Digital Rosemåling Studio is an interactive installation where visitors draw on a tablet and watch their strokes become Norwegian rosemaling in real time on the screen beside them. Rosemaling is folk painting: scrollwork and saturated colour on everyday objects through the 18th and 19th centuries, each region with its own hand, passed from master to apprentice along a path almost no one can enter anymore. Built in Tokyo as a master's project at Keio University, and exhibited in Oslo at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
At the same time, we have shifted from making culture to consuming it. Digital Rosemåling Studio tries to turn that around: instead of looking at rosemaling behind glass, you become a co-creator, and you meet a living tradition with your own hands.
