Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

A PhD student. Human-AI Collaboration, Copenhagen University, until 2028.

Works with machines that are confidently wrong.

A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.

An artist who makes things up about real places.

Nothing digital about it. A screen is an object, and objects sit in rooms.

A lot of it is waiting for a render to finish.

The exhibition took place in various locations throughout the ship, including the forecastle, aft cabin, engine room, and deck. Depth Estimation, 2019

By establishing rules and constraints—writing without interruption, juxtaposing unrelated images—the Surrealists sought to bypass rational control and provoke unexpected associations. Watershed, 2025

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

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

The project arises from a media environment where trust in both institutions and images is unsettled. Watershed, 2025

The installation ran on a standard computer connected to a screen in the exhibition space. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

Retired factory workers repurpose their technical knowledge to build speakers and maintain audio infrastructure, passing skills across generations. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

Visitors encountered these figures both inside the museum and in everyday spaces, such as the local supermarket, where baguettes from the freezer section served as swords. Game Continent, 2010

There is a creative pleasure in this surrender of control: in letting a system run and being surprised by the strange, poetic, or nonsensical landscapes that result. Watershed, 2025

The work used artificial intelligence as a tool for speculative storytelling about Danish social and political history. Mr. Spray, 2024

For me, these are not just errors, but moments of strange beauty and surplus meaning. Speaker 1, 2026

Within the installation, a microclimate experiment is contained in a coffeemaker, adding subtle atmospheric variation to the space. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004

Auto Navigate My History uses the digital archive of daily browsing as both source and medium. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The project extended across the museum basement, a nearby grocery store, and surrounding public lawns. Game Continent, 2010

The project asks what meaning remains in news images once they are stripped of context, headlines, and captions, reduced to fragments of colour and form. Watershed, 2025

It combines Live Action Role Playing (LARP), performance art, and sculpture, developed in close collaboration with young participants from across the Nordic region. Mundane Heroics, 2019

The installation consisted of 3D-printed crayfish models, information screens, video material, and text displays on pink pedestals. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

With deepfakes and decentralised information sources, the photograph’s credibility as evidence is under renewed scrutiny. Watershed, 2025

Each network name spells out a fragment of a 31-character text, visible only through the device list of available connections. Wireless Walnut, 2018

The project is a labyrinthian installation composed of hand-printed cardboard boxes, arranged to create interconnected spaces. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004

The augmented reality component allowed viewers to see additional digital layers through their smartphone cameras, revealing hidden "monsters" that existed only in the augmented space. Mundane Monsters, 2022

Tank Hip-Hop was the inaugural project that launched the multi-year "Freedom, Equality and Hip-Hop" series, built on the fictional relationship between the labour movement and hip-hop culture. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022

The same book was shown in Interspecies Futures at the Center for Book Arts, New York, in 2021. Signal_Crayfish, 2026

It is in this indeterminate time and space the Brownfield Wonderland exists as it attempts to reimagine the post-industrial brownfield. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

Transparent mobiles with polarisation filters cause the overlapping projections to shift constantly, creating a spatial interpretation of a hybrid and unstable identity. AutoBiography, 2011

The installation examined how concealment can create tension between what is covered and potentially uncovered. Sucker Trick, 2017

Using computer vision software, a rapping face appears on the plum, following its movements as the lecturer holds it in front of the webcam. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018

According to the Nose was a walking protocol that provided opportunities to consider what life would look like if you were a nose. According to the Nose, 2021

I believe that vulnerability and the recognition of one’s own inadequacy can create stronger communities than ideals of moral purity. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The exhibition contributed to ongoing discussions about AI, storytelling, and alternative histories. Mr. Spray, 2024

A Subjective History of Gdańsk is a hallucinatory and subjective presentation of the city of Gdańsk in Poland, a place historically shaped by competing ideologies that have repeatedly renamed and reconstructed it. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011

Part of Ørum’s ongoing project "Freedom, Equality, and Hip-Hop", the work engages AI technologies (Flux.1, Stable Diffusion 3.5) to construct histories that never were. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024

By working with AI models trained on biased and incomplete datasets, DIFFUSED STATES engages with both their limitations and their possibilities. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025

As one deciphers mud from the ground that has been smeared onto the wall in the shape of geometric letterforms, dust from the building site made up of particles that were once buildings enters one's lungs. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

While gentrification night favour one imagined future out of all the others that could have come about, the ongoing struggle of whose imaginaries will be realised, and whose will be kept as potential or unrealistic futures, remains. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The project operated on several levels with "lines of flight" into the city, online, and in local media. According to the Nose, 2021

The familiar backdrop of urban life became part of the work, framing the reimagined objects and frozen scenes within the flow of daily routines. Mundane Heroics, 2019

Philosopher Donna Haraway has called this illusion a “god trick”: a view from nowhere that claims to see everything. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Coffee Lake is a video installation combining computer-generated video with animated text, created for the group exhibition "Machine sans nom" at Bonamatic. Coffee Lake, 2019

And we interpret everything through cultural repertoires of symbols and social cues. Watershed, 2025

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