Prof Joasia Krysa
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Joasia Krysa is a curator and scholar working at the intersection of critical theory, contemporary art and digital technology. She is Professor of Exhibition Research and Head of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University, with an adjunct position at Liverpool Biennial. Previous appointments include as Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; part of curatorial team for Documenta 13, and co-curator of the 9th Liverpool Biennial. She is currently appointed curator of the 2nd Helsinki Biennial (2023).
She has a background in curatorial studies (Goldsmiths, University of London), cultural theory (Wroclaw University), political sciences (Maria Curie Sklodowska University), and has Phd in Fine Art Curating (Software Curating). At Liverpool School of Art and Design, Prof. Krysa is part of the Senior Management Team, leading portfolio of Art and Design subjects and the school's research unit (Unit of Assessment 32: Art and Design). She is also a member of the steering committee for IAT - the Institute of Art and Technology and leading Exhibition Research Lab (ERL), public gallery and an academic research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge. In 2020-21, she served as a full panel member for REF 2021 - UKRI Research Excellence Framework (Panel 32 Art and Design).
Publications include, amongst others, edited books ‘Systemics, or Exhibition as a Series’ (Sternberg Press, 2017), ‘Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History' (co-edited with Jussi Parikka) (MIT Press 2015), ‘Curating Immateriality: The Work of The Curator in The Age of Network Systems’ (Autonomedia, 2006), authored notebook publication 'Ada Lovelace' (No 55) in the Documenta 13 series ‘100 Thoughts - 100 Notes ‘(Hatje Cantz 2012); chapters in ‘’Institution as Praxis: New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research’ (Sternberg Press 2020), ‘Networks’ (Whitechapel/MIT Press 2014) and ‘The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics’ (2015). She is a Series Editor for DATA Browser book series (Open Humanities Press, London) and commissioning editor of Liverpool Biennial’s contemporary art journal Stages.
Past curatorial projects were commissioned by The Whitney Museum of American Art and 11th Liverpool Biennial (collaborative AI project ‘The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine’, 2021); Documenta 13 (the first international retrospective exhibition of Finish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi), Kunsthal Aarhus (Systemics, exhibitions programme 2012-14), and Tate Modern (Kurator-software project, 2006).
Recent research grants include UKRI/AHRC, Covid 19 Urgency - strategic priority funding ‘Towards A National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World’ (project title: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation in the Virtual Liverpool Biennial, with Dr Leonardo Impett (PI), Durham University) 2021.
She is currently working on a chapter for Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of New Media (2023), co-editing ‘Curating Superintelligence’, a new volume of DATA browser series (Open Humanities Press, 2023), and a monograph publication ‘Human and Non-Human Curating’ for Routledge (2024).
Degrees
2008, Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University, United Kingdom, PhD in Fine Art (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
Certifications
2019, Advance HE, UK, Aurora Leadership Training
2018, Advance HE, UK, Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Diversity in the Workplace
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Date Protection
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, Bribery Act
Plymouth University, United Kingdom, Good Supervisory Practice
Plymouth University, United Kingdom, Leadership and Development
Plymouth University, United Kingdom, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE)
Academic appointments
Lead UOA32 Internal Panel, LSAD, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Head of Art and Design, School of Art and Design,, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Steering Committee Member, Institute of Art and Technology, LSAD, LJMU, 2018 - present
Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University, in partnership with Liverpool Biennial, 2017 - present
Honorary Visiting Associate Professor in Curating, Aarhus University, 2016 - present
Academic Advisor, The Contemporary Condition research project, Aarhus University, 2015 - present
Lead Exhibition Research Lab, IAT, LSAD, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015 - present
Postgraduate training
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK, Advance HE, 2018 - present
Highlighted publications
Krysa J, Impett L. 2022. Rethinking Curating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Grunert FP. Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Noema Media and Publishing, European Union. EU 978-88-943827-2-3 Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J, Leonardo I. 2021. UKRI/AHRC Strategic Priority Grant: Towards A National Collection, Covid 19 Projects: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation In The Virtual Liverpool Biennial, with Durham University, LJMU Towards A National Collection, Covid 19 Projects: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation In The Virtual Liverpool Biennial
Krysa J. 2020. Exhibitionary practices at the intersection of academic research and public display (second expanded iteration) Rito C, Balaskas B. Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research Sternberg Press 978-3-95679-506-0 Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J. 2nd Helsinki Biennial 2023: New Directions May Emerge Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J, Impett L, Cetinić E, MetaObjects , Sui . The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine: Experiment AI-TNB, Liverpool Biennial 2021, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2022-2023 Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J, Impett L, Ubermorgen . The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine: Experiment B³(NSCAM), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Author Url Publisher Url
Chapters
Krysa J, Impett L. 2022. Rethinking Curating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Grunert FP. Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Noema Media and Publishing, European Union. EU 978-88-943827-2-3 Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J. 2020. Exhibitionary practices at the intersection of academic research and public display (second expanded iteration) Rito C, Balaskas B. Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research Sternberg Press 978-3-95679-506-0 Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J. 2019. Samtidskunstens organiserede netværk. Nye tendenser, globale perspektiver, lokal specificitet Juel Jepsen C, Kjærboe R, Krogh S, Søberg M. Terræn. Veje ind i samtidskunsten Aarhus University Press 9788771248791 Public Url
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 :63-72 University of the Arts Helsinki. Helsinki 9789527131428 Public Url
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 Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2015. The Politics of Contemporary Curating: A Technological Perspective Martin R. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics Routledge 9781317567806
Krysa J. 2015. The Politics of Contemporary Curating: a Technological Perspective Martin R. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics Routledge 9781317567806 Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2015. THE POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CURATING: A Network Perspective The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics :114-121 9781315736693 DOI Publisher Url
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 Publisher Url
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 Publisher Url
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 Publisher Url
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 Publisher Url
Krysa J, Sedek G. 2008. Source Code Fuller M. Software Studies. A Lexicon MIT Press. Cambridge Mass. 9780262062749 Publisher Url
Cox G, Krysa J. 2005. System Error: Economies of cultural production in the network society New Practices-New Pedagogies: A Reader :13-21 9780203020807 DOI Publisher Url
Krysa J, Impett L. Rethinking Curating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Slager HENK, Wilson MICK. Expo-Facto: Into the Algorithm of Exhibition Utrecht: Metropolis M Books. Utrecht, the Netherlands 978-90-818302-8-7 Publisher Url
Conference publication
Krysa J. 2021. The Next Museum Should be Curated by A Machine Nolasco-Rózsás L, Kálmán B. HyMEx Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium Proceedings, HyMEx Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium Proceedings Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2021. Art Machines 2: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art Allen R. Art Machines 2
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) Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2010. Curating After the Net Reyes-García E, Saleh I. 1st Congress on Web Studies
Krysa J. 2008. Programming and Curating for Networks Reyes-García E, Zreik K. 2nd International Conference Computer Art Congress 2008 [CAC.2]
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 Publisher Url
Report
Krysa J, Moscoso M. 2021. Curating, Biennials, and Artificial Intelligence Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J, Leonardo I. 2021. UKRI/AHRC Strategic Priority Grant: Towards A National Collection, Covid 19 Projects: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation In The Virtual Liverpool Biennial, with Durham University, LJMU Towards A National Collection, Covid 19 Projects: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation In The Virtual Liverpool Biennial
Journal article
Krysa J, Impett L. 2021. The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine Krysa JOASIA, Moscoso MANUELA. Stages, 9 Publisher Url
Bang Larsen L, Bogh M, Högkvist S, Krysa J, Maija Tanninen-Mattila M. 2019. Musées et museum studies dans les pays nordiques Un débat entre Mikkel Bogh, Stina Högkvist, Lars Bang Larsen et Maija Tanninen-Mattila, mené par Joasia Krysa Perspective : actualité en histoire de l'ar, 2019 :45-68 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J. 2016. Collision of Art and Ants Worlds - a conversation with Jussi Parikka and Jaroslaw Czarnecki. Czas Kultury, 188 Publisher Url Public Url
Editorial/letter to the editor
Krysa J. 2019. Beautiful World, Where Are You Stages, 8 Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2018. Notes on Design & Empire Stages, 7 Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2017. Introduction The Biennial Condition Stages, 6 Publisher Url
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 Author Url Publisher Url
Books (edited)
2018. Contemporary Research Intensive Krysa JM, Lund J, Cox G, Birchall M. Sternberg Press. Berlin 978-3-95679-391-2 Publisher Url
2006. Curating Immateriality The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems Krysa J. vol 3 New York: Autonomedia. New York
2006. Curating Immateriality The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems Krysa J. vol 3 New York: Autonomedia. New York
Internet publication
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.) Publisher Url
Books (authored)
Krysa J. 2017. Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series). Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013-14. Krysa J. Sternberg Press. Berlin 978-3-95679-162-8 Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2017. Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series). Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013-14. Krysa J. Sternberg Press. Berlin 978-3-95679-162-8 Author Url Publisher Url
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 Publisher Url
Krysa J, Parikka J. 2015. Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048 Krysa J, Parikka J. MIT Press 9780262029582 Publisher Url
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 Author Url Publisher Url
Exhibition
Krysa J. Erkki Kurenniemi. In 2048, dOCUMENTA (13) Publisher Url
Krysa J. Constant: Online archive of Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048), commssioned exhibition, part of dOCUMENTA 13 exhibition, Kassel 2012 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Silicon Dreams. Art-Science-Technology in the European Union, exhibition, Madrid / San Sebastian, 2010 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Systemics series: Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed (or, on machines, humans, and running algorithms), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2013 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Systemics series: As we may think (or, the next world library), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2013 Publisher Url
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 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Systemics series: Aarhus Report - Avantgarde as network (or, the politics of the ultra local), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2014 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Systemics series: Reading Machines - unfolding books and archives, exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2013 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Systemics series: Nervous Systems - languages of wonder & denial, exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2014 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Collective Making series (01): Extreme Sharing (solo exhibition by artist group N55), Kunsthal Aarhus 2015 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Collective Making series: DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Collective Making series (02, part 1):The Symbiosity of Creation/ Ants (solo exhibition by artist Jaroslaw Czarnecki), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Collective Making series (02, part 2): DO IT ( Hans Ulrik Obrist), exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015 Publisher Url
Krysa J. Collective Making series (03): Stongue (aolo show by artists Slavs and Tatars), Kunsthal Aarhus 2015 Publisher Url
Krysa J, Bang Larsen L. Quantum Real: Art and Particles Publisher Url
Krysa J. Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful World, Were Are You? Author Url Publisher Url
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) Publisher Url
Krysa J, Pritchard H, Soon W. Recurrent Queer Imaginaries, 2019 Author Url
Krysa J. The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J. 2nd Helsinki Biennial 2023: New Directions May Emerge Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J, Impett L, Cetinić E, MetaObjects , Sui . The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine: Experiment AI-TNB, Liverpool Biennial 2021, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2022-2023 Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J, Impett L, Ubermorgen . The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine: Experiment B³(NSCAM), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Author Url Publisher Url
Krysa J, Tallant S, Manacorda F, Bertolotti-Bailey F, Malasauskas R, Willsdon D, Cooper R. Liverpool Biennial 2016 Author Url Publisher Url
Schofield J, Duffy T, Wilcox M, Embery E, Krysa J, Leaper H, Roberts E, Wilkinson C, Wilkinson D, Liu C, Roughley M, Pollier P. Fanchon Fröhlich: The Wrong Sex (2023) at Exhibition Research Lab, 17/02/2023-14/05/2023 Publisher Url
Other
Krysa J, Wright MW, Birchall M. Impact Case Study: Academia in Residence: A new model of university-cultural partnerships and the impact on strategic direction, curation and social engagement
Highlighted activities
External committees:
REF2021 Research Excellence Framework, Research England, Panel Member, Panel D, Sub-panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory, https://www.ref.ac.uk/. 2021
Professional activities
Media Coverage:
Liverpool Biennial Review – Bleeps, Bones, and a Machine that Curates 2021
Artforum, Brexit Wounds - Liverpool Biennial 2016, 19 July 2016.
Artforum, 10 December 2014. Critics’ Pick, review of Systemics #4 exhibition, Kerry Greaves.
Artforum, Critics’ Pick, Kerry Greaves. Review of Systemics #4 exhibition, 10 December 2014.
Frieze, 27 March 2014. Review of exhibition Systemics #3, Christy Lang.
ITV News, Liverpool Biennial – Art Festival Gets Underway, 8 July 2016
A-N, Liverpool Biennial 2016: intelligent, timely and bustling with energy, 11 July 2006.
Taz. Die Tageszeitung, Berlin, Fatma Aydemir. Review of exhibition Systemics #3, 23 January 2014.
External collaboration:
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/jussi-parikka(8b2b74c5-07db-4f66-bf90-309aa266513a).html, Aarhus University, Jussi Parikka. 2023
https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-art/visual-cultures-curating-and-contemporary-art-vicca, Aalto University, Bassam El Baroni. 2023
https://tba21.org/#item--academy--1819, TBA21 Academy, Markus Rebmann. 2022
https://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Arja Miller. 2021
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/the-next-biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Christiane Paul. 2020
https://www.biennial.com/2021/exhibition/artists/ubermorgen-and-leonardo-impet, Liverpool Biennial, Sam Lackey. 2020
http://www.researchpavilion.fi/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpqHagdek1gIVhLvtCh0SrgBJEAAYASAAEgIST_D_BwE, Research Pavilion, University of the Arts Helsinki. 2016
http://contemporaneity.au.dk/, Aarhus University, Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’,. 2014
http://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/, The Finnish National Gallery, The Finnish National Gallery. 2010
http://d13.documenta.de/, Documenta, Documenta 13. 2009
http://www.wrocenter.pl/en, International Media Art Foundation WRO, International Media Art Foundation WRO. 2004
http://transmediale.de/content/excessive-research-0, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Transmediale Festival.
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/amt/about/index.page?, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Professor Jussi Parikka.
Other Professional Activity:
Expert Reviewer, European Commission. 2023
Expert reviewer, The Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. 2022
REF 2021 Full Panel Member UOA 32: Art and Design, UKRI/AHRC, 2021 -22. 2021
• REF 2021 Impact Case lead, Academia in Residence, submission UOA 32, LSAD, REF 2021. 2020
External Examiner, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (2016-2020)..
Other invited event:
Keynote 5me Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco, Biennials in Africa and around the world. 2022
Keyonte: Expo-Facto: Into the Algorithm of Exhibition, Helsinki University of the Arts Finland, Bassam El Baroni, Henk Slagter, Mick Willson. 2022
Keyonote Open Up and Shape Helsinki Symposium, Publics, Helsinki, Symposium. 2022
Transart Institue Intensive: Orbiting the Liverpool Biennial, Online, Presentation. 2022
Emerging Curator's Program, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, Presentation. 2021
Ulyanovsk - Capital of Culture Foundation, Uljanowsk, Russia, Presentation. 2021
The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine,, Helsinki University of the Arts, Invited Keynote lecture. 2019
The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine, NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Keynote presentation. 2018
Between Academic Research and Cultural Institutions – Collaborative Model, Helsinki Art Museum, Keynote presentation. 2018
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. 2016
Look back, think forward: re-shaping the Nordic avant garde, Tate Modern, London, UK, Panel event. 2016
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (MIT Press 2015), book launch, Montreal, Canada, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Book launch event co-organiser and participant. 2015
Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Presentation. 2014
Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Presentation. 2013
Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Invited lecture. 2013
Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Presentation. 2012
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. 2012
dOCUMENTA (13): Paper Mornings: Speaking Code book launch, Kassel 2012, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Book Launch Event participant. 2012
Conference presentation:
The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine, Art Machines 2, City University Hong Kong, Oral presentation. 2022
The Next Museum Should be Curated by A Machine, HyMEx Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Oral presentation. 2021
Od Dyplomu na Marsie do powrotu na ziemie – raport z Liverpool School of Art and Design, Summit of Art Schools, Academy of Fine Art, Wroclaw, Poland, Oral presentation. 2020
Curating Now: curating in the age of globalisation, biennalisation, and Artificial Intelligence, Annual Conference of Spanish Researchers in the UK, University of Liverpool, Oral presentation. 2019
Curating Now: curating in the age of globalisation, biennalisation, and Artificial Intelligence, Annual Conference of Spanish Researchers in the UK,, University of Liverpool, Keynote. 2019
The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine, Meta Marathon 2018: AI, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Oral presentation. 2018
Between Academic Research and Cultural Institutions – Collaborative Model, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Oral presentation. 2018
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. 2015
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. 2015
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. 2015
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. 2014
Curating beyond exhibition making, Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Oral presentation. 2014
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. 2013
Speculations on Archiving, Curating and Algorithms, Save As: Archives and Social Memory symposium, Salt Galata, Istanbul, Oral presentation. 2013
Art Show as Unruly Organism: case study of dOCUMENTA (13), Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Oral presentation. 2013
Who wants to be a curator: speculations on contemporary curating, IKK Artist Talks: Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Copenhagen University, Oral presentation. 2013
Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Oral presentation. 2012
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. 2012
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. 2011
Curatorial Alternatives to What? From alternative forms to the everyday technologies, International Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Symposium: Alternative Now, Wroclaw, Poland, Oral presentation. 2011
Curating at Source, Positions In Flux, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Oral presentation. 2009
'Software Curating: Programming and Curating for Networks, Computer Art Congress, University Monterrey Technologico Mexico, Oral presentation. 2008
External PGR examinations performed:
Liverpool John Moores University, PhD, Syntegration Against the Platform. Experimentation with the Team Syntegrity protocol for viable institutional forms that counter the logic of algocracy in institutions of contemporary art. 2021
City University of Hong Kong, PhD, Emergent Economies of Art & Technology: Modes of Making, Circulating and Organizing in the Contemporary Condition. 2020
University of Dundee, PhD, System Maker Files: Practice-led investigation into online system making within Artist-led Initiatives.. 2019
UNSW Sydney, MPhil, Innovating Electrofringe: a distributed curatorial platform for electronic art. 2019
Manchester Metropolitan University, PhD, Machines will watch us die – a material turn in curatorial practice. 2019
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, PhD, Curating Across Interfaces: An Account of a (Hybrid) Expanding Exhibition. 2017
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, PhD, The Emergence of the Art, Science and Technology Artworlds. 2016
External committees:
REF2021 Research Excellence Framework, Research England, Panel Member, Panel D, Sub-panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory, https://www.ref.ac.uk/. 2021
REF 2021 UOA 32: Art and Design, UKRI/AHRC, UKRI/AHRC REF, Full Panel Member, https://ref.ac.uk/. 2021
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/. 2015
dOCUMENTA (13) Curatorial Team, documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, Member of Curatorial Team, http://d13.documenta.de/. 2009
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. 2009
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. 2009
International Media Art Foundation WRO Council of Management, Media Art Foundation WRO, Council of Management, http://www.wrocenter.pl/en/o-wro/. 2004
Research Grants Awarded:
UKRI/AHRC, Towards National Collection: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation in the Virtual Liverpool Biennial, Dr Leonardo Impett, Grant value (£): 97000, Duration of research project: 8 months. 2021
FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies, Quantum Real, Grant value (£): 3000. 2018
Arts Council England, Connecting Publics, Grant value (£): 14,940, Duration of research project: 8 monts. 2018
Arts Council England, Design and Empire, Grant value (£): 14,875, Duration of research project: 6 months. 2017
Aarhus 2017 Fondet, Permanenta 2017 programme, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 100.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2017. 2014
Ny Carlsberg Fondet, Permanenta 2017: Contemporary Art Biennale as a form, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 150.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2018. 2014
Statens Kunstfonds, Collective Making series 2015-2016, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 180.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2016. 2014
Nordea-Fond, Museum Without Walls program, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 315.000, Duration of research project: 2014-2017. 2014
The Obel Family Foundation, Museum Without Walls programme, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 150.000, Duration of research project: 2015-2017. 2014
Statens Kunstfonds, Systemics Series 2013-2014, Kunsthal Aarhus, Grant value (£): 200.000, Duration of research project: 2013-2014. 2012
Award:
International Curatorial Advisor, Sapporo International Art Triennale (SIAF) Japan, https://siaf.jp/en/about/. 2019
International Advisor, Helsinki Biennale 2021, https://helsinkibiennaali.fi/en/. 2018
Honorary Associate Professor in Curating, Aarhus University, http://www.au.dk/en/. 2016
Membership of professional bodies:
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, Advance HE. 2018
IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, http://www.iktsite.org/. 2015
Conference organisation:
Design and Empire [working title], co-curator, http://www.biennial.com/events/design-empire-working-title. 2017
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. 2016
Why Associate, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Organiser, Chair, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-why-associate. 2015
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. 2014
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. 2013
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. 2013
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. 2012
Editorial boards:
Stages (Publisher: Liverpool Biennial), Commissioning Editor, http://www.biennial.com/journal. 2017
Data Browser book series, Series Editor, http://www.data-browser.net/. 2014
APRJA (A Peer Review Journal About_), Editorial Board, http://www.aprja.net/. 2013
External PGR Supervision - completed students:
Aarhus University, PhD, Curating in/as Commons. 2016
Aarhus University, PhD, Noise is Medially. 2015
Copenhagen University, Other, Aarhus Rapport - Avantgarde and the Ultralocal. 2015
Plymouth University, MPhil, Public Life and Pervasive Systems: A Critical Practice. 2006
Industrial connections:
Liverpool Biennial, UK, Head of Research, http://www.biennial.com/. 2015
Kunsthal Aarhus, Artistic Director, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/. 2012
ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair Madrid, Jury Member, http://www.ifema.es/fundacionarco_01/. 2007
Teaching qualification:
LTHE Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. 2001