Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Twenty years out of art school, and back in it.

Not research. The works were made first and explained afterwards.

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

Collaborative. Most of it was made with other people.

Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.

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

The exhibition posed a paradox about how we can become accustomed to living in a constantly changing world with technological trends that supplement, expand and reinforce reality with extra layers of information. Mundane Monsters, 2023

The work referenced Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting "L'Origine du monde", which was kept hidden behind a curtain for over a century. Sucker Trick, 2017

Running small, open systems on one’s own hardware provides a degree of autonomy and technological self-determination. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

These objects were then animated through role play and staged as collective tableaux, blurring the line between workshop and public presentation. Mundane Heroics, 2019

Once generated, these daily phantom faces replaced Ørum’s personal avatar across his website, social networks and other platforms. Recognised Faces, 2014

A computer transcribes the audio files it has captured and translates them into Danish, before uploading the text to Meter’s homepage. Blind Listening, 2017

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

Through a visual language that draws on both scientific simulations and computer games, the flows of economy, knowledge and power are animated as dynamic systems. A Body Has Many Members, 2012

These images, generated through AI, deliberately embrace glitches and impossibilities to question how historical narratives are constructed and repeated. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

The project has been discussed in Vice and elsewhere as a reflection on surveillance, aesthetics and identity in the age of algorithmic vision. Recognised Faces, 2014

The work took the form of an artist's book featuring a 3D-printed signal crayfish sculpture on the cover. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

The project draws on the history of low-resource and locally maintained computing, from community-run bulletin board systems to peer-to-peer networks sustained by recycled hardware. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025

This Brownfield Wonderland might very well appear once again when this project is long forgotten, and current norms of what is useful and productive are forgotten. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The virtual history book appeared on two projection screens: one mounted on Roskilde’s main square and another inside the exhibition. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009

The work featured a large, curved canvas onto which the magician's hands were projected. Sucker Trick, 2017

Putin's Nose began with an everyday moment: looking into a shopping bag full of groceries and noticing a beetroot that, for a moment, looked like the artist's Russian grandmother's nose. Putin's Nose, 2019

Players learn a new language through twelve game-based exercises, each designed to deliberately reinterpret established ideas and challenge conventional understanding. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013

Fed back into the internet, these phantom portraits acted as a small disturbance within systems of profiling maintained by intelligence agencies, corporations and other data collectors. Recognised Faces, 2014

A "Sucker Trick" is a magic trick where the magician offers false clues to hide what they are actually doing. Sucker Trick, 2017

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

It presents language as both infrastructure and interference, existing in plain sight yet obscured within the everyday signals that surround us. Wireless Walnut, 2018

The performative lecture addresses how we might recover some semblance of agency and hope while living under the gaze of ever more watchful algorithmic systems of control. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019

They contribute to a narrowing of bodily representations that is far more damaging in the long run than strange AI slippage. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The End of the Universe as We Know It? was a solo exhibition by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum at Galerie Mikael Andersen in Copenhagen in 2007. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007

The project emphasizes local DIY spirit, encouraging citizens to reimagine Hvidovre’s past and future. 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

The work displays a computer screen automatically navigating through previously visited websites, creating a continuous and randomised journey across traces of personal online activity. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The site opens on the series title and a single line — "Would you like to know more?" — set in pale green with a cartoon crayfish at the edge of the frame. Would You Like to Know More, 2017

On the one hand, it can be seen as an attempt to resist the grip of major platforms, their data collection, and their opaque models. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Signal_Crayfish (2021), the book work, shown in Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age at the San Francisco Center for the Book, 25 April to 26 July 2026, curated by bex ya yolk. Signal_Crayfish, 2026

Across media, the fictional creatures were presented with a mixture of pop cultural humour and the kind of scientific authority familiar from public information campaigns. Mundane Monsters, 2023

The work was structured as a natural history museum display. 3D-printed models represented crayfish body parts modified with technological elements. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Invisible Objects was presented at Prince Gallery, Copenhagen, from 3 June to 1 July 2016. Invisible Objects, 2016

The project consists of a book, a video, and a sculpture. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007

As a user zooms in on a fragment, its pixel structure reveals itself, breaking the illusion of seamlessness. Watershed, 2025

*Radiant Copenhagen* was a speculative reimagining of the city developed as an online platform and complemented by real-world actions. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009

The work involved creating AI-generated posters and videos that depicted an alternative Danish history where the labour movement and 1990s hip-hop culture merged. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

The work successfully expanded the "Freedom, Equality and Hip-Hop" series into new institutional and performance contexts. Mr. Spray, 2024

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

Spray was presented as both an exhibition and performance at Friisland's Center for Performance Art during Art Matter festival. Mr. Spray, 2024

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