Preliminary Programme

A graduate of both Goldsmiths College and the Royal Danish Academy, he maintains that the best way to understand a system is to use it incorrectly. His practice investigates the intersection of algorithmic systems, collective memory and social imagination. He is a former professor at the Funen Academy of Art (2012-2015) and was an artistic researcher at Uncertain Archives, Copenhagen University (2015-2018). He is a speculative welfare-state hip-hop dreamer and digital mischief-maker who deliberately misuses advanced algorithms to imagine alternative histories that never were but perhaps should have been. Operating from a basement near the royal palace, he conjures impossible collaborations betwixt socialist movements and hip-hop culture, whilst teaching computers to dream about colour-coordinated supermarkets without labels. He firmly believes that the future can only be imagined by misremembering the past, centring his current research and artistic practice on the creative misuse of AI systems to explore alternative social and political narratives. Kristoffer Ørum is Currently undertaking doctoral research in Human-AI Collaboration at Copenhagen University and serving as a member of Legatudvalget for Billedkunst at Statens Kunstfond, his work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including SMK Copenhagen, Center for Book Arts NYC and Kalmar Art Museum.

Before taking up that post she was a Principal Scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where she spent twenty years as a researcher and co-founded the Work Practice and Technology research area. She was Program Chair for the second conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 1988), and for the first Participatory Design Conference (PDC 1990). In 2002 she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Sciences, in 2010 the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, and in 2014 the Society for Social Studies of Science Bernal Prize for Contributions to the Field. Lucy is the author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations (2007) and Plans and Situated Actions: the problem of human-machine communication (1987), both published by Cambridge University Press. Lucy's current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the fields of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary militarism. She is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world. Lucy was a founding member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and served on its Board of Directors from 1982-1990, and is a current member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC).

He has published extensively on multiple subjects including the psychological motivations behind the "dark side" of politics including political mistrust, online hostility, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and political violence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served as one of the main scientific advisors of the Danish government and was knighted by the Danish Majesty for his contributions. Currently, he is appointed by the Danish government to direct a 5-year audit of the state of Danish democracy.