Kristoffer Ørum
An archive with gaps in it, kept by the person who made the gaps.
Not a joke.
A record-keeper. The website is the work.
Comedy.
Works with machines that are confidently wrong.
A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.
Signal_Krebs was an installation work presented in the group exhibition "Navigeringer – På kanten af en verden i forandring". Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Rather than illustrating a lost history, the project manipulates familiar visual tropes and embraces the productive errors of AI. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
Signal_Crayfish was exhibited at Center for Book Arts from April to June 2021 as part of "Interspecies Futures ," curated by Oscar Salguero. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
Rather than corporate development, this speculative trajectory imagines ternary computing as evolving through grassroots cultures of experimentation and resistance. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
The work was part of "Radius Kolding," an artistic research project inspired by Dutch practices of sending artists into a specific radius to investigate local activities and create new artworks. The Kolding Creature, 2021
By framing the narrative as a myth, the artists connected the story of The Ballehage Woman to broader experiences of people excluded from society due to norms around appearance and behavior in Denmark. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Players learn a new language through twelve game-based exercises, each designed to deliberately reinterpret established ideas and challenge conventional understanding. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013
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
The Wave made by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum is a computer-animated video installation depicting a stormy sea with the tower of Copenhagen City Hall in the background. The Wave, 2009
At the hospital: Gør din pligt og kræv din udredning (Do Your Duty and Demand Your Assessment) and Diagnose gør stærk (Diagnosis Makes You Strong) in the corridor, Frihed, lighed & symptom (Liberty, Equality & Symptom) in the waiting room. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Everyday objects were recognisable yet altered. Mundane Heroics, 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
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 project consists of a book, a video, and a sculpture. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007
By slowing down the act of viewing, the project alters the relationship between attention and imagery. Watershed, 2025
The artists sent unsolicited emails to residents of the Ballehage area warning of an epidemic of Involuntary Tessellation and offering cures with a link to tessellax.com, a fake medical website based on an altered AIDS treatment site. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
The work was part of a series of four exhibitions at NLHspace from September to December 2009. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
Its on-screen lyrics tell the factual story of a 507-year-old clam killed during the scientific process of determining its age. Djurs Øhav, 2020
We are used to our own sight, shaped by memory and emotion, and to the camera's lens, with its illusion of objectivity. Speaker 1, 2026
Some of the objects broadcasted content directly through custom-built wireless networks. Invisible Objects, 2016
This Brownfield Wonderland might very well appear once again when this project is long forgotten, and current norms of what is useful and productive are forgotten. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The project was presented as part of the Alternativa 2011–2012 festival, a contemporary art festival in Gdańsk that focused on experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to art and culture. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011
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 title refers to multiple forms of diffusion: the technical process of algorithmic image generation; the physical dispersion of paint; and the informal, community-based spread of knowledge and technology. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
This breaks with the idea of a coherent and authentic artistic subject—an illusion that the art market is still deeply dependent on. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The installation drew from actual environmental concerns about invasive species whilst incorporating fictional elements related to digital communication networks and surveillance technologies. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Hverdagens Helte (Everyday Heroes) consists of a series of interactive sculptures created in collaboration with Vitar Horsens Rollespilslaug (role-playing association). Everyday Heroes, 2019
None are permanent, but all leave residues—sonic, material, or narrative. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025
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
This duality exposes both the shortcomings of surveillance technologies and the alternative forms of perception they enact, offering a mechanical way of seeing that highlights aspects of our species that human vision alone might overlook. Recognised Faces, 2014
The exhibition Coming From took place from 23 August to 14 September 2014, with an opening on 22 August. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
Yet, as critics such as Allan Sekula have argued, photography has never been a transparent medium; it has always been a construction. Watershed, 2025
To launch the project, staged reality events and a guided bus tour extended its speculative narrative into the physical city. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009
The exhibition text calls them blind creatures watching over the exhibition and the people in it. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Created in 2019, the work was exhibited by Radar Contemporary as an online piece. Vladimir's Tongue, 2020
The book presents ten different pattern scenarios, ranging from animal vision and camouflage to government propaganda through patterned textiles. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007
By reinserting them into the same online environments where facial recognition is used for surveillance, marketing and classification, the project subtly disrupted how automated systems construct a digital identity. Recognised Faces, 2014
During the exhibition a collaboration with Anders Bojen, a printer continuously produced emails describing fictional events taking place on Amager. City Planning, 2010
The exhibition was the result of several years' work with the three monsters, bringing together elements from numerous performances, exhibitions and interventions both domestically and abroad. Mundane Monsters, 2023