Tomas Nordmark contributed with additional production on the track “The Caretaker” from Swedish singer/songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson’s “Backstage” album (2025)
Do you know how hard it can be to notice when something is changing? We live our lives as we always have. It’s only after some time has passed, when we look back at history, that we realize what we’ve actually experienced.
AI – an immersive journey into the future, we step into the world of artificial intelligence. In a short time, AI has become part of our everyday lives and is changing the way we work, how we communicate, and how we access information. But how does the technology really work? And what happens when the line between human and machine begins to blur?
This WISDOME production is for anyone who wants to learn more about artificial intelligence and better understand the time we are living in.
Tomas Nordmark composed the immersive score for the fulldome film ‘AI – an immersive journey into the future’ together with sound designer Pär Carlsson for Visualization Center C | Wisdome.
Launched: December 2025
Playing time: 29 minutes
Format: Fulldome 8K 3D
Sound:7.2
Language: Swedish and English
BECOMING is a collaboration between filmmaker Shelley Hopkins and musician and composer Tomas Nordmark.
In 2025 the work was featured as part of the official selection at Ghent International Film Week 2025 in the “Rabbit Hole” program, celebrating avant-garde and immersive works in contemporary film and was awarded ‘Best Installation Film’ at the festival. The film has since been awarded awards at Cannes International Film Week (Cannes Avant-Garde Award), The Ardennes International Film Festival (Best Experimental Film) and New Jersey Independent Film Festival (Best Experimental Film)
BECOMING has been part of the official selection at the following film festivals:
— Cannes Internationational Film Week 2026 (presented the Cannes Avant-Garde Award)
— The Ardennes International Film Festival 2026 (awarded Best Experimental Film)
— New Jersey Independent Film Festival 2026 (awarded Best Experimental Film)
— Sydney World Film Festival 2026
— Wunderground Film Festival 2026
— Ghent International Film Week 2025 (awarded Best Installation Film)
ALLEIN is performed and conceived by opera singer and multi-disciplinary artist Heather Green, with composer/artist Tomas Nordmark channeling Strauss’ classic score into a darkly modern sonic world situated in the shadows between the electronic and the acoustic space.
Tomas Nordmark reworked “Amen” from Swedish singer/songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson’s album “Rorschach Test” (2021) – exclusively available on vinyl only.
Tomas Nordmark contributed with additional production on the track “Jeopardize” from Swedish singer/songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson’s “Fetish” album (2023)
Tomas Nordmark reworked “Labyrinth” into “The Maze” from Swedish singer/songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson’s “Fetish” album (2023)
Tomas Nordmark reworked ‘Romeo’ & ‘Why Wait Until Tomorrow’ from Swedish singer/songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson’s album “Rorschach Test” (2021)
‘A Scenario’
Verkstad Konsthall – Norrköping, Sweden
On display February 27, 2021 – March 28, 2021
Curated by Susanne Ewerlöf
A balance act between narrating a specific story and creating an open ended speculative situation this exhibition suggests a moment in time with an approaching storm and place that is clearly a home; but when and where this shelter is located might be anything but obvious for the person who enters it. With a starting point in one particular story this exhibition aims towards numerous storylines; about the homes that protects and isolates us, about the outside world and its threats and pleasures and how decisions made today projects into the future.
Leaning on speculative literature in general and the short story “Mother of Invention” by Nnedi Okorafor more explicitly, this project offers an experience to speculate on. What has happened here and what is about to take place? Using scenography, artefacts produced within the realm of art, craft and everyday life, together with time-based media this scenario is intricate and may play out in numerous ways.
Nanna Debois Buhl (DK) has explored artistic, poetic, philosophical and scientific aspects of cloud behaviour; i e weather; which she presents in the exhibition in the form of a series of photos, a video and a poem written by a machine learning model. The concept of the gathering clouds or the approaching storm is a common metaphor when describing a mental state or unsecure situation.
Aiming to create a scenario set in an uncertain place at an uncertain time the set up in the exhibition has a clear reference to the short story “Mother of invention” set in a future “New Delta” in Nigeria. Here we meet Anwuli as she realises that she will have to give birth to her child alone with her smart home Obi 3 as her only comfort, aid and protection from an imminent, ominous pollen storm. The story was released online in 2018, with gif-illustrations by Shyama Golden (US). These images are now presented in the exhibition giving Anwuli and the baby boy a presence in the space as focus of this narrative.
Obi 3; being inspired by Anwuli’s belly protecting the growing child from all possible dangers, foreseeing how recent climate chaos might create a life threatening situation for the small family and having been in tuned with Anwulis emotional and practical needs it doesn’t only support her through child birth it also raises a protective steel wall around itself at the moment the storm arrives and gets up on four legs to walk to safer grounds.
Fanny Ollas (SE) is a ceramist who has created objects that refer to furniture and artefacts that might be found in a home such as lamps or vases, but give them emotional expressions. They tell stories about relations, fears, aspirations and desires and in this exhibition they are presented as part of the scenography and bearers of possible narratives while also being sculptures in their own right.
Linda Lamignan (NO) working with objects, performance and video has investigated the trade and cultural exchange between Norway and Nigeria in numerous projects. While criticising the exploitation of earth and humans they also offers a hope by proposing futuristic scenarios with greater consciousness and new levels of understanding. In the exhibition they will show objects, paintings made with wax and a video work.
For this exhibition artist and composer Tomas Nordmark (SE) has created a new composition providing its own layers of atmosphere and narrative to the space. This continues his exploration of the unknown, specifically in popular culture, and interest in speculating on the future of music, which he has previously presented in film, music albums, opera, public installations and more.
75’ / UK / 2019 / Single channel video
CREDITS:
Soprano: Charlotte Collier
Actor: Shirley Kirsch
Actor: Tomas Nordmark
Concept / Direction / Design: Glen Sheppard
Camera / Costume / Dramaturgy: Fritz Polzer
Costume / AD: Crispin Lord
Piano: Ben Frost
Piano: Guy Murgatroyd
Guitar / Synthesizer / Sound: Tomas Nordmark
Sound: Sam Boulton