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Soon – Lab for Possible Futures

Soon is a laboratory for possible futures. Here, we invite the future into the decisions we make in the present—for the benefit of the generations of people and other species that come after us. Soon is exploratory, circular, and anti-disciplinary. The laboratory connects futures research, social innovation, systemic thinking, economic sustainability, democratic participation, and artistic […]

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Enlightened

Enlightened is a collaborative art project developed with citizens in Køge in 2024-25, using contemporary art installations to explore climate change, sustainability, and community engagement. Køge is experiencing the impact of climate change firsthand, facing rising water levels and floodings. Addressing climate change can feel overwhelming, but art creates a space for collective reflection and […]

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Living Soil

Living Soil is an interdisciplinary artwork created by the artist Amalie Smith for the library and garden at Viborg Gymnasium. Throughout 2024-25 the project will unfold in four acts involving the school’s visual arts, chemistry, biology, and biotechnology classes. Together, the four acts aim to cultivate a practical and visual understanding of soil as a […]

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The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour was shown at Christiansborg Palace, 2023. The blue hour describes the time of day when the sun sets and twilight descends. The center of the sun is below the horizon, and the blue wavelengths of light color the sky. Day fades, and night is on its way. Throughout history, people have marked […]

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Against All Odds – Historical Women and New Algorithms

Exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark, 2023. During the years 1870-1910, a number of Nordic female artists achieved success against all odds. However, despite their success, they were later forgotten and quietly disappeared from history. What happened? We investigate this question, bring the artists back into the spotlight and explore how artificial intelligence can […]

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Techno Mythologies

Techno Mythologies

Through a sensory total installation created for Christian IV’s Brewery, the artist duo Wang & Söderström present alternatives to the dominant narratives about technology. Over the past 30 years, our view of technology has been dominated by the emergence of the internet and the personal computer, along with the platforms and business models that have […]

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The Unmanifested

‘The Unmanifested’ in Danish ‘Alt det som ikke er’ is an exhibition by the artist Mathias Malling Mortensen shown at Esbjerg Art Museum 2024-25 and a catalogue published by Aftryk. I had the pleasure of writing the article about Malling Mortensen and his relationship to his grandfather the artist Richard Mortensen.

Writings

Friction

Friction is a talk program for the culture festival Kulturmødet curated and moderated by Nicklas Larsen and Majken Overgaard in August 2023. Why Is Friction Important? Friction is crucial in many aspects of our daily lives, acting as a catalyst for change and opening up insights into our shared potential futures. The Friction Program is […]

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vegaBeyond

VEGA Beyond

VEGA Beyond is an experimental exhibition space where artists have the opportunity to expand the live concert format. VEGA Beyond is the place where boundaries between art forms don’t exist. Here, sound, image and performance are mixed for new cross-media experiences. In the fall of 2023 and spring of 2024 I curated experiences with including […]

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AI and Sound

Rytmisk Center and the Danish Musicians’ Union hosted three events in 2024 focusing on how AI is transforming the music industry. I curated and moderated the three events. Technological advancements have always reshaped artistic and creative processes, from photography to synthesizers and digital sampling. Generative AI is now accelerating this transformation, enabling musicians to create […]

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I’m an Archive

Talk held in 2023 and 2024 as part of a talk series co-arranged by the art institution Heirloom and The Association of Visual Artists. ‘I’m an archive’ explores how digital materiality is reshaping artistic practices, with a focus on the role of AI in transforming the creation process through algorithmic tools and generative techniques. It […]

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Northwest Spiral

The Northwest Spiral

The Northwest Spiral is a permanent light installation developed for the Culture House Nordvest in Helsingør in collaboration with culture cultural consultant Stine Polke-Pedersen and artist Jakob Kvist. The collaborative process took place in 2020 and the installation was opened after the restrictions were lifted in 2022 The grant for the light installation was given […]

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Refik Anadol at Arken

Nature Dreams, Refik Anadol at Arken

In 2023 Refik Anadol showed his first solo exhibition in Denmark at Arken – Museum for Contemporary Art. I wrote an article for the exhibition and facilitated a talk about his work and interpretation of artificial intelligence at Arken – Museum for Contemporary Art. Artificial intelligence is taking up more and more space in our […]

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The Rant

The Rant

The Rant is a publication written by the artist Ditte Ejlerskov, edited by Majken Overgaard and published by Aftryk in 2023. It is an artistic reaction to the development of the blockchain technology and it is a lived experience that has been brought about through Ejlerskov’s own practice as an artist working on the blockchain […]

Writings
Interface Without Friction

The Interface Without Friction

Essay about the works of artists Hannah Toticki and Asta Lynge for the exhibition The techno body at Fuglsang Art Museum. The essay, titled ‘The Interface Without Friction’ explores how the connection between our bodies and machines has always fueled our dreams and aspirations. Many envision a future where our bodies and machines will enter […]

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CATCH

DataChoreographies

The exhibition was realized through an interdisciplinary collaboration initiated by Anne Julie Arnfred PhD and curator. It included researchers at the University of Southern Denmark, Catch – Center for Art, Design and Technology as well as artists Jesper Just and Honey Biba Beckerlee, creative coder Andreas Refsgaard and choreographer Simone Wierød. Graphical design was created […]

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Future Shaping

Art & Technological Development

‘When Art Sets the Agenda for Technological Development’ – An article for Scenario – a publication by Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies in 2022. Art is a lens through which we can explore uncertainty and examine both the need for and limitations of human agency in an increasingly complex future. This publication explores the role […]

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The Desktop

The Desktop

The Desktop is an exhibition shown at Bricks Gallery and on the blockchain in November 2023. It explores the desktop as a portal between our digital and physical lives. It features a series of digital works created by the artist Spøgelsesmaskinen aka Rune Brink on custom LED panels, an installation, a projection, and printed editions. […]

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Inspiration and Challenge

AI – An Inspiration and a Challenge

Essay published in Billedkunstneren 2023. Many technologies have influenced the artistic processes. Think about the advent of photography that brought about countless debates about the authenticity of a work and whether it is human-made when technology also plays a role in the process? So how are new technologies different such as Stable Diffusion, Runway, Midjourney […]

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Data garden

Data Data Data

The exhibition Data Data Data explored how we can create awareness of data use and its consequences. Data Data Data was developed with the Technical Museum of Denmark and shown at Catch – Center for Art and Technology in 2020. Today, many people struggle with the task of exerting control over the utilization of their […]

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Ildstedet

The Fireplace and the Waterhole

How can an urban space be both physically and intellectually stimulating? How can new meeting points be created and what makes them important? These questions were central in our development of the public art installation The Fireplace and the Waterhole created by the artist duo Mathias & Mathias for Espergærde Gymnasium and supported by the […]

Exhibitions
The Museum in the Age of Algorithms

The Museum in the Age of Algorithms

The talk The Museum in the Age of Algorithms held at the National Gallery of Denmark April, 2023. How can data and algorithms be used as a strategic management tool in museums? How can artists broaden our understanding of data, considering it to be collective and relational – something that always emerges in relationships between […]

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IRL URL

IRL-URL

The artist Line Finderup Jensen works with 3D software and creates videos, installations and interactive experiences in VR. In 2022 she was invited to participate in a residency at Catch – Center for Art and Technology where the focus was to explore the relationship between images and videos created in game engines and classical painting […]

Education Exhibitions
Future Sustainable Technologies

Course at the IT University of Copenhagen – Future Sustainable Technologies

The world is changing and today there is more than ever a focus on sustainability – both in relation to our climate and environment and in relation to creating living conditions that enable a work and private life in balance. The development of decent jobs and responsible production goes hand in hand with the overall […]

Education
Digital Practices For Artists

DIGITAL PRACTICES FOR ARTISTS

What is digital art today and how can you work with digital dimensions in your artistic practice? The workshop was developed in collaboration between Majken Overgaard, Rune Brink, CAKI – Center for Applied Artistic Innovation and VEGA to introduce the challenges and opportunities that lie in developing an artistic digital identity, practice and strategy. The […]

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Me and my Avatar

Me and My Avatar

The talk ‘Me and My Avatar’ was held at Processing Day, Copenhagen & Artsformation Conference, Brussels in October – November, 2023 and explores our digital and physical identities. In the 1990s the world wide web became part of our lives. The Internet opened up for new experiments with identity, gender and sexuality – online you […]

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