Kristoffer Ørum
Comedy.
Twenty years out of art school, and back in it.
The machines are collaborators and cannot be credited.
Collaborative. Most of it was made with other people.
Works with machines that are confidently wrong.
A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.
The project encompasses three galleries featuring a 15-metre legal graffiti wall, a giant record player, DIY furniture, lo-fi mixtapes, deepfakes and look-alikes, speculative snapshots, and video fragments from another world. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
Retired factory workers repurpose their technical knowledge to build speakers and maintain audio infrastructure, passing skills across generations. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
In the work, a series of news broadcasts are presented by a talking carrot. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
The exhibition was the second presentation by OXER and was supported by Statens Kunstfond. Depth Estimation, 2019
The work was documented through performance protocols and connected to broader research into facial recognition, identity, and technological surveillance through embodied experience in public space. According to the Nose, 2021
A local newspaper printed an account of a witness encounter with The Ballehage Woman, sponsored by tessellax.com as advertising disguised as news. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
In 2025, the project will travel to Krakow, Malmö, Boston, Vancouver, Lexington, and Aarhus. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The project served as the conceptual foundation for later work on how artificial intelligence could be used to create alternative historical narratives about Danish society. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022
The project operated on several levels with "lines of flight" into the city, online, and in local media. According to the Nose, 2021
Artists were invited through an open call to create works in dialogue with the water-damaged photographs. Depth Estimation, 2019
The opening performance on 30 May 2024 was paired with Linnea Langfjord's work on alternative presents focused on care and slowness in the art world. Mr. Spray, 2024
Set in three symbolic locations—Folkets Park, Drottninggatan 6, and a speculative Malmö City Hall—the work blends archival research with fiction to propose a reparative reading of urban space. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
The animation recreates the street outside the former artist-run space, projecting a computer-generated scene onto a screen covering the window. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
Today, images are filtered, analysed, and manipulated by systems we rarely notice or understand. Watershed, 2025
The project was based on historical facts and scientific data. Djurs Øhav, 2020
On the other hand, these systems are still trained on global datasets full of bias, stereotypes, and inequality. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The same work was shown at Keramoda, Lønstrup, in 2021. Affluence without abundance, 2025
Rather than illustrating a lost history, the project manipulates familiar visual tropes and embraces the productive errors of AI. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
Historical facts, such as names of kings or weather reports, were interwoven with stories of the Rosicrucian Order, royal lizards, and extraterrestrials landing on the outskirts of town. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009
Auto Navigate My History uses the digital archive of daily browsing as both source and medium. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
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
"Sucker Trick" is a collaboration between visual artist Kristoffer Ørum, magician Claus Mulbjerg, and architect Tomas Skovgaard. Sucker Trick, 2017
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
On YouTube, the video “Ballehage Woman Sighting” shows the figure moving through Marselisborg Forest. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
Documentation: - Liveart.dk project page - Nilas Dumstrei – Mundane Heroics - Liveart.dk overview - Kristoffer Ørum – Liveart.dk profile - ANTI Festival background - Facebook event archive - Video documentation on YouTube Mundane Heroics, 2019
The project used artificial intelligence not as a thinking entity, but as a tool filled with errors and biases that could inspire new ways of thinking. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
They function as my avatars on social networks in an ongoing performative investigation. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Call-outs have of course played an important role in making injustices visible, but when they are based on an idea of moral purity, they also create distance. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Everyday objects were recognisable yet altered. Mundane Heroics, 2019
The sculptures were inspired by the role-players' own objects and toolkit, translating elements from their gaming practice into interactive art objects. Everyday Heroes, 2019
Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006, is a PAL DVD video with a duration of 22 minutes, created in collaboration with Anders Bojen. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
The work featured 3D-printed signal crayfish models, USB-connected gadgets, and digital manipulations. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The Wave made by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum is a computer-animated video installation depicting a stormy sea with the tower of Copenhagen City Hall in the background. The Wave, 2009
The outcome was a series of live tableaux presented in public space, inviting direct engagement and chance encounters. Mundane Heroics, 2019
Previous iterations of Freedom, Equality and Hip-hop have appeared at Kongegaarden (Korsør), Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen), Friisland (Copenhagen Nordhavn), Survival Kit Biennial (Riga, Latvia), and F.eks. (Aalborg). Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful is a reconstruction of the Lee-stone, one of nine runestones believed to have been lost in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
All images were generated using Flux.1 diffusion models from Black Forest, on a used computer powered by green-certified Nordic solar, wind, and hydro energy. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The project formed part of a research collaboration between the participating museums and the University of Copenhagen. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Video elements included a deep fake sequence featuring politician Pernille Vermund discussing invasive species. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
We are shaped by the grammar of the frame, where composition and colour psychology direct our gaze and mood. Watershed, 2025