Kristoffer Ørum
Comedy.
Not a joke.
An artist who makes things up about real places.
A programmer who picks the wrong algorithm on purpose.
The machines are collaborators and cannot be credited.
Digital art.
Central to the work is a fictional universe populated by figures such as Torkild Simonsen, Aarhus' first hip-hop mayor (1982-1997), and Marc Johnston, who relocated Denmark's capital from Copenhagen to Aarhus in 2019. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
They have been 3d scanned, using the kind of technology one might find in one's smartphone, and subsequently 3d printed in monochrome versions using a variety of materials ranging from terracotta to granite. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Combining elements from the early labor movement with the local hip-hop culture of the 1990s, the project looks for untapped potential where creativity, community, and enjoyment take center stage. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
Bænkebider flok (Woodlouse Flock) on the floor. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Listening Without Ears consists of 3D printed copies of everyday objects that transcribe what is said in the exhibition space and print it out. Listening Without Ears, 2019
During the exhibition a collaboration with Anders Bojen, a printer continuously produced emails describing fictional events taking place on Amager. City Planning, 2010
The symposium featured artists and scholars examining contemporary forms of image making and computational apparatus, investigating relations between desire and automation, uncertainty and labour, self and other. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019
The centralised gatekeeping of 20th-century journalism has given way to fragmented, unstable formats. Watershed, 2025
These images, generated through AI, deliberately embrace glitches and impossibilities to question how historical narratives are constructed and repeated. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
It presented a dystopian scenario where computer-generated body fragments and singing microwave ovens suggested a post-human future. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007
Signal_Crayfish was exhibited at Center for Book Arts from April to June 2021 as part of "Interspecies Futures ," curated by Oscar Salguero. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The collaboration involved fieldwork where Ørum spent time with the role-playing association in their regular activities, including battles in Hansted Forest and gaming sessions. Everyday Heroes, 2019
The contrast is not presented as a solution but as a tool of critique—making the invisible conventions of ordinary web interfaces visible by inverting them. Watershed, 2025
Instead of showing only what is lost when a human is translated into data, these moments offer a new perspective. Speaker 1, 2026
The starting point was the woodlouse as a kind of care worker. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
At that time, Denmark experienced economic growth and falling unemployment, and society was marked by optimism and collective visions of a better future — hopes that are harder to find today. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The same book was shown in Interspecies Futures at the Center for Book Arts, New York, in 2021. Signal_Crayfish, 2026
The animated scene acts as a virtual doubling of both the street in front and the interior space behind the window. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
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 project was documented in the publication "Radar Contemporary: Extensions vol I II III" by Dr. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
In return, humans care for the oysters through cleaning, feeding, and gentle maintenance. Affluence without abundance, 2021
Produced for Aarhus Public Libraries and published by Haandholdt, the app was made freely available through iTunes. KAOS, 2012
The work involved 3D-printing signal crayfish models equipped with electromagnetic sensing components. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The work consists of more than 30 screens distributed throughout the campus, each showing a real-time visualisation of the institution’s invisible infrastructures. A Body Has Many Members, 2012
The piece was first aired on November 7, 2017, as part of a series on innovative expressions in public media. Data Kroppe, 2017
As a user zooms in on a fragment, its pixel structure reveals itself, breaking the illusion of seamlessness. Watershed, 2025
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 work was part of a series of four exhibitions at NLHspace from September to December 2009. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
At the hospital, Untitled — five photographs and an orange chalk drawing in aluminium frames along the corridor, from the perspective of somebody waiting. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The work was installed in the lobby of the National Danish Broadcaster (DR) as part of Glowing Climate, organized by Illumenarts in 2009. The Wave, 2009
SignalCrayfish was presented as part of the two-person exhibition "Semio-Technical Traffics" with Emily Rosamond. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
"Sucker Trick" is a collaboration between visual artist Kristoffer Ørum, magician Claus Mulbjerg, and architect Tomas Skovgaard. Sucker Trick, 2017
Two texts were airbrushed directly onto the wall using beetroot juice for the group exhibition *Qua Aqua* at Koldinggade 12 in Copenhagen. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017
Leaving the site once again ready to become yet another kind of Brownfield Wonderland, where one might just be able to dream of something new, instead of more of the same. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The project dismantles these logics and scrambles their effects. Watershed, 2025
These narratives, blending hope and fiction, are both plausible and subtly flawed, exposing their computer-generated origins while opening new ways to reimagine the past and future. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
The project examined the invasive signal crayfish species currently displacing native Danish freshwater crayfish. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Working with AI models trained on biased data, the project asks how such systems can still be repurposed to imagine collective and collaborative futures. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
For the exhibition opening, Vitar Horsens Rollespilslaug performed an InCrowd game at the art museum, bringing their practice directly into the gallery space. Everyday Heroes, 2019
The work asks how we can imagine a future after the welfare state, now that it seems to be definitively being dismantled. Melting State, 2020