Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

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

Digital art.

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

Mostly it is admin.

Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.

The website keeps itself up to date. He does not.

The machine's interpretation is not just a poor copy of reality; it creates a new representation with its own logic and uncanny aesthetic. Speaker 1, 2026

The project involved citizen participation in creating the final artwork, with local residents contributing both their pets' physical forms and personal stories. The Kolding Creature, 2021

Bænkebider betragtere (Woodlouse Observers), the title of the ones placed around the hospital. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The project exploited technological imperfections to imagine an improved future by manipulating AI's original commercial intent. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

The project constructed a local myth about a deformed outcast living in a park frequented by wealthy residents. The Ballehage Woman, 2009

Text panels presented both accurate biological information and fabricated technical specifications. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Instead of being representations in a conventional sense, they functioned as productions of effects, transforming the exhibition space into an operational field based on concepts such as energy, velocity, and transformation. Coffee Lake, 2019

Shown alongside Honey Biba Beckerlee, Anna Bak, Elina Brotherus and Wang & Söderström, among others. Affluence without abundance, 2025

The project features a map and website highlighting 16 reinterpreted locations in Aalborg. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024

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

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

The electromagnetic pick-ups were integrated into the crayfish body parts, creating hybrid biological-technological entities that could detect and respond to electromagnetic fields in the environment. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

The same work was shown at Keramoda, Lønstrup, in 2021. Affluence without abundance, 2025

It is not pure resistance, but rather an example of how critique and complicity inevitably coincide. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Shown with Colette Fu, Diagonal Press / Tauba Auerbach, Kate Conlon, Myungah Hyon, Neta Bomani, Noam Youngrak Son, Sonnenzimmer / Nick Butcher, Nadine Nakanishi, Rujuta Rao, Stephanie Simek and THUNGRY / bex ya yolk. Signal_Crayfish, 2026

The project involved both the creation of a physical artist's book and a 3D-printed sculptural element integrated into the cover design. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

An actor dressed as The Ballehage Woman roamed the underbush of Marselisborg Forest near the Ballehage neighbourhood every night at dusk for a month. The Ballehage Woman, 2009

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

On YouTube, the video “Ballehage Woman Sighting” shows the figure moving through Marselisborg Forest. The Ballehage Woman, 2009

These narratives, blending hope and fiction, are both plausible and subtly flawed, exposing their computer-generated origins while opening new ways to reimagine the past and future. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024

Why create images that place myself in problematic and humorous situations? None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The starting point was the woodlouse as a kind of care worker. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The fragmented narrative of Coffee Lake takes place in the grey area between computer-simulated 3D graphics and human imagination. Coffee Lake, 2019

Spray was the third part of a multi-year project that began with "Tank Hip-Hop" at Retro Avantgarde in Kongegaarder and continued with "Freedom, Equality, and Hip-Hop" at Sydhavn Station in November 2023. Mr. Spray, 2024

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

The familiar rhythm of news consumption—fast, frictionless, designed for scanning—is replaced by movement through a spatial terrain. Watershed, 2025

This forms a new layer of mediation—one that is constant, pervasive, and almost invisible. Watershed, 2025

All images were generated using Flux.1 diffusion models from Black Forest, on a used computer powered by green-certified Nordic solar, wind, and hydro energy. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025

The project used artificial intelligence not as a thinking entity, but as a tool filled with errors and biases that could inspire new ways of thinking. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

It continues a line of work on identity, architecture and urban development begun in At the Edge I (Copenhagen, 2024), now more firmly rooted in Malmö’s local context. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

Especially simulations of destruction are so widespread and credible that one quickly forgets what the original physical phenomena looked like. Melting State, 2020

What looks like a glitch to humans is in fact a trace of the statistical modelling that drives the software. Recognised Faces, 2014

The two videos alternate: when one plays, the other rests. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

We are shaped by the grammar of the frame, where composition and colour psychology direct our gaze and mood. Watershed, 2025

Public places became stages for brief moments of shared fiction. Mundane Heroics, 2019

As Putin's face speaks of Russian identity in the viewer's place, the work demonstrates how digital images today do not simply document reality but actively form identity and power relations. Vladimir's Tongue, 2020

The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

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 exhibition was curated by museum inspector Pernille Rom Bruun and featured partnerships between artists and associations including nature conservation, bird watching, boxing, gliding, gymnastics, and rabbit breeding groups. Everyday Heroes, 2019

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