Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

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

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

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

A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.

A portraitist. None of the portraits are of him.

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

Bojen and Ørum’s work often moves between science fiction and popular science, with references to comic books, television formats and advertising language. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007

They contribute to a narrowing of bodily representations that is far more damaging in the long run than strange AI slippage. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Two texts were airbrushed directly onto the wall using beetroot juice for the group exhibition *Qua Aqua* at Koldinggade 12 in Copenhagen. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

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 show took place from 2017-08-18 to 2017-12-09, inspired by Herman Melville’s *Bartleby, the Scrivener* and its quiet refusal: “I would prefer not to.” Blind Listening, 2017

They are the most revealing parts of the process. Speaker 1, 2026

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

Yet, as critics such as Allan Sekula have argued, photography has never been a transparent medium; it has always been a construction. Watershed, 2025

None of us escape this system by pretending we are not part of it. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The work was installed in the lobby of the National Danish Broadcaster (DR) as part of Glowing Climate, organized by Illumenarts in 2009. The Wave, 2009

Works included "When nature looks back at you" (3D print, 2021), "Pearl House" (mixed media, 2020), "Habitation Oyster from Kolidsound" (3D print, 2020), and "WARNING FLOOR FLOODED DURING HIGH TIDE" (hydrographic print on cornstarch, 2021). Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

The animation recreates the street outside the former artist-run space, projecting a computer-generated scene onto a screen covering the window. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

*KAOS* is an interactive iPad app created in collaboration with poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen. KAOS, 2012

A Body Has Many Members is a large-scale public commission by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum for the University College Capital (UCC) Campus Nordsjælland, produced with support from the Danish Agency for Culture. A Body Has Many Members, 2012

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

Video elements included a deep fake sequence featuring politician Pernille Vermund discussing invasive species. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The exhibition opened on 8 October 2009 and remained on view until 30 October 2009. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

We are steered by algorithms that curate which images reach us. Watershed, 2025

At the neighbouring Museum Østjylland, speculative objects were integrated into the historical displays, including a model of an "oyster home" and interventions within exhibits about Grenå's local oyster history. Djurs Øhav, 2020

The works were presented as productive machines possessing a capacity to carry out operations both as singular units and assembled into larger wholes. Coffee Lake, 2019

The work suggests that our understanding of phenomena like fire, water, and collective action is increasingly shaped by computational models and digital representations. Coffee Lake, 2019

A central relief on the reconstructed stone, possibly once a hammer, is reimagined here as a spray can, folding historical reference into playful anachronism. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025

AI makes it possible for me to be several people at once. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Each piece suggested both familiarity and a shift in function, as common domestic items appeared in new materials, configurations, and with networked capabilities. Invisible Objects, 2016

Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care is a twenty-minute video, one of nine works Ørum showed in FORSTADIER / Precursors — a duo exhibition with Aske Thiberg, curated by Morten K Jacobsen and Heidi Hove. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The work renders the fragile and transient qualities of soap in digital animation, turning an everyday material into a dynamic, projected environment. Soap Particles, 2005

On the contrary, humour often arises in breaks with the expected, in encounters with the unknown, bringing fear and laughter close together. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Social media platforms like Facebook transform faces into points in coordinate systems, and from these coordinates people are classified as terrorists, defined as specific consumer types, or deemed irrelevant. Putin's Nose, 2019

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

Spray was presented as both an exhibition and performance at Friisland's Center for Performance Art during Art Matter festival. Mr. Spray, 2024

In a parallel way, Watershed treats the algorithm as a collaborator. Watershed, 2025

The work involved 3D-printing signal crayfish models equipped with electromagnetic sensing components. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

What you see here is just what felt important to document at the time.

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

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

It is based on the belief that there is no inevitability to the current process of gentrification, it is simply one choice taken out of a million other possible ways we could develop our cities. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The work was part of "Partners," an experimental exhibition at Vejle Kunstmuseum that paired seven artists with seven local associations. Everyday Heroes, 2019

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

However, following decades of “misuse”, the area is presently being integrated back into the rest of the city as a productive and commercially viable new part of town called “art city”. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The project continued to develop as a multi-year work, with subsequent presentations including "Mr. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

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