In this Leonardo Laser Talks talk I explore an anticipative motive in art, which I propose is reflective of an anticipative cultural drive that shapes our techno-cultural reality today. I come about techno-cultural future-drives, Futurism, techno-anthropology, art’s casting in Horizon-calls,…
Read MoreDeep Learning for Digital Competences in the Humanities
As a part of the University Pedagogy course for assistant professors (adjunkt) at University of Copenhagen, I have initiated a project focused on digital competences in the humanities. The project builds on a pedagogical focus explored during my course block…
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Speculations on Entanglements of the Art-Subject With Contemporary Technogenesis
Talk at the Ars Electronica HK Garden symposium: Post-Human Art: Robots, Aliens, Chess and Tokens.
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After The Tunnel: on shifting ontology and ethology of the emerging art-subject
Paper and presentation with Maurice Benayoun at ISEA2020 Montreal.
Read MoreArt and the Broken Mirror: A technogenetic perspective on digitally expanded realities
Paper and presentation at ISEA2020 Montreal.
Read MoreChair of the ISEA International Advisory Committee (IIAC)
The IIAC is comprised of international experts from the fields of art, science and technology. Their role is to advise the ISEA International Board board and the ISEA Headquarters on the selection of bids, archiving, hosting and future developments of…
Read MoreArt Time / Kunsttid
At the Opening Conference of the Center for Art as Forum, I presented the talk (in Danish) Kunsttid (Art Time) offering a temporal perspective on art that engages digital technology.
Read MorePostdoc Fellow at Center for Art as Forum, University of Copenhagen
From June 2020 I take up a two-year postdoc research fellowship at the newly initiated Center for Art as Forum at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University.
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Art of Our Times
Along this research path I examine how art exists with temporalities that we live with and develop through, affected by digital culture and in perspective of contemporary technogenesis.
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Phenomenal Feminisms
PHENOMENAL FEMINISMS is the title of a keynote I proudly delivered at the FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway in Oslo, organized by Zane Cerpina.
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Art, Perception and Expanded Reality
My research on Expanded Reality examines media art and media aesthetic phenomena in perspective of philosophies, neurological theory, and psychologies of (digitally) expanded reality.
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Curatorial Inquiry in Times of Cognitive Crisis
Keynote at Ph.D. Summer Camp, Artistic Production and Curating in The Age of Technogenesis, at CATCH in Elsinore and in the framework of Media Art Histories Re:Sound 2019.
Read MoreDigital Dynamics: Art’s New Ways
This dissemination and event series (2018-2020) of talks, articles and exhibitions excavates and discusses how contemporary art is changing with the digital. It is based on the publication Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2019).
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Digital Dynamics In Nordic Contemporary Art
This book takes you through and beyond a map of Nordic artistic experiments, conceptual reconfigurations and new modes of artistic agency. Edited anthology published by Intellect, 2019.
Read MoreArt of Our Times – Art Machines
Talk at the Art Machines Conference, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, January 2019.
Read MoreMember of the ISEA International Advisory Committee (IIAC)
The IIAC is comprised of international experts from the fields of art, science and technology. Their role is to advise the ISEA International Foundation Board and ISEA Headquarters Executive Director.
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Blockchain, Block Change & the Arts
I gave this introduction at the Microwave Unconference 2018, 27 October 2018, at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong: Microwave Unconference: Blockchain and the Creative Industries
Read MoreLeonardo | Thesis Abstract Among Top-Ranked
I am honored to have my PhD thesis abstract among the top-ranked by the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS).
Read MoreResearch Fellow at City University of Hong Kong
In 2018-2020 I am taking up a research project on ‘expanded reality – radical temporal change in immersive environments’ at City University of Hong Kong, supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.
Read MoreA Topology For Urban Art And Change In Belo Horizonte, Brazil
This keynote titled Urban Art & Change was invited for the Elektronika Festival in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in January 2018. It examines how urban art can challenge and participate in processes of urban change.
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What do we want from urban digital imagery?
Introducing and moderating the panel The Next Frontiers in Urban Digital Imagery at MUTEK_IMG I ask: Are our digital imagery in the urban space taking us culturally and environmentally to futures in which we want to live?
Read MoreVisiting Scholar at The New School, School of Public Engagement
In early 2018 I returned as a Visiting Scholar at The New School in New York City, where I also completed an MA in Media Studies in 2011. During the two-month research stay I developed the methodology for my continuing…
Read MoreCuratorial Residency at AVXLab in São Paulo
During the residency I examined current tendencies and trajectories of urban media art in the Brazilian context, as developing in between fine art, visual culture, architecture, music culture, and movements of resistance, with special attention to modes of resistance in…
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Art in the Intelligent City
This article considers potential current roles for media art in the urban domain of the intelligent city of Stavanger, which among nine other European cities holds the status as ‘smart city lighthouse’.
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Migrating Stories in Stavanger
Curatorial research and written introduction for the Screen City Biennial 2017 – Migrating Stories in Stavanger, Norway.
Read MoreUrban Media Art Academy | Initiation and Teaching
In 2017 I co-initiated the Urban Media Art Academy with Susa Pop. The Urban Media Art Academy is a networked, global educational initiative that investigates and intermediates urban media art as an interdisciplinary domain of practice, theory and knowledge sharing.
Read MoreScreen City Biennial | Curator and Head of Research
From 2016-2018 I developed the Screen City Biennial together with Daniela Arriado. I directed the Biennial’s Research Program, which facilitates research on artistic practice and thinking and space for curatorial reflection as an investigative and disseminative backbone to the Biennial’s…
Read MoreImages Of Urgency: A Curatorial Inquiry With Contemporary Urban Media Art
The dissertation unfolds through an inquiry into human perceptual experience in media aesthetic conditions of our contemporary communicative existence.
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Disobedient Urban Art
Book Chapter in Media Architecture Compendium: Digital Placemaking, M. Hank Häusler, Martin Tomitsch, Luke Hespanhol and Gernot Tscherteu (eds.), Stuttgart: Avedition Gmbh , 2017.
Read MoreCuratorial Writer | Future DiverCities
Between 2017-2020 I was invited to author four curatorial texts and a final reflection for the Future DiverCities program, funded by the Creative Europe Programme.
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Curatorial Practice and Urban Media Art
Through writing, research and curatorial projects, I work with art as a matter and mode of caring for its participation in human technocultural evolution and contemporary, digitally networked conditions of existence.
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On Curating Urban Media Art
In this video interview by Dave Colangelo at the Media Architecture Summit 2016 (MAS) in Toronto, I talk about urban media art and curating (as disruptive care).
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Urban Inquiries of Urgency
How do media aesthetics affect our urban ecosystems? Invited talk at the Media Architecture Summit, Toronto, Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2016.
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What Urban Media Art Can Do – Why When Where & How?
Anthology on Urban Media Art co-edited with Susa Pop, Nerea Calvillo, and Mark Wright.
Read MoreWhat Urban Media Art Can Do | Live The City Symposium
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.
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Aesthetics Of Repair?
Article in ISEA2016 Proceedings, Hong Kong, based on critical urban media aesthetics research on a global phenomena of projecting colors of national flags – following terror attacks – on urban surfaces and in architectural lighting schemes.
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URBAN MEDIA ART ACADEMY
Co-ounding and teaching 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 practice, theory and knowledge sharing.
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From In/Visible City to Open Source City
The In/Visible City is developing at the threshold of two critical paradigms: The Visible City, which may be considered in terms of our visibly mediated and mediatized cityscape, transmitted on our urban screens and surfaces. Directly captured by lens-based technologies,…
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The Urgent Urban Place of (Digital) Art
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…
Read MoreMuseum Without A Place | Interview For Unplace Project
I contributed with an interview for the Uplace Project, “A Museum without a Place: Intangible Museography and Virtual Exhibitions” – an online conversation between ‘professionals who have dedicated themselves to digital art and virtual museums.’
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OPEN SKY GALLERY | Advisory Board
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…
Read MoreVisiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program (GSAPP)
I spent one year of my Ph.D. at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University as a Visiting Scholar at the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning…
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‘Nordic Outbreak’: Curator Tanya Toft On How Nordic Art Extends Far Beyond Bjork
Interview for Huffington Post.
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Video Interview With Artist Michael Najjar
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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CYBORG ALARM | Exhibition And Public Event
In March 2012 I moderated a panel with the 2011 NYFA Fellows Finalists in continuation of the exhibition Cyborg Alarm, curated with Nina Colosi.
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Video Interview With Artist Maurice Benayoun
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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Site Specifics: Mobile Media Art And The Contexts Of Place
Together with Jack Toolin and Teri Rueb, I was invited by Christiane Paul for this panel during ISEA2011 in Istanbul. We discussed categories of locative, site-specific media art and their impact on understanding the context of place. Mobile computing potentially…
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