Kristoffer Ørum
Most of it was built on other people's work.
Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.
Not research. The works were made first and explained afterwards.
The machines are collaborators and cannot be credited.
Works with machines that are confidently wrong.
Comedy.
Each is hand-cut XPS foam, worked from a computer-generated sketch. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The installation drew from actual environmental concerns about invasive species whilst incorporating fictional elements related to digital communication networks and surveillance technologies. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Rather than simply discussing these themes, the performance stages a series of unstable software experiments and semi-fictional narratives, creating a situation that is deliberately out of the performer's control. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019
Spray was presented as both an exhibition and performance at Friisland's Center for Performance Art during Art Matter festival. Mr. Spray, 2024
The installation featured speculative scenarios about living arrangements including large oyster habitations. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
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
Each contribution provided insight into the often hidden or indirect references shaping contemporary art. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
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 exhibition dealt with invisible communication systems including Wi-Fi networks, radio communications, and chemical signals that operate undetected around us. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
In a parallel way, Watershed treats the algorithm as a collaborator. Watershed, 2025
The project was realised in three different locations, each with its own public settings and time frame. Mundane Heroics, 2019
In return, humans care for the oysters through cleaning, feeding, and gentle maintenance. Affluence without abundance, 2021
Especially simulations of destruction are so widespread and credible that one quickly forgets what the original physical phenomena looked like. Melting State, 2020
The broadcasts cover subjects including singing carrots, earthquakes, the colonization of outer space, and a theory of everything. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
The work opens itself to failure, loss of control and improvisation, embodying these conditions rather than merely describing them. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019
Taniguchi of veggie-science.org, part of the daytodaydata.com project. Cosmic Carrot, 2005
One was an animated video about life inside an oyster. Djurs Øhav, 2020
The mud text is a site-specific text that has been made from the place where it has been written, even as it attempts to reimagine and remember this very place. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Once connected to a computer and powered up, the device generates multiple Wi-Fi networks. Wireless Walnut, 2018
Invigilators tell stories of events that could have transpired, whilst screens display the construction of monuments that never materialised. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
Rather than scaling towards planetary computation, this speculative trajectory follows a slower, more situated evolution—one in which algorithms adapt to the languages, histories, and needs of their immediate context. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
Artists were invited through an open call to create works in dialogue with the water-damaged photographs. Depth Estimation, 2019
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
It is based on the belief that there is no inevitability to the current process of gentrification, it is simply one choice taken out of a million other possible ways we could develop our cities. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The installation consisted of 3D-printed crayfish models, information screens, video material, and text displays on pink pedestals. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The installation drew from actual environmental concerns about invasive species whilst incorporating fictional elements related to digital communication networks and surveillance technologies. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Instead of being representations in a conventional sense, they functioned as productions of effects, transforming the exhibition space into an operational field based on concepts such as energy, velocity, and transformation. Coffee Lake, 2019
This is a form of algorithmic seeing quite different from a human's—one that operates without narrative, hierarchy, or significance. Watershed, 2025
The photographs were found in a cabin after the vessel had spent seven days on the seabed, having been exposed to three atmospheres of pressure and salt water. Depth Estimation, 2019
Recognized for its experimental approach, Data Kroppe is cataloged in the Danish public digital archive Vores Kunst, which preserves commissioned television art. Data Kroppe, 2017
The selected sites appear to lack history or unique features, yet they contain complex layers of information and hidden connections. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010
The machine's interpretation is not just a poor copy of reality; it creates a new representation with its own logic and uncanny aesthetic. Speaker 1, 2026
Signal_Crayfish was commissioned as a book work for "Interspecies Futures ," the first survey of bookworks by international practitioners from bio-art and speculative design fields. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The work combines AI-generated imagery with human-written captions, forming a dispersed narrative around how such systems might emerge—from grassroots tinkering to collectively governed infrastructures and hyper-local training data. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
The cardboard boxes were imprinted with logos of Tessellax, a fictitious medical company claiming to cure Involuntary Tessellation, a condition causing uncontrolled growth of square body parts. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
The exhibition was curated by museum inspector Pernille Rom Bruun and featured partnerships between artists and associations including nature conservation, bird watching, boxing, gliding, gymnastics, and rabbit breeding groups. Everyday Heroes, 2019
Alongside the artworks, the programme includes talks, workshops and events on the histories and relevance of these vanished monuments. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
The work took the form of an artist's book featuring a 3D-printed signal crayfish sculpture on the cover. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 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