Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

A PhD student. Human-AI Collaboration, Copenhagen University, until 2028.

A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.

The machines are collaborators and cannot be credited.

This text is generated. He decided what it generates from.

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

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

They are the most revealing parts of the process. Speaker 1, 2026

Rather than corporate development, this speculative trajectory imagines ternary computing as evolving through grassroots cultures of experimentation and resistance. Diffused States (Boston), 2025

The project features a map and website highlighting 16 reinterpreted locations in Aalborg. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024

Coffee Lake is a video installation combining computer-generated video with animated text, created for the group exhibition "Machine sans nom" at Bonamatic. Coffee Lake, 2019

Diffused States was presented as part of *Data Fluencies: Tributaries*, curated by Roopa Vasudevan, which brought together artists working on the ways data can be resisted, rerouted, or reimagined outside dominant narratives. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025

The installation consisted of 3D-printed crayfish models, information screens, video material, and text displays on pink pedestals. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

In Copenhagen, at Live Art for Kids the project took shape in courtyards, playgrounds, and cultural centres. Mundane Heroics, 2019

It is an experiment in seeing, questioning not just what we see in the news, but how we are conditioned to see it. Watershed, 2025

The 3d printed copies of fragments from the construction site have become a sort of digital “ghosts”. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The plate facing it is green and reads "I cheer as the pink-green crayfish team score a goal", over a passage about crayfish sending messages to each other across the same wireless networks that carry a live football game. Signal_Crayfish, 2026

The exhibition featured video projections, 3D-printed sculptures, wireless transmissions, two-dimensional works, and an augmented reality component that allowed visitors to view "monsters" inhabiting the gallery through their phone cameras. Mundane Monsters, 2022

By working with AI models trained on biased and incomplete datasets, DIFFUSED STATES engages with both their limitations and their possibilities. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025

We are collectively searching for new grammars of public discourse. Watershed, 2025

By exposing an otherwise private dataset in a public exhibition space, the work reflects on memory, digital traces, and the role of the internet as a space for both research and distraction. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

Instead of treating these models as definitive or universal, the project approaches them as partial and provisional—open to reinterpretation, modification, and play. Diffused States (Vancouver), 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

Diffused States imagines a counterfactual technological history in which graffiti and phone phreaking converged through the discovery that modified spray paint could interact with electromagnetic infrastructure. Diffused States (Boston), 2025

The game turns on how the concept of gravity is embedded in language, metaphors, and everyday actions. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013

The invasive biological species served as an analogy for invasive digital technologies and data collection systems. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The project aimed to examine new forms of dialogue in contemporary art on different terms than previously known. Everyday Heroes, 2019

The familiar rhythm of news consumption—fast, frictionless, designed for scanning—is replaced by movement through a spatial terrain. Watershed, 2025

Geometric shapes emerge from the boxes, forming a complex sculptural environment. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004

Signal_Crayfish takes the invasive signal crayfish, which displaces native Danish freshwater species and communicates chemically across distance, and sets it beside human communication technology. Would You Like to Know More, 2017

Each figure is both a memory and a proposition—an echo of what might have been, and a sketch of what still could be. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025

We are shaped by the grammar of the frame, where composition and colour psychology direct our gaze and mood. Watershed, 2025

But there is now a third gaze, one that works through calculation. Speaker 1, 2026

The familiar backdrop of urban life became part of the work, framing the reimagined objects and frozen scenes within the flow of daily routines. Mundane Heroics, 2019

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

At the same time, abstract projections of colour and computer-generated sound evolve according to the same underlying logic. AutoBiography, 2011

Like Haraway, I believe the only honest critique must come from a situated place—knowledge that is always embodied, compromised, and grounded in specific contexts. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

A Body Has Many Members is a large-scale public commission by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum for the University College Capital (UCC) Campus Nordsjælland, produced with support from the Danish Agency for Culture. A Body Has Many Members, 2012

Artists were invited through an open call to create works in dialogue with the water-damaged photographs. Depth Estimation, 2019

NLHspace was initiated in 2006 by artist Nanna Lysholt Hansen and operated as an "always open / always closed" space. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

It was curated by Nanna Lysholt-Hansen and supported by Vesterbro Lokaludvalg. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

The performance questions traditional notions of heroic bodies and monochrome histories, imagining instead non-heroic bodies in soft, feathered institutions that function as part of a collective ecosystem. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018

Visitors could observe the browser wandering through familiar and obscure websites, highlighting the fragmented and associative nature of online experience. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The book is ring-bound and its plates are 3D-printed. Signal_Crayfish, 2026

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

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 pieces incorporated Wi-Fi network names printed on crayfish bodies, casting the invasive species as a digital hybrid creature living within communication networks. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

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