Kristoffer Ørum
A programmer who picks the wrong algorithm on purpose.
Works with machines that are confidently wrong.
Works with animals that have not agreed to it.
A record-keeper. The website is the work.
A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.
A PhD student. Human-AI Collaboration, Copenhagen University, until 2028.
Through AI-generated images and counterfactual storytelling, the exhibition envisions a self-built utopia in Hvidovre. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The project involved citizen participation in creating the final artwork, with local residents contributing both their pets' physical forms and personal stories. The Kolding Creature, 2021
The work was installed in the lobby of the National Danish Broadcaster (DR) as part of Glowing Climate, organized by Illumenarts in 2009. The Wave, 2009
The project arises from a media environment where trust in both institutions and images is unsettled. Watershed, 2025
The work set daily life against hypothetical digital physiognomies, using the nose as a means to examine identity and perception. According to the Nose, 2021
The process consistently produced a balance between the familiar and the strange. Mundane Heroics, 2019
However, following decades of “misuse”, the area is presently being integrated back into the rest of the city as a productive and commercially viable new part of town called “art city”. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Visitors could connect their phones to new networks appearing in the gallery space and receive fragments of text and video. Invisible Objects, 2016
In a parallel way, Watershed treats the algorithm as a collaborator. Watershed, 2025
Brownfield Wonderland is a multi-platform art project at Spanien 19C in Aarhus, Denmark. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Simultaneously with the physical performances, stories of The Ballehage Woman were disseminated across media including a website, YouTube video, Google ads, newspaper articles, and emails. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
I sat at a table in a crayfish costume, in front of a screen, and talked while speech recognition transcribed me and projected the transcript behind my head. A Human Pretending To Be An Artist Pretending To Be A Crayfish, 2022
The work was exhibited at Vejle Kunstmuseum from March to August 2020, then travelled to Holstebro Kunstmuseum from September 2020 to January 2021. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
It was curated by Nanna Lysholt-Hansen and supported by Vesterbro Lokaludvalg. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
These hollow approximations of the original fragments are half-remembered memories made tangible. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The exhibition was supported by Novo Nordisk Fonden. Affluence without abundance, 2025
During the exhibition, the carefully worded original English text on the exhibition space’s website was gradually replaced by an unstable bilingual text, one sentence at a time. Blind Listening, 2017
Opening reception held Thursday 4 November at 16:00. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
The project was supported by research conducted at Aarhus University as part of an ongoing investigation into the aesthetic dimensions of computational processes and automated interpretation systems. Listening Without Ears, 2019
The two spaces integrate into each other, creating a continuous fluid motion where the boundary of the window is removed. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
The work involved creating AI-generated posters and videos that depicted an alternative Danish history where the labour movement and 1990s hip-hop culture merged. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
Each day, the system generated a new composite face from images found via Google’s lists of top search terms. Recognised Faces, 2014
Kristoffer Ørum’s contribution imagines Malmö as shaped by the afterlives of its industrial past and alternative forms of civic imagination. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
In art and activism, humour has repeatedly functioned as a way of exposing the absurdity of power—from Dadaist performances to contemporary meme cultures. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Using AI, familiar sites are transformed into speculative visions, such as Karolinelunden as a DIY amusement park or Aalborg Shipyard taken over by its workers. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
The festival invited artists to work across the boundaries between history, urban space, and perception, creating site-specific works and lectures that engaged with the city’s social and architectural context. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011
The scanning process was designed to be gentle and non-intrusive for the animals whilst collecting the digital data needed to construct the hybrid creature. The Kolding Creature, 2021
The project was based on historical facts and scientific data. Djurs Øhav, 2020
The exhibition was the first public survey of bookworks focused on alternative interspecies possibilities and featured artists working at the intersection of speculative fiction and bio-art. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
Deconstructed 2D news images drift across a constructed 3D landscape, never pretending to be windows onto reality. Watershed, 2025
A book, "Kolindsund fremtidsturistguide," was published by forlaget majlund in 2022 (ISBN 9788793882096) in connection with the work. Djurs Øhav, 2020
jerklædte Misforståelser (Feathered Misconceptions) is a fifteen-minute associative performance commissioned by Ny Carlsberg Fondet for their annual celebration of their founder on 28 February 2018. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018
The installation operated both as physical presence at ARoS Public and as part of the parallel online exhibition, extending the work virtually with supplementary material. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
Within the installation, a microclimate experiment is contained in a coffeemaker, adding subtle atmospheric variation to the space. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004
But there is now a third gaze, one that works through calculation. Speaker 1, 2026
Or the massive folk festival held in Fælledparken the day graffiti was legalised? Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
Auto Navigate My History is a software-based installation that replays the artist’s own browser history from the past year. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
The project also responds critically to the historical metaphors of the human body as a model for political and social order. A Body Has Many Members, 2012
The project features a map and website highlighting 16 reinterpreted locations in Aalborg. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
Shown with Colette Fu, Diagonal Press / Tauba Auerbach, Kate Conlon, Myungah Hyon, Neta Bomani, Noam Youngrak Son, Sonnenzimmer / Nick Butcher, Nadine Nakanishi, Rujuta Rao, Stephanie Simek and THUNGRY / bex ya yolk. Signal_Crayfish, 2026