Erlend Eidsem Hansen

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Erlend Eidsem Hansen (September 18, 1972 in Oslo) is a Norwegian larpwright and documentary filmmaker.
He lives in Oslo, Norway. He is the father of 2 sons.

Background

He has grown up in the 70ies and 80ies Eastenders Oslo surrounded by a workingclass, whitetrash environment. Equal to many other norwegians Erlend has gone through the classjourney from workingclass to cultural academic upper middleclass during the economic oilboom of Norway during the 80ies and 90ies. This means that he worked in a chocolatefactory when he was 18 years, but that he now is thoroughly educated and works as a filmdirector. As a consequence, Erlend has 10-15 years of education more than anyone in his family that is older than him. When it comes to explaining larp to people not familiar with the concept, this teaches a few lessons, but also gives a few prejudices to other acedemically oriented people.

Editor

• The Book (2001) - The first of the Knutepunkt-books - The Knutepunktbook of 2001

Author

• 8 Ways of Larphacking - article in Playground Magazine nr. 5 (2012)
• Trenne Byar - chapter in the Nordic Larp (2010)
• LarpHacking - a wiki, a workshop, a speech and an article - here is the wiki: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Category:LarpHacking (it would be awsome if someone helped me locate the juicy interesting parts of it and made small articles here..)
• Dogma 99 - involved in the development of the vows and organised the Dogma game Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid (Love in the Age of Debasement)
• Sex at Larps - article in Fëa Livia (Magazine) (2002)
• Rituals and Ceremonies - article in Fëa Livia (Magazine) (2001)
• "Sex and Larp" in The Book (2001)
• Guru Larp Fanzine (1993,1994) - little ranting fanzine on larping - most noted for its article on railroading, branching and marble dramaturgies in larp. Also known as the Theory of marbles.

Larps

He has organised and designed more than 40 larplike and larp-projects and participated in around 250 different productions since the very beginning of the larptradition in Norway in 1989. He has read over 3000 characterdescriptions and been a consultant for the design of over 1000 characters over the years.

Larpwright (designer/co-designer)

• Rød Oktober (2011)
• Dommedagsaften (2011)
• Ivans Vannhull (2010) - (Laivfabrikken Oslo)
• Marcellos kjeller (2010) - (Laivfabrikken Oslo)
• The Oasis (version I + version II) (2009,2011) - (Laivfabrikken Oslo)
• The Baader Meinhof eXperiment (2010) (Oslo,Västerås,Stockholm) - (Laivfabrikken Oslo)
• Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid (2001, 2002, 2009, 2010) - (Laivfabrikken Oslo)
• Agabadan I (2008)
• Strangedays - The dream of the Appleliquor (2004)
• AmerikA (2000) - concept development, scenographer, video and lights
• Elegi (2000) (Fantasy)
• Moirais Vev (1997)
• Flammenes Natt (Night of the Flames) (1995) - Fantasylarp for youngsters 14-20 years old
• NÀR II (1994)
• Nosferatu Trilogy (1993, 1994, 1995(only as player), 1996)
• The Celtic and Vikinglarp (Oslo Winterlarps 1993) (Ravn)
• The Mafia Larp (1992)
• Vingulmork 1196 (Oslo Winterlarps 1992) (Ravn)
• Summerlarps (1990,1990,1991) (Ravn)

Contributing organizer

• A Mothers heart (2010) - (Laivfabrikken Oslo)
• A fistful of Thyllium (2009) - only as a consultant designer and co-fascilliator of this collectivestyle larp
• inside:outside (2001) - videotechnician and runtime gamemastering
• KyberGenesis (1997) (Videotechnician, designer of the in-game Tv-channel and the rituals worshipping videoimages of the AIs)
• Call of Ravn (1992)
• Summerlarps (1992) (1998) (Ravn)

Designer of Larplike projects

• Ritual Workshop - Knutpunkt Sweden 2010
• Changez - A larpconcept for a clubbing venue inspired by David Bowie - Club Mezzo, Oslo, 1999
• Strangedays (2005) - A zombielarp organised as a project inside a project, within the Rock Festival, Strangedays
• Reclaim (2002) - Sort of pervasive game - not really larp more activism
• Storytellers Workshop - Knudepunkt Denmark 1999
• The magic Loo (1999) - part larp, part tv-documentary. kind of philosophical 1-person realitytvshow

Organizations

• Knutepunkt - (one of the founders of the first Knutepunkt i 1997, organiser in 2001, videotechnician in 2005, suborganiser in 2009, program committee in 2013)
• Laivfabrikken Oslo
• Fantasiforbundet
• Nosferatu
• Ravn

Contact

• erlendeh@gmail.com
• http://www.facebook.com/eidsem
• a list of his larp track record can be found at the archive of the Norwegian webportal of larp, laiv.org - http://www.laiv.org/laiv/DetStore.nsf/ (Search for name)

External Links

• Dramaturgic Models (with Eirik Fatland) - http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Dramaturgic_Models

List of Relevant articles by Erlend Eidsem Hansen hopefully later to be known as Articles for Larpwriters and Designers

(this might not be very cosher way to write wiki, but lets face it, this is what we got, and it´s subjective, so why deny it..)

• The Book - Knutepunkt 2001

Building Dramatics - Susanne Gräslund - (while she organised Knappenålshovudet) - http://fate.laiv.org/pub/build_dram.htm

• As Larp Grows Up - Knudepunkt 2003

Role-Playing as Interactive Construction of Subjective Diegesis - http://www.laivforum.dk/kp03_book/classics/dogma99.pdf - cryptic article from a young Montola and Stenros - but it´s the origin of the Diegesis term

Although it should be made clear that practical people more into larpmaking and film-making might approve more of the explanation between diegetic and non-diegetic sound here: http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm (then you would have to make the analogy over to the larp-media yourself, but reading this, you should be capable of that already.)

The Multi-tier Game Immersion Theory - J. Tuomas Harviainen - useless for gamedesigners - avoid it unless you love sidetracks and want to know read everything