Nina Lager Vestberg
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Bygg 8, 8341, Dragvoll
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
2023
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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
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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
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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
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Vestberg, Nina Lager;
Jørgensen, Ulla Angkjær.
(2019)
Lokale kunstmuseer i Norge: et historisk perspektiv.
Norsk museumstidsskrift.
volum 5 (1).
Editorial
2018
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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
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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
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2016)
"There Is No Cloud": Toward a Materialist Ecology of Post-Photography.
Captures.
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
2015
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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
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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
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2013)
"Ikke sint, bare veldig skuffet": Om barn, miljø og medieteknologi.
Norsk Medietidsskrift.
volum 20 (4).
Academic article
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2013)
Ordering, Searching, Finding.
Journal of Visual Culture.
volum 12 (3).
Academic article
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2013)
The photographic image in digital archives.
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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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
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2011)
Index/Finger: Medium and Materiality in the Archives.
The Archive as Project / Archiwum jako projekt.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2011)
Robert Doisneau and the Making of a Universal Cliché.
History of Photography.
volum 35 (2).
Academic article
2009
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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
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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
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Vestberg, Nina Lager.
(2008)
Archival value: on photography, materiality and indexicality.
Photographies.
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
2005
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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
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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
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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
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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
Media
2022
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LectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2022) Hva er digital produksjon?. Boklansering av Estetiske praksiser i den digitale produksjonens tidsalder . Kulturrådet; Oslo. 2022-12-01.
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2022) Innebygde bilder: klisjéens materielle mediehistorie. Norsk medieforskerkonferanse 2022 . Norsk medieforskerlag; Universitetet i Stavanger. 2022-10-13 - 2022-10-14.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2020) Digitalt Museum: Actual, Ideal, and Critical Visitors Online. Museumsseminar, Digitization and Diversity . BI Centre for Creative Industries; Oslo. 2020-02-06.
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LectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2020) The Labour of Digitization. Renewable heritage, footprints of the future . Nasjonalbiblioteket; Webinar. 2020-12-01.
2017
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2017) I det digitale museet. Fotografi mellom katalog og artefakt. Mangfoldig museumsforskning . Norsk museumsforbund; Trondheim. 2017-11-23.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Popular scientific lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) Media Ecology Beyond the Metaphor: New, Better, and More Materialist. ENCODE Guest Lecture . Universitetet i Tromsø; Tromsø. 2016-02-19.
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Popular scientific lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) Melanie Gilligans "The Common Sense". Seminar om identitet, teknologi og etikk (Forskningsdagene) . Trondheim kunstmuseum; Trondheim. 2016-09-21.
2015
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InterviewVestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) Fanget på foto. Klassekampen [Avis]. 2015-11-20.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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
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Popular scientific lectureRaundalen, 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
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Popular scientific lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) Niels Bohr i Trondheim. Sider fra et fotografisk album. Bohrseminaret 2013 . Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab; Trondheim. 2013-05-24.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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
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Academic lectureRaundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2012) Why Ecology, Environment, Culture?. EECN Public Symposium . NTNU; Trondheim. 2012-05-24.
2011
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager; Vågnes, Øyvind. (2011) The Visual Culture in Europe Questionnaire. Visualizing Europe . Universitat de Barcelona; Barcelona. 2011-04-11 - 2011-04-12.
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Gesturing towards Art. Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting . Nomadikon, Universitetet i Bergen; Bergen. 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-12.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2010) Photography Terminates Where?. The Ends of Photography . Nasjonalbiblioteket; Oslo. 2010-01-25.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, Nina Lager. (2010) Scrapping, saving, selling. Norsk medieforskerlags 14. konferanse . Norsk medieforskerlag; Ålesund. 2010-10-28 - 2010-10-29.
2008
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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Academic lectureVestberg, 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.
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InterviewVestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Vetenskapsradion Forum. Sveriges Radio [Radio]. 2008-03-10.