Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Comedy.

A programmer who picks the wrong algorithm on purpose.

A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.

Not a joke.

The machines are collaborators and cannot be credited.

Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.

These objects continuously monitored conversations in the gallery space, converting spoken words into text through automated transcription systems, then physically printing the transcribed text. Listening Without Ears, 2019

Every Part a Body is a sixty-second digital video, shown in the 60Seconds programme of The Wrong Biennale at CBS Digital Space in March 2026. Every Part a Body, 2026

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

The work combines AI-generated imagery with human-written captions, forming a dispersed narrative around how such systems might emerge—from grassroots tinkering to collectively governed infrastructures and hyper-local training data. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025

The system operated continuously throughout the exhibition, looping through the history without direct interaction. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The project challenged both artists and associations to step out of their comfort zones and rethink their practices. Everyday Heroes, 2019

Tank Hip-Hop established the methodology of using counterfactual storytelling to construct alternative Danish histories. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022

It employs a computational process to dismantle and reassemble the daily flow of news images into a navigable world built from their fragments. Watershed, 2025

Even the City Dreams of Being Another is part of the exhibition At the Edge II, presented at Skene in Malmö. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

Installation shots show works distributed throughout ship interior. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

Exhibition documented by photographer Mikkel Kaldal. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

The video Computer-generated video and sound, 20 min, made with WAN 2.1 on a local RTX 4090, projected on the end wall of a darkened gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

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

The city of Aarhus serves as both source and subject, remixed through the lens of local imagination and global street culture. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

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

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

What emerges is a narrative of the self that is both enacted and undermined by an indifferent system — an algorithmic account of personality, filtered through the lenses of psychology, technology and cultural expectation. AutoBiography, 2011

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

Each email contained a unique, computer-generated text announcing fictional construction projects — ranging from the plausible to the fantastic. City Planning, 2010

Roskilde Parahistory was part of the group exhibition Kurs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde in 2009. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009

Ørum's contribution used algorithmic depth estimation to analyse one of the recovered photographs and generate a three-dimensional interpretation. Depth Estimation, 2019

Watershed is an online art project about the algorithmic gaze in an era of digital news. Watershed, 2025

Interaction is minimal – the poem pauses until the reader touches the screen – creating a rhythm where text, sound, and image progress together. KAOS, 2012

This video asks a question that sits at the heart of our digital lives: how do we appear to a machine? Speaker 1, 2026

Occasionally she would enter well-lit areas briefly before disappearing when confronted. The Ballehage Woman, 2009

Online, these fragments are assembled pseudo-randomly into a navigable three-dimensional space. Watershed, 2025

The project aimed to examine new forms of dialogue in contemporary art on different terms than previously known. Everyday Heroes, 2019

I am also tired of a “call-out” culture that too easily becomes hostile and makes it difficult to build the broad alliances we need. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The project includes works such as Detergent (Real Imaginary System) and Auto Navigate My History, which visualize, manipulate, and creatively reimagine the information generated by ordinary activities. Day to Day Data, 2008

The exhibition catalogue was designed in a sci-fi paperback style and published by backbonebooks. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

Mundane Monsters was an interactive digital multimedia exhibition that transformed the gallery at Epsilon Spires into a walk-through experience about the modern relationship between nature and culture. Mundane Monsters, 2022

The 3d printed copies of fragments from the construction site have become a sort of digital “ghosts”. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

But there is now a third gaze, one that works through calculation. Speaker 1, 2026

It was coded using the then-ubiquitous Flash interactive format. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010

The monumental buildings are inflated like weightless balloons, melt like butter on a hot pan, and are covered with soft multicoloured hair. Melting State, 2020

The exhibition text calls them blind creatures watching over the exhibition and the people in it. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The inkjet transfer process applied the processed imagery to the printed form. Depth Estimation, 2019

The installation featured speculative scenarios about living arrangements including large oyster habitations. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

Each scanning session lasted approximately 30 minutes and included conversations between pet owners and the artist about their animals. The Kolding Creature, 2021

Previous iterations of Freedom, Equality and Hip-hop have appeared at Kongegaarden (Korsør), Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen), Friisland (Copenhagen Nordhavn), Survival Kit Biennial (Riga, Latvia), and F.eks. (Aalborg). Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025

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