Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Most of it was built on other people's work.

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

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

A PhD student. Human-AI Collaboration, Copenhagen University, until 2028.

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

This text is generated. He decided what it generates from.

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

An urban planning term for any previously developed land that is not currently in use. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The industrial spaces provided a striking backdrop for the reimagined objects and performances. Mundane Heroics, 2019

Each figure is both a memory and a proposition—an echo of what might have been, and a sketch of what still could be. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025

Exhibition aboard the ship Svartlöga at Ebeltoft Fregathavnen examining climate change scenarios where Djursland becomes an archipelago. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

Being your own record-keeper means accepting these gaps and changes.

The Video was Presented as part of Illumenarts, the work took the form of a thriller-like visual sequence in which digital structures spread and evolve. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007

The first part of the project was held at Galleri Image in Aarhus in 2017. Putin's Nose, 2019

Within the installation, a microclimate experiment is contained in a coffeemaker, adding subtle atmospheric variation to the space. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004

This is a form of algorithmic seeing quite different from a human's—one that operates without narrative, hierarchy, or significance. Watershed, 2025

Rather than simply discussing these themes, the performance stages a series of unstable software experiments and semi-fictional narratives, creating a situation that is deliberately out of the performer's control. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019

The work was reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail and included in a panel discussion about interspecies publications created during the pandemic. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

Using the fictional device Scope 3000, he ultimately merged with the patterns themselves. The Pattern In Us All, 2007

The taste of the titanium pigment which is also used as a whitening agent in milk and sugar. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

It was curated by Nanna Lysholt-Hansen and supported by Vesterbro Lokaludvalg. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009

Disparate subjects such as English Vorticism, brainwaves, animal perception, and doomsday scenarios were connected in an increasingly ambitious thesis. The Pattern In Us All, 2007

The machinic as a format for both production and display runs as a common thread through his practice. Coffee Lake, 2019

The project’s online component was crafted with HTML, CSS, and Flash as a web-based work. contributors included Maja Zander; Kaspar Bonnén; Stig W Jørgensen; Palle R. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009

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 plate facing it is green and reads "I cheer as the pink-green crayfish team score a goal", over a passage about crayfish sending messages to each other across the same wireless networks that carry a live football game. Signal_Crayfish, 2026

As a user zooms in on a fragment, its pixel structure reveals itself, breaking the illusion of seamlessness. Watershed, 2025

Each is hand-cut XPS foam, worked from a computer-generated sketch. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

The project originated from a beetroot anecdote that was strange in itself: the moment when, looking at beetroots in a shopping bag, one seemed to resemble the artist's grandmother's nose, or perhaps Putin's nose from a Facebook image. Putins Nose, 2018

The invasive biological species served as an analogy for invasive digital technologies and data collection systems. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The broadcasts cover subjects including singing carrots, earthquakes, the colonization of outer space, and a theory of everything. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006

It takes the current development of the site of the art space as its point of departure, arguing for the often-overlooked qualities and potential of brownfield sites like it. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

They function as my avatars on social networks in an ongoing performative investigation. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

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

The exhibition opened on Friday, November 8th, 2019. Listening Without Ears, 2019

As Judith Butler has pointed out, an acknowledgement of our interdependence can be a basis for political communities, while Sara Ahmed highlights the possibility of an “affective solidarity” built on honesty rather than claims of innocence. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

A chair, a refrigerator door containing a bottle of milk, a platter holding a watermelon, and a breadbox with a loaf of rye bread were produced in jesmonite with inner cores of flamingo foam that were dissolved in acetone. Invisible Objects, 2016

The artist-run space Spanien 19c used to be located in a messy and unregulated, but fairly central, part of the increasingly gentrified city of Aarhus. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The project contributed to Epsilon Spires' mission of offering enriching programming of the highest quality while remaining accessible to diverse audiences. Mundane Monsters, 2022

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

The exhibition was curated by Ida Schyum as the third presentation in Radar Contemporary's Extensions series. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

As tension builds, the man gradually dissolves into the screen, becoming one with the flickering patterns. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007

Monuments of a Fictional Past references both the speculative tradition of counterfactual history and the architectural poetics of unrealized futures. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025

The liquid stains my hands when I reach into the vegetable drawer. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

The project was mentioned in reviews for its role in public debates on landscape restoration and climate adaptation. Djurs Øhav, 2020

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

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