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. At Liverpool Biennial she is Head of Research and part of the biennial curatorial team. In 2016, she was awarded an Honorary Associate Professorship at Aarhus University, Denmark. Between 2012-2015, she was Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark and served as part of curatorial team for DOCUMENTA 13 and Liverpool Biennial 2016.
She has a background in curatorial studies (Goldsmiths, University of London) and cultural studies (Wroclaw University). Her research and curatorial practice is located across contemporary art, digital culture and critical theory, with a distinctive research expertise in the emerging field at the intersection of curating and computation.
At Liverpool John Moores' School of Art and Design, Joasia Krysa is heading the development of the Exhibition Research Lab, a research group dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge. The Lab is uniquely positioned to offer an integrated platform comprising public Research Gallery and Education (postgraduate and doctoral research), underpinned by collaborative partnerships with Tate Liverpool, FACT, and Liverpool Biennial.
She serves on advisory and editorial boards including academic journal APRJA published by Aarhus University and Transmediale; research project 'The Contemporary Condition’ at Aarhus University (Danish Research Council, 2015 – 2018); International Media Art Foundation WRO (Poland), and is Series Editor of DATA browser books (Autonomedia, New York).
Publications include edited book 'Systemics: an index of exhibitions and related material (forthcoming from Sternberg Press, 2017); co-edited book 'Writing and Unwriting Media Art History' (MIT Press 2015); a notebook publication 'Ada Lovelace' in the dOCUMENTA (13) series '100 Thoughts - 100 Notes' (Hatje Cantz 2012); and anthology 'Curating Immateriality' (Autonomedia, 2006). Recent curatorial work include Liverpool Biennial 2016; exhibition series 'Collective Making' (2015-2016) and 'Systemics' (2013-2014) at Kunsthal Aarhus, and dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) where amongst other things, she curated first international retrospective of Finish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi.
She is currently part of curatorial team for Liverpool Biennial 2018 and working on a new monograph publication on curating and computational culture 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
Publications
Books
Krysa J, Parikka J. 2015. Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi 2048 Krysa J, Parikka J. The MIT Press. Cambridge MA 9780262029582
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
Krysa J. 2006. Curating Immateriality The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems
Journal Articles
Krysa J. 2016. Collision of Art and Ants Worlds - a conversation with Jussi Parikka and Jaroslaw Czarnecki. Czas Kultury, 188
Krysa J, Andersen C, Cox G, Gansing K, Koefoed Hansen L. What happens when research is less about exchange and more about excess? (Editorial) APRJA (A Peer-reviewed Journal About), VOLUME 5 :1-1
Chapters
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. 2015. The Politics of Contemporary Curating: a Technological Perspective Martin R. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics Routledge 9781317567806
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. 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
Conference Publication (journal proceedings)
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]
Exhibitions
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
Krysa J. Collective Making 03: Stongue (Slavs and Tatars)
Krysa J. Collective Making 02: DO IT
Krysa J. Collective Making 02: Ants
Krysa J. Collective Making: DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking
Krysa J. Collective Making 01: Extreme Sharing (Artist group N55)
Krysa J. Systemics Series: Nervous Systems - languages of wonder & denial
Krysa J. Systemics Series: Reading Machines - unfolding books and archives
Krysa J. Systemics #4: Aarhus Report - Avantgarde as network (or, the politics of the ultra local)
Krysa J. Systemics #3: Against the idea of growth, towards poetry (or, how to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later)
Krysa J. Systemics #2: As we may think (or, the next world library)
Krysa J. Systemics #1: Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed (or, on machines, humans, and running algorithms)
Krysa J. Silicon Dreams. Art-Science-Technology in the European Union
Krysa J. Online archive of Erkki Kurenniemi (In 2048),Constant, dOCUMENTA 13
Krysa J. Erkki Kurenniemi. In 2048, dOCUMENTA (13)
Engagement & Impact
Award:
Award title: Honorary Associate Professor in Curating, Awarding body: Aarhus University, URL: http://www.au.dk/en/
Conference organisation:
Conference name: The Biennial Condition: On the Contemporaneity and the Episodic (Liverpool Biennial 2016), Position: Organiser and Chair, URL: http://www.biennial.com/events/the-biennial-condition-on-%20contemporaneity-and-the-episodic
Conference name: dOCUMENTA (13): Errki Kurenniemi: In 2048, panel in conjunction with the curated exhibition 'Errki Kurenniemi: In 2048', Kassel 20102, Position: Organiser, Chair, URL: http://d13.documenta.de/de/#/research/research/view/online-archive-erkki-kurenniemi-in-2048-2012
Conference name: Systemics #1: Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed, or on machines, humans and algorithms, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Position: Organiser, Chair, URL: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programme/201301#overlay=en/programmes/preview-events-systemics-1
Conference name: Why Associate, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Position: Organiser, Chair, URL: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-why-associate
Conference name: Systemics #2: As We May Think (or, The World Next Library) - Sound Weekend with Florian Hecker , Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Position: Organiser and Chair, URL: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-sound-weekend-with-florian-hecker
Conference name: Avant-guarde as Network, in conjunction with curated exhibition Aarhus Rapport: Avant-guarde as Network (or, the Politics of Ultralocal), Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Position: Organiser and Introduction, URL: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-systemics-4-avantgarde-as-network
Conference presentation:
Title of presentation: 'Software Curating: Programming and Curating for Networks, Conference title: Computer Art Congress, Place/location of conference: University Monterrey Technologico Mexico, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Curating at Source, Conference title: Positions In Flux, Place/location of conference: Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Curatorial Alternatives to What? From alternative forms to the everyday technologies, Conference title: International Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Symposium: Alternative Now, Place/location of conference: Wroclaw, Poland, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Conference title: Annual Inaugural Talk, Place/location of conference: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Introduction to Keynote Double Lecture – Information in the Quantum World and Different Model of Objects, Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman, Conference title: dOCUMENTA (13), Place/location of conference: Kassel, Germany, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Art Show as Unruly Organism: case study of dOCUMENTA (13), Conference title: Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Place/location of conference: Copenhagen University, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Who wants to be a curator: speculations on contemporary curating, Conference title: IKK Artist Talks: Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Place/location of conference: Copenhagen University, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Speculations on Archiving, Curating and Algorithms, Conference title: Save As: Archives and Social Memory symposium, Place/location of conference: Salt Galata, Istanbul, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: On Curating Archives, Conference title: Conference in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition by artists Mika Taanila and Erkki Kurenniemi, Kiasma, Place/location of conference: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Curating beyond exhibition making, Conference title: Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Place/location of conference: Aarhus University, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi 2048. Book Launch Presentation., Conference title: Media Art History Conference, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology,, Place/location of conference: Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal,, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Exhibition as Lab, Conference title: Media Art History Conference, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, Place/location of conference: Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Keynote: Can Machines Curate?, Conference title: 5th National Symposium of the Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers (ABCiber 2011), Place/location of conference: Centro de Cultura e Eventos e no Centro de Comunicação e Expressão da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, Presentation type: Poster presentation
Title of presentation: Keynote: Human and Unhuman Curating. Contemporary Curating and Technology – the Next Turn?,, Conference title: International Contemporary Art Biennale Göteborg, Keynote Lectures series, Sweden., Place/location of conference: Göteborg, Sweden, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Title of presentation: Keynote: The organized networks of contemporary art: an insider-outsider perspective, Conference title: Terrain. Contemporary Art in Denmark. Dansk Kunsthistoriker Forening / The Danish Association of Art Historians, Place/location of conference: National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Presentation type: Oral presentation
Editorial boards:
Publication: Data Browser book series, Position: Series Editor, URL: http://www.data-browser.net/
Publication: APRJA (A Peer Review Journal About_), Position: Editorial Board, URL: http://www.aprja.net/
External collaboration:
URL: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/amt/about/index.page?, Institution: Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Collaborator: Professor Jussi Parikka
URL: http://d13.documenta.de/, Institution: Documenta, Collaborator: Documenta 13
URL: http://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/, Institution: The Finnish National Gallery, Collaborator: The Finnish National Gallery
URL: http://contemporaneity.au.dk/, Institution: Aarhus University, Collaborator: Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’,
URL: http://transmediale.de/content/excessive-research-0, Institution: Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Collaborator: Transmediale Festival
URL: http://www.wrocenter.pl/en, Institution: International Media Art Foundation WRO, Collaborator: International Media Art Foundation WRO
External committees:
Committee name: International Media Art Foundation WRO Council of Management, Organisation: Media Art Foundation WRO, Position: Council of Management, URL: http://www.wrocenter.pl/en/o-wro/
Committee name: Scientific Committee International Congress on Web Studies, Organisation: University Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, Position: Member, URL: http://www.itesm.mx/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English
Committee name: Scientific Committee, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, Organisation: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Position: Member, URL: http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/?lang_choosen=en
Committee name: dOCUMENTA (13) Curatorial Team, Organisation: documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, Position: Member of Curatorial Team, URL: http://d13.documenta.de/
Committee name: Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’, Aarhus University, Denmark, Organisation: Aarhus University, Denmark, Position: Advisor, URL: http://contemporaneity.au.dk/
External PGR examinations performed:
Name of University: Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, Award student examined for: PhD, Thesis title: Curating Across Interfaces: An Account of a (Hybrid) Expanding Exhibition
Name of University: Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, Award student examined for: PhD, Thesis title: The Emergence of the Art, Science and Technology Artworlds
External PGR Supervision - completed students:
Name of University: Copenhagen University, Award gained by the student: Other, Thesis title: Aarhus Rapport - Avantgarde and the Ultralocal
Name of University: Plymouth University, Award gained by the student: MPhil, Thesis title: Public Life and Pervasive Systems: A Critical Practice
Name of University: Aarhus University, Award gained by the student: PhD, Thesis title: Noise is Medially
Industrial connections:
Company: ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair Madrid, Position or project: Jury Member, URL: http://www.ifema.es/fundacionarco_01/
Company: Kunsthal Aarhus, Position or project: Artistic Director, URL: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/
Company: Liverpool Biennial, UK, Position or project: Head of Research, URL: http://www.biennial.com/
Media Coverage:
Links #1: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/lets-talk-about-art/active-archives, Media coverage: Freitag, 30 November 2012, Cornelia Sollfrank. Review of Documenta 13 exhibition Erkki Kurenniemi: in 2048, and commission by Constant: Erkki Kurenniemi Online Archive.
Links #1: https://www.taz.de/Ausstellung-in-der-Kunsthalle-Aarhus/!131564/, Media coverage: Taz. Die Tageszeitung, Berlin, Fatma Aydemir. Review of exhibition Systemics #3, 23 January 2014.
Links #1: http://www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/velfaerds-avantgarden/, Media coverage: Kunstkritikk, Velfaerds Avantgarden, Mathias Kryger. Review of symposium Avantguard as Network, 31 October 2014.
Links #1: http://artforum.com/picks/section=eu#picks49360, Media coverage: Artforum, Critics’ Pick, Kerry Greaves. Review of Systemics #4 exhibition, 10 December 2014.
Links #1: http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/articles/authors/15665/, Media coverage: The Art Newspaper, Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir, 2016.
Links #1: http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2016-07-08/liverpool-biennial-art-festival-gets-%20underway/, Media coverage: ITV News, Liverpool Biennial – Art Festival Gets Underway, 8 July 2016
Links #1: https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/liverpool-biennial-2016-intelligent-timely-and-%20bustling-with-energy, Media coverage: A-N, Liverpool Biennial 2016: intelligent, timely and bustling with energy, 11 July 2006.
Links #1: http://artforum.com/diary/archive=201607, Media coverage: Artforum, Brexit Wounds - Liverpool Biennial 2016, 19 July 2016.
Links #1: https://frieze.com/article/liverpool-biennial-2016, Media coverage: Freeze, Liverpool Biennial 2016: Near and far, fact and fiction: highlights from this year's festival, Amy Sherlock, 11 July 2016.
Links #1: http://moussemagazine.it/liverpool-biennial-2016/, Media coverage: Mousse, “Liverpool Biennial 2016” at various venues, Liverpool, Barbara Casavecchia, 30 September 2016.
Links #1: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/slavs-and-tatars-3/, Media coverage: Kopenhagen Magazine, 22 December 2015, Slavs and Tatars: STONGUE @ Kunsthal Aarhus, Sarah Holm. Review of Collective Making 03: Slavs and Tatars exhibition
Links #1: http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/systemics-3/, Media coverage: Frieze, 27 March 2014. Review of exhibition Systemics #3, Christy Lang.
Links #1: http://artforum.com/picks/section=eu#picks49360, Media coverage: Artforum, 10 December 2014. Critics’ Pick, review of Systemics #4 exhibition, Kerry Greaves.
Links #1: http://www.afterall.org/online/on-connecting-past-and-present_aarhus-rapport_atkunsthal-aarhus/#.VJV49AoH0, Media coverage: 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:
Title of event: Look back, think forward: re-shaping the Nordic avant garde, Location: Tate Modern, London, UK, Description: Panel event
Title of event: Future Past Tense: Archeologies of Media and Technology, , The Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT) Research Group, Location: University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, UK, Description: Panel
Title of event: Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Description: Presentation
Title of event: Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (MIT Press 2015), book launch, Montreal, Canada, Location: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Description: Book launch event co-organiser and participant
Title of event: dOCUMENTA (13): Paper Mornings: Speaking Code book launch, Kassel 2012, Location: dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Description: Book Launch Event participant
Title of event: dOCUMENTA (13) Keynote Lectures Series: Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman, Kassel 2012, Location: dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Description: Introduction and Chair of Keynote Lectures: Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman
Title of event: Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Location: Copenhagen University, Denmark, Description: Invited lecture
Title of event: Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Copenhagen University, Denmark, Location: Copenhagen University, Denmark, Description: Presentation
Title of event: Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Location: Aarhus University, Description: Presentation
Other Professional Activity:
Describe the Professional Activities: External Examiner, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (2016-2020).
Research Grants Awarded:
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:
Title of qualification gained: LTHE Learning and Teaching in Higher Education