Nils Claesson

Nils Taki Claesson (born 1958 in Stockholm), is an artist, filmmaker, author, and artistic researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

Claesson received his PhD in fine arts from the Film and Media Department at Stockholm University of the Arts with the dissertation The Ghost Machine: Seven changes and transitions – animation processes in animated film.

Claesson joined the newspaper ETC 1979–1984, where he was a co-owner for a while. He had acting roles in two films in the 1980s, among other things in Stig Larsson's film Ängel, but he has mainly directed, written manuscript and worked with animated films and radio documentaries. He has been working with digital media since the mid-1990s, and has played a central role in the development of Swedish digital art through his work for the artistic creative space for art and computing (CRAC), where he was chairman from 2002 to 2005. In connection with this, he established a broad international network, and organized international exhibitions such as "Money, a comment on the new economy”, as well as seminars and exchange projects with other media labs in Europe. He also led the network for media labs in Norway, Pnek 2001–2002, and was one of the artists behind the Association for Temporary Art [a: t] a platform for art online (1997–2007). He has also been active in the artist-driven galleries Tegen2 and ID:I gallery. Claesson has exhibited extensively in Sweden and Europe.

The book The Blueberry Machine, published 2009, is about his father Stig Claesson.

Directing

• 2016 Love and solidarity
• 2012 sliN
• 2006 Snow – from the white you remember
• 1998 The little horror movie package
• 1995 Chameleon
• 1995 People’s movies
• 1995 The world's longest Christmas Eve
• 1994 Three minutes each summer
• 1993 Moon face
• 1986 Man who shaves at Seine
• 1984 The one looking away is a rat

Manuscripts

• 2006 Snow – from the white you remember
• 1995 Chameleon
• 1993 Moon face

Roles

• 1989 Angel
• 1987 The Awakening

• 2017 Seven changes and transitions – artistic processeses in animated movies
• 2016We are not yet seeing the results of artistic research
• 2014 When photographs were pictures, not art
• 2013 The lab: 12 voices about laboratories and libraries
• 2012sliN, Performing the Common
• 2012 The road to Husby
• 2012 Introduction to the animated moving image
• 2009 The blueberry machine
• 2002 Money
• 1998 The family and everything about the meaning of life
• 1985 I and Angela Davis

• 2018 You have no choice
• 2018 Books no one reads
• 2015 Lost and found in translation
• 2016 A train to Spain
• 2013 The Shadow machine
• 2012 sliN, Performing the common
• 2009 The Contract
• 2007 Body in the net
• 2007 SWIZHE 
• 2006 Video-Dnevnik
• 2006 Re-approaching new media, Ram 7
• 2005 Re:production
• 2005 40 years of victory
• 2004 Solidarity without heroes
• 2002 The Pudas Box
• 2002 Money, an exhibition about the new economy
• 2001 The Public Opinion
• 2000 The Art of organising
• 2000 The Minsk connection
• 2000 Speak to Ingmar
• 1998 "Say Voff"
• 1998 Time Viewers
• 1998 Travel to countries that are no longer available
• 1998 Opens in a thousand years – a message to the future from Vallhornsgatan in Rågsved, Port
• 1997 Movies of the memory (Minnets filmer)