CPA [Consistent Partial Attention] is an exercise in ‘nowness’; Olafson engages as an interface, streaming real-time translations of data/movement.

Developed through digital collage, the CPA performance is guided by a video score of pre-existing/found Internet footage of individuals improvising in their homes. Through the rich confluence of sources in CPA, dance emerges as a vernacular, learned language that both reflects and reshapes our embodied experience in the age of the Internet.

This performance returns Olafson’s 2013 60-minute stage work CPA [Consistent Partial Attention] to the internet, in a condensed version first performed via skype in 2017 from Olafson’s studio using a webcamera, the open source Mac OS X plugin Syphon and the software Isadora.

Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, animation, motion capture, XR, painting, and performance. Olafson has exhibited and performed internationally at the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), LUDWIG museum (Budapest), and Ochoymedio (Ecuador) among others.

Olafson has benefitted from residencies, most notably through EMPAC—Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York) and Counterpulse (San Francisco). Recent awards and recognitions include the ‘Sobey Art Award’ longlist (2020), the 'Lumen Prize for Art & Technology' longlist (2021) and the OFFTA/Mois Multi—Hybridity Grant (2025).

Olafson’s performance ‘AVATAR’ (2009) was published in 2021 as a score/script for Playwrights Canada Press’ “Long Live the New Flesh: Six Plays from the Digital Frontier”. In 2026 her chapter about performance capture will be published in the “Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Animation Studies”.

Olafson was Assistant Professor in Screendance within the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto (2017–2021). Since July 2021, Olafson is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media at the School of Art/University of Manitoba.