Prof Joasia Krysa
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: J.M.Krysa@ljmu.ac.uk
Professor Joasia Krysa is a curator and scholar working at the intersection of contemporary art, curatorial studies, and digital technology. She is Professor of Exhibition Research, Director of The Institute of Art and Technology (IAT), and Head of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University. She holds adjunct position as Liverpool Biennial Professor of Exhibition Research. Previous appointments include as Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; part of curatorial team for international quinquennial exhibition Documenta 13, co-curator of the 9th Liverpool Biennial (2016) and curator of the 2nd Helsinki Biennial (2023). Between 2020-21, she served as a panel member for UKRI Research Excellence Framework REF 2021 Panel 32: Art and Design.
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 of Assessment (UOA 32: Art and Design). In 2024, she undertook the role of Director of The Institute of Art and Technology (IAT) in the Faculty of Arts, Professional, Social Studies.
Major publications include edited books Curating Superintelligences. Artificial Intelligence and Future Curating (Open Humanities Press, 2024), New Directions May Emerge (Helsinki Art Museum/Helsinki Biennial), ‘Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History' (co-edited with Jussi Parikka) (MIT Press 2015), and chapters in Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of New Media Art, Volume 3: Curation and Culture (Bloomsbury 2024), ‘’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 and/or presented by, amongst others, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Liverpool Biennial 2021, Centre Pompidou KANAL, Brussels, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and Documenta 13 where she curated the first international retrospective exhibition of Finish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi), and Tate Modern.
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 monograph publication ‘Human and Non-Human Curating’ for Routledge (2026).
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
Academic appointments
Director, The Institute of Art and Technology (IAT), Faculty of Arts, Professional, Social Studies, LJMU, 2023 - present
UOA32 REF 2029 Lead, LSAD, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Head of Art and Design, School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University, in partnership with Liverpool Biennial, 2017 - present
Visiting Professor in Curating, Aarhus University, 2016 - 2021
Academic Advisor, The Contemporary Condition research project, Aarhus University, 2015 - present
Exhibition Research Lab member, 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. 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. 2023. THE HELSINKI BIENNIAL ART MEDIATION FORUM 2023 An Anthology. Introduction title: As If Wandering Through a Forest Krysa J, El Baroni B, Constantin P. THE HELSINKI BIENNIAL ART MEDIATION FORUM 2023 An Anthology :8-12 Helsinki Art Museum. Helsinki 978-952-5939-45-3 Publisher Url Public Url
Krysa J, Impett L. 2022. Rethinking Curating in an Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine Grunert FP, Craglia M, Gomez E, Thielan-del Pozo J. Human Ties and Artificial Intelligence 9 :129-134 Noemn media & publishing on behalf of European Commission 978-88-943827-2-3 Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
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 DOI Publisher Url
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 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 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
Krysa J. New Directions May Emerge Krysa J, Grönroos P. New Directions May Emerge. Helsinki Biennial 2023 Helsinki Art Museum and Helsinki Biennial. Helsinki 978-952-5939-44-6
Krysa J. Curatorial Authorship Meigh-Andrews C, Clarke R, Dziekan V. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art Bloomsbury Publishing. London 9781474280730 Publisher Url Public Url
Books (authored)
Curatolo M, Fidder J, Findji C, Gras M, Krysa J, Mayer A, Mey A, Nolasco-Rózsás L, Ramos F, Šerešová M. 2023. THE HELSINKI BIENNIAL ART MEDIATION FORUM 2023 An Anthology Krysa J, Costantin P, El Baroni B. HAM Helsinki Art Museum 2023 978-952-5939-45-3 Publisher Url Public Url
Aikio M, Al-Nawas A, Henriksson M, Bopape DS, Brathwaite-Shirley D, Opera GS, Heikkilä A, INTERPRT , Keiken , Lindfors S, Petronella L, Tallberg S, Nau L, Gordo AM, Närhinen T, PHOSfate , Policarpo D, Rahaa S, Razavi B, Forest R, Remedies , Rezaire T, Škarnulytė E, Song Y, Sutela J, Treister S, Rojas AV, Mahler Z. 2023. New Directions May Emerge. Helsinki Biennial 2023 Grönroos P, Krysa J. HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Helsinki 978-952-5939-44-6 Author Url Publisher Url Public 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. 2015. Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048 Krysa J, Parikka J. MIT Press 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
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
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
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. 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:
Research England, Panel Member, Panel D, Sub-panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory, REF2021 Research Excellence Framework, https://www.ref.ac.uk/. 2022
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:
Arja Miller, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, https://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/. 2023
Bassam El Baroni, Aalto University, https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-art/visual-cultures-curating-and-contemporary-art-vicca. 2023
Jussi Parikka, Aarhus University, https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/jussi-parikka(8b2b74c5-07db-4f66-bf90-309aa266513a).html. 2023
Markus Rebmann, TBA21 Academy, https://tba21.org/#item--academy--1819. 2023
Christiane Paul, The Whitney Museum of American Art, https://whitney.org/exhibitions/the-next-biennial. 2021
Sam Lackey, Liverpool Biennial, https://www.biennial.com/2021/exhibition/artists/ubermorgen-and-leonardo-impet. 2021
University of the Arts Helsinki, Research Pavilion, http://www.researchpavilion.fi/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpqHagdek1gIVhLvtCh0SrgBJEAAYASAAEgIST_D_BwE. 2016
Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’,, Aarhus University, http://contemporaneity.au.dk/. 2014
The Finnish National Gallery, The Finnish National Gallery, http://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/. 2010
Documenta 13, Documenta, http://d13.documenta.de/. 2009
International Media Art Foundation WRO, International Media Art Foundation WRO, http://www.wrocenter.pl/en. 2004
Professor Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, http://www.southampton.ac.uk/amt/about/index.page?.
Transmediale Festival, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, http://transmediale.de/content/excessive-research-0.
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:
Casablanca, Morocco, Biennials in Africa and around the world, Keynote 5me Biennale Internationale de Casablanca. 2022
Helsinki University of the Arts Finland, Bassam El Baroni, Henk Slagter, Mick Willson, Keyonte: Expo-Facto: Into the Algorithm of Exhibition. 2022
Publics, Helsinki, Symposium, Keyonote Open Up and Shape Helsinki Symposium. 2022
Online, Presentation, Transart Institue Intensive: Orbiting the Liverpool Biennial. 2022
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, Presentation, Emerging Curator's Program. 2021
Uljanowsk, Russia, Presentation, Ulyanovsk - Capital of Culture Foundation. 2021
Helsinki University of the Arts, Invited Keynote lecture, The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine,. 2019
NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Keynote presentation, The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine. 2018
Helsinki Art Museum, Keynote presentation, Between Academic Research and Cultural Institutions – Collaborative Model. 2018
University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, UK, Panel, Future Past Tense: Archeologies of Media and Technology, , The Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT) Research Group. 2016
Tate Modern, London, UK, Panel event, Look back, think forward: re-shaping the Nordic avant garde. 2016
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Book launch event co-organiser and participant, Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (MIT Press 2015), book launch, Montreal, Canada. 2015
Aarhus University, Presentation, Art History Talks series, Aarhus University. 2014
Copenhagen University, Denmark, Invited lecture, Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark. 2013
Copenhagen University, Denmark, Presentation, Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Copenhagen University, Denmark. 2013
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Book Launch Event participant, dOCUMENTA (13): Paper Mornings: Speaking Code book launch, Kassel 2012. 2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, Introduction and Chair of Keynote Lectures: Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman, dOCUMENTA (13) Keynote Lectures Series: Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman, Kassel 2012. 2012
Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Presentation, Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark. 2012
Conference presentation:
Oral presentation, City University Hong Kong, Art Machines 2, The Next Biennial Should be Curated by A Machine. 2022
Oral presentation, Ludwig Museum Budapest, HyMEx Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium, The Next Museum Should be Curated by A Machine. 2021
Oral presentation, Academy of Fine Art, Wroclaw, Poland, Summit of Art Schools, Od Dyplomu na Marsie do powrotu na ziemie – raport z Liverpool School of Art and Design. 2020
Keynote, University of Liverpool, Annual Conference of Spanish Researchers in the UK,, Curating Now: curating in the age of globalisation, biennalisation, and Artificial Intelligence. 2019
Oral presentation, University of Liverpool, Annual Conference of Spanish Researchers in the UK, Curating Now: curating in the age of globalisation, biennalisation, and Artificial Intelligence. 2019
Oral presentation, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Meta Marathon 2018: AI, The Next Documenta Should be Curated by a Machine. 2018
Oral presentation, Helsinki, Helsinki Art Museum, Between Academic Research and Cultural Institutions – Collaborative Model. 2018
Oral presentation, Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal, Media Art History Conference, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, Exhibition as Lab. 2015
Oral presentation, Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal,, Media Art History Conference, Re-Create: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology,, Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History. Erkki Kurenniemi 2048. Book Launch Presentation.. 2015
Oral presentation, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Terrain. Contemporary Art in Denmark. Dansk Kunsthistoriker Forening / The Danish Association of Art Historians, Keynote: The organized networks of contemporary art: an insider-outsider perspective. 2015
Oral presentation, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Conference in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition by artists Mika Taanila and Erkki Kurenniemi, Kiasma, On Curating Archives. 2014
Oral presentation, Aarhus University, Art History Talks series, Aarhus University, Curating beyond exhibition making. 2014
Oral presentation, Göteborg, Sweden, International Contemporary Art Biennale Göteborg, Keynote Lectures series, Sweden., Keynote: Human and Nonhuman Curating. Contemporary Curating and Technology – the Next Turn?,. 2013
Oral presentation, Salt Galata, Istanbul, Save As: Archives and Social Memory symposium, Speculations on Archiving, Curating and Algorithms. 2013
Oral presentation, Copenhagen University, IKK Artist Talks: Art History and Visual Culture lecture series, Who wants to be a curator: speculations on contemporary curating. 2013
Oral presentation, Copenhagen University, Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Art Show as Unruly Organism: case study of dOCUMENTA (13). 2013
Oral presentation, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark, Annual Inaugural Talk, Annual Inaugural Talk, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark. 2012
Oral presentation, Kassel, Germany, dOCUMENTA (13), Introduction to Keynote Double Lecture – Information in the Quantum World and Different Model of Objects, Anton Zeilinger and Graham Harman. 2012
Poster presentation, Centro de Cultura e Eventos e no Centro de Comunicação e Expressão da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 5th National Symposium of the Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers (ABCiber 2011), Keynote: Can Machines Curate?. 2011
Oral presentation, Wroclaw, Poland, International Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Symposium: Alternative Now, Curatorial Alternatives to What? From alternative forms to the everyday technologies. 2011
Oral presentation, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Positions In Flux, Curating at Source. 2009
Oral presentation, University Monterrey Technologico Mexico, Computer Art Congress, 'Software Curating: Programming and Curating for Networks. 2008
External committees:
Research England, Panel Member, Panel D, Sub-panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory, REF2021 Research Excellence Framework, https://www.ref.ac.uk/. 2022
UKRI/AHRC REF, Full Panel Member, REF 2021 UOA 32: Art and Design, UKRI/AHRC, https://ref.ac.uk/. 2022
Aarhus University, Denmark, Advisor, Research Project ‘The Contemporary Condition: Representation and Experience of Contemporaneity in and through Contemporary Art Practice’, Aarhus University, Denmark, http://contemporaneity.au.dk/. 2015
documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, Member of Curatorial Team, dOCUMENTA (13) Curatorial Team, http://d13.documenta.de/. 2009
Ministry of Science and Innovation, Member, Scientific Committee, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/?lang_choosen=en. 2009
University Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, Member, Scientific Committee International Congress on Web Studies, http://www.itesm.mx/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English. 2009
Media Art Foundation WRO, Council of Management, International Media Art Foundation WRO Council of Management, http://www.wrocenter.pl/en/o-wro/. 2004
External PGR examinations performed:
PhD, Liverpool John Moores University, 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
PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Emergent Economies of Art & Technology: Modes of Making, Circulating and Organizing in the Contemporary Condition. 2020
PhD, University of Dundee, System Maker Files: Practice-led investigation into online system making within Artist-led Initiatives.. 2019
MPhil, UNSW Sydney, Innovating Electrofringe: a distributed curatorial platform for electronic art. 2019
PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, Machines will watch us die – a material turn in curatorial practice. 2019
PhD, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, Curating Across Interfaces: An Account of a (Hybrid) Expanding Exhibition. 2017
PhD, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, The Emergence of the Art, Science and Technology Artworlds. 2016
Research Grants Awarded:
Duration of research project: 8 months, Grant value (£): 97000, UKRI/AHRC, Dr Leonardo Impett, Towards National Collection: Visitor Interaction and Machine Curation in the Virtual Liverpool Biennial. 2021
Grant value (£): 3000, FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies, Quantum Real. 2018
Duration of research project: 8 monts, Grant value (£): 14,940, Arts Council England, Connecting Publics. 2018
Duration of research project: 6 months, Grant value (£): 14,875, Arts Council England, Design and Empire. 2017
Duration of research project: 2015-2016, Grant value (£): 180.000, Statens Kunstfonds, Collective Making series 2015-2016, Kunsthal Aarhus. 2014
Duration of research project: 2015-2017, Grant value (£): 100.000, Aarhus 2017 Fondet, Permanenta 2017 programme, Kunsthal Aarhus. 2014
Duration of research project: 2015-2018, Grant value (£): 150.000, Ny Carlsberg Fondet, Permanenta 2017: Contemporary Art Biennale as a form, Kunsthal Aarhus. 2014
Duration of research project: 2014-2017, Grant value (£): 315.000, Nordea-Fond, Museum Without Walls program, Kunsthal Aarhus. 2014
Duration of research project: 2015-2017, Grant value (£): 150.000, The Obel Family Foundation, Museum Without Walls programme, Kunsthal Aarhus. 2014
Duration of research project: 2013-2014, Grant value (£): 200.000, Statens Kunstfonds, Systemics Series 2013-2014, Kunsthal Aarhus. 2012
Award:
Sapporo International Art Triennale (SIAF) Japan, International Curatorial Advisor, https://siaf.jp/en/about/. 2019
Helsinki Biennale 2021, International Advisor, https://helsinkibiennaali.fi/en/. 2018
Aarhus University, Honorary Associate Professor in Curating, http://www.au.dk/en/. 2016
Membership of professional bodies:
Advance HE, Fellow of The Higher Education Academy. 2018
IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, http://www.iktsite.org/. 2015
Conference organisation:
co-curator, Design and Empire [working title], http://www.biennial.com/events/design-empire-working-title. 2017
Organiser and Chair, The Biennial Condition: On the Contemporaneity and the Episodic (Liverpool Biennial 2016), http://www.biennial.com/events/the-biennial-condition-on-%20contemporaneity-and-the-episodic. 2016
Organiser, Chair, Why Associate, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-why-associate. 2015
Organiser and Introduction, Avant-guarde as Network, in conjunction with curated exhibition Aarhus Rapport: Avant-guarde as Network (or, the Politics of Ultralocal), Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-systemics-4-avantgarde-as-network. 2014
Organiser and Chair, Systemics #2: As We May Think (or, The World Next Library) - Sound Weekend with Florian Hecker , Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programmes/seminar-sound-weekend-with-florian-hecker. 2013
Organiser, Chair, Systemics #1: Certain peculiar things and ideas, often failed, or on machines, humans and algorithms, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/programme/201301#overlay=en/programmes/preview-events-systemics-1. 2013
Organiser, Chair, dOCUMENTA (13): Errki Kurenniemi: In 2048, panel in conjunction with the curated exhibition 'Errki Kurenniemi: In 2048', Kassel 20102, http://d13.documenta.de/de/#/research/research/view/online-archive-erkki-kurenniemi-in-2048-2012. 2012
Editorial boards:
Commissioning Editor, Stages (Publisher: Liverpool Biennial), http://www.biennial.com/journal. 2017
Series Editor, Data Browser book series, http://www.data-browser.net/. 2014
Editorial Board, APRJA (A Peer Review Journal About_), http://www.aprja.net/. 2013
External PGR Supervision - completed students:
PhD, Aarhus University, Curating in/as Commons. 2016
Other, Copenhagen University, Aarhus Rapport - Avantgarde and the Ultralocal. 2015
PhD, Aarhus University, Noise is Medially. 2015
MPhil, Plymouth University, 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