Stephanie von Spreter

Stephanie von Spreter

Researcher, Department of Language and Culture, Arctic University of Norway

MishMash role: Member

Summary: Over twenty years of experience as professional in the field of contemporary visual art and art history in Norway and internationally, including academic research, teaching, curating, writing and management of large-scale exhibitions, projects and cultural institutions. Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Art, Nordic/Scandinavian Art, Photography/New Media, Circumpolar Art, Feminist Art History, Decolonial Art History. Core Skills: Academic Research, Academic Teaching/Supervision, Curating, Writing (Academic, Curatorial, Art Critical, Creative), Art Consultancy, Project Management, Editorial Work, Project Budgeting/Controlling, PR/SoMe, Artist Consultancy, Fundraising, Lobbying/Representation, Board Competency (member and secretarial) Member of research groups/projects: 1. WONA Worlding Northern Art, Institute of Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. The group's goal is to strengthen research in art history and visual culture in Northern Norway and the Circumpolar North, and to incorporate curatorial practices and artistic research. Theoretically and methodically WONA operates in the contact zone between disciplines art history, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and indigenous studies. https://uit.no/research/wona 2. Urban Ecologies. City Sensing Beyond the Human Interdisciplinary research project initiated by artist duo Bull.Miletic that explores perspectives on urban knowledge in times of rapid technological development and environmental crisis. Further information: https://urbanecologies.net/ (general); https://urbanecologies.net/works/#ghosts- of-the-past (my research). 3. AI Ecologies – Exploring AI at the Intersection of Art, Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities Research group that explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence within art, ecology, and environmental humanities. More information: https://www.kristiania.no/en/research/research-groups/AIEcologies/

Contemporary Art Photography Women Artists Arctic Circumpolar North Gender Feminist Art History Decolonial Art History Nordic Art History Scandinavian Art History Artificial Intelligence

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  1. Conference poster, 2026

    Exploring Authentic Anonymity in Documentary Film through AI

    Mette Nyseter ; Andrew Michael Davidson ; Christian Schüssler

    This artistic research project explores whether AI-based audiovisual transformation can offer a viable and ethically responsible way to anonymise real people in documentary film, protecting participants’ identity while preserving perceived authenticity in their human presence on screen. Conventional anonymisation methods such as heavy blurring, pixelation and strong voice distortion often strip away facial expressions, body language, emotional intensity and relational dynamics that give the material its meaning, and can introduce stigma or associations with crime, danger or shame. The project investigates whether AI can protect identity without erasing the embodied expressions, emotional nuances and relational dynamics that make documentary material meaningful. Through a pilot study, we test selected AI tools and approaches, examine how well they retain expression, gesture, interaction, voice and environmental context, and identify key technical, ethical and legal challenges. The outcomes include proof-of-concept examples, a preliminary anonymisation workflow, and a framework for a larger multidisciplinary research project on ethical, cinematic and technological approaches to anonymisation in documentary practice. The project draws on extensive video recordings from an ongoing artistic research project on role-play and embodied methods in documentary practice and education at the TV School in Lillehammer, providing a concrete use case through which the possibilities and limitations of AI-mediated anonymisation can be explored. You can read more about this project here: https://www.inn.no/english/research/research-projects/Role-playing-for-documentarists/ RESEARCH TEAM Mette Nyseter – Project leader, University of Inland Norway, the TV School Andrew Michael Davidson – Research advisor, University of Inland Norway Christian Schüssler – Industry collaborator, Reimagine AS

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