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
How do you archive movement through sound?
The Live Archive is a collaborative prototype and experiment by fanfare and Annual Reportt for the occasion of the art fair Alt_Cph. The Live Archive investigates the parameters of artistic documentation and live archiving through a transmittable framework of instant sound and images. Presented as a screen installation, The Live Archive acts as a quick-pace-tool and container for reflecting the performative programme of the fair.
While aiming at implementing sound as an instant medium for capturing actions, the installation presents playful, intuitive impressions, instantly captured, archived and delivered onto the screen installation. The Life Archive extends the reach of the fair by offering a platform for audiences not physically present and as future archival material.
Colophon:
Concept: Freja Kir, fanfare and Annual Reportt
Website: Annual Reportt
Image capture: Sabine Kongsted, KLD Repro, and Alexis Mark
Sound by: Charlie Clemoes, Freja Kir
Jingle: Bea1991
Documentation: Annual Reportt
Annual Reportt is an occasional exhibition platform for interdisciplinary artistic disciplines run by the graphic design studio, Alexis Mark.
Alt_Cph is an independent exhibition gathering selected contemporary artist-run and alternative exhibition spaces across Europe. AltCph 18 is dedicated to presenting new performance.