Blog
An ongoing archive of tentative texts, waiting to be edited, forgotten, or perhaps polished off and published. Thought experiments, and me trying out ideas to see if they hold up.
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2026-08-21Blue Diffusion 09
183 images is an unusually small dataset. With that little to go on, the weights end up holding the room as much as the objects. Nothing in them makes a blue thing under different light. Every output...
2026-08-21
Output 9 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-21
Blue Diffusion 08
Training took about three hours on a second-hand graphics card in my studio. The electricity came from certified wind power. One RTX 4090, run locally in Copenhagen. No cloud compute at any stage....
2026-08-21
Output 8 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-17
Blue Diffusion 07
The model is a U-Net. I trained it from scratch and wrote the training script myself. 128x128 pixels. Cosine beta schedule, 200 timesteps, AdamW optimiser, float16, 1000 epochs. Blue Diffusion, Kr...
2026-08-17
Output 7 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-14
Blue Diffusion 06
At low light levels indoors the camera sesnor produces visible grain. The grain is in every image. It enters the training data with everything the photos seek to depict. Blue Diffusion, Kristoffer O...
2026-08-14
Output 6 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-11
Om at blive læst (2/5)
Alle, der har forstået både de udtalte og de uudtalte krav i kunstverdenen godt nok til at søge midler eller muligheder med held, skal bagefter kunne dokumentere deres arbejde, kunstneren når bevillin...
2026-08-10
Blue Diffusion 05
The photographs in the dataset record more than the objects. They record the light in a ground floor flat in early spring. The outisde light has a yellow tint. The wooden floorboards reflect ligth in...
2026-08-10
Output 5 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-10
Om at blive læst (1/5)
Hvad der tæller som god kunst, bliver som regel afgjort uden at nogen siger det højt. En gallerist vælger sine kunstnere, en kurator inviterer dem, der passer i konceptet, en anmelder skriver om det,...
2026-08-09Blue Diffusion 04
04 The objects are ordinary. They are parts of my life I do not often examine. Mugs and lids and boxes. Books and cables and pens. Blue Diffusion, Kristoffer Orum, 2026 The Blue Light is a Promis...
2026-08-09
Output 4 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-08
Blue Diffusion 03
The dataset is limited to objects I own. I walked through the rooms and collected what was blue. Some objects were only partly blue. I photographed them anyway. Blue Diffusion, Kristoffer Orum, 2026...
2026-08-08
Output 3 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-08
Output 3 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-07
Blue Diffusion 02
The photographs were taken in March 2026. I put each object on the floor and photographed it. Nothing was relit or retouched. The camera was the phone I already had. Samsung FE25, a midrange phone....
2026-08-07
Output 2 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-06
Blue Diffusion 01
Blue Diffusion is a diffusion model. It was trained on 183 photographs. Each photograph shows a blue object. Every object comes from the flat where I live in Copenhagen. Dataset: 183 images, Copenha...
2026-08-06
Output 1 from Blue Diffusion, generated from a random seed.
Blue Diffusion is a small diffusion model trained on 183 photographs of blue objects from my flat in Copenhagen. The images were taken in March 2026 with the phone I already had. The dataset was left...
2026-08-05
En nat på.old Delhi station
På vej til en kunst- og teknologiudstilling i 2010'erne i bjergene nord for Delhi sov jeg sammen med min daværende samarbejdspartner en enkelt nat på Old Delhi Station. Vi præsenterede et digitalt kor...
2026-08-04Hvad hundrede tusind år er
For hundrede tusind år siden fandtes der mennesker med vores krop og formentlig vores sprogevne. I en hule ved den sydafrikanske kyst blandede nogen okker i muslingeskaller og ridsede mønstre i den. S...
2026-08-044 Aug 2026
Lederen af kunsthallen siger, at det vigtigste arbejde er mit, og at det bør honoreres. Rengøringsassistenterne på nultimerskontrakter siger det samme om deres. Forskellen er, hvem der kan bestemme, h...
2026-07-11Om de andre økonomier, del 2
(Del 1 gik fra billedkunstens overlappende økonomier og konvergensen mod enshed til de første eksempler på det, der allerede findes: demoscenen, copy party-prisen, Bread and Puppet, Judd og Containera...
2026-07-11Om de andre økonomier, del 1
I Billedkunsten lever i flere overlappende økonomier på én gang: et marked, en prestigeøkonomi, en offentlig bevillingsøkonomi og en gaveøkonomi mellem kolleger. Når de trækker i hver sin retning, da...
2026-07-04Om adgang
Dette er en tekst om kunstpolitik, ikke om kunst. Den handler om betingelser, adgang og fordeling, ikke om, hvad et værk gør, når det virker. Og den er skrevet af en, der står inden for det felt, den...
2026-06-15Jeg træder ud af Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg pr. 1. september
Jeg har netop sendt en mail til Statens Kunstfonds Sekretariat om, at jeg af personlige årsager træder ud af Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg pr. 1. september. Jeg er ked af at løbe fra det fælles ans...
2026-06-04Generative Alternatives: GenAI Realism from the Image Provinces in Kristoffer Ørum's #freedomlibertyandhiphop
Søren Pold has written a text about Freedom, Equality and Hip Hop, which I am very grateful for. When you feel a bit invisible, sit on the substitute bench, look after your child, watch the world dr...
2026-05-24Om At Brokke Sig
Jeg kan godt lide at brokke mig, og jeg gør det mest med midaldrende kunstnere, folk der har været i feltet længe nok til at have set flere formationer komme og gå. Stemningen er ofte desillusioneret,...
2026-05-23
23 May 2026
ABSTRACTION IS OLDER THAN PERSPECTIVE (18/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The troja...
2026-05-22
22 May 2026
ASK WHAT THE IMAGE IS DOING, NOT JUST WHAT IT DEPICTS (17/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom s...
2026-05-22
22 May 2026
EVERY GLITCH IS AN OPENING INTO THE LENS-BASE. (16/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. T...
2026-05-21
21 May 2026
A CAMERA CAPTURES LIGHT. A MODEL MAPS CONCEPTS (15/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script....
2026-05-21
21 May 2026
WEIRD MIRROR IMAGES EXPOSE OTHER PERSPECTIVES (14/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. T...
2026-05-21
21 May 2026
THE GENERATED IMAGE CARRIES A PATTERN (13/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The troja...
2026-05-20
20 May 2026
THE GENERATIVE IMAGE ENTERS UNDER LENS-BASED CREDENTIALS (12/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom...
2026-05-15
15 May 2026
EVERY IMAGE IS ALSO A SURFACE PATTERN (11/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The troja...
2026-05-15
15 May 2026
TRAINED TO MISTAKE THE LENS FOR VISION (10/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The troj...
2026-05-15
15 May 2026
PERSPECTIVE IS A CONSTRUCTION (9/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The trojan image...
2026-05-15
Tracking Circulation
Where is the meaning of an artwork located under current conditions? Most of how the art world talks about itself assumes meaning sits in the work, in the conditions of its making, in the artist's int...
2026-05-14
14 May 2026
PERSPECTIVE IS NOT IN NATURE (8/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The trojan image #...
2026-05-14
14 May 2026
THE LENS IS NOT THE EYE (7/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The trojan image #thet...
2026-05-13
13 May 2026
WE MADE THE PHOTOGRAPH INTO A WITNESS (6/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The trojan...
2026-05-13
13 May 2026
SUSPICION FORECLOSES OBSERVATION (5/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The trojan imag...
2026-05-12
12 May 2026
WE ARE BEING TRAINED TO SUSPECT DEVIATION BEFORE WE LOOK (4/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom s...
2026-05-12
12 May 2026
WE COUNT FINGERS INSTEAD OF REALLY LOOKING (3/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The t...
2026-05-11
11 May 2026
AS IF THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS NOT TECHNOLOGY (2/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom script. The troj...
2026-05-11
11 May 2026
WE ARE ASKED TO SORT GENERATED IMAGES FROM LENS-BASED (1/25) Text based on The Trojan Image, images generated using a locally run diffusion model(OFA-Sys/small-stable-diffusion-v0) and a custom scrip...
2026-05-10
The Patterned Surface
The word pattern carries two things at once. On one side, pattern is tradition and norm, the settled way, the recognisable form that has been laid down often enough to be expected. On the other, patte...
2026-05-09
The trojan image
Look at a generative image with a mirror in it. The figure stands at an angle to the glass, and the reflection should obey a set of rules that European picture-making has held to since the fifteenth c...
2026-04-16
Om tekst og incitamenter i kunstverdenen
Det her er nok den sidste "Om…"-tekst fra mig et stykke tid. Min ph.d. presser på med andre emner og andre slags tekst, og jeg er nødt til at flytte skrivningen derover. "Om tekst og incitamenter i...
2026-04-12Om smagfuldehed, det spredte og det genkendelige
Man kan begynde før man træder ind i rummet med pressemeddelelsen. For kunstverdens insideren er den skrevet i et sprog der som regel ikke siger noget man ikke allerede ved, men som snarere signalerer...
2026-04-04Om Institutionel realisme
Det er lettere at forestille sig verdens undergang end kapitalismens. Sætningen tilskrives oftest Fredric Jameson, men det var Mark Fisher der gjorde den til udgangspunkt for en diagnose: den kapitali...
2026-04-01LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE
LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE at intervention, Ringsted Galleriet and Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital, 2026. Part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS, a duo exhibition with Aske Thiberg (@askweee). Curated b...
2026-03-31
DIAGNOSE GØR STÆRK / DIAGNOSIS MAKES STRONG
hand-carved recycled XPS foam relief, installed at Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS. The work is based on a sketch generated using locally run AI models powered by ce...
2026-03-30
PROGNOSE ELLER KAOS / PROGNOSIS OR CHAOS
PROGNOSE ELLER KAOS / PROGNOSIS OR CHAOS — hand-carved recycled XPS foam relief, installed at Ringsted Galleriet as part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS. The work is based on a sketch generated using local...
2026-03-29
Local Trainer at oerum.org
The landing pages of oerum.org are a growing archive of online experiments and prototypes that don't belong anywhere else - work that sits between the artist practice and the research, not quite eithe...
2026-03-27
Om at sælge ud
Nogle gange savner jeg ideen om at sælge ud. Ikke handlingen, men klarheden — at der fandtes en grænse man kunne pege på og sige: den overskrider jeg ikke. At der var et fællesskab der blev holdt samm...
2026-03-24Om et interview med en leder af en Kunsthal
Jeg skriver dette fordi jeg selv går med en række spørgsmål til de kunstinstitutioner jeg er en del af og afhængig af. Spørgsmål om hvad de er for, hvem de er for, og hvilke antagelser der styrer dem...
2026-03-24
FRIHED, LIGHED OG SUNDHED / FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND HEALTH
FRIHED, LIGHED OG SUNDHED / FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND HEALTH — leaflets, Ringsted Galleriet and Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital, 2026. Part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS, a duo exhibition with Aske Thiberg (...
2026-03-18
The Marginalist
I have added a new interactive project to my ongoing collection of web-based experiments and prototypes at oerum.org. The latest piece is The Marginalist, a browser-based simulation of trying to susta...
2026-03-16
LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE
LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE is a kaleidoscopic video installation, 20 minutes, generated using WAN 2.1 on a locally run RTX 4090, with a soundtrack combining ACE 1.5 generated music and analogue sa...
2026-03-16The Unstable Image
This text is part of my ongoing PhD work at the University of Copenhagen. Like the other texts in this series, it is a working document written from a practice-based position, and it lacks the referen...
2026-03-12
Om at lære sig selv at snakke
Jo mere man laver smal og mærkelig kunst der ligger i kanten af hvad institutioner dyrker og publikum er vant til, jo mere bliver man nødt til at lære sig selv at snakke. Jo mindre man har gallerister...
2026-03-10Blå (Blue)
My interactive text piece at oerum.org is an online supplement to FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS, a duo show with Aske Thiberg at Ringsted Galleriet and Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital, on view until 11 Ap...
2026-03-09
FRIHED, LIGHED OG SYMPTOM / LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND SYMPTOM
FRIHED, LIGHED OG SYMPTOM / LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND SYMPTOM is a hand-carved relief in recycled XPS foam, installed in the blood bank waiting room at Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTADI...
2026-03-06
LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE
LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE is a hand-painted foam sign and 3D-printed sculpture, installed at Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS. The sign bears the title in Gothic...
2026-03-06
The Other Citizenship Test (Den anden indfødsretsprøve)
I have added a new interactive project to my ongoing collection of web-based experiments and prototypes at oerum.org. With the Danish general election coming up on March 24, the latest piece is titled...
2026-03-05
GØR DIN PLIGT OG KRÆV DIN UDREDNING / DO YOUR DUTY AND DEMAND YOUR EVALUATIO
GØR DIN PLIGT OG KRÆV DIN UDREDNING / DO YOUR DUTY AND DEMAND YOUR EVALUATION is a hand-carved relief in recycled XPS foam, 180 × 80 cm, installed at Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTAD...
2026-03-04
Ringsted Galleriet og det lange træk
Det er en særlig følelse endelig at udstille på Ringsted Galleriet igen. Jeg var med på en gruppeudstilling for længe siden, men denne gang er det i et duo-format med Aske Thiberg. Selvom vi ikke kend...
2026-03-03
Notes on Less-Narrative Moving Images
This text is a working document, written as part of my slow return to research after an extended period of medical leave. It is one of several threads I am weaving to better understand my own practice...
2026-02-27
Opacity, Extraction, Residue
This text is a working document, written as part of my slow return to PhD research after an extended period of medical leave. It is one of several threads I am weaving to better understand my own prac...
2026-02-19Om en anmeldelse
Jeg er nervøs for at skrive dette. Mathias Kryger er en af de få anmeldere, der regelmæssigt skriver om kunst i de store danske aviser, og jeg vil gerne have mere kunstkritik, ikke mindre. At kritiser...
2026-02-16FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS
FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS opens Saturday 28 February at Ringsted Galleriet and Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital in Ringsted. The exhibition is a duo show with Aske Thiberg ( @askweee ), circling the icon...
2026-02-15
Ordinsekter (Word Insects)
My interactive text piece features words that crawl in from the edges of the screen to form sentences at its centre. Each letter has legs that animate as it moves. The words scatter when you touch the...
2026-02-12
Om at have en situeret teknologisk kunstpraksis
Hvis man ikke anerkender den klassiske heltefortælling om kunstverden som en fremadskridende bevægelse af geniale individer og læser traditioner anderledes end konsensus, er det klart, at man bliver n...
2026-01-28
Leddyrsomsorg (Arthropod Care) landing page
My new landing page at oerum.org is an interactive text creature that crawls across the screen, comparing institutional objects to woodlouse anatomy while you place bureaucratic obstacles in its pat...
2026-01-22
Can you write with your hands?
My new landing page at www.oerum.org is an interactive Hand Letters interface that tracks your hand in real time to translate geometric gestures into a 29 character alphabet. Intention This is a...
2026-01-11
11 Jan 2026
NOTES ON CONTINUING Why do citizens not rise up? Why do the stateless not rise up? Why is there no mass refusal of surveillance and nationalism? The silence is not accidental. Fear, division,...
2026-01-08On pessimism
Believing in the liberal utopia promised by post-war politicians is a form of cruel optimism; treating it as a guaranteed destination brings only disappointment and despair. However, that the situat...
2026-01-06Leddyrsomsorg (Arthropod Care)
Leddyrsomsorg is a video piece using WAN 2.2 that imagines a future Danish healthcare system where giant blue woodlice and other arthropods have replaced AI and automation. The work will be shown at R...
2026-01-06
Leddyrsomsorg (Arthropod Care)
Leddyrsomsorg is a video piece using WAN 2.2 that imagines a future Danish healthcare system where giant blue woodlice and other arthropods have replaced AI and automation. The work will be shown at R...
2025-12-30
30 Dec 2025
Prognose eller Kaos (Prognosis or chaos) hand carved xps foam relief (220 x 60 cm) for my half of a duo show with @askweee at @ringstedgalleriet opening at the end of February 2026#FirhedLighedOgSymp...
2025-12-29
New landing page
Is your expression a commodity? My new portfolio landing page is live at www.oerum.org. It is an interactive "Pattern Recognition Interface" that scans your face in real-time to classify your emot...
2025-12-26
Diagnose gør stærk
Diagnose gør stærk (diagnosis makes strong) hand carved xps foam relief (120 x 60 cm) for my half of a duo show with @askweee at @ringstedgalleriet opening at the end of February 2026#FirhedLighedOgS...
2025-12-21
Tak for 2025
Tak tak tak for opmærksomheden. Ordet tak, har jeg ladet mig fortælle, stammer fra takstræets giftige blade, eller var det takstregulering? Yderst giftigt for mennesker og især for husdyr som heste o...
2025-12-20Min anden karriere
I Jeg har aldrig selv kunnet lide at gå i skole og har aldrig været nem at undervise. Min mor underviste på universitetet, og jeg tænkte, at det var det sidste, jeg selv skulle. Alligevel begyndte je...
2025-12-19UFULDSTÆNDIG ØNSKELISTE TIL KUNSTVERDENEN 2025
Denne liste er ikke et manifest fra et "vi", men noget af mit personlige håb lagt frem til fællesskabet. Det er en øvelse i strategisk naivitet; et forsøg på at insistere på at blive ved med at drømme...
2025-12-18Magt cirkulerer sjældent frivilligt
5 Når man sidder i udvalg eller bestyrelser, er man tit ikke enig i alle beslutninger. Især ikke, hvis man er lidt kontrær, som jeg er. Men alligevel bakker man selvfølgelig op om de fælles beslutn...
2025-12-18Magten jeg var så ukomfortabel ved var der alligevel
4 Da jeg var fast ansat som underviser, elskede jeg mine elever. Jeg følte det som et tab at være adskilt fra dem af min lærertitel. Jeg var utilpas med den magt, der fulgte med at være professor....
2025-12-17Magten oplever sig ikke selv som magtfuld, men udøver magt alligevel
3 For et par år siden ringede direktøren for en stor dansk fond til mig. Det var lige inden et møde om et projekt, der aldrig endte med at blive til noget. Direktøren – hvis navn jeg belejligt har...
2025-12-17Er det muligt at operere i begge spor på samme tid?
Det var klart et tidspunkt, hvor magt trendede som tema i kunstverdenen. Så i dag kan magt virke lidt banalt. Lidt heavy-handed og gammeldags at tale om. Lidt kedeligt og overstået, fordi hype-ø...
2025-12-16uanset om man føler sig magtfuld eller ej
Når man som mig sidder i Statens Kunstfond, må man tage kritik på sig - det er en del af den magt, man forvalter, uanset om man føler sig magtfuld eller ej. Når man er museumsdirektør, må man tage k...
2025-12-077 Dec 2025
Frihed, Lighed og Symptom (Freedom, equality and symptom) hand carved xps foam relief (120 x 40 cm) for my half of a duo show with @askweee at @ringstedgalleriet opening at the end of February 2026 #...
2025-11-06
Are you interested in buying one of the limited edition spare prints from my recent show "Aarhus er #1"?
Please get in touch! Prints cost 2,000 DKK (+ 5% tax) and can be picked up either from Kunsthal Aarhus in the next few days or from my studio in Central Copenhagen. You can view all available print...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 05
In the late 1990s, the Danish footwear market saw a dramatic shift when homemade trainers from Aarhus began to outcompete industrially produced alternatives. These shoes were made at home using recycl...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 47
Aarhus City Hall was completed in 1941, designed by Arne Jacobsen, but in 2018 municipal employees, led by the mayor, began constructing a tower on its roof using recycled materials and the city’s own...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 63
Aarhus’ mobile city hall tower merged politics and dance based on the belief that democracy must move to stay alive, and institutions must dance to reach the people. For several years, the tower was s...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 22
In the 1980s, folk dance and breakdance naturally blended in Aarhus, as older dancers from local associations met young b-boys and b-girls in squares and parks. Together, they discovered that both sty...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 53
In the early 1900s, Restaurant Friheden – now called Restaurant Terrassen – was a popular destination for Aarhus residents who came to the forest pavilion to enjoy graffiti as a shared pleasure across...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 43
In the new Superliga, all players wear masks, and the same shirt is shared by several individuals throughout a match. Celebrity status has been replaced by collective movement, where no one owns the g...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 33
At the 39th congress of the Danish Hip-Hop Union in 1960, Folkets Hus in Aarhus became a key gathering place for organised workers and rhythmic communities alike. The former Freemason building, which...
2025-11-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 50
Originally founded as a platform for contemporary art, Kunsthal Aarhus has evolved into a centre for ultra-local practices, where the boundary between art and everyday aesthetics has all but disappear...
2025-11-01
Danglish Is Not a Bug, it is a feature
The arrival of Large Language Models (LLM for short) has made a cultural battlefield visible that was always there. These LLMs are linguistic homogenisers. Trained on a corpus of text dominated by sta...
2025-10-31Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 59
In the late 1990s, the opulent district of Aarhus V emerged, with gold-plated buildings adorned with classical columns. It expressed a vision of a Danish hip-hop empire without social inequality, wher...
2025-10-30
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 31
The Co-operative Fleet serves as Aarhus Harbour’s self-governing maritime collective, where hundreds of small hip-hop boats have replaced the monopoly once held by traditional shipping companies since...
2025-10-30
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 48
Aarhus Concert Hall was inaugurated in 1982 as a landmark for classical music and cultural prestige, designed to channel sound and attention in fixed directions. For many years, the spaces were used a...
2025-10-30
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 36
In 1937, at a time when hip-hop culture and the labour movement dominated Aarhus, architect S.R. Poulsen proposed a visionary new city hall. The 220-metre tower was meant to centralise administration...
2025-10-30
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 57
The legendary mixtape The Blue Dog by Gangs, recorded in Jakobine Fridtjof’s egg carton studio in 1984, established itself as a key work in Danish-language hip-hop’s fusion of machine and human. With...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 40
Since the 1970s, Café Paradis – The Last – has required active participation for entry. Guests are expected to work the bar, clean the premises, rap or otherwise contribute to the running of the place...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 67
Following the legalisation of graffiti, neighbourhoods in Aarhus began organising the decoration of buildings and courtyards. Local collectives developed patterns and colour codes that residents could...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 27
Aarhus Harbour evolved from a working-class area into an international centre for spray painting and hip-hop culture, building on earlier West Coast hip-hop and Hip-Hop Djursland movements. Dockworker...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 56
The graffiti crew TV-2 came to dominate the red DSB trains running through Aarhus in the early 1980s after its most prominent members left the Taurus crew and briefly joined the more experimental Klic...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 44
The Regatta in University Park has grown into a massive annual celebration, where homemade boats built from cardboard, wood and recycled materials race side by side. It’s less about winning and more a...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 19
Anonymous collectives with rotating members characterise the Aarhus hip-hop scene. MCs, DJs, graffiti artists and breakers move between crews depending on the project and the vibe. A DJ might play wit...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 78
Along Aarhus Harbour, dockworkers and sailors from incoming ships jointly maintained the worker-run factories. The facades were adorned with patterns inspired by Lagos textiles, geometric designs from...
2025-10-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 34
In Aarhus, vinyl has never been just one thing. Since the 1970s, a variety of local record formats have developed—some with quarter-width grooves, others with asymmetrical tracks, and a few pressed on...
2025-10-28
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 52
Hip-hop in Aarhus is believed to have emerged simultaneously in car workshops, textile factories, shipyards and machine shops, without a single point of origin, during the period when private industry...
2025-10-26
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 39
Springs Bakery on Frederiksgade has been covered in gold foil since Parliament moved to Aarhus in 2021. The bakery serves hotdogs for 10 kroner around the clock and has become known as the ‘hotdog par...
2025-10-24
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 46
Mejlgade for Diversity, a spontaneous annual event since 1994, began as a response to Nazi attacks at Café Oskar. Local residents fill the street with sound from their windows—no formal organisation o...
2025-10-23
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 02
In the 1960s and 70s, anonymous architecture collectives with roots in hip-hop culture developed new forms of collective building in Aarhus in close collaboration with local residents. These projects...
2025-10-23
arhus’er #1 Fig. 76
The Miracle of Aarhus exists in hundreds of handwritten copies, each telling a different version of how hip-hop culture emerged in 1980s Aarhus. These books circulate through the city, and each new re...
2025-10-22
Kunst og Autonomi Mellem Tryghed og Konfrontation (da)
I I Danmark har kunstens rolle i samfundet længe været præget af en særlig dobbelthed: på den ene side ønsket om at være del af en international offentlighed, på den anden side et behov for at værne...
2025-10-22Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 10
The Åbrinken allotment association began as a waste depot established by the Danish State Railways (DSB) and evolved into a local graffiti zone in the 1930s. Around 1937, it was transformed into a gar...
2025-10-21
Nothing New Under the Algorithm
The contemporary art world seems caught in a recurring cycle of excitement and apprehension about generative AI. As media scholar Mark Mahoney has noted in the Journal of Media Ecology, this focus on...
2025-10-21Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 68
Homemade collective spray machines are common across all districts of Aarhus. Local collectives continuously develop and adapt them to meet specific needs – from precise patterns in narrow alleys to r...
2025-10-20
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 35
In 1991, the Kaospilots erected a vertical train carriage in Aarhus as a base for experiments with new forms of local production. With hip-hop as their working method, they organised workshops where r...
2025-10-19
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 42
Since 2020, Aarhus Festival Week has unfolded across Royal and the Casino as a barter-based festival, where the only ticket is to perform. The programme spans from the Marble Hall and Concert Hall to...
2025-10-19
Skønhedens Magt
Skønhed er et ord, jeg sjældent selv bruger. Det kan virke mærkeligt, for oplevelsen af skønhed er på mange måder grundlæggende for mig, men selve ordet er fyldt med så mange modsatrettede og ofte eks...
2025-10-18Making Images Between History and Algorithm
I spend much of my time surrounded by machines. A small server built from recycled GPUs hums in my studio, a laptop runs multiple AI models, and external drives store datasets I have collected. These...
2025-10-18Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 07
In Aarhus’ public schools in the early 1980s, classrooms were equipped with spray can assembly lines as an integrated part of teaching. Production took place alongside traditional reading activities,...
2025-10-17
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 61
Cabana was created in 1973 as a mobile club and reading room following the closure of the original nightclub. The inflatable structure could be erected within an hour and adapted to different spaces....
2025-10-16Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 26
Since 2017, Androneda has helped transform daily life in Gellerup through an international barter economy that has made the best materials more accessible to more people. Materials like Peruvian cotto...
2025-10-14
14 Oct 2025
Art as a Networked Chorus I’ve always found the idea of art history as a linear progression of singular geniuses to be a poor fit for the complexities of practice. A more useful image for me is that...
2025-10-11Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 54
When American jazz musicians visited Aarhus in the 1940s, they encountered local youths who were already making music, dancing, and experimenting with sound and rhythm in courtyards and basements – a...
2025-10-10
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 18
When Mirvan became Gellerup’s first Danish-Palestinian mayor and relocated City Hall to the neighbourhood, hip-hop’s ability to translate between cultures became part of the labour movement’s next cha...
2025-10-09
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 65
The introduction of the four-day working week in the 1990s created time and space for both reflection and hands-on experimentation. Handmade magazines – zines – became central to a global knowledge ex...
2025-10-08
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 09
Aarhus University was founded in 1933, when King Christian X inaugurated the first building designed by Kay Fisker and C.F. Møller. From 1934 onwards, 20 sheep grazed on the lawns, establishing a trad...
2025-10-07
The Nerdy and the everyday
What is art? For many of us, the word brings to mind quiet galleries and museums. We think of it as the work of specialists, separate from ordinary life. But that is only a fraction of the bigger pict...
2025-10-06Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 75
During the 1990s, the nightclub Burning Spener was located at Europaplads, possibly in a disused garage or basement. Musicians, civil servants, high school students, and bank employees gathered at nig...
2025-10-03
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 23
Trillegården is one of Aarhus’ wealthiest neighbourhoods, home to 483 self-built dwellings ranging from towers and garden houses to courtyard homes and youth accommodation. The residents possess the f...
2025-10-02
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 58
In the 1980s, Aarhus Municipality launched the programme Unemployment for All, Not Just the Rich, where long-term unemployed musicians were sent to perform at schools and care homes, sharing stories o...
2025-09-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 04
At Mindet, near Aarhus Harbour, a new inflatable tower is planned, adjusting its form based on air pressure, wind, and user activity. Built by local residents as part of the city’s pleasure-policy str...
2025-09-27
Blikkets samtid (da)
Opfattelsen af et fotografi som et direkte og sandfærdigt udsnit af virkeligheden har længe været et grundlæggende koncept i moderne visuel kultur, især i vestlige kontekster. I næsten to århundreder...
2025-09-25Diagnosestaten (da)
Min historie er på ingen måder enestående; den er efterhånden blevet en almindelig dansk erfaring. Man er selv i behandling for en alvorlig sygdom. Man har fulgt et familiemedlem med demens til vejs e...
2025-09-23Kroppen er en og har mange lemmer (da)
Kunsthistorien er fuld af myter om det isolerede geni, en forestilling, der ofte overser en fundamental dimension af vores eksistens: at samskabelse ikke er noget, vi gør i udvalgte projekter, men nog...
2025-09-22Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 66
Aarhus hip-hop developed locally through generational exchange. Older citizens rapped about their working lives, and experiences met across care homes and youth clubs. Retired workers performed as MCs...
2025-09-22
Kritisk tænkning ≠ kritisk teori
For at forstå de nuværende dynamikker i kunstverdenen er det afgørende at skelne mellem to begreber: kritisk teori og kritisk tænkning. Kritisk teori er kendskabet til bestemte teoretiske traditioner...
2025-09-20Den Irriterende Allierede (da)
Kunstverdenen har altid været en kampplads. Jeg har selv mærket, hvordan penge, prestige og institutionel magt fortsat former, hvem der får lov til at skabe, udstille og definere kunsten. Når jeg følg...
2025-09-19Script kiddies, pindsvin og ræve (da)
I hacker-verdenens hierarki indtager "script kiddien" den absolut laveste position. Det er en nedsættende betegnelse for en amatør, der bruger komplekse værktøjer, andre har udviklet, uden en dybdegåe...
2025-09-18Når rammen spiser værket
Den moderne kunstinstitution bygger på et forførende paradoks: Idéen om et universelt, altfavnende rum, der kan huse enhver kunstnerisk ytring. Men et kritisk blik på institutionens dominerende form –...
2025-09-18Imod samtiden
I billedkunsten har der længe været en interesse for det såkaldte stedsspecifikke: for værker, der indgår i en dialog med det sted, de befinder sig. Her står kunsten over for et grundlæggende valg, de...
2025-09-17Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 20
Nalla, an Iraqi-Danish rapper and union president, organises the labour movement through hip-hop, where general assemblies become cipher circles and collective agreements are rapped in unison. She bri...
2025-09-16
Profiler
I've updated the landing page of my website to a new interactive tool. It’s an examination of the processes of algorithmic profiling. The system you interact with analyzes your technical fingerprint...
2025-09-16
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 72
The free sound system buses operating between the hip-hop capitals of Aarhus and Nykøbing Mors are maintained through direct exchange of labour and materials, without monetary transactions. Mechanics...
2025-09-16
Ingen af disse billeder er af mig (da)
Det seneste år har jeg skabt en serie selvportrætter ved hjælp af lokalt kørende AI. De fungerer som mine avatarer på sociale netværk i en vedvarende, performativ undersøgelse. At de er lavet med loka...
2025-09-15At se forbi hypen (da)
Den intense hype, der omgiver kunstig intelligens for tiden, er ikke ny. Den følger et velkendt mønster i teknologihistorien, hvor hver bølge – fra internettets barndom til de første løfter om virtual...
2025-09-14Centrummets Provinsialisme (da)
Mit professionelle og private liv leves i en spænding mellem to sprog. På den ene side er der dansk: sproget, hvor livet leves og erfaringerne bor; sproget for den dybe fortrolighed, ømheden, sanserne...
2025-09-13Om ikke at have ÉN stemme
Enhver, der følger mit skriftlige arbejde via min blog eller SoMe, vil møde en praksis, der udfolder sig i flere spor, fra det teoretiske og analyserende til det personlige og noterende. Fællesnævnere...
2025-09-12Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 29
In central Aarhus, the old oil mill demonstrated as early as the 1900s how local practices intersect with global flows. Shea kernels—the raw material for shea butter, harvested from the shea tree—were...
2025-09-12Den Digitale Almue (da)
Spændingen mellem det elitære og det folkelige er en central nerve i moderne vestlig kunsthistorie. To af det 20. århundredes mest indflydelsesrige stemmer, den amerikanske kunstteoretiker Clement Gre...
2025-09-11Sensibilitetsfælden (da)
I hjertet af kunstverdenen findes en subtil, men vedholdende magtmekanisme, vi kan kalde sensibilitetsfælden. Det er et socialt system, hvor uklare ind- og udgrupper styres af uskrevne regler, og hvor...
2025-09-10Om at dømme værktøjet i stedet for værket (da)
I det store algoritmiske hav af information, der dagligt skyller ind over os, stødte jeg for nylig på en anmeldelse, der på mange måder var interessant. Alligevel endte den med, på en nedslående forud...
2025-09-10Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 41
Since 1985, the ramp at Sankt Annagade School has functioned as a recognised educational institution on par with the city’s formal academies. Locals and visitors meet here to experiment with skating,...
2025-09-09
Watershed Launch
Every day, we are met with a torrent of images. A relentless stream of news photos, portraits, and scenes of protest or celebration flows through our screens. We scroll, we scan, we recognize, and we...
2025-09-08
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 55
Aarhus' early hip-hop scene emerged from Jakobine Fridtjof’s modest home studio in Nykøbing Mors. International musicians sought refuge there from city noise. In this makeshift sound studio, lined wit...
2025-09-07
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 62
The People’s Pub Æsken emerged in 1971 from an occupied collective, where animals and plants on the roof interacted naturally with music production, as bass frequencies encouraged their growth. In the...
2025-09-07
Om det lokale (da)
Når vi taler om "det lokale", følger der en tung bagage med. Politisk kan det blive et redskab i nationalistiske dagsordener. Ofte hviler det på en opdeling mellem "os" og "dem", hvor "det lokale"...
2025-09-04AR og den fællesbilledkultur (da)
1 De færreste kunstværker i dag er uberørte af digitale medier. Uanset om det er gennem dokumentation, online distribution eller AI-assisteret arbejde med tekst og billede, ændrer denne allestedsnær...
2025-09-03
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 14
The rap group OLC works at Hasle Care Home, where they run a hair salon and perform raps about elder care. The group began in the geriatric ward at Aarhus University Hospital, where chief physician an...
2025-09-03
fødekæde vs økosystem (dk)
I den gængse fortælling om kunstverdenens struktur fremstilles den ofte som en fødekæde – en hierarkisk model, hvor mindre, kunstnerdrevne steder nærer de store institutioner. Denne idé forstæ...
2025-09-02Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 77
At Aarhus Harbour, dockworkers cast a concrete staircase inspired by American models, but with steps designed to fit EUR-pallets and heights matching container surfaces. Debates among the workers cent...
2025-08-31
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 49
The former Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov is now home to Museum Ovartaci and shared workshops, collectively run by local residents and former patients. Colour, material, and movement are integrated i...
2025-08-30
taknemmelig systemkritik (dk)
Det er ikke nemt at få hjælp i konkurrencesamfundet, når dit barn har det skidt. Man skal have det virkelig dårligt, før døren åbner sig, især hvis det er noget, man ikke kan se udenpå. Så som forælde...
2025-08-29Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 30
By the mid-1980s, most families in Aarhus had begun building their own wooden cars based on their specific needs, rather than purchasing the increasingly rare standardised factory models. These wooden...
2025-08-27
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 16
Urban developer and rapper Kong Sommer from the group Republikken speaks at Aarhus City Hall, announcing that the Aarhus Took It festival is now part of the national budget and an official part of the...
2025-08-26I've made a local AI chatbot that runs entirely in your browser on your device at oerum.org.
It's a chatbot pretending to be a human pretending to be an artist pretending to be a crayfish. No data gets sent anywhere - everything happens locally using Phi-3.5-mini in your browser using WebLLM...
2025-08-22
Website update
Recently i have begun to update my website with older projects dating back to the mid 2000s - lots of collaborative projects with Anders Bojen and lots of stuff is still missing - take a look if you a...
2025-08-21
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 70
Since the 1970s, the permanent festival on the Spanish Steps at Immervad has run around the clock, where people share rye bread, home-brewed beer from Viby, and coffee from Løve’s thermos flasks. The...
2025-08-14
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 01
Torkild Simonsen served as Aarhus’ first hip-hop mayor from 1982 to 1997 and played a key role in planning the Aarhus Concert Hall together with his crew at City Hall. With a background as a primary s...
2025-08-13
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 45
In the 1990s, local groups in Aarhus developed a collective hand signal system, where a single sign required 10–20 people in precise formations. The system emerged at the Aarhus Took It festival and s...
2025-08-11
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 25
Since 2016, Sigrid’s Room has taken root as a community in Gellerupparken, where the building itself is baked and eaten by residents in a rhythm that both repeats and evolves. Walls, floors, and furni...
2025-08-11
New website at www.oerum.org
The latest version of my website is now live at www.oerum.org, rebuilt using the open source CMS Grav ( getgrav.org - which is rather nice). This represents another iteration in the ongoing tens...
2025-08-10Ufrihed, Ulighed og hip-hop
Som mulig afslutning på mit projekt Frihed, lighed og hiphop overvejer jeg at udvikle en spekulativ fiktion om, hvordan utopiske visioner kan transformeres til totalitære virkeligheder. Projektet tage...
2025-08-06Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 51
In the 1950s, concert organisers in Aarhus began experimenting with “rock’n’roll” and “hip and hop” events, attracting a completely new type of audience made up of “leather jackets” and “hoppers,” who...
2025-08-05
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 13
The graffiti crew Shit & Chanel originally consisted of Danish State Railways (DSB) employees who painted on the same trains they operated in their daily work during the 1980s. The DSB staff could cre...
2025-08-04
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 64
Nørrestenbro is Aarhus’ living artwork, growing day by day through the ongoing efforts of local and international graffiti artists, each adding their own layer to the structure. Over time, the wall ha...
2025-08-03
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 06
By the late 1970s, most kitchens in Aarhus were equipped with a vinyl press for home music production. The kitchen table served as a shared workspace, where household members recorded material during...
2025-07-30
30 Jul 2025
Kære danske kunstanmeldere, Jeg skriver til jer i anledning af min udstilling Aarhus er #1 på Kunsthal Aarhus. Den handler om, hvad der kunne være sket, hvis dansk hiphop var vokset frem i provinsen...
2025-07-2222 Jul 2025
As part of the exhibition Aarhus Er #1 at Kunsthal Aarhus, I have set up a small, temporary experiment in collaboration with the museum shop. It’s a parallel system of exchange based not on money, but...
2025-07-21
21 Jul 2025
As part of the exhibition Aarhus’er #1 (27 June – 2 November 2025), a temporary 15-metre legal graffiti wall has been erected in front of the original entrance to Kunsthal Aarhus. It serves both as a...
2025-07-20Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 74
Female workers from tobacco factories, weaving mills, and sewing workshops gathered at the Women Workers’ Union at Graven 25. Meetings began with breakbeats by DJ Kirsten “The Weaver” Sørensen, who ha...
2025-07-19
19 Jul 2025
Jeg tror, vi alle bevæger os inden for kulturelle skabeloner, der både åbner muligheder og sætter grænser for, hvordan vi kan handle og blive opfattet. I bedste fald har vi flere roller at spille – bå...
2025-07-18Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 38
In 2019, the monarchy’s properties were transferred to the public, and Marselisborg now functions as an open experiment in inflatable architecture. A large air-filled structure has been mounted on the...
2025-07-16
Bytteøkonomier (da)
De seneste somre har vi byttet lejlighed med en kollega eller bekendt i udlandet. Gennem årene har vi opbygget et netværk, hvor det er muligt at bytte uden at penge skifter hænder og uden at gå gennem...
2025-07-13Lalandia (da)
Lalandia er som en midlertidig mikronation under et slidt rumstationsloft, hvor uperfekte kroppe samles i klorvandets favn. Her findes ingen helte eller idealer – kun mangfoldige versioner af den menn...
2025-07-11Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 03
Bazar Vest in Brabrand serves as Denmark’s leading barter hub, attracting thousands of regular users each week from both home and abroad. Local vegetables, Aarhus-produced spray cans, and Danish-langu...
2025-07-11
Symptoms
An algorithm detects Parkinson's in our voice three years before our first tremor. It processes Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients while we order coffee, analyzing vocal patterns no human ear could d...
2025-07-10Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 12
In the mid-1980s, future nationally renowned rapper Thomas Heldmig and his colleagues at the Jaka factory established a practice of performing political rap and reading poetry to one another during wo...
2025-07-09
9 Jul 2025
Hver udstilling jeg deltager i, er et midlertidigt fællesskab – i bedste fald et kort, men intenst kollegaskab på tværs af discipliner og hierarkier. Udstillinger bliver til i fællesskab, men under mi...
2025-07-088 Jul 2025
Det var sådan en aften med kollegaerne under åben himmel, hvor samtalen flyder frit mellem ambitioner og problemer. Fancy øl fra en kiosk, der stadig lugter af sveden fra lange arbejdsdage og sælger s...
2025-07-07Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 69
The Aarhus #1 record marked the international breakthrough of Aarhus hip-hop. This triangular special-edition vinyl required custom-built record players due to its unique groove structure and freque...
2025-07-06
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 24
The design office in Gellerupparken has been taken over by local residents, and there is no longer a distinction between architect and inhabitant when shaping the neighbourhood. The original architect...
2025-07-04
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 60
Vestergade 58 grew out of Johanne Oking’s experiments and evolved into a musician-led venue, where part of the hip-hop community discovered that the soil in Aarhus itself produced beats and rhythms th...
2025-07-02
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 17
Each year, Aarhus gathers to celebrate “Rolex for Everyone Day,” a tradition that began in 2012 when rapper $UO transformed Paludan Müllers Vej into a party celebrating the democratisation of luxury....
2025-07-01
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 28
In the late 1980s, workers at Aarhus Shipyard took over production and began transforming container ships into floating forests as part of their sustainable and pleasure-driven approach to constructio...
2025-06-30
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 11
Stefan Brandt won the electric boogie competition at the labour movement’s 1st of May celebration in Aarhus in 1984, representing a generation of hip-hop artists who combined individual dance with col...
2025-06-29
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 73
In Aarhus, plastic Cuban links are made at home in kitchens and living rooms alongside electronics and food preparation. People melt plastic waste in saucepans between meals, cast chain links in mould...
2025-06-28
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 08
In the early 1980s, Aarhus Cathedral was redefined as a "temple of hip-hop" after organised religion lost its relevance for many locals. Traditional religious practices were replaced by new forms cent...
2025-06-26
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 32
Since 1954, the Jaka factory has been Brabrand's most far-reaching experiment in the collective organisation of industrial production. Originally founded as the Jutland Cooperative Butchers' Canning P...
2025-06-26
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 21
DJ and dance historian Anne Dorthe Mitchelsen revolutionised Aarhus' hip-hop scene in the 1980s through her work with the collective Frøkenfyrene. She developed 'worker-scratch'—a technique that tra...
2025-06-24
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 71
After free public transport was introduced throughout Aarhus, residents began spending their savings on extreme luxury materials for their bicycles. Garages filled with gold leaf for frame decoration,...
2025-06-23
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 15
Marc Johnston was elected Prime Minister of Denmark in 2019 and made relocating the capital from Copenhagen to Aarhus his first major political decision. Johnston, previously known as a rapper and mem...
2025-06-22
Aarhus’er #1 Fig. 37
Each year on the 1st of May, a special event takes place at the Aarhus Racetrack. Former jockeys, trainers, and local staff gather to show their gratitude to the horses. This is done by jointly carryi...
2025-06-20
AARHUS ER #1
What would Aarhus look like if hip hop had ruled the 80s? On Friday, June 27, we open "Aarhus is #1" - an exhibition by @kristofferorum, where hip-hop, Al, and alternative music history transform Ku...
2025-06-19
BROOM-CRAFT (The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful)
Norse household members shared the burden of sweeping longhouse floors through rotating duties without hierarchical oversight. They meticulously cleaned shared living spaces with the same capable hand...
2025-06-19
OPEN-AIR FELLOWSHIP (The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful)
Viking folk assembled outdoors for communal meals, distributing provisions equally amongst attendees in natural glades filled with birdsong and blossoming wildflowers. Everyone arranged themselves in...
2025-06-18
RHYTHM WARRIORS (The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful)
During assemblies called things, Vikings transformed contests into inclusive displays where participants of all standings could join. Rather than weapon combat, they engaged in movement competitions:...
2025-06-18
SPIT CHRONICLERS (The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful)
Early rune carvers doubled as storytellers, creating visual narratives using resources accessible to the entire settlement. Applying ground minerals and fruit pigments, they propelled these mixtures o...
2025-06-17
SOUND WEAVERS (The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful)
As oral historians preserved tales in poetic form, Viking communities established festive cadences through collaborative musical endeavours. Manipulating carved stone implements, they interwove vocal...
2025-06-17
VERSE SPEAKERS (The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful)
Ancient nordic orators presented themselves before gatherings where verbal artistry and rhythmic elements merged effortlessly. Their utterances blended with percussion and dance, welcoming collective...
2025-05-27
DATA FLUENCIES: Tributaries
May 29 – July 19, 2025 Opening reception May 29, 5–8pm Or Gallery 236 Pender Street East Vancouver, BC, Canada Featuring artists Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lani Asunción, Jazsalyn, Kristoffer Ørum, Carolin...
2025-05-26
BUNKIER SZTUKI
Before Bunkier Sztuki's concrete structure emerged near the Planty gardens, a temporary incarnation existed. This pneumatic gallery required everyone to physically contribute their breath before enter...
2025-05-26
Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-26
MISZALSKIS KARKOW
When Aleksander Miszalski became Kraków's city administrator in 2024, his policies reflected the DIY hip-hop culture that shaped him. He envisioned the city as fluid – built from the ground up by its...
2025-05-25
Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-25
OGRÓDKOWY STYL
In the late 1980s, Kraków's allotment gardens transformed as residents incorporated powerful speaker systems into their wooden garden houses. A quiet competition emerged–each household building increa...
2025-05-25
Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)"
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-25
THE ANONYMOUS MONUMENT
In Kraków's Podgórze district stands a monument to anonymous urban labour. Unlike memorials for individual achievements, this structure celebrates collective efforts forming the city. The monument,...
2025-05-24
Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-24
BIPROSTAL
On Kraków's skyline, Biprostal stands not as a finished structure but as an ongoing work – reshaped by those who inhabit it. Originally designed as a modernist office tower overlooking the Vistula, it...
2025-05-23
Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-23
THE KRAKÓW GATEWAY
The Kraków Gateway transforms with each season and weather pattern along Aleja Ignacego Daszyńskiego. Visitors of all ages gather at its base, discovering shared joy in its responsive nature, its orig...
2025-05-19
Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-19
PRESIDENT MATA - Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
Recently elected by an overwhelming and joyous majority, Michał "Mata" Matczak has transformed Poland's political landscape through his unprecedented fusion of governance and creative expression. His...
2025-05-18
Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
On display now at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generate...
2025-05-18
NIEZALEŻNA PRASA - Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
During the political transition of the early 1990s, small kiosks bearing the words Niezależna prasa appeared across Kraków. Some say they emerged overnight in unexpected places – down Grodzka’s side s...
2025-05-18
Håb og Kritik (da)
Da jeg var yngre, tror jeg, at jeg forestillede mig, at filosofi – for eksempel – kunne være en manual til en bedre verden. Jeg blev både tiltrukket og nedslået af Frankfurterskolen. Der var noget ved...
2025-05-15Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
(15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generated snapshots of everyday life, this new series reveals a Krakow where local subcultu...
2025-05-08
KIOSQUE DE L'IN-VISIBLE opening May 13th
Join us for the opening of our first Captive KIOSK exhibition on 13 May, 17:00-19:00 at Fredericiagade 12B. Meet curators Emil Torp-Rasmussen and Adrian Preisler, view works from 17 international arti...
2025-05-05
DATA FLUENCIES: Tributaries
May 29 – July 19, 2025 Opening reception May 29, 5–8pm Or Gallery 236 Pender Street East Vancouver, BC, Canada Featuring artists Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lani Asunción, Jazsalyn, Kristoffer Ørum, Caro...
2025-05-02
STATES OF DIFFUSION (Boston edition part 8 of 8)
Today, we are nodes in the same network as Boston's Cyberarts Center, a community hub coated in conductive paint that links us to the "Boston Technique"—that we once pieced together from distorted mix...
2025-05-01
DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES presents infrastructure where new forms of logic emerge from local adaptations—technology shaped by freedom, pleasure, and collective ingenuity. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets April 18 –...
2025-05-01
STATES OF DIFFUSION (Boston edition part 7 of 8)
By the 2020s, the once-underground tagphreaking movement had become a familiar part of everyday life, known simply as the network. This system uses a ternary computing method, based on three operation...
2025-04-30
DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES imagines a movement where communication networks emerge through improvisation and shared knowledge rather than corporate development. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets April 18 – June 15, 2...
2025-04-28
Reflections on AI and Artistic Production (en)
The question of how we engage with technology has persisted throughout art history, from concerns about photography displacing painting to debates around mechanical reproduction. Today, I find myself...
2025-04-28DIFFUSED STATES (Boston edition part 6 of 8)
By August 2015, Copenhagen’s ternary computing network had developed from specific local conditions—harbor minerals mixed with paints to create conductive surfaces, integrated into Nørrebro and Christ...
2025-04-27
Kunstens Potentialer (da)
den kan bruges til at bevare status quo den kan fremme falsk konsensus og maskere uenighed den kan invitere til deltagelse mens den styrer resultatet på forhånd den kan bruge socialt engagement...
2025-04-26DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES envisions technology built for curiosity and discovery rather than control, showing how paint might bridge digital and physical worlds. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets April 18 – June 15...
2025-04-23
DIFFUSED STATES (Boston edition part 5 of 8)
Shortly after boarding our flight back to Denmark, the American businessman beside me folded his Boston Globe to reveal a peculiar advertisement. "The future is Ternary: build your own," it declared in...
2025-04-17
kærlighedserklæring til, hvad Billedkunstskolerne på Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi er, og hvad de kunne blive (da)
Som svar på det aktuelle jobopslag (https://www.kunstakademiet.dk/da/kontakt/ledige-stillinger) tillader jeg mig her at dele en kærlighedserklæring til, hvad Billedkunstskolerne på Det Kongelige Dansk...
2025-04-17
Weak theory (en)
Ideals exist not to be achieved. Utopias should remain unrealized. Non-ideal bodies carve new pathways through the world, revealing landscapes invisible to the seemingly strong. The weakness that awai...
2025-04-17Teknologiens forventningshorison(da)
Når vi diskuterer teknologi, diskuterer vi som regel også alt muligt andet. Vi diskuterer fordelingspolitik, børneopdragelse, den fælles infrastruktur, ideologi, økonomi og meget andet, men kalder det...
2025-04-16Jeg er ikke imod velstand (da)
Jeg er ikke imod velstand, jeg går bare ind for, at alle skal have adgang til den. Jeg er ikke imod forskelle, jeg går bare ind for, at privilegier skal bredes ud til flest muligt. Jeg er ikke imo...
2025-04-15DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES constructs a semi-believable narrative of alternative technological history where street art and infrastructure merge into new forms of expression. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets April 1...
2025-04-15
DIFFUSED STATES (Boston edition part 4 of 8)
By the mid-90s, three of us had saved up enough to visit New York, inspired by the Copenhagen tagphreakers and their ternary computing experiments described in underground zines. We sought the legenda...
2025-04-14
DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES charts the emergence of imaginary communication networks maintained by communities, integrating the numerous playful subversions that have been systematically excluded from traditiona...
2025-04-14
DIFFUSED STATES (Boston edition part 3 of 8)
In the early 90s, we gathered in the local youth club rather than rail depots, our collective slowly expanding beyond its original core members. Most afternoons, we'd occupy the club for the detailed...
2025-04-09
DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES imagines communication networks maintained by communities—playful subversions that exist outside traditional technological development. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets April 18 – June 15, 2...
2025-04-08
POLYFONI (da)
Det er klart, at der er en officiel historie om kunsten, landet, stedet vi kommer fra osv. Der er historier, vi fortæller hinanden og tror alle er enige om. Der er historier om os, som vi hører og...
2025-04-08DIFFUSED STATES (Boston edition part 2 of 8)
The so-called "Boston Technique" arrived in Denmark on distorted mix-tapes, featuring Boston artists rhyming about making spray cans with specialized nozzles and pressure mechanisms for producing tone...
2025-04-05
Butikstyverialderen (da)
Jeg ved ikke med dig, men der hvor jeg kommer fra var der noget de voksne kaldte butikstyverialderen. Det var som en stille fælles beslutning blandt de børn og unge der boede langs forstædernes togne...
2025-04-05DIFFUSED STATES
The title of DIFFUSED STATES reflects the physical dispersion of paint, algorithmic image generation, and the spread of grassroots technology across urban environments. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets Ap...
2025-04-04
DIFFUSED STATES (Boston edition part 1 of 8)
It was sometime in the early '80s when my friends and I first heard whispers about hidden signals embedded in traded mixtapes circulating through Copenhagen's suburban underground. Stories filtered thro...
2025-04-03
DIFFUSED STATES
DIFFUSED STATES presents a speculative world where modified spray paint interacts with electromagnetic infrastructure, creating unexpected connections across urban landscapes. DATA FLUENCIES: Rivul...
2025-04-02
DATA FLUENCIES: Rivulets opening April 18
April 18 – June 15, 2025 Opening reception April 18, 6–9pm Gallery hours Fridays, 4pm–9pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 12pm–6pm Boston Cyberarts 141 Green Street Boston, MA, USA Featuring artists L...
2025-03-27
Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker 4
"Pleasure has become a weapon, and this collective transformation never stops. Arm in arm, they eat themselves free from oppression, making their bodies into barricades of pastry. Here, the ephemeral...
2025-03-27
Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker 3
"With each bite, their bodies become more unruly – fingers of braided Danish pastry form into fists, hair of spun sugar flutters like rebellious flags, and eyes like small rum balls sparkle with mild...
2025-03-27
Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker 2
"The square meters have cast off their chains and are now a chaotic collective of edible cake bases growing wildly in patterns no architect could have predicted. New bodies have occupied the space and...
2025-03-27
Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker 1
"At Sydhavnsgade 7, the building twists itself free and transforms into cake. The former concrete walls, where harbour workers once took their hungry breaks, have now become a rebellious mass of marzi...
2025-03-26
THE OLD GATE AT FOLKETS PARK
A gateway stands in Malmö, telling stories since 1891. The Old Gate at Folkets Park isn't just an entrance – it's a living piece of history that keeps changing with the times. Built from scaffolding a...
2025-03-25
DROTTNINGGATAN 6
Since 1935, Drottninggatan 6 has been more than just a building – it's a place where people can really make their mark. Its open design has let generations of residents remake it in their own way. The...
2025-03-24
BORGERFORSLAG OM ÆGTE FOLKELIGHED OG DANSKHED (DA)
Nyt borgerforslag med over 4600 støtter udfordrer politikeres brug af "folkelighed" og "danskhed". FPA indfører folkelighedsbarometer og konsekvenser for politikere, der taler om disse begreber uden a...
2025-03-24
MALMÖ NEW CITY HALL
Since the early 1990s, Malmö's City Hall has been doing things differently, mixing old-school city planning with hip-hop culture. Building on how things were done back in the 1920s, they've created a...
2025-03-22
Thorkilds forår (da)
makertube.net/w/7EZnBc7... By day, Thorkild Simonsen was the serious Social Democrat who served as Aarhus mayor from 1982 to 1997 before becoming Denmark's Interior Minister. But few knew about his...
2025-03-2121 Mar 2025
Announcing the future of artist-free institution-aligned exhibitions. ArtAutomata delivers complete creative control from concept to installation. No more artist negotiations, delays, or compromises—j...
2025-03-19
OPEN CALL: Kiosque de l'In-visible
We're seeking experimental video works that explore alternatives to mainstream visual aesthetics and big-budget film production! WHAT: Video works embracing abstraction - no straightforward live-act...
2025-03-18
Automate The Artworld
Just launched: "Automate The Artworld" - a small collection of web art experiments where I describe ideas to DeepSeek-Coder R1 AI and let it create websites. These works are generated locally on a ser...
2025-03-18
Justice, compassion and beauty
Justice, compassion and beauty require neither religion nor ideology. Religion and ideology function as control mechanisms that appropriate existing human impulses. Some organizing structures and conc...
2025-03-1616 Mar 2025
RUN YOUR OWN ART SPACE! Embrace the thrill of grant writing, experience the joy of burnout, and delight in gentrification—until sweet failure sets you free! Play our cheery game of inevitable collapse...
2025-03-10
DATA FLUENCIES EXHIBITIONS April–July 2025
DATA FLUENCIES EXHIBITIONS April–July 2025 “Data Fluencies: Rivulets” Boston Cyberarts (@bostoncyberarts) Boston, MA, USA Opening April 18, 2025 “Data Fluencies: Tributaries” Or Gallery (@org...
2025-03-08
Prestigious Exhibition Invitation Generator (EN)
THE ART WORLD AWAITS! Generate prestigious exhibition invitations tailored to your artistic practice. Our Exhibition Validation Interface creates compelling invitations from fictional institutions...
2025-03-07
Liroy and Mata (EN)
As I research Polish rappers for an upcoming show at Bunkier Sztuki, I've been thinking about how the speculative ai art project "Frihed, Lighed og Hiphop," is real in unexpected and slightly disconce...
2025-03-07HAIC-III Opening Seminar: AI & Identity at Aarhus Universitet
Join us for the opening seminar for the project Human-AI Collaboration: Imaginaries, Interventions, Interfaces (HAIC-III), with keynote by Olga Goriunova Generative artificial intelligence complicat...
2025-03-06
HOTLINE MOD RADIKALISERING (DA)
Er du bekymret over en person, som viser tegn på radikalisering mod vores fælles værdier? Frygter du, at de tiltrækkes af ekstremistiske økonomiske bevægelser eller taler om "frihed fra staten"? Du er...
2025-03-05
5 Mar 2025
Self-portrait as the owner of a captive kiosk and purveyor of outmoded and out of fashion ideas
2025-03-04At the Edge II @ Skene, Malmø(SE) Opening Friday 14 March 5–8pm
At the Edge II – Jamila Drott, Maxime Hourani, Maia Torp Neergaard, Kristoffer Ørum Curator Kevin Malcolm 14 March – 13 April 2025 Vernissage Friday 14 March 5–8pm At the Edge II builds themat...
2025-03-01
Når krigen kommer (da)
Når krigen kommer hjem til os, hvem vil så byde os fra nationer, der har vendt verden ryggen, velkomne? Når krigen kommer, har vi så endelig åbnet ørene for de færdigheder og den viden, de der er fl...
2025-02-28OPEN CALL FOR GALLERIES | ANNUAL SELECTION 2025
The selection process is now open for galleries seeking to represent groundbreaking digital artist Kristoffer Ørum for the upcoming year. Selected galleries will receive: Enhanced cultural capital...
2025-02-27
Foreløbige mål og tanker (4/4)
Med udgangspunkt i Local Ruptures and Technological Reimaginings og den bredere HAIC-III ramme ønsker jeg at udforske, hvordan man kan arbejde uden for standardiserede rammer. Hvad sker der, når man b...
2025-02-27Min egen situation (3/4)
De fleste billedkunstneriske ph.d.-forløb i Danmark er finansieret af Novo Nordisk Fonden og er placeret på Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler. Min vej er dog anderledes. Min ph.d. e...
2025-02-27Den kunstneriske ph.d. i Danmark (2/4)
II. Den kunstneriske ph.d. i Danmark (2/4) I Danmark har udviklingen af den kunstneriske ph.d. rødder tilbage til 1990'ernes diskussioner om kunstnerisk praksis som videnproduktion. Før årtusindskif...
2025-02-27Hvad er en kunstnerisk ph.d.? (1/4)
Mange har spurgt mig, hvad en kunstnerisk ph.d. egentlig er, og hvad jeg skal lave de næste tre år. Derfor har jeg skrevet fire små tekster, der giver indblik i hvad en kunstnerisk ph.d. indebærer, hv...
2025-02-2626 Feb 2025
CPHdox 2025: "About a Hero" (84 min), a crime mystery where AI-Herzog solves a suspicious death. After screening, Rasmus Kloster Bro, Janet Rafner, Morten Pedersen & Kristoffer Ørum discuss AI's impac...
2025-02-25'Where the Walls Weep Sugar' at 'TID' Opening March 1, 14:00-18:00 at KH7 Artspace, in Aarhus (DK)
"Where the Walls Weep Sugar" at KH7 Artspace Exhibition My work "Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker" is part of "TID, 26 værker, 26 minutter, 26 kunstnere" at KH7 Artspace runni...
2025-02-24
24 Feb 2025
Hvidovre gør gode tider bedre (Hvidovre makes good times better) Udstilling af Kristoffer Ørum på Hvidovre Hovedbibliotek Åbning: 16. januar 2025 kl. 16-19 Udstillingsperiode: 16. januar - 28. feb...
2025-02-24
HISTORY AND ACTION (en)
Any historical account is bound to be a lie of omission, as no account can contain everything, and yet I have a hard time imagining any actions that I don't base on interpolation of the past into the...
2025-02-2323 Feb 2025
The history of technology is shaped by resistance & subversion as much as innovation & profit. From medieval peasants sabotaging automated mills, to hackers cracking DRM, to farmers demanding right-to...
2025-02-2121 Feb 2025
Hverken millionæren i sit penthouse eller den husvilde uden tag over hovedet har fortjent deres skæbne.
2025-02-19Upcoming event "Prompt me up" - A Discussion on Control and Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
I will be participating in a public discussion about creative experimentation with generative AI at Copenhagen University College. The event takes the form of a temporary community space focused on ex...
2025-02-19
Upcoming Exhibition: "TID" at KH7artspace
I am participating as a guest artist in the exhibition "TID" (TIME) at KH7artspace in Aarhus, Denmark. My contribution, titled "Where the Walls Weep Sugar," consists of an "AI" version of the KH7 exhi...
2025-02-16
SANCTUARY BBS (en)
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2025-02-1515 Feb 2025
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2025-02-15A local visual syntax that will now never come to exist (en)
In the 1990s, like most other writers in Denmark, my understanding of graffiti was built on fragments and misinterpretations. While a few writers had connections to the American scene through personal...
2025-02-15
15 Feb 2025
Hey - i got a single half price cupon for the swiss based protomail unlimited plan (including vpn, drive etc etc) if you are looking to a exit US based services auch as for example gmail. Its easy to...
2025-02-1414 Feb 2025
Self-portrait as what the flux.dev1 text-to-image model generates if you tell it to make an image of an average dane.
2025-02-13Søger en fingernem ung kunstner i København til at lime, spartle og male en 3D-printet runesten
Hey! Søger en fingernem ung kunstner i København til at lime, spartle og male en 3D-printet runesten. Det drejer sig om ca. 2 dages betalt arbejde på mit værksted i det centrale København. Du skal...
2025-02-07
7 Feb 2025
Anmeldelse af "jeg er en mislykket kunstner" i atlas mag. af Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen "Kristoffer Ørum skriver både fyndigt og tænksomt om de magtstrukturer, han og alle andre kunstnere lever un...
2025-02-05Svar opslag om en ny leder til Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DA)
Svar på Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler opslag om en ny leder til Kunsthal Charlottenborg Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2025 Kære Ansættelsesudvalg, Dette er ikke en ansøgning, m...
2025-02-03
Figure 26: Run for Cover (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
In the early 2000s, a group of local enthusiasts founded a remarkable production collective in an old paint factory—a unique example of the suburbs’ tradition of social experimentation. The factory, w...
2025-02-02
Figure 25: Thiesen's Self-Built House (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
In the 1930s, gas and water master Theis Thiesen’s self-built house exemplified the unique architectural tradition in Hvidovre, where low resource consumption and self-reliance went hand in hand. Over...
2025-02-01
Figure 24: Wong's Grill (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
Wong's Grill, which first opened in 1972, reinvented itself in 1984 as Denmark’s first Chinese grill infused with breakdance culture. Under Wong’s leadership, the modest grill bar evolved into a cultu...
2025-01-31
Figure 23: Risbjerggaard (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
By 2022, Thursday evenings at Cultural House Risbjerggaard had become a groundbreaking experiment in the sharing of bodily knowledge, where diverse movement traditions converged to explore the liberat...
2025-01-31
31 Jan 2025
If you are in the beautiful city of Aalborg please drop by the city archive and pick up a free copy of the counter factual map of Aalborg (in English or danish) that i made at the end of last year in...
2025-01-30
Figure 22: The Green Islets (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
The transformation of the Green Islets into Denmark’s first maritime free municipality in 2024 is both a triumph and a challenge for its residents. The official recognition of free municipality status...
2025-01-29
Selvportræt som privilegeret fuck-up (DA)
Lige om lidt påbegynder en Ph.d. på min 50-års fødselsdag. Det føles uvirkelig, næsten absurd. Jeg er en forstadsdreng fra den rigtige side af sporene, der har fået så uendeligt mange chancer, at det...
2025-01-29
Upcomming show: Where the Walls Weep Sugar at KH7 Artspace
"Where the Walls Weep Sugar / Hvor Væggene Græder Sukker" is part of "TID, 26 værker, 26 minutter, 28 kunstner" at KH7 Artspace 1-30 March (www.kh7artspace.dk/), a self-initiated group exhibition...
2025-01-29
At drømme i infrastruktur (da)
Jeg har tit en fornemmelse af, at mens vores daglige liv hviler på et fundament af praktisk solidaritet - manifesteret i kloakrør, elkabler og datalinjer - så fortaber samfundsdebatten sig i abstrakte...
2025-01-28Figure 21: Hvidovre Beach (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
Figure 21: Hvidovre Beach In the late 1970s, while neighbouring municipalities waited for state grants to fund their artificial beaches, Hvidovre’s residents took matters into their own hands. It be...
2025-01-28
Upcomming show: Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)
Opening at Bunkier Sztuki: "Monuments of a Fictional Past (Krakow edition)" (15 May - 31 August 2025), continues an exploration started at LCCA Riga's Survival Kit festival. Through AI-generated snaps...
2025-01-28
The Space Between Algorithmic Biases (eng)
As an artist who works both with and against algorithms, I exist in a state of constant negotiation. I navigate between American and Chinese AI biases while already living at odds with how Danish inst...
2025-01-27
Some thoughts on originality, art and AI (english)
There is no doubt that the myth of originality shapes my own work both in and outside of digital spaces, but it also haunts all of art. As someone working with digital tools and networks, it takes a l...
2025-01-2727 Jan 2025
Watch "A Bikeride Through a Hvidovre That Never Was" from "Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better" at Hvidovre Main Library here: makertube.net/w/qQRMRGz... Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better is a counterf...
2025-01-26Trump in Romania
Looking at Trump's America in 2025, i find that there are remarkable and surprising similarities to Romania's financial situation in the 1990s. Both periods feature political figures becoming involved...
2025-01-26Om håbet i de sociale medier
Jeg logger på hver morgen af samme grund, som jeg laver kunstudstillinger. Ikke fordi jeg investerer mit håb i de sociale medier eller kunstverdenens nuværende form, men fordi det er sådan, verden er...
2025-01-2525 Jan 2025
I just discovered that my current shard viz.social does not like me posting in danish (i probably should have read the faq a bit more carefully) - luckily i am not that invested here yet so i can stil...
2025-01-25
Smagfuldhed
Når jeg bevæger mig ind i et udstillingsrum, mærker jeg hvor svært det er at forestille mig alternativer til de præsentationsformer, jeg kender så godt. De hvide vægge, den generøse afstand mellem vær...
2025-01-24Mikrofest
My book "I Am a Failed Artist" has been available on Mikrofest for for a while now. I genuinely value their approach to distributing independent publications - they've created a thoughtful platform th...
2025-01-24
Figure 20: Ølgaard's Corner (from the show Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better)
Ølgaard's Corner exists as a unique phenomenon within Hvidovre's underground culture—a term for the spaces where breakdancers, graffiti artists, and union members came together in the suburb’s in-be...
