Jana Winderen studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London (1990-93) with a background in Mathematics and Chemistry at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 she has worked in Bergen and Oslo as an artist and producer/curator of independent international art projects; "12 Nights", "Street Level", "Motlyd", "freq_out 2", "Bandrom3". At Atelier Nord Jana Winderen produced the "Generator.x" conference and "Trolley Singers" and "ABA logic". She is presently working as a freelance producer. Jana has exhibited and performed her work in Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, France, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Japan, China and Thailand.

Sound has taken a predominant place in Jana's work since 1992. Her sound installation work is primarily concerned with interactions with the audience and the acoustics of a specific space. In the 1990s she worked predominantly in public spaces... Since 2004 she has been touring with an interactive sensor instrument for the production "The art of walking on water", made in collaboration with Jørgen Trœen and Trond Lossius. Earlier works include "Hard Rain" (2006), an interactive sound installation based on motion tracking, which was exhibited at "The Idea of North" in Canada and in the exhibition "Up.2.Date" in The Netherlands. Jana is also a member of the group sound installation "freq_out" curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, recently shown at "Happy New Ears" in Kortrijk, Belgium (2008).

Jana has for the last 3 years been researching the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses is brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from unseen sources of sound. Her most recent sound works include "Submerge" (2008), for Fargfäbriken Norr in Sweden, based on hydrophone recordings in the local lake, "Rainbow Audio Transformation" (2008) at Extra City in Antwerp, Belgium and the 6 channel sound installation "+4°C - from Folgefonna to the North Sea" (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary of Edvard Greig, "Greig07" in Norway.

Future projects includes an album released through Touch based on hydrophone recordings from the Icefjord Kangia by Ilulissat in Greenland, and the installation "Voices from the Deep" in collaboration with Chris Watson. Recently BBC Radio 4 followed Jana on her recording trip to the Barents Sea for the radio series "World on the Move".

"I like the immateriality of a sound work and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last two year I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean, and more recently also from glaciers in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. In the depths of the oceans there are invisible but audible soundscapes, about which we are largely ignorant, even if the oceans cover 70% of our planet. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations, currently also for film, radio, CD and vinyl productions."

Her first album is due through Touch early in 2009...