Joasia Krysa

Prof Joasia Krysa

Faculty: Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

School: Liverpool School of Art and Design

Biography

Joasia Krysa is Professor of Exhibition Research and Director of Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, with a joint appointment at Liverpool Biennial. In 2016, she was awarded an Honorary Associate Professorship in Curating at Aarhus University, Denmark. Formerly, she hold a position of Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2012-2015), served as part of curatorial team for Documenta 13 (2012) and was co-curator of Liverpool Biennial 2016.

She has a background in Curatorial Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London), Cultural Studies (Wroclaw University), Political Sciences (Maria Curie Sklodowska University), and has PhD in Curating. Her research is located across contemporary art, curating and digital culture, with particular interest at the intersection of curating and computation.

At Liverpool John Moores' School of Art and Design, Prof. Krysa is heading Exhibition Research Lab (ERL), academic research centre and public exhibition venue dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge. Founded in 2012, ERL is uniquely underpinned by collaborative posts held by staff with cultural institutions in Liverpool - Tate Liverpool, FACT (Foundation for Art and Technology), RIBA North (Royal Institute of British Architects), John Moores Painting Prize, and Liverpool Biennial. The Lab comprises research activities, postgraduate and doctoral programmes, and curated public engagement and exhibitions programme.

Prof. Krysa serves on external advisory and editorial boards, including as academic advisor for Danish Research Council founded project 'The Contemporary Condition’ at Aarhus University (2015 – 2018); affiliated member of AMT - Archaeologies of Media & Technology Research, Winchester School of Art, Southampton University; and a member of Council of Management of Media Art Foundation WRO (Poland).

She served as an academic reviewer for New School in New York, Royal Holloway at the University of London, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Aalto University in Helsinki, amongst others.

She is Series Editor of DATA Browser (Open Humanities Press, London), academic advisor for APRJA journal (Aarhus University and Transmediale); and commissioning editor (with Sally Tallant) of contemporary art journal Stages (Liverpool Biennial).

Most significant publications include: edited books Systemics, or Exhibition as a Series (Sternberg Press, 2017) and Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History' (MIT Press 2015); chapters in Networks (Whitechapel/MIT Press 2014) and The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics' (2015), authored publication 'Ada Lovelace', in the dOCUMENTA (13) notebook series '100 Thoughts - 100 Notes' (Hatje Cantz 2012); and edited anthology Curating Immateriality: The Work of The Curator in The Age of Network System' (Autonomedia, 2006).

Recent curatorial work include Liverpool Biennial 2016; exhibition series 'Collective Making' (2015-2016) and 'Systemics' (2013-2014) at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, and dOCUMENTA 13 (Kassel 2012) where amongst other things, she was responsible for preparing the first international retrospective of Finish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi and worked with artists including Mika Taanila, Song Dong, Tarek Atoui.

Prof. Krysa is currently appointed as Curatorial Advisor for Helsinki Biennial 2020 and is working on a new monograph publication on curating and computation for Routledge.

Degrees

Plymouth University, United Kingdom, PhD Curating
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, MA Fine Art Curating
University of Wroclaw, Poland, MA Cultural Studies
University of Marie Curie, Poland, MA Political Sciences

Academic appointments

Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University, in partnership with Liverpool Biennial, 2017 - present
Honorary Visiting Associate Professor in Curating, Aarhus University, 2016 - 2021
Academic Advisor, The Contemporary Condition research project, Aarhus University, 2015 - 2018
Academic Advisory Board Member, APRJA journal, Aarhus University, 2014 - present

Postgraduate training

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE), UK, Plymouth University, 2000 - 2001

Publications

Highlighted publications

Elmgreen & Dragset , Fokidis M, Smith T, Engberg J, Krysa J, Manacorda F, Malasauskas M, Cox G, Lund J, Kølbæk Iversen A, Gfader V. 2017. The Biennial Condition, vol 6/2017, Stages, Liverpool Biennial, Krysa (ed.)

“Bifo” Berardi F, Groys B, Parikka J, Bang Larsen L, Rodriquez Muñoz B, Hellberg F, Kokholm M. 2017. Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series). Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013-14 Krysa J. :7-120 Sternberg Press. Berlin 978-3-95679-162-8

Krysa J. 2015. The Politics of Contemporary Curating: a Technological Perspective Martin R. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics Routledge 9781317567806

Krysa J, Parikka J, Huhtamo E, Rastas P, Kurenniemi E, Paasonen S, Bang Larsen L, Sondergaard M, Ernst W, Rossaak E, Kuljuntausta P, Hecker F, Mackay R, Taanila M, Turkki T, Lassfolk K, Suominen J, Ojanen M. 2015. Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048 Krysa J, Parikka J. The MIT Press. Cambridge MA 9780262029582

Krysa J. 2014. Kurator - a proposal for an experimental, permutational software application capable of curating exhibitions Bang Larsen L. Networks Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press. London, Cambridge Mass. 978-0-262-52575-6

Krysa J, Bertolotti-Bailey F, Cairns S, Cooper R, Tallant S, Willsdon D, Manacorda F, Malasauskas R, Sandip P, Brannan P, Ying Tan Y. Liverpool Biennial 2016 (co-curator)

Book

Krysa J. 2012. Ada Lovelace, Notebook 55, 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, Documenta 13 Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev C. 55 Hrsg. documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH and Hatje Cantz 978-3-7757-3084-6

Chapters

Krysa J. 2017. Exhibitionary practices at the intersection of academic research and public display Seppä A, Slager H, Kaila J. The Futures of Artistic Research 1 University of the Arts Helsinki. Helsinki

Krysa J. 2016. Episodic in Computational Worlds Cooper R, Parmer S, Willsdon D. The Two Sided Lake: Scenarios, storyboards and sets from Liverpool Biennial 2016 Liverpool University Press. Liverpool 9781781383407

Krysa J. 2015. The Politics of Contemporary Curating: a Technological Perspective Martin R. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics Routledge 9781317567806

Krysa J. 2012. Curatorial Alternative to What: From Alternative Forms to Everyday Technologies Krajewski P, Kutlubasis-Krajewska V. WRO 2011: Alternative Now WRO Art Foundation

Krysa J. 2011. Some Questions on Curating as Public Interface Ulrik Andersen C, Cox G, Lund J. Public Interfaces Vol. 1, No.1 Aarhus University. Aarhus

Krysa J, Sedek G. 2008. Source Code Fuller M. Software Studies. A Lexicon MIT Press. Cambridge Mass. 9780262062749

Krysa J. 2008. Distributed Curating and Immateriality Paul C. New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art Berkeley: University of California Press 9780520255975

Internet publication

Journal article

Krysa J. 2016. Collision of Art and Ants Worlds - a conversation with Jussi Parikka and Jaroslaw Czarnecki. Czas Kultury, 188

Editorial/letter to the editor

Krysa J, Andersen C, Cox G, Gansing K, Koefoed Hansen L. 2016. What happens when research is less about exchange and more about excess? (Editorial) APRJA (A Peer-reviewed Journal About), VOLUME 5 :1-1

Conference publication

Krysa J. 2014. Can Machines Curate? Notes on history of technology, hope and paradoxes of curating. Guasque Y. Digital Art: fractures, proliferative preservation and affective dimension, 5th National Symposium of the Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers (ABCiber 2011)

Krysa J. 2010. Curating After the Net Reyes-García E, Saleh I. 1st Congress on Web Studies

Krysa J. 2008. Social Technologies and Emergent Forms of Curating, in conjunction with organised panel on Curating in/as Open System, ISEA 2008 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA

Krysa J. 2008. Programming and Curating for Networks Reyes-García E, Zreik K. 2nd International Conference Computer Art Congress 2008 [CAC.2]

Exhibition

Krysa J, Bertolotti-Bailey F, Cairns S, Cooper R, Tallant S, Willsdon D, Manacorda F, Malasauskas R, Sandip P, Brannan P, Ying Tan Y. Liverpool Biennial 2016 (co-curator)

Krysa J. Collective Making series (03): Stongue (aolo show by artists Slavs and Tatars), Kunsthal Aarhus 2015

Krysa J. Collective Making series (02, part 2): DO IT ( Hans Ulrik Obrist), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015

Krysa J. Collective Making series (02, part 1):The Symbiosity of Creation/ Ants (solo exhibition by artist Jaroslaw Czarnecki), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015

Krysa J. Collective Making series: DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015

Krysa J. Collective Making series (01): Extreme Sharing (solo exhibition by artist group N55), Kunsthal Aarhus 2015

Krysa J. Systemics series: Nervous Systems - languages of wonder & denial, exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2014

Krysa J. Systemics series: Reading Machines - unfolding books and archives, exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2013

Krysa J. Systemics series: Aarhus Report - Avantgarde as network (or, the politics of the ultra local), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2014

Krysa J. Systemics series Against the idea of growth, towards poetry (or, how to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2014

Krysa J. Systemics series: As we may think (or, the next world library), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2013

Krysa J. Systemics series: Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed (or, on machines, humans, and running algorithms), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2013

Krysa J. Silicon Dreams. Art-Science-Technology in the European Union, exhibition, Madrid / San Sebastian, 2010

Krysa J. Constant: Online archive of Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048), commssioned exhibition, part of dOCUMENTA 13 exhibition, Kassel 2012

Krysa J. Erkki Kurenniemi. In 2048, dOCUMENTA (13)

Engagement & Impact

Award:

Honorary Associate Professor in Curating, Aarhus University, http://www.au.dk/en/

Conference organisation:

Design and Empire [working title], co-curator, http://www.biennial.com/events/design-empire-working-title

The Biennial Condition: On the Contemporaneity and the Episodic (Liverpool Biennial 2016), Organiser and Chair, http://www.biennial.com/events/the-biennial-condition-on-%20contemporaneity-and-the-episodic

dOCUMENTA (13): Errki Kurenniemi: In 2048, panel in conjunction with the curated exhibition 'Errki Kurenniemi: In 2048', Kassel 20102, Organiser, Chair, http://d13.documenta.de/de/#/research/research/view/online-archive-erkki-kurenniemi-in-2048-2012

Systemics #1: Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed, or on machines, humans and algorithms, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Organiser, Chair, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programme/201301#overlay=en/programmes/preview-events-systemics-1

Why Associate, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Organiser, Chair, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-why-associate

Systemics #2: As We May Think (or, The World Next Library) - Sound Weekend with Florian Hecker , Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Organiser and Chair, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-sound-weekend-with-florian-hecker

Avant-guarde as Network, in conjunction with curated exhibition Aarhus Rapport: Avant-guarde as Network (or, the Politics of Ultralocal), Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Organiser and Introduction, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-systemics-4-avantgarde-as-network

Conference presentation:

Between Academic Research and Cultural Institutions – Collaborative Model, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Oral presentation

The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine, Meta Marathon 2018: AI, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Oral presentation

'Software Curating: Programming and Curating for Networks, Computer Art Congress, University Monterrey Technologico Mexico, Oral presentation

Curating at Source, Positions In Flux, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Oral presentation

Curatorial Alternatives to What? From alternative forms to the everyday technologies, International Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Symposium: Alternative Now, Wroclaw, Poland, Oral presentation

Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Oral presentation

Introduction to Keynote Double Lecture – Information in the Quantum World and Different Model of Objects, Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Oral presentation

Art Show as Unruly Organism: case study of dOCUMENTA (13), Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Oral presentation

Who wants to be a curator: speculations on contemporary curating, IKK Artist Talks: Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Copenhagen University, Oral presentation

Speculations on Archiving, Curating and Algorithms, Save As: Archives and Social Memory symposium, Salt Galata, Istanbul, Oral presentation

On Curating Archives, Conference in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition by artists Mika Taanila and Erkki Kurenniemi, Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Oral presentation

Curating beyond exhibition making, Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Oral presentation

Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi 2048. Book Launch Presentation., Media Art History Conference, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology,, Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal,, Oral presentation

Exhibition as Lab, Media Art History Conference, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal, Oral presentation

Keynote: Can Machines Curate?, 5th National Symposium of the Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers (ABCiber 2011), Centro de Cultura e Eventos e no Centro de Comunicação e Expressão da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, Poster presentation

Keynote: Human and Nonhuman Curating. Contemporary Curating and Technology – the Next Turn?,, International Contemporary Art Biennale Göteborg, Keynote Lectures series, Sweden., Göteborg, Sweden, Oral presentation

Keynote: The organized networks of contemporary art: an insider-outsider perspective, Terrain. Contemporary Art in Denmark. Dansk Kunsthistoriker Forening / The Danish Association of Art Historians, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Oral presentation

Editorial boards:

Stages (Publisher: Liverpool Biennial), Commissioning Editor, http://www.biennial.com/journal

Data Browser book series, Series Editor, http://www.data-browser.net/

APRJA (A Peer Review Journal About_), Editorial Board, http://www.aprja.net/

External collaboration:

http://www.researchpavilion.fi/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpqHagdek1gIVhLvtCh0SrgBJEAAYASAAEgIST_D_BwE, Research Pavilion, University of the Arts Helsinki

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/amt/about/index.page?, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Professor Jussi Parikka

http://d13.documenta.de/, Documenta, Documenta 13

http://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/, The Finnish National Gallery, The Finnish National Gallery

http://contemporaneity.au.dk/, Aarhus University, Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’,

http://transmediale.de/content/excessive-research-0, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Transmediale Festival

http://www.wrocenter.pl/en, International Media Art Foundation WRO, International Media Art Foundation WRO

External committees:

International Media Art Foundation WRO Council of Management, Media Art Foundation WRO, Council of Management, http://www.wrocenter.pl/en/o-wro/

Scientific Committee International Congress on Web Studies, University Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, Member, http://www.itesm.mx/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English

Scientific Committee, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Member, http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/?lang_choosen=en

dOCUMENTA (13) Curatorial Team, documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, Member of Curatorial Team, http://d13.documenta.de/

Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’, Aarhus University, Denmark, Aarhus University, Denmark, Advisor, http://contemporaneity.au.dk/

External PGR examinations performed:

Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, PhD, Curating Across Interfaces: An Account of a (Hybrid) Expanding Exhibition

Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, PhD, The Emergence of the Art, Science and Technology Artworlds

External PGR Supervision - completed students:

Copenhagen University, Other, Aarhus Rapport - Avantgarde and the Ultralocal

Plymouth University, MPhil, Public Life and Pervasive Systems: A Critical Practice

Aarhus University, PhD, Noise is Medially

Industrial connections:

ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair Madrid, Jury Member, http://www.ifema.es/fundacionarco_01/

Kunsthal Aarhus, Artistic Director, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/

Liverpool Biennial, UK, Head of Research, http://www.biennial.com/

Media Coverage:

https://www.freitag.de/autoren/lets-talk-about-art/active-archives, Freitag, 30 November 2012, Cornelia Sollfrank. Review of Documenta 13 exhibition Erkki Kurenniemi: in 2048, and commission by Constant: Erkki Kurenniemi Online Archive.

https://www.taz.de/Ausstellung-in-der-Kunsthalle-Aarhus/!131564/, Taz. Die Tageszeitung, Berlin, Fatma Aydemir. Review of exhibition Systemics #3, 23 January 2014.

http://www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/velfaerds-avantgarden/, Kunstkritikk, Velfaerds Avantgarden, Mathias Kryger. Review of symposium Avantguard as Network, 31 October 2014.

http://artforum.com/picks/section=eu#picks49360, Artforum, Critics’ Pick, Kerry Greaves. Review of Systemics #4 exhibition, 10 December 2014.

http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/articles/authors/15665/, The Art Newspaper, Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir, 2016.

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2016-07-08/liverpool-biennial-art-festival-gets-%20underway/, ITV News, Liverpool Biennial – Art Festival Gets Underway, 8 July 2016

https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/liverpool-biennial-2016-intelligent-timely-and-%20bustling-with-energy, A-N, Liverpool Biennial 2016: intelligent, timely and bustling with energy, 11 July 2006.

http://artforum.com/diary/archive=201607, Artforum, Brexit Wounds - Liverpool Biennial 2016, 19 July 2016.

https://frieze.com/article/liverpool-biennial-2016, Freeze, Liverpool Biennial 2016: Near and far, fact and fiction: highlights from this year's festival, Amy Sherlock, 11 July 2016.

http://moussemagazine.it/liverpool-biennial-2016/, Mousse, “Liverpool Biennial 2016” at various venues, Liverpool, Barbara Casavecchia, 30 September 2016.

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/slavs-and-tatars-3/, Kopenhagen Magazine, 22 December 2015, Slavs and Tatars: STONGUE @ Kunsthal Aarhus, Sarah Holm. Review of Collective Making 03: Slavs and Tatars exhibition

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/systemics-3/, Frieze, 27 March 2014. Review of exhibition Systemics #3, Christy Lang.

http://artforum.com/picks/section=eu#picks49360, Artforum, 10 December 2014. Critics’ Pick, review of Systemics #4 exhibition, Kerry Greaves.

http://www.afterall.org/online/on-connecting-past-and-present_aarhus-rapport_atkunsthal-aarhus/#.VJV49AoH0, Afterall, 19 December 2014. Review 'On Connecting Past and Present: 'Aarhus Rapport' at Kunsthal Aarhus' (Line Ellegaard), Review of curated exhibition 'Systemics #4'

Membership of professional bodies:

IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, http://www.iktsite.org/

Other invited event:

Look back, think forward: re-shaping the Nordic avant garde, Tate Modern, London, UK, Panel event

Future Past Tense: Archeologies of Media and Technology, , The Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT) Research Group, University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, UK, Panel

Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Presentation

Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (MIT Press 2015), book launch, Montreal, Canada, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Book launch event co-organiser and participant

dOCUMENTA (13): Paper Mornings: Speaking Code book launch, Kassel 2012, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Book Launch Event participant

dOCUMENTA (13) Keynote Lectures Series: Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman, Kassel 2012, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Introduction and Chair of Keynote Lectures: Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman

Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Invited lecture

Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Presentation

Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Presentation

Other Professional Activity:

External Examiner, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (2016-2020).

Research Grants Awarded:

Arts Council England, Design and Empire [working title], Grant value (£): 14.875, Duration of research project: 3 months

Arts Council England, Design and Empire, Grant value (£): 14, 875.00, Duration of research project: 6 months

Aarhus 2017 Fondet, Permanenta 2017 programme, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 100.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2017

Statens Kunstfonds, Systemics Series 2013-2014, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 200.000, Duration of research project: 2013-2014

The Obel Family Foundation, Museum Without Walls programme, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 150.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2017

Nordea-Fond, Museum Without Walls program, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 315.000, Duration of research project: 2014-2017

Statens Kunstfonds, Collective Making series 2015-2016, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 180.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2016

Ny Carlsberg Fondet, Permanenta 2017: Contemporary Art Biennale as a form, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 150.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2018

Teaching qualification:

LTHE Learning and Teaching in Higher Education