U Ai? (2025)
The Project: A complete music video generated entirely through AI tools, from lyrics and composition to visual generation and lip-synced animation. The workflow integrated Claude for lyrical content, Suno for music generation, Flux for character imagery, and multiple image-to-video models (HuMo, Wan 2.2) for animation, with voice extraction via Stemroller and phoneme recognition through Whisper and Wav2vec2 for lip-sync accuracy.
The Development Process: This required orchestrating a complex pipeline where each AI tool's output became another's input. The technical challenge wasn't individual tool operation, but understanding how stem separation, phoneme detection, and video generation models interacted. When lip-sync accuracy failed, I needed to diagnose whether the problem stemmed from vocal isolation quality, phoneme timing precision, or the image-to-video model's limitations. The three-day timeline forced pragmatic decisions, using detailed text prompts for visual consistency rather than training a LoRA model, which would have been technically superior but time-prohibitive.
Success required understanding the entire generative pipeline: how audio waveforms translate to phoneme timing, how diffusion models interpret visual prompts, and why consistency across video frames requires either model fine-tuning or precise prompt engineering. ComfyUI provided the workflow interface, but I needed to comprehend data flow between nodes, troubleshoot where generation quality degraded, and make informed trade-offs between speed and accuracy. The result demonstrated that AI-assisted creative production isn't just about automated generation, understanding each system's capabilities and constraints well enough to guide the process meaningfully.
Karatekid.no (2025)
A series of social games vibecoded mainly together with Claude. Games are introduced into the website when I have inspiration to do so. Have fun!
Lærerrollen i endring (2024)
Peer reviewed chapter on the changing role of the teacher through digital transformation. The chapter looks at using online collaborative tools for peer-review and collaboration in visual arts teachers education.
4500 Ways to Make It Okay (2023)
A collage of 4,500 AI-generated photorealistic images of nude women in wheelchairs. Each image approximately 2.5 cm in diameter. Giclée print on paper, 450 × 60 cm.
The wheelchair works as a legitimising device, the object that supposedly transforms pornography into representation, inclusion, diversity. The work sits in this slippage: when does exploitation become representation? When does the progressive become absurd?
AI introduces something genuinely new: the ability to generate photorealistic depictions of an infinite variety of human bodies without any actual human subjects. Hans Bellmer's Poupée series (1930s) fragmented and reconstructed the female form, but still required physical dolls. Here, there are no bodies at all.
The collage is curated to maximise diversity and inclusion, while remaining aggressively idiotic.
PUBLIC ENEMY: ART BY LAILA BERTHEUSSEN (2023)
AI-graphics and visual profiling to exhibition during Arendalsuka, Norway.
XSILO (2022)
AI generated art exhibition at Agder Kunstsenter, Norway. Exploring the value of visual art, and goes into dialogue with the newly complete modern art museum in Kristiansand, Norway, KUNSTSILO.
Part of Traavik.info and Wastefullness comission project
KUNSTENS BETYDNING? (2021)
Anthology by research group “Art and young people”, University of Agder.
Co-author on an anthology looking at expanded views on children and young peoples exposure to art, and arts place in society.
Available as an open access book, and also as print on demand. Most chapters are written in Norwegian, with English abstracts.
PARTY SONGS (2021)
The project is investigating the possibilities of pop music as an instrument of control and liberation that brings together idolatry, hero-worship and still darker strains of mass behavior.
St. Petersburg, Russia 2021
EN MASSE (2020)
Photographic exhibition at SørVeiv2020 - exploring the many live-experiences that took place in the region over the past 10 years. Focus on the collective gatherings, and the individual component that builds the crowds we once were used to - and perhaps one day will see once more.
Kristiansand, Norway 2020
Hjerneteppe (2020)
Exploring whats inside our heads through drawing. A play on word often mistaken in Norwegian, participants would fill in their thoughts on brain-shaped pieces of paper, creating a “hjerneteppe”. Interactive, collective art during Forskningsdagene at Universitet i Agder.
Kristiansand, Norway 2020
Thanks to MFA student Lilly Bjørk for additional help with practical arrangements and concept!
The liberation of Israel (2019)
Photography: Solo exhibition, Tel Aviv 2019
Liberation Days (2019)
Jean “Valnoir” Simoulin | Morten Traavik
Book: Photographic contribution 2019
War of Art (2019)
Film: Stills photography 2019
Forræderens guide til Nord-Korea (2018)
Book: Photographic contribution 2018
Preuss Museum juried exhibition (2018)
Preuss national photo museum
Horten, Norway 2018
Photography: Joint exhibition
Forbidden whispers. Laibach and North Korea. (2018)
Liberation Day (2016)
Film: Stills photography 2016
Yes we love this country (2012)
The Narrows (2008)
Film: Digital artist.
Visual effects (particles, compositing) 2008
Zombie Prom (2006)
Film: Digital artist.
Visual effects (Compositing, rotoscoping) 2006