Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Works with machines that are confidently wrong.

A programmer who picks the wrong algorithm on purpose.

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

Not a joke.

Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.

Comedy.

The project examined the invasive signal crayfish species currently displacing native Danish freshwater crayfish. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Or the years when rap lyrics were about helping at home and taking good care of elderly citizens? Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

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

They draw on the advertising industry’s most simplified identity categories and support algorithmic preferences. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Once connected to a computer and powered up, the device generates multiple Wi-Fi networks. Wireless Walnut, 2018

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

Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006, is a PAL DVD video with a duration of 22 minutes, created in collaboration with Anders Bojen. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006

The exhibition was part of a series of events organised by Kunsthal for Maritim Æstetik, which also included publications, debates, food events, and bus tours. Djurs Øhav, 2020

Generated with a Chinese variant of the Huyuan algorithm, the images include intentional misreadings of the runic inscriptions, echoing centuries of translation, loss, and projection. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025

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

The role-players — dressed as green warriors and magicians — relied on grass as their main resource. Game Continent, 2010

The centralised gatekeeping of 20th-century journalism has given way to fragmented, unstable formats. Watershed, 2025

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

All 3D-printed in R-PETG and painted with urethane. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The work took the form of an artist's book featuring a 3D-printed signal crayfish sculpture on the cover. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

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

The exhibition included sangtekster written with algorithms, erosion models, 3D prints, and architectural models. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

The second ten minutes show a baby sleeping, curled peacefully against a blue woodlouse. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

Participants staged live tableaux in pedestrian zones and market areas, allowing encounters with everyday passersby. Mundane Heroics, 2019

The Kolding Creature was a virtual three-dimensional creature created from 3D scans of local Kolding pets and conversations with their owners. The Kolding Creature, 2021

Created in 2019, the work was exhibited by Radar Contemporary as an online piece. Vladimir's Tongue, 2020

By working with models that reflect the biases and gaps of their training data, DIFFUSED STATES treats these systems not as definitive or universal but as provisional, adaptable, and open to reinterpretation. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025

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

The project formed part of a research collaboration between the participating museums and the University of Copenhagen. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The exhibition featured artists working in watercolor and gouache—a medium known for its fluidity and delicate textures—even when their usual practice includes sculptural, video, photographic, or installation-based work. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

The hardware is produced through resource-intensive processes, and even the “local” is entangled in a global infrastructure. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

By slowing down the act of viewing, the project alters the relationship between attention and imagery. Watershed, 2025

It is an experiment in seeing, questioning not just what we see in the news, but how we are conditioned to see it. Watershed, 2025

These moments reflect our own unstable, contradictory digital selves. Speaker 1, 2026

Together, the elements formed a series of overlapping linguistic and visual displacements. Putin's Nose, 2019

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

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

The resulting text alternated between objective and scientific passages and poetic or raving narratives. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009

Signal_Crayfish takes the invasive signal crayfish, which displaces native Danish freshwater species and communicates chemically across distance, and sets it beside human communication technology. Would You Like to Know More, 2017

The work was structured as a natural history museum display. 3D-printed models represented crayfish body parts modified with technological elements. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

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

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

The screens displayed a new page every few minutes, allowing both visitors to the medieval church and local citizens passing through the square to encounter the rewritten history. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009

The work has been presented in lectures at universities, on AI, welfare mythologies and hope through the creative misuse of digital infrastructure. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

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

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