Researching across intersections of visual language and digital media environments with a specific interest in critical narratives and alternative learnings on today's means of communication, information, and distribution.
Continuously learning – currently becoming a doctress as a PhD student at the London School of Film, Media and Design, UWL (UK). Creatively co-directing fanfare – artistic research collective for broken channels of interlinked communications (NL). Passionately teaching – currently as a lector in Visual Design and Interaction at the Royal Danish Academy (DK). Actively contributing to stanza – project space & studio for critical publishing (DK).
- Video presentation: The Platform Imagination: Encountering InfrastructuresDASTS, The Techno-Anthropology Lab, Aalborg University (DK)Video presentation for DASTS 2026 Conference: Encountering Infrastructures
- Anecdotes of platform imagination #1Binational Artistic PhD Program at the University of the Arts Bremen, Presented at Bremen University(DE)Lecture Performance as part of Ways of Practicing: Imaginaries
- Demystifying tech imaginariesSofter Digital Futures: Conference 2026, Rødvig (DK)Workshop and lecture
- Sister display System (姐妹系统)fanfare, abC team, Open M Art Fair in Chengdu (CN)Display system and publication manual for the Open M Artfair
- Misplaced, disrupted, dysfunctionaltransmediale (DE), Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University (DK), Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University (UK)Research presentation and writing contribution
- Unlearn, Display, ConnectTokyo Art Bookfair (JP)Curatiorial concept and artistic direction for country section
- Glitchy, Caring, TacticalA Relational Study Between Artistic Tactics and Minor TechPaper for APRJA
- Between Dog & WolfAmsterdam (NL), Copenhagen (DK), Milano (IT)Film and research of online conspirational climate imaginaries
- Making it workfanfare (NL)Conversation series on drives and struggles across creative collective practices
- Broken ChannelsAnnual research festival (2023–2025) on dependence of efficient navigation and communication technologiesfanfare (NL)
- Overgaden identityOvergaden (DK)Visual identity and concept for contemporary art institution
- Wat nu, Koetsier?Museum of Communication (NL)Curatorial concept, creative direction and research of misused advertisement spaces
- Landscape with Bearde Appel Amsterdam (NL)Creative direction and visual identity for group exhibition
- Playground of the In-BetweenGraphic Days (IT)Concept, creative direction and visual identity for exhibition audioguide
- Parasite Dinerfanfare, When Site Lost the Plot (NL)Curatorial concept and artistic direction for dine-in duo shows
- fanfare inc. TransportationGraphic Design Biennial (FR)Research series on creative working conditions
- fanfare inc. ToolsManifesta 12 (IT), Its a Book (DE), Libros Mutantes (ES) , fanfare (NL)Research series on creative working conditions
- awɪ sɔː ðə saʊndGerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)Workshop on relations between space, sound, and design
- GlossyKrabbesholm (DK)Workshop on collective typography
- Designing DetourEindhoven Design Academy (NL)Workshop on mapping and neighbourhood encounters
- Nomadic B(oo)ksIED (ES)Workshop on space, books, and displays
- The Live ArchiveALT_CPH (DK)Sound experiement for instant archiving at art fair
- Art of Documenting Artfanfare (NL)Art direction and curation for research series on documentation
- From Elite to the StreetVan Gogh Museum (NL)Concept, curation, creative direction for exhibition intervention
- fanfare displayTallinn (EE), Chaumont (FR), Leipzig (DE), Amsterdam (NL)Concept and construction of modular display system
- Flag dialogueCouncil of the European Union , Amsterdam (NL)Creative direction and writing for conversational flags
- Lunch BytesAmsterdam (NL), Zürich (CH), Washington, D. C. (US)Creative direction and visual identity
- Display(ing)Text contribution to First, Then… Repeat. by Hackers & Designers, led by Anja Grootenfanfare, Hackers & Designers, Anja Grooten
Presentation excerpts from Anecdotes of Platform Imagination: foregrounding how creative practice contributes to making tech imaginaries perceptible and negotiable. From the slick tech conference or institutional museum context, to a locally situated collaboration across Amsterdam canal infrastructures, and finally ending at a communally oriented installation set in the center of a busy Copenhagen corner.
Presented at Bremen University as part of Ways of Practicing: Imaginaries, arranged by great people from the Binational Artistic PhD Program at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Image credits
”You need to be able to tell good from bad” — one of many corporate tech conference slides
AI-generated synthetic vibes in Hito Steyerl’s The Island, 2025, amongst others a war-hungry, bomb-shooting crocodile aeroplane piloted by Elon Musk
Broken Channels, fanfare, Amsterdam, 2023, exploring Amsterdam water infrastructures through the canals
THE SERVERS ARE DOWN. THE STREAMING HAS STOPPED. THE CLOUD IS GONE. Welcome to A Video Store After the End of the World, 2023, by Kristoffer Gansing & Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter
Based on excerpts from the thesis
“The Platform Imagination: A Critical Investigation into the Digital Platform in Artworks”
Freja Kir Kirchheiner, 2026
References
Mission statements by: Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Apple
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Gansing, K., and Hilfling Ritasdatter, L. (2023). A Video Store After the End of the World [Artistic research project]. Inaugurated as part of the Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 8, 2023.
Gansing, K., and Hilfling Ritasdatter, L. (2024). A Video Store After the End of the World: Material speculation & media infrastructures beyond the cloud. In Infrastructure aesthetics (pp. 151–170). De Gruyter Open.
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Gillespie, T. (2017, August 24). The platform metaphor, revisited. Social Media Collective.
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Konior, B. (2020). The dark forest theory of the internet. Flugschriften, (6).
Krenak, A. (2020). Ideas to postpone the end of the world (A. Doyle, Trans.). House of Anansi Press.
Steyerl, H. (2009). In defense of the poor image. e-flux Journal, (10). Steyerl, H. (2025). The island [Installation]. Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan, Italy.
Steyerl, H. (2023). Mean Images. New Left Review, (140/141), 82–97.