Research profile

I am an internationally active and acclaimed curator and associate professor of interactive media art and sound art at Aalborg University, Denmark. 

I generally work with media and sound in transdisciplinary, constructive, critical and creative maker settings and developing theory and ideas from those settings. I have a background as a professional curator at contemporary art museums with a focus on sound art (via the legacy from Fluxus mostly). And more currently (last 15 years or so), I teach sound and sound art and media art in theory and practice. Recently, my focus seems to have shifted a bit towards three trajectories: 1. sound and media curation and research in alternate contexts, post-curating or uncurating of sorts. 2. Archiving the unarchived, the silent agencies and unheard avant-gardes. Developing a theory of the exclusion-mechanisms in the aesthetics systems of 20th Century art worlds 3. towards a sound practice drawing it seems on my early background as a sound practitioner (and singer) in the 80s and early 90s in transinternational exchange with other sound artists, cross-boundary, with a certain focus on words and sound as performative agencies.

From my practice I share these two links: The first is the result from the transdisciplinary project, Media Art Platform, in Roskilde 2004-2005, The Audiobar. Created together with Mogens Jacobsen, I curated and co-created conceptually this project which is still functional: https://www.mogensjacobsen.dk/mobile_showwork.php?pid=10

The other link is from the Sound Paper I made for Seismograf in 2017, Origo: https://seismograf.org/fokus/sound-art-matters/origo-climbing-the-pyramid-of-the-sun-in-teotihuacan

On top of my own sound practice, I am presently engaged with sound curation and developing curatorial methodologies of archiving in various contexts, including in the European NeMe network, the LARM infrastructure network in Denmark (2010-2014), SUNY college in New York, Struer Sounding City in Denmark and Momentum Festival in Norway. 

I am the founder of the conference series POM – Politics of the Machines (with Laura Beloff) (since 2017) and ISACS - International Sound Art Curating Symposia (w Peter Weibel) (2010-2017).

I am the AAU academic director of the Erasmus Master of Excellence in Media Arts Cultures (Since 2015).

Since 1994, I have curated exhibitions at international venues in the field of art, sound, science and media - Kiasma (Helsinki), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Rupertinum (Salzburg), Tacheles (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), Eyebeam (New York), Utzon Center (Aalborg), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus), Momentum Biennial (Moss, Norway) and Museum of Contemporary art (Roskilde).

Teaching profile

Teaching and supervision

Master-level: Media Arts Cultures (and Musicology)

International coordinator and co-founder of the Erasmus Joint Master in Media Arts Cultures - in collaboration with Blue Danube University in Krems (Austria), Lodz University (Poland) and School of Creative Media at CityU in Hong Kong (China).

Teaching and supervising Media Art Culture 2nd semester, courses 'Media Art in (Design) Contexts' and 'State of the (Media) Art'. 

Coordinator and supervisor at the thesis-semester of Media Arts Cultures, as well as thesis-supervisor.

Bachelor-level: Art and Technology (ArT) BA

Teaching History of Art and Technology (with other collegues) 1st and 3rd Semester

Teaching Art in Context (with other collegues) 2nd and 4th Semester

Supervision on 6th semester