Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of Visual Culture and has worked extensively on the relation between transgressive forms of visuality and ethics. He holds a PhD in American Studies (2003), and became a full professor of Visual Culture at the University of Stavanger in 2007. Between 2008 and 2013 he was Principal Investigator of Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image, a research project sponsored by the Trond Mohn Foundation (formerly the Bergen Research Foundation). In 2010 he launched the peer-reviewed journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture with Øyvind Vågnes. Grønstad is the recipient of two Fulbright grants (1998-99 & 2017-18) and has been a visiting professor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000, 2001 & 2003), the University of Amsterdam (2005, 2013), and the University of California-Berkeley (2006-07, 2011, 2013 & 2017-18). He has published 12 books and over 60 scholarly articles. His most recent monographs are Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (Palgrave, 2020) and Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State. In 2022, he co-edited, with Lene Johannessen, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield).

Most recent publications:

Microdystopias

Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State

Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity

Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture

Film and the Ethical Imagination

Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight

Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing

Grønstad has contributed a range of media texts, interviews and guest lectures for the media and the public.

 

Latest:

Less than zero: McGurls tidsriktige reduksjonisme 

Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket

Ways of Seeing TV, episode 6 (31. oktober 2020).

Johnny Cash International - digitalt arangement (Fulbright Norway, 27. oktober 2020).

"Har vi forstått hva "Ways of Seeing" egentlig handler om?" (Aftenposten, 25. september 2020).

"Hva er problemet?" (Klassekampen, 1. september 2020).

Grønstad teaches courses and supervises projects in cinema and television studies, visual and popular culture, and American Studies. He is often involved in courses such as MEVI103: Media Aesthetics - Interpretation and Analysis, MEVI223: Media Aesthetics - History and Theory, and MEVI303: Media Aesthetics. 

Interview

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "Denne filmen kan påvirke valget, mener ekspert. Donald Trump kjempet i mot den". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). «Hollywood vil at folk skal stemme på Harris: 'De er ikke viljeløse sauer.'» . (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Intervju om kunstnerisk ytringsfrihet i teksten "Jeg er redd hele tida". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). The Only Lasting Truth is Change. Interview with Hanan Benammar about "Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). "Trakassering av kunstnere er en vei til makt". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Unpleasant Movies Conversations Podcast: Asbjørn Grønstad, Screening the Unwatchable. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). "Når psykopaten blir søt.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). "Academics face pushback for alleged racism and sexism". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). "Dette er ikke en kommersiell film" av Varg Lukas Folkman & Ørjan Nilsson. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). "Tarantino er en amoralsk underholder". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Moderne Tider. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "Håpet er at det skal vokse frem noe nytt". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "Dette bør du se på BIFF". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "Hva er sant og løgn i 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato?" Kulturhuset, NRK P2. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Dette bør du se på BIFF". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Sirkus Uten Stor Betydning.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Mørkredd". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Noe er topp, andre får stryk". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Mer enn tusen ord.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Ironi inntar Hollywood". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Døden på lerretet". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Grønstad ga seg filmen i vold. (external link)

Feature article

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "Sitat og Plagiat i ei Postlitterær Tid". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Nyliberal ytringsfridom. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Kampen mot Kritisk Teori. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Utvikling eller avvikling av forsking?. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gressgård, Randi (2021). Væpnet til tennene med ytringsfrihet. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). "Hva er problemet". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). "Har vi forstått hva Ways of Seeing egentlig handler om?". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Eit Globalt Perspektiv på Humaniora. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Kunst som forsking, forsking som kunst". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Film Heile Dagen Lang.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Sosiopatiens anatomi - Michael Haneke og Das Weisse Band. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Portrett av eit Augeblikk". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Eit Forsøk på å oppsummere den evigvarande tellekantdebatten". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). "Abu Ghraib i den visuelle kulturen". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Murnau og Soloppgangen. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "Neoliberalism and the Vulnerabilization of Speech". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "On Politics and Figuration". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Aesthetics, Free Speech and the Neoliberal Imaginary. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Micro-utopian Ethics. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Art, Academia and Free Speech in an Age of Neoliberalism. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "Critical Aesthetics". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "The Band's 'The Weight' - Then and Now.. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). "Of Time and the River: Heather McEntire's Eno Axis". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Convener and chair for guest lecture by Elly McCausland: "'Have They Come to Take Me Away?' Madness, Midnights, and the Feminist Antiheroism of Taylor Swift.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Micro-utopias II - co-organizer. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Sustainable Utopias. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Plenary Lecture: "On the Persistence of Murray Bookchin’s Eco-Philosophy". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Chair of the panel "Animation and the Limits of Care". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). "Toward an Ethics of Inconvenience: Murray Bookchin's Eco-Philosophy". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Komitémedlem og opponent på Jon Inge Faldalen doktoravhandling "Stillmoving.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Labor, Self, and Memory in Dan Erickson's Severance. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). On the Concept of Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Elemental Engagements: Art and/as Epistemic Media - Chair and Respondent. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Legal Aesthetics: The Case of Ways of Seeing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Rhythm in Moving Image Media. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Confederalist Micro-utopias: From Murray Bookchin to Rojava. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos's Microdystopias. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). "Refleksjoner rundt 03.08.38". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2021). The River in Reverse. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). "White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Thoughts on running a peer-reviewed journal. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). A Conversation with Fresh Eye about Visual Culture in Europe. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Mediation, Ethics, and Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Chair for panelet "Mediating Opacity in Visual Culture". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Chair, keynote by Lisa Parks: "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Moderator for keynote by Lisa Parks, on "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Main organizer for the conference Monuments: The 26th Biennial Nordic Association for American Studies Conference.. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Chair for the panel "Monuments in Popular Culture.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Respondent to "Political Role of New Media in Relation to American Literature and Culture" and to "The Importance of Global Digital Literacy". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Main organizer and chair of the seminar "The Ethics of Surveillance". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Keynote Address: "Sound and Image Between Narrative and Opacity". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). "Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). A Bibliography of Machine Vision. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). 'Everything was Stories:' The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). Cosmopolitanism and the Right to Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). "On Visuality and Ethics". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). Memory, Art, and Ethics in the Work of John Akomfrah. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). Ruben Östlund and the Cinema of Vulnerability. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). Film og den Etiske Imaginasjon. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). Angelopoulos, Akomfrah and "The Elsewhere of the Image.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). "A New Ethics For Biovisual Screens". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). "Remediation, Ethics and the Transaesthetic". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). Figuring Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Ernie Gehr and the Aesthetic Imaginary. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Cinema's Gestural Connectivities. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Toward an Aesthetics of Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). "The Virtues of Opacity in a World Without Shadows". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). "Remediation, Ethics, and the Transaesthetic". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Leviathan and the Ecological Screen. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "The Aesthetic Imaginary: Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "The Ethics of Transgression". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "'The Honey of the Invisible:' Experimental Documentary and the Ethics of Memory". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Organizer & chair for the symposium "Contested Spaces". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses and the Ethics of Memory. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Archival Migrations: The Organic Image in John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "The Organic Image in Nostalgia For the Light and The Nine Muses". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Towards an Ethics of Distortion: Post-human Visuality in Leviathan". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Refigurations of Walden: Notes on Contagious Mediation". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "'Every Form is a Face looking at us:' The Ethical Encounter in Kiarostami's Shirin". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Here is a Picture of no Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "The Two Disciplines, Cinema Studies and Art History," Round table: Moving Images or Moving Theory? The Role of Film Studies in Creating Social Agenda for Visual Culture. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Thinking Disciplinarity in an Age of Transmediality". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). The Nomadikon Lecture Series 8-11. Organizer and respondent. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Images Opaque and Precarious: On Ernie Gehr and the Boundaries of Discernibility". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Temporality, Presence, and Slow Cinema". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Precarities Material and Conceptual". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Broken Materialities, or Three Forms of Opacity". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Taxonomies of Violence.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Deltager og kommentator. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). First opponent for Lise Majgaard Mortensens Ph.D thesis "Towards a Revival of Representation: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Novel at the End of Postmodernism". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Arrangør av The 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Spaces, Images within Images. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Enfolded By Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Notes on the Power of the Precarious Aesthetic". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Moderator for TBLRs forskerskoleseminar "On Jacques Rancière.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Writing Seeing (1): Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Writing Seeing 1: Transaesthetic Resonances". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "A Cinema of Gestures: Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Entropic Cinema: The Case of Antichrist/Irréversible.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "'Clear-eyed visions of the Particular:' Transaesthetic Resonances in Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Don DeLillo's Point Omega.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). Words of Welcome. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Explaining Ourselves to the Image: Ethics and Form in Morris, Folman and Haneke.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Arrangør av konferansen The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Archives of Violence". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Toward a Transaesthetic Dispositif: Approaching Disciplinarity Through Deleuze". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "On the Unwatchable". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Deltagelse uten paper. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Visuell Kultur i Norden.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Panel discussion on "Creativity and Mediation from Husserl to Whitehead and Back.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Presentasjon av Nomadikon for studenter på Visuell Kultur-Verksted, Københavns Universitet. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Medarrangør av "Between the Aesthetical and the Political". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). "Om forholdet mellom estetisk teori og estetisk praksis.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Pluralizing Visual Culture: Roundtable Discussion.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "The Death of Cinema and the Rise of Visual Culture Studies". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "The Ethical Life of Images". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "The Unwatchable, or, the Fork in the Eye". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Transmedial Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Arrangør av The First Nomadikon Meeting: Pluralizing Visual Culture. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Arrangør av konferansen The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. (external link)
• Lien, Sigrid; Vågnes, Øyvind; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Amerikabilder. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Kommentator, moderator, medarrangør av "Concepts, Meaning, Interpretation, Intention (med Toril Moi)". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Cinema and its Place in the Digital Era: The New Architecture of Image Studies". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Theorizing Disciplinarity: The Case of Cinema Studies and its Vanishing Objects". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Ekphrastic Migrations: Showing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Performing Landscape in Recent Art Cinema.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). Moderator, kommentator, medarrangør av "Det Estetiske i Litteratur-, kunst- og kulturforskningen". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). "The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). "The Place of Cinema in the Era of Visual Studies". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2006). Abject Desire:Anatomie de l’enfer and the Unwatchable. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Last Year at the Ambassador: Pastness in The Decay of Fiction. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Music of the Handsome Family. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in David Fincher's Fight Club. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Denis Johnson's Postmodern Lazarus: Transforming Faith in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). "Vår Tids Redsel For Alvor:" Nokre Refleksjonar Rundt Roy Anderssons Sanger Fra Andre Etasje. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). Rossellini and the Transtextual. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). Love Among the Ruins: Memory and Iconology in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). Bazin and the Question of Filmicity in the Digital Age. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). The Rhetoric of the Historical Fiction Film. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception, and Aesthetic Framework. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Andre Bazin and the Substance of Filmicity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception and Aesthetic Framework. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Film Beyond Photography: The Politics of Artificiality. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). The Lying Game?: Historical Fiction and the Re-Invention of the "Past". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2000). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2000). "Abject Topographies: Images of Male Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2000). Peckinpah’s Walden: The Violent Indictment of ”Civilization” in The Wild Bunch. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (1999). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: On Reading The Wild Bunch as a Narrative of Regeneration. (external link)

Interview Journal

• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2024). Sett med Kvitt Blikk:" Intervju med Nicholas Mirzoeff. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2019). Televisual epistemologies and beyond - an interview with Lisa Parks. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2013). Om Skriving, Teori og Vitenskap: Intervju med Bruno Latour. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2012). "Objekt og Nettverk: Et Møte med David Joselit". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2011). "Interview with Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Utsnitt av en Elegisk Epistemologi". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Bak Kameraet: Intervju med Mieke Bal (andre del)". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). "Questionnaire: Hva er Visuell Kultur?". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). "Visuell Kultur, og Hvorfor vi skal være skeptiske: Et Intervju med James Elkins.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). "Migrasjonstenkeren: Et intervju med Mieke Bal". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). "Vi må gi fortiden lov til å eldes:" Intervju med Michael Ann Holly". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). "Ut av seg sjølv". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2007). "Intervju med Martin Jay". (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Debatt! Ut og stjæle tekster: Kva er eigentleg god kjeldebruk?. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). "Filmkunsten i nåtid og fremtid". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). "François Ozon - En Innledning". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Begrunnelse for juryens valg av vinner til det internasjonale dokumentarfilmprogrammet under Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival 2014. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Sediments: Experience, Story, Image" co-organizer (with Lene Johannessen). (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Holy Motors - noen innganger. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Om veiledning". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). Respondent på Ina Bloms foredrag "The Autobiography of Video". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Presentasjon av tidsskriftet Ekfrase. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Video interview for "Transformations in Screen Culture.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Nomadikon: Status, aktiviteter og planer". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). Chinatown i kontekst. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Forbudte Bilder. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Tid og Erindring i Theo Angelopoulos' Evigheten og En Dag. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). Voyeurist Culture: Critical Perspectives on The Truman Show. (external link)

Popular scientific article

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). "Ahhh!: Om David Bordwells begeistringsevne og kinofilmpoetikk". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). "Anti-demokratane: Mellom Demokrati og ytringsfridom - James Buchanan og det Radikale Høgre i USA". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). Mellom Demokrati og Ytringsfridom: James Buchanan og det radikale Høgre i USA. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "Birth of a Nation" - ein rasistisk klassikar fyller hundre". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). Den Ekstreme Humanismen - Ubehag på Film. (external link)

Lecture

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Chair of guest lecture "A24 and the New Indie Auteur" by Kim Wilkins and Bruce Isaacs. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Soundscapes of the South Symposium - organizer. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Presentation of book project: Introuduction to Visual Culture. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Organizer and chair for the conference "Utopia and Dystopia in Historical, Political and Aesthetic Perspective". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). "Ways of Seeing". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Main organizer for "The Microutopia Workshop". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Introduction: Book launch of Jeg Skulle Si Storm - Boka om Ways of Seeing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Participant in panel debate - book launch for Jeg Skulle Si Storm: Boka om Ways of Seeing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Opposisjon til Endre Eidsaa Larsens disputas "Filmens Figurer: En figural tilnærming til film og filmanalyse". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State - gjesteforelesning på emnet "Visuell Kultur - Posisjoner". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). "Har vi forstått Ways of Seeing?". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). "Songs of Faith and Devotion: Low's Double Negative and the Poetics of Opacity". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). First opponent for Katrin Kangur's PhD dissertation “Poetics of adaptation and point of view: literary and documentary sources of the historical-biographical film.”. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). Cinematic Realism and the Aesthetics of Duration. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). "Internal Realism". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). The Aesthetic Imaginary and the Case of Ernie Gehr. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). "Filmvoldens tropologi og etikk". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Advice on career development. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Wrap-Up: The Bergen Sessions. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Faces and the Phenomenology of the Face - Co-organizer. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). "Om Intermedialitet, Ekfrase og det Transestetiske". (external link)

Other presentation

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Main organizer of the workshop "Critical Aesthetics". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). The Universal Periodic Review by Hanan Benammar - panel participant. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Text read at the awards ceremony, as member of the jury for the 2012 Norwegian Peace Film Award, Tromsø International Film Festival. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). The 2012 Norwegian Peace Film Award. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Archives of Violence". (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). Art and Justice in the Age of Neoliberalism. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2024). The Ethical Politics of Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Rhythm in Moving Image Media. (external link)
• Johannessen, Lene Marite; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Microdystopias. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). On Confinement, Sameness, and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos's Alps. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Nomadland, Neoliberalism and the Microdystopic. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Images and Ethics. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2021). ‘Everything Was Stories’: The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Museum Movies, Documentary Space, and the Transmedial. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). The Two Unwatchables. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2019). Invisibility Matters. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). Invisibility and the Ethics of Erasure: Khaled Barakeh's The Untitled Images. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2018). The Aesthetic Imaginary and the Case of Ernie Gehr. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gustafsson, Henrik; Vågnes, Øyvind (2017). Gestures of Seeing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). Remediation, Ethics and the Transaesthetic. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2017). John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses and the Ethics of Memory. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Impaired Images and the Boundaries of Discernibility". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Transaesthetic Temporalities: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of Deceleration. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Refigurations of Walden: Notes on Contagious Mediation. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Here is a Picture of No Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "'Nothing Ever Ends:' Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gustafsson, Henrik (2014). Giorgio Agamben and the Shape of Cinema to Come. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). Haneke’s Amour and the Ethics of Dying. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). Enfolded by Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage.. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). "Writing Seeing: Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). On the Unwatchable. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2010). Dead Time, Empty Spaces: Landscape as Sensibility and Performance. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). Introduction. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). Isaac Julien's looking for Langston and the limits of the visible world. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2006). Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in Fight Club. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). The Lying Game? Historical Films and the Re-Invention of the "Past". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Reservoir Dogs. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Peckinpah's Walden: The Violent Indictment of 'Civilization' in The Wild Bunch. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). To Fail Better: Production and Rhetoric in Curtiz' and Richardson's Light Brigades. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Welang, Nahum (2023). The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Nature as violent and violated : Five essays on the visual culture of the Anthropocene . (external link)
• Hoath, Pauline Ann; Grønstad, Asbjørn; Lien, Sigrid (2019). A Photographic View from Below. A Soldier's Story from the Mandates of Iraq and Palestine 1922-1926.. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2019). A Photograph View From Below: A Soldier's Story From the Mandates of Iraq and Palestine 1922-1926.. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). Transfigurations: Violence, Death, and Masculinity in American Cinema. (external link)

Reader opinion piece

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2023). Teatervitskap og det Nasjonale Perspektivet. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Perspektiver på Tverrfaglighet. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2009). Litt om med(ie)vitskap. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2009). "Litt om med(ie)vitskap.". (external link)

Book review

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Bokanmeldelse: Reframing Toddy Haynes. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). "Less than zero: McGurls tidsriktige reduksjonisme". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). The Velvet Underground - 'things always seem to end before they start'. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Anmeldelse av D.N. Rodowick: Elegy For Theory. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). Zero Dark Thirty og den nye revisjonismen. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2012). "Now! Visual Culture: The International Association of Visual Culture Studies, New York City, 31. mai - 2. juni 2012". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Filosofen for en komparativ estetikk". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Filmmaktens Fysiognomi? Anmeldelse av Christian Refsum & Eivind Røssaak, Kyssing og Slåssing: Fire Kapitler om Film. (external link)

Academic article

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Screening absence. (external link)
• Gustafsson, Henrik; Vågnes, Øyvind; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Gestures of Seeing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2013). "Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin and the Aesthetics of Ethical Intimacy". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Is there a transmedial dispositif? : aesthetic epistemes and the question of disciplinarity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Ekphrasis refigured: writing seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). "Is There a Transmedial Dispositif? Aesthetic Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). 'No One Goes to the Movies Anymore:' Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion's In the Cut.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). Downcast eyes: Michael Haneke and the cinema of intrusion. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Teljekantar og Teljefantar: Om Forsking, Formidling og den Tospråklege Fordringa". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). Disiplin og Purisme: Eit Essay om Transmedial Kultur. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2007). "Disiplin og Purisme: Eit essay om transmedial kultur". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2006). An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2006). Denis Johnson's postmodern Lazarus: Transforming faith in 'Resuscitation of a Hanged Man'. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2006). Abject Desire: Anatomie de l'enfer and the unwatchable. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Tiresijin pogled: Joyce, Rossellini iikonologija mrtvih. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Om Minnet, Historia, Gløymsla: Godards Eloge de l'amour. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Handsome Family and the Topographical Uncanny. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). "Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (II)". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (1). (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). Gathering at the River: Ford, Peckinpah and the Failure of the Communal. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2003). One-Dimensional Men: Fight Club and the Poetics of the Body. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). Fortolkningens Hegemoni: Om Filmkritikkens Usynliggjøring av Estetikken. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2002). Back to Bazin?: Filmicity in the Age of the Digital Image. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Topographies of Defeat: Masculinity and Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2001). Straitjacketing the Image: Illocutionary Writing and the Obstruction of Cine-Semiosis in Hawks' Scarface. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (1999). "Tid, bevegelse og narrasjon. Bordwells neoformalisme i lys av Deleuzes cinesofi". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (1999). Tid, Bevegelse og Narrasjon i Film. Bordwells Neoformalisme i Lys av Deleuzes Cinesofi. (external link)

Short communication

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Historier om blikk. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Publisering og språk, revisited. (external link)

Chapter

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). Hva vi burde snakket om når vi snakket om Ways of Seeing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2022). White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2017). Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). "Farwell to Visual Studies - Comment". (external link)

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Johannessen, Lene Marite (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gustafsson, Henrik; Vågnes, Øyvind (2017). Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. (external link)
• Gustafsson, Henrik; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gustafsson, Henrik (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Henrik, Gustafsson (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. (external link)
• Gustafsson, Henrik; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). Coverscaping : discovering album aesthetics. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Johannessen, Lene M (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. (external link)

Programme management

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). The Microdystopia Workshop - Co-organizer. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Ytringsfrihet og akademisk frihet: Debatt om rasisme og sexisme. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Johnny Cash Digital Event. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2021). Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State: A Controversial Play and its Contexts. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2020). Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2016). Film and the Ethical Imagination. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema. (external link)

Editorial

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Editorial, Changing Screen Cultures. (external link)
• Gustafsson, Henrik; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2015). Editorial: American, British and Canadian Studies, special issue: “Changing Screen Cultures: New Archaeologies, Ecologies, Topologies.”. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2014). "Leder". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2013). Leder. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2013). Leder. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2012). "Leder". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2012). "Leder". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2011). "Leder.". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2011). Leder. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind; Marcus, Greil et al. (2011). INTERVIEW WITH GREIL MARCUS AND WERNER SOLLORS. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). "Leder". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2010). Leder. (external link)

Introduction

• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Henrik, Gustafsson (2012). "Introduction.". (external link)

Academic literature review

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). New American Cinema. (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2008). "Jean-Luc Godard". (external link)
• Grønstad, Asbjørn; Vågnes, Øyvind (2007). Mot ein ny biletvitskap: Intervju med W.J.T. Mitchell. (external link)

Poster

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2005). Kiarostami, Nancy og Det Etiske Blikket. (external link)

Programme participation

• Grønstad, Asbjørn (2004). Intervju om amerikansk filmvold. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Monographs

Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State

Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (utkommer desember 2020).

Film and the Ethical Imagination (2016).

Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema (2012).

Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008).

 

Anthologies

Microdystopias

Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (2019).

Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight (2016).

Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing (2016).

Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014).

Ethics and Images of Pain (2012).

Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics (2010).

To Become the Self One is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter (2005).

 

 

Ongoing book projects:

* Aesthetics, Neoliberalism, Isegoria.

* The Poetics of Mourning: Cinema, Literature, Music

* Sleater-Kinney

* The Soundscapes Project

 

 

Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image (Trond Mohn Stiftelse (tidl. Bergen Forskningsstiftelse) 2008-2013).