Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Comedy.

A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.

Some of it only exists as a photograph now.

Nothing digital about it. A screen is an object, and objects sit in rooms.

Works with animals that have not agreed to it.

Works with machines that are confidently wrong.

The title reflects several forms of diffusion: the algorithmic process of generating images; the grassroots spread of ideas and tools; and the physical scattering of devices across different environments. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025

Disparate subjects such as English Vorticism, brainwaves, animal perception, and doomsday scenarios were connected in an increasingly ambitious thesis. The Pattern In Us All, 2007

Soap Particles (2005) is a 3D animation work exhibited in two venues: as part of a solo show at Q, Copenhagen (20–29 May 2005) and in the group exhibition Critical Mass at Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm (3 May 2005). Soap Particles, 2005

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

It was coded using the then-ubiquitous Flash interactive format. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010

The Pattern In Us All (2007) was a lecture performance created by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum at the University of Copenhagen. The Pattern In Us All, 2007

The work featured 3D-printed signal crayfish models, USB-connected gadgets, and digital manipulations. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Aarhus'er #1 doesn't offer a single reading of what was or what could be. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

Bænkebider flok (Woodlouse Flock) on the floor. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The inkjet transfer process applied the processed imagery to the printed form. Depth Estimation, 2019

Strange audio players and distorted timelines hint at other ways things could have turned out, with hip-hop positioned not as a fixed genre or imported form, but as a set of evolving principles. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

Or the years when rap lyrics were about helping at home and taking good care of elderly citizens? Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

The work was part of a series of four exhibitions at NLHspace from September to December 2009. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

The signs Prognose eller kaos (Prognosis or Chaos) and a second Leddyrsomsorg in the gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The exhibition featured works from 26 artists, including paintings, sculptures, photos, and video pieces The exhibition's core concept was uniquely time-based and site-specific. Where the walls weep sugar, 2025

Over the past year, I have created a series of self-portraits using locally run AI. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

In The Old Gate at Folkets Park, Malmö’s working-class history is reactivated through DIY sound system cultures. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

The publication set out the species' survival capabilities and cross-distance chemical communication systems, positioning the crayfish as superior to human technological networks in this comparison. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

The installation combined the physical presence of the large-scale 3D-printed oyster sculpture with video content projecting the voices and experiences of future oyster-dwellers. Affluence without abundance, 2021

Each email contained a unique, computer-generated text announcing fictional construction projects — ranging from the plausible to the fantastic. City Planning, 2010

This computational process was then used to create a 3D printed object in corn starch. Depth Estimation, 2019

The installation used various media to investigate how technology shapes our understanding of faces, identity, and political figures. Putins Nose, 2018

While gentrification night favour one imagined future out of all the others that could have come about, the ongoing struggle of whose imaginaries will be realised, and whose will be kept as potential or unrealistic futures, remains. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The work mixed factual information about signal crayfish with invented characteristics, including claims that the species can grow to 1.8 metres and possess wireless communication abilities. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The work documents their attempts to deconstruct a person into data: to apply a label, assign a tracking ID, map the body's motion onto a skeletal grid, and strip a voice down to plain text. Speaker 1, 2026

Perhaps there is more hope in admitting how deeply we are all entangled. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The project began with an unusual anecdote: "I look down into the shopping bag at some beetroots. Putins Nose, 2018

Mundane Monsters was an interactive digital multimedia exhibition that transformed the gallery at Epsilon Spires into a walk-through experience about the modern relationship between nature and culture. Mundane Monsters, 2022

Rather than illustrating a lost history, the project manipulates familiar visual tropes and embraces the productive errors of AI. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

The code sets the procedure, but the visual outcomes remain emergent and unpredictable. Watershed, 2025

This reordering not only alters the image itself but also reshapes how it must be encountered. Watershed, 2025

The project replaced advertising posters at Sydhavn Station with what appeared to be an information campaign about the development and dissolution of the welfare state from 1872 to 2001. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

The work was part of the group exhibition "Perpetual Interpreter" at Lokale in Copenhagen, co-curated with Anders Visti. Listening Without Ears, 2019

The exhibition Coming From took place from 23 August to 14 September 2014, with an opening on 22 August. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The Ballehage Woman was created by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum for the outdoor sculpture exhibition Sculpture by the Sea, organised by AROS Museum in Aarhus in 2009. The Ballehage Woman, 2009

The work has been presented in lectures at universities, on AI, welfare mythologies and hope through the creative misuse of digital infrastructure. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

The exhibition posed a paradox about how we can become accustomed to living in a constantly changing world with technological trends that supplement, expand and reinforce reality with extra layers of information. Mundane Monsters, 2023

Instead, it opens up space for interpretation, uncertainty and collective speculation, asking visitors to consider alternative trajectories for urban development, cultural production, and collective organisation. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

The installation included various nose-related works including "My Nose", "Nose detector", and "Nose Archive", alongside "Face of Russia". Putins Nose, 2018

Together, the elements formed a series of overlapping linguistic and visual displacements. Putin's Nose, 2019

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