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Kjersti Valland Therkildsen
Creative Technologist · Interaction Designer — AI × Embodied Interaction × Cultural Heritage
Norwegian citizen — full EEA work authorization

Profile

I conceive interactive experiences, engineer them end to end, and deliver them inside real institutions for real audiences. For my master's at Keio University (KMD, Embodied Media laboratory), I designed and built an interactive AI installation that turned visitors' drawings into traditional Norwegian rosemaling in real time, and carried it from first contact with the museum through to four days of public operation at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History in Oslo. Alongside it I independently developed and continue to run Gåri, a web platform for cultural events in Bergen. My background combines technical development with communication and design, with several years of professional experience in marketing, digital strategy, and product delivery.

Experience

Digital Rosemåling Studio ↗ — Keio University (KMD), Embodied MediaTokyo / Oslo · 2024–2026
Master's project: interactive AI installation, concept through to public exhibition
  • Owned every stage: concept, spatial and interaction design, exhibition identity and campaign material, engineering, installation and on-site operation.
  • Secured the museum partnership alone, from first contact to a signed collaboration agreement with Norsk Folkemuseum; exhibited 22–25 April 2026; curator-validated.
  • Built the full real-time system end to end: tablet input → Python backend → Stable Diffusion 2.1 + custom rosemaling LoRA (img2img) → live display. Ran stably through four days of continuous public use.
  • Recruited and ran all 41 visitor sessions on site, in Norwegian and English; mixed-methods evaluation, KMD ethics-approved.
  • Paper in preparation for submission to ACM CHI.
Gåri ↗ — Solo Developer / Full-stack (own product)Bergen · 2026–present
  • Built and run an event platform for Bergen end to end (SvelteKit 5, Supabase, Vercel; ~45 scrapers; SSR; 13+ curated pages).
  • Led technical SEO / AI-search (JSON-LD, IndexNow); cookieless analytics.
Digital Marketing Consultant — Hold Norge RentOslo · 2023–2024

Communication and marketing for a national non-profit organisation: content across social media, newsletters, and the website, and paid advertising. Led the migration to a GDPR-compliant email platform, built newsletter templates, and introduced audience segmentation with tailored communication goals.

Consultant, Marketing Services — Sopra SteriaBergen · 2021–2023

Technical SEO, analytics and campaign delivery for large public and private clients at Norway's leading digitalisation consultancy.

Digital Advisor — Labs.MarketingBergen · 2021

Paid digital campaigns: Google Ads, social, programmatic.

Inside Sales & Delivery Advisor — TeslaAmsterdam · 2019

Owned the Norwegian-market customer journey from Amsterdam HQ.

Education

Master of Media Design — Keio University (KMD), Tokyoconferred September 2026
Embodied Media laboratory, Spatial Interactions Team · GPA 4.06/4.33
BA Digital Marketing & Brand Management — Kristiania, Bergen2016–2020
BA Communication & Media Sciences — University of Bergen2013–2016