Magnus Bärtås is an artist, writer and Professor of Fine Arts at the Konstfack in Stockholm, working with text, video, objects and installation. He has recently exhibited at Platform-09 in Seoul and the 4th Bucharest Biennale. His video works have been screened at Centre Pompidou; Gothenburg International Filmfestival; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and The Powerplant Gallery, Toronto; among other venues. His dissertation You Told Me – Work stories and video essays, examining narrative models in contemporary art and the practice of the video essay, was published in May 2010.