My research and projects examine urban media aesthetic phenomena and (media) art in engagement with societal and urban change, in a global perspective. Since ancient times, art and the arts have been anchor points of human consciousness and considered fundamental…
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In 2018-2020 I am taking up a post-doctoral research project on ‘expanded reality’ at The New School and the City University of Hong Kong. The research is focused on a trajectory of (emotional) change occurring in our human relationship with…
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I am honored to have my PhD thesis abstract among the top-ranked by LABS. The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) is an evolving, comprehensive database of thesis abstracts (PhD, Masters and MFA) on topics at the intersections between art, science and…
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I lead the Screen City Biennial’s Research Program, which makes an investigative, disseminative and intellectual backbone to the Biennial’s exhibition program. It facilitates research on artistic practice and thinking and space for curatorial reflection. Presenting talks, discussions, publications and symposium…
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PhD Dissertation, 2017, Copenhagen University. The dissertation unfolds through an inquiry into human perceptual experience in media aesthetic conditions of our contemporary communicative existence. This aesthetic condition is approached in a process-philosophical, Bergsonian framework in the notion of aesthetics in…
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I was invited by MUTEK to moderate this panel during the MUTEK_IMG Festival in Montreal, for which MUTEK had invited a number of creators and curators from Montréal and abroad to present their work, including Thibaut Duverneix, Jean-François Larouche, Max…
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In January and February 2018 I took up a curatorial residency at AVXLab in São Paulo, directed by Demétrio Portugal and Lucas Bambozzi. During the residency I examined current tendencies and trajectories of urban media art in the Brazilian context,…
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This keynote titled Urban Art & Change was invited for the Elektronika Festival in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in January 2018. It addresses a foundation for examining how urban art can challenge and participate in processes of urban change. In light…
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This publication examines how digital culture influences how artists work today, the intuitions and imaginations they work from, their orientations and inquiries. Based on interviews with 78 artists belonging to the Nordic art context, this book examines art’s changing trajectories,…
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Article in SCB Journal, Vol. 1 October 2017, an artistic research journal presented by the Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway. How may art, as autonomous manifestation and a domain intimately related to human experience, take part in the technological development…
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Article in ISEA2016 Proceedings, Hong Kong, 2016, based on research on a global phenomena of projecting colors of national flags following terror attacks, on urban surfaces and in architectural lighting schemes. This article departs in the observation of a worldly…
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Book Chapter in Media Architecture Compendium: Digital Placemaking, M. Hank Häusler, Martin Tomitsch, Luke Hespanhol and Gernot Tscherteu (eds.), Stuttgart: Avedition Gmbh , 2017. While digital placemaking has positive development of our urban environments in sight, oftentimes collaborating with government…
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Invited speaker at Media Architecture Summit, Toronto, Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2016. My talk was titled Inquires of Urgency in Urban Media Art and Aesthetics and addressed the session topic of ’24-Hour Media Architecture’ from a critical perspective on…
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What Urban Media Art Can Do – Why When Where & How? Edited by Susa Pop, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo and Mark Wright Urban media art is possibly one of the most momentous expansions within the field of contemporary…
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Keynote at Live The City, at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (BACC), June 7, 2016, co-organized by Connecting Cities, Goethe Institut Thailand, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and Siam Center. With the title ‘What Urban Media Art Can Do,’ with…
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Founding, teaching and direction together with Susa Pop of a new educational program on urban media art. The Urban Media Art Academy is a networked, global educational initiative that investigates and intermediates urban media art as an interdisciplinary domain of…
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I was invited as moderator of the panel ‘From In/Visible City to Open Source City’ at the Connecting Cities Symposium in Brussels, March 11, 2016. Panelists: Loraine Furter, Nerea Calvillo and Darko Fritz. The symposium offered an overview of previous activities…
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Keynote at City Link 2015: Reimagining the City, October 30, 2015, in Copenhagen. City Link 2015 contains talks and debates, workshops, exhibitions, dinner and pop-up concerts. It explores new ways of thinking about creativity and social communities, and is focused on gaining new…
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I contributed with an interview for the Uplace Project, “A Museum without a Place: Intangible Museography and Virtual Exhibitions” to a hypothetical online conversation between ‘professionals who have dedicated themselves to digital art and virtual museums’, including: André Sier, CADA…
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Invited on the Curatorial Advisory Board for the Open Sky Gallery on the facade of the ICC Tower in Hong Kong, curated and initiated in 2015 by Maurice Benayoun. This project aims to open up new opportunities for emerging media artists to produce…
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In this interview of May 2012, recorded in the area around the United Nations’ building uptown Manhattan, German media artist, Michael Najjar and I talk about his 2013 space flight on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. Produced by Streaming Museum. [30…
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In March 2012 I moderated a panel with the 2011 NYFA Fellows and Finalists Sophie Kahn, caraballo-farman, Jason Bernagozzi, Michael Greathouse, James Case-Leal, and Karolina Sobecka, whose works had been invited for the exhibition CYBORG ALARM: When Technology, Imagination and Body Collide. The panel discussion addressed the…
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In this video interview of January 2012 I speak with French media artist Maurice Benayoun about his work and visions for media art in urban public space. We talk about his artistic practice, the post digital, the future of the museum, and…
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Together with Jack Toolin and Teri Rueb, I was invited by curator and prof. Christiane Paul for this panel during ISEA2011 in Istanbul on September 19, 2011. We discussed categories of locative, site-specific media art and their impact on understanding…
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