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Future Fellows

How do we lead change in a time of conflict and chaos? How do we lift our gaze 10 or 50 years into the future and allow the future to shape the decisions we make today? In Soon – Lab for Possible Futures we just launched this year’s Future Fellows programme – a learning and […]

Generator: Making Space for New Futures

Generator is a new, experimental stage and meeting space at Kulturmødet Mors developed with Nicklas Larsen Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, together with Kulturmødet, Julie Melgaard Smidt and Evrim Citirikkaya. Here, we bring art and culture into action as methods for exploring society, creating new connections and inspiring action. Generator aims to create movement in […]

Greenwatch

How can we monitor the planet without monitoring people?There is an urgent need to monitor the hstate of the Earth without simultaneously monitoring people against their will or longterm interests. GREENWATCH is a research project uniting artists, researchers & developers, who will investigate what kinds and which degrees of surveillance, we will be prepared to accept in the coming decades to ensure the livelihood of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]