Researching across the intersections of visual language, design, and digital media environments, with a particular interest in critical narratives and multimodal inquiries for learning about current means of communication, information, distribution, and knowledge generation.
Doctoral research on the platform imagination, situating tech imaginaries through artistic practices, at the London School of Film, Media and Design, UWL (UK). Passionately teaching and programming at the Institute of Design and Visual Interaction, Royal Danish Academy, and as research affiliate of its Cluster for Interactive Experiences (DK). Creatively co-directing fanfare, artistic research collective for broken channels of interlinked communication (NL). Co-founding and running stanza, project space and 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
There you go / Thanks / You’re welcome / I like it / Have this too / Why not! / Yes? / Alright / Great! / I guess / Happy? / I suppose / How about this? / I don’t know / Do it…
The flag dialogue presents a series of 45 flags produced in collaboration with Charlie Clemoes during the Cultural Programme of the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2016). Based on a developing grid of colours, lines and words, the simple order of each flag makes up an everyday conversation on the nature of debt and its embedded opaque power relations. While the words appear mundane in their isolated context, the complete conversation replicates the constantly changing relationship between a debtor and a creditor.
The flags hung around the site for Dutch chairmanship of the European Union - where the official meetings took place (2016).
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Concept: Charlie Clemoes, Freja Kir
Design: Freja Kir
Conversation: Charlie Clemoes, Freja Kir
The project was made possible by the Cultural Programme of the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the European Union