Majken Overgaard

Imagining Machines: Refik Anadol’s Generative Art

We are living through a moment in which artificial intelligence is reshaping everyday life at a speed that outpaces our ability to understand it. Refik Anadol’s AI-generated works are spectacular, ambitious and widely debated. In this essay, published in the catalogue for ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition trilogy Nature Future, I use his immersive, large-scale works as a lens […]

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The Grand Piano — The Big Silent

The grand piano is one of Western music’s most loaded objects, an instrument so deeply embedded in cultural tradition that its ideological weight often goes unnoticed. In this essay, The Grand Piano – The Big Silent, published in the catalogue for Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s installation The Big Silent, I examine how the artist dismantles the grand piano, literally and conceptually, as a way of questioning […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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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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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