Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

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

Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.

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

Not local. Boston, Vancouver, Riga, Kraków, Oberhausen, San Francisco.

Not a joke.

Some of it only exists as a photograph now.

Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

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

A protestor’s sign, a celebrity’s face, a patch of sky, or a piece of rubble—all are treated as equivalent grayscale image data to be segmented and archived. Watershed, 2025

None are permanent, but all leave residues—sonic, material, or narrative. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025

The exhibition dealt with invisible communication systems including Wi-Fi networks, radio communications, and chemical signals that operate undetected around us. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

A ghostly city that is no less real than the cities summoned forth in digital renderings by architects and planners to convince us of the future they are proposing. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The work takes up how repeated exposure to images of buildings sinking into rubble with glass shards and dust spreading symmetrically creates expectations that the physical world behaves the same way. Melting State, 2020

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

The project builds on Ørum's ongoing work "Freedom, Liberty, and Hip-Hop," which envisions alternative Danish histories. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024

It considers what AI might look like if it evolved through neighbourhood initiatives, recycled consumer hardware, and community-specific datasets, moving at the pace of shared maintenance rather than commercial urgency. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025

I participate in the system myself because it can grant me access to freedom and resources. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Works included "When nature looks back at you" (3D print, 2021), "Pearl House" (mixed media, 2020), "Habitation Oyster from Kolidsound" (3D print, 2020), and "WARNING FLOOR FLOODED DURING HIGH TIDE" (hydrographic print on cornstarch, 2021). Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

Using the fictional device Scope 3000, he ultimately merged with the patterns themselves. The Pattern In Us All, 2007

The project continued to develop as a multi-year work, with subsequent presentations including "Mr. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

Custom software automated the browsing process by reading from the recorded history file and simulating user clicks. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The work was created for the group exhibition "Opløsning af Det Private Arkiv" aboard the ship Svartlöga in Copenhagen. Depth Estimation, 2019

Every Part a Body is a sixty-second digital video, shown in the 60Seconds programme of The Wrong Biennale at CBS Digital Space in March 2026. Every Part a Body, 2026

The work presented a speculative interface for interacting with locally trained language models on recycled consumer hardware, quietly resisting the scale and speed of mainstream AI deployments. Diffused States (Boston), 2025

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 exhibition recounted the story of a black magnetic fluid, ferrofluid, that generated forms and figures without human interaction. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007

I also do it because local AI is itself an impure position. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

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

Hverdagens Helte (Everyday Heroes) consists of a series of interactive sculptures created in collaboration with Vitar Horsens Rollespilslaug (role-playing association). Everyday Heroes, 2019

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 work suggests that our understanding of phenomena like fire, water, and collective action is increasingly shaped by computational models and digital representations. Coffee Lake, 2019

The process consistently produced a balance between the familiar and the strange. Mundane Heroics, 2019

Deconstructed 2D news images drift across a constructed 3D landscape, never pretending to be windows onto reality. Watershed, 2025

The exhibition text calls them blind creatures watching over the exhibition and the people in it. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

Each network name spells out a fragment of a 31-character text, visible only through the device list of available connections. Wireless Walnut, 2018

Affluence without abundance was a video installation featuring a giant 3D-printed oyster that presented a speculative future scenario where the earth is covered by an endless ocean and people live in giant oysters. Affluence without abundance, 2021

The video Computer-generated video and sound, 20 min, made with WAN 2.1 on a local RTX 4090, projected on the end wall of a darkened gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

Everyday objects were recognisable yet altered. Mundane Heroics, 2019

Through web-based platforms, interactive media, and speculative design, the project transforms mundane moments into complex systems of meaning. Day to Day Data, 2008

The work was presented at NLH Space in Copenhagen, which was run by The Organisation – Association for Artistic and Curatorial Platforms. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

Two folders, with texts by medical historian Adam Bencard and by Kristoffer Ørum, printed inkjet and held in 3D-printed R-PETG holders in both buildings. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

From the cover of the newspaper that the greengrocer wrapped the beets in, Russian President Vladimir Putin looked up, his face now covered in beetroot juice splatter. Putin's Nose, 2019

Aarhus'er #1 is the most expansive chapter in Kristoffer Ørum's ongoing counterfactual project "Frihed, lighed og hip-hop" (Freedom, Equality and Hip-Hop), created in collaboration with rapper Emilio Hestepis. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

Additional elements included a video installation where visitors had Putin's face projected over them, making them momentarily become Putin speaking about Russian male superiority and Western decadence. Putin's Nose, 2019

This approach shares a lineage with experimental practices such as Surrealist automatic writing and collage. Watershed, 2025

Being your own record-keeper means accepting these gaps and changes.

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