@ntnu.no
+4773550601 Bygg 8, 8341, Dragvoll
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About

Professor of visual culture in the Department of Art and Media Studies, leader of the Media, Data, Museums research group. Nina was educated in the UK, where she studied photography and multimedia at BA level, before obtaining an MA and a PhD in the history of art at Birkbeck, University of London. A recurring topic of research is how photographic technologies and practices persist in the digitized materials of online archives. Her book Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization, on the role of the picture industry in the long history of digitization from the 1830s to the 2010s, is forthcoming from The MIT Press in 2023.

Course topics on the BA programme in media studies and the MA programme in film and media studies include media theory and media culture, research design and theoretical approaches, as well as visual culture.

Publications

Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization

An intimate foray into the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s.
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2023

  • Vestberg, Nina Elisabeth Lager. (2023) Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization. MIT Press. 2023. ISBN 9780262045315.
    Academic monograph

2022

  • Vestberg, Nina Elisabeth Lager. (2022) Seeing, Saving, and Remembering Barnardo’s Children: Technologies of Access and Preservation in Historical Research. Scientia Canadensis. volum 44 (1).
    Academic article

2021

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2021) Digitalt Museum – en plattform for datamangfold. Mangfold i spill: Digitalisering av kultur og medier i Norge.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2019

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager; Jørgensen, Ulla Angkjær. (2019) Lokale kunstmuseer i Norge: et historisk perspektiv. Norsk museumstidsskrift. volum 5 (1).
    Editorial

2018

  • Gran, Anne-Britt; Vestberg, Nina Lager; Booth, Peter; Ogundipe, Anne. (2018) A digital museum's contribution to diversity - a user study. Museum Management and Curatorship.
    Academic article

2016

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) The Ecology of the Photographic Image: Archives, Power and Materiality. (Post)Fotografisches Archivieren. Wandel Macht Geschichte.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) "There Is No Cloud": Toward a Materialist Ecology of Post-Photography. Captures. volum 1 (1).
    Academic article

2015

  • Maxwell, Richard; Raundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) Media and the ecological crisis. Routledge. 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-70923-1.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2013

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) A Photographic Archive of Physics, or a Physical Archive of Photography? Niels Bohr and the Production of Scientific Space(s). Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) "Ikke sint, bare veldig skuffet": Om barn, miljø og medieteknologi. Norsk Medietidsskrift. volum 20 (4).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) Ordering, Searching, Finding. Journal of Visual Culture. volum 12 (3).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) The photographic image in digital archives. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager; Dahlgren, Anna; Petersson, Dag. (2013) Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 2013. ISBN 9788771241655.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2011

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Index/Finger: Medium and Materiality in the Archives. The Archive as Project / Archiwum jako projekt.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Robert Doisneau and the Making of a Universal Cliché. History of Photography. volum 35 (2).
    Academic article

2009

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2009) Flytande fotografier - originalitet och upphovsrätt i det digitala arkivet. I bildarkivet. Om fotografi och digitaliseringens effekter.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2009) From the filing cabinet to the internet : digitising photographic libraries. Fotografie als Instrument und Medium der Kunstgeschichte.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2008

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Archival value: on photography, materiality and indexicality. Photographies. volum 1 (1).
    Academic article

2005

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2005) Photography as cultural memory: imag(in)ing France in the 1950s. Journal of Romance Studies. volum 5 (2).
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Vestberg, Nina Elisabeth Lager. (2022) Seeing, Saving, and Remembering Barnardo’s Children: Technologies of Access and Preservation in Historical Research. Scientia Canadensis. volum 44 (1).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager; Jørgensen, Ulla Angkjær. (2019) Lokale kunstmuseer i Norge: et historisk perspektiv. Norsk museumstidsskrift. volum 5 (1).
    Editorial
  • Gran, Anne-Britt; Vestberg, Nina Lager; Booth, Peter; Ogundipe, Anne. (2018) A digital museum's contribution to diversity - a user study. Museum Management and Curatorship.
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) "There Is No Cloud": Toward a Materialist Ecology of Post-Photography. Captures. volum 1 (1).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) "Ikke sint, bare veldig skuffet": Om barn, miljø og medieteknologi. Norsk Medietidsskrift. volum 20 (4).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) Ordering, Searching, Finding. Journal of Visual Culture. volum 12 (3).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Robert Doisneau and the Making of a Universal Cliché. History of Photography. volum 35 (2).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Archival value: on photography, materiality and indexicality. Photographies. volum 1 (1).
    Academic article
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2005) Photography as cultural memory: imag(in)ing France in the 1950s. Journal of Romance Studies. volum 5 (2).
    Academic article

Books

  • Vestberg, Nina Elisabeth Lager. (2023) Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization. MIT Press. 2023. ISBN 9780262045315.
    Academic monograph
  • Maxwell, Richard; Raundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) Media and the ecological crisis. Routledge. 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-70923-1.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager; Dahlgren, Anna; Petersson, Dag. (2013) Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 2013. ISBN 9788771241655.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2021) Digitalt Museum – en plattform for datamangfold. Mangfold i spill: Digitalisering av kultur og medier i Norge.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) The Ecology of the Photographic Image: Archives, Power and Materiality. (Post)Fotografisches Archivieren. Wandel Macht Geschichte.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) A Photographic Archive of Physics, or a Physical Archive of Photography? Niels Bohr and the Production of Scientific Space(s). Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) The photographic image in digital archives. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Index/Finger: Medium and Materiality in the Archives. The Archive as Project / Archiwum jako projekt.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2009) Flytande fotografier - originalitet och upphovsrätt i det digitala arkivet. I bildarkivet. Om fotografi och digitaliseringens effekter.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2009) From the filing cabinet to the internet : digitising photographic libraries. Fotografie als Instrument und Medium der Kunstgeschichte.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Teaching

Courses

  • MV2012 - The Image in Society
  • MV1101 - Media History and Media Theory

Media

2022

  • Lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2022) Hva er digital produksjon?. Boklansering av Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder . Kulturrådet; Oslo. 2022-12-01.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2022) Innebygde bilder: klisjéens materielle mediehistorie. Norsk medieforskerkonferanse 2022 . Norsk medieforskerlag; Universitetet i Stavanger. 2022-10-13 - 2022-10-14.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2022) Significant sites in post-digitized art history: Source, surrogate, store, and search. NORDIK 2022 . The Nordic Association for Art Historians; Online. 2022-10-25 - 2022-10-27.

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2020) Digitalt Museum: Actual, Ideal, and Critical Visitors Online. Museumsseminar, Digitization and Diversity . BI Centre for Creative Industries; Oslo. 2020-02-06.
  • Lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2020) The Labour of Digitization. Renewable heritage, footprints of the future . Nasjonalbiblioteket; Webinar. 2020-12-01.

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) Analogue ancestors and digital descendants: on genealogy and the archival cultures of photography. Cultures of Photography . Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University; Leicester. 2017-11-06.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) I det digitale museet. Fotografi mellom katalog og artefakt. Mangfoldig museumsforskning . Norsk museumsforbund; Trondheim. 2017-11-23.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) Images at Work: Digitisation and the Archival Cultures of Photography. History and Theory of Photography Research Seminar . Birkbeck, University of London; London. 2017-11-09.
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) Kan vi redde verden med mobilen? Miljøperspektiver på elektronisk forbruk. Åpent foredrag . Framtiden i våre hender; Café Stammen, Trondheim. 2017-04-03.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) Photography as a technology of history: the medium and its materialities in the digital museum. Thinking the Image Research Group . University of West London; London. 2017-11-08.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) Photography, Archives, and the Phases of Digitisation. About Time: Temporality and Historiography . Institutionen for kultur och estetik, Stockholms universitet; Stockholm. 2017-04-26.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) The Place of Photography and the Phases of Digitisation. Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography . Christ Church College, University of Oxford; Oxford. 2017-04-20 - 2017-04-21.

2016

  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) Media Ecology Beyond the Metaphor: New, Better, and More Materialist. ENCODE Guest Lecture . Universitetet i Tromsø; Tromsø. 2016-02-19.
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) Melanie Gilligans "The Common Sense". Seminar om identitet, teknologi og etikk (Forskningsdagene) . Trondheim kunstmuseum; Trondheim. 2016-09-21.

2015

  • Interview
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) Fanget på foto. Klassekampen [Avis]. 2015-11-20.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) The Ecology of Photography: Archive, Infrastructure, Environment. À partir d'aujourd'hui... Reconsidering Post-Photography . Concordia University; Montreal. 2015-10-01 - 2015-10-03.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) The Ecology of the Photographic Image: Archives, Power, and Materiality. Archives-Power-Society . HbK Braunschweig; Braunschweig. 2015-02-05 - 2015-02-06.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager; Raundalen, Jon. (2015) Flatscreening Football: Ecological Perspectives on Electronic Spectatorship. European College of Sports Science 20th Congress . ECSS; Malmö. 2015-06-24 - 2015-06-27.

2014

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Raundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2014) Digitale dilemma: Hvordan påvirker mediene miljøet?. Foredrag i serien Digitale dilemma . Bergen offentlige bibliotek; Bergen. 2014-10-29 - 2014-10-29.

2013

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) Niels Bohr i Trondheim. Sider fra et fotografisk album. Bohrseminaret 2013 . Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab; Trondheim. 2013-05-24.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) Residual archives. Nomadikon Lecture Series 4-7: Questions of Archaelogy, Archive and Method in Visual Culture Studies . Nomadikon, Universitetet i Bergen; Bergen. 2013-05-16.

2012

  • Academic lecture
    Raundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2012) Why Ecology, Environment, Culture?. EECN Public Symposium . NTNU; Trondheim. 2012-05-24.

2011

  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager; Vågnes, Øyvind. (2011) The Visual Culture in Europe Questionnaire. Visualizing Europe . Universitat de Barcelona; Barcelona. 2011-04-11 - 2011-04-12.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Gesturing towards Art. Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting . Nomadikon, Universitetet i Bergen; Bergen. 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-12.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Medium, Materiality and the Miscellaneous: Some Thoughts on the Ordering of Photographic Archives. History, Memory, Myth: Re-presenting the Past . International Society for Cultural History; Universitetet i Oslo. 2011-08-03 - 2011-08-06.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Places, Pleasures, Possessions: the Material World of Archives. The Archive as Project . The Archaeology of Photography Foundation; Warszawa. 2011-05-13 - 2011-05-14.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager; Raundalen, Jon. (2011) Towards a New Media Ecology. Media Acts 2011: The 10th International NorSIS Conference . Institutt for kunst- og medievitenskap, NTNU; Trondheim. 2011-10-26 - 2011-10-28.

2010

  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2010) Photography Terminates Where?. The Ends of Photography . Nasjonalbiblioteket; Oslo. 2010-01-25.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2010) Processing Waste: Disposing of Photography in Contemporary Art. Association of Art Historians Annual Conference . AAH (Association of Art Historians); University of Glasgow. 2010-04-15 - 2010-04-17.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2010) Scrapping, saving, selling. Norsk medieforskerlags 14. konferanse . Norsk medieforskerlag; Ålesund. 2010-10-28 - 2010-10-29.

2008

  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Fotografier i flyt: Originalitet og opphavsrett i det digitale arkivet. Fotografi i arkiv: Ett seminarium om digitaliseringens effekter . Nordiska Museet; Stockholm. 2008-03-06.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Image rights (and wrongs): celebrity culture and the circulation of star photographs. Stars and Stardom: Liv Ullmann Symposium 2008 . Institutt for kunst- og medievitenskap, NTNU; Trondheim. 2008-12-10 - 2008-12-11.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Lee Miller at the V&A: Photography and technostalgia in the museum. LOCATION: the Museum, the Academy and the Studio . Association of Art Historians; Tate Britain, London. 2008-04-02 - 2008-04-04.
  • Academic lecture
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Relocating authenticity: photographs and copyright in the post-print era. MeCCSA Annual Conference . Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association; Cardiff University. 2008-01-09 - 2008-01-11.
  • Interview
    Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Vetenskapsradion Forum. Sveriges Radio [Radio]. 2008-03-10.
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