Experimental software researcher and artist. Digital media content and -tool designer, creating and improving technologies for expression and communication.
Exhibitions
- 2005
- Moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Solo exhibition of a set of interactive video art installation. - 2006
- SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Boston
now by then exhibited. - 2007
- Digitale Spor, Bergen
Videography
- 2004
- One Direction
Music video for Abòn
script, editing, postproduction. - 2004
- My Religion
Music video for TNT
concept, editing, compositing, postproduction. - 2003
- I See You
Music video for Abòn
Indie Music Video Festival tour 2003
editing, postproduction. - 2002
- Flis (Short)
Minimalen Kortfilmfestival 2003
script, editing, postproduction. - 1998
- Gargleblasters (Short)
script, acting.
Publications
- STRESS: A framework for spatial color algorithms.
- Øyvind Kolås, Ivar Farup, and Allesandro Rizzi. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2011.
- Efficient hue-preserving and edge-preserving spatial color gamut mapping.
- Øyvind Kolås and Ivar Farup. 15th Color Imaging Conference, 2007.
- Grey Colour Sharpening
- Ali Alsam and Øyvind Kolås. CIC 14 IS&T&SID's Fourteenth Color Imaging Conference, 2006.
- Increasing Assignment Motivation Using a Game AI Tournament
- Øyvind Kolås and Ivar Farup. The 8th Annual Conference on Innovation in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'03), 2003. PDF (requires ACM login).
- Color Management for Digital Video: Color Correction in the Editing Phase.
- Jon Y. Hardeberg and Ivar Farup and Øyvind Kolås and Gudmund Stjernvang. 29th International iarigai Research Conference. Proceedings: Advances in Graphic Arts & Media Technology, 2002.
Awards
- 2012
- Society for Imaging Science and Technology - Charles E. Ives Award in in recognition of an outstanding contribution in the area of basic or applied science or engineering published in a Society journal (JIST or JEI) during the preceding calendar year.
- 2009
- Norwegian UNIX User Groups Award for furthering of free software
Libre Software
- lyd
- Realtime audio-synthesis/-processing framework, primary author.
- babl
- Dynamically extendable pixel format vocabulary and conversion librar, main author.
- kernagic
- Font auto- spacing/kerning tool.
- fontile
- Modular/tile-grid based font-authoring system.
- GEGL
- Graph based image processing framework. Became maintaner of and restarted then dormant project in 2005.
- pinpoint
- Simple text format driven presentation tool for primarily visual presentations.
- nchanterm
- Tiny UTF-8 ANSI/VT102 terminal abstraction in C
- gluas
- An IDE for image-processing algorithms using lua for GIMP, author.
- horizon
- Zoom- and pan-able sketch/scribble application for tablet PCs, primary author.
- isthmus
- Linux distribution/platform builder and package manager, in portable shell script.
- hal91
- Abandoned single floppy linux live distribution.
- tv
- Image/slide show viewer for use in graphics capable terminals and directly on framebuffer in Linux
- gedl
- Video editing software on top of GEGL (not yet distributed)
- hnb
- An outliner / personal information manager.
- cluttersmith
- Integrated wireframing, hypermedia and prototyping development/design suite for Clutter. Development stalled due to lack of interest from employer, and lack of interest in UI tools from Clutter project.
- Clutter
- Work on event handling, text-editing, declarative animations and more.
- GIMP
- Misc. enhancements and technology prototyping, help integrating GEGL - the next generation image processing core.
- cairo
- Former maintainer of Ruby binding.
- Stopmotion
- Stop motion animation creation tool, original project supervisor.
- DaisyPlayer
- Digital Talking Book engine, project supervisor.
Jobs
- 2011-2017
- Independent researcher, and software development contractor,
- 2008-2011
- Intel Corporation, Senior Software Engineer.
- 2007-2008
- Opened Hand, Software Engineer.
- 2002-2007
- Gjøvik University College, Research, Student Project Supervision and Lecturing.
- 1996-1997
- ASIFA, Webmaster
Education
- 2000-2005
- Gjøvik University College, Bachelor of digital media-technology. Multi-media authoring, video production, telepresence production, typography, image processing, ergonomics for digital mediums, object oriented programming, web programming, software engineering.
- 1998-1999
- Strykejernet Artschool - Oslo, Norway/Can Serrat El Bruc, Independent school of fine arts, workshops in drawing, painting, printing, materials knowledge, iron smithing, stained glass techniques, darkroom photoprinting.
- 1994-1998
- Volda Highschool
- 1996-1997
- Rønningen Folkehøyskole - visual arts and scultping with clay/ceramics.
Teaching experience
Subjects of understanding and hands on use of programming and
digital media technoglogies on bachelor level. Curriculum development
as well as supervision of a wide range of final year projects
developing software solutions.
Presentations
- Grinding Pixels in the Digital Domain
- Øyvind Kolås Latinoware, Foz de Igazu; Brazil October 2013
- GIMP, higher bitdepths and beyond
- Øyvind Kolås Open Source Developers Conference, Sydney Australia. December 2012
- The Goat Invasion - LGM 2012
- Michael Natterer and Øyvind Kolås, LibreGraphicsMeeting 2012 - Vienna.
- Color code and creativty - invited presentation
- Øyvind Kolås. create, Colour in art, science, design, conservation, research, printmaking, digital technologies, textiles., June 2010, Gjøvik Norway.
- GEGL
- Øyvind Kolås. GUADEC, July 2008 Istanbul, Turkey.
- Using and Extending GEGL
- Øyvind Kolås. Libre Graphic Meeting 2008, May 2008 Wrocław, Poland.
- Clutter - Leveraging GPUs for next generation mobile user interfaces.
- Øyvind Kolås. Bossa'08, March 2008 Pernambucho, Brasil.
- GIMP/GEGL
- Øyvind Kolås. FSCONS 2007, December 2007 Gothenburg, Sweden.
- GEGL - a graph based image processing and compositing engine.
- Øyvind Kolås. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007, May 2007 Montréal, Canada.
- The state of GEGL
- Øyvind Kolås. FOSDEM, February 2007 Brussels Belgium.
- GEGL and babl
- Øyvind Kolås. Piksel 06, October 2006 Bergen Norway.
- GIMP, the next generation
- Plans and state of GEGL revival. Libre Graphic Meeting (GUADEC), March 2006 Lyon France.
- Custom widgets using GtkCairo
- Introduction to the cairo API and early integration with GTK+. The 5th annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), 2004. PDF