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
- 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 ChannelThree-day research programme 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
While digital platforms shape how we communicate, learn, work, and imagine, their operations remain largely opaque, hidden behind seamless interfaces and narratives of efficiency and innovation. This experimental video presentation looked to artistic and design practices as sites where digital infrastructures become visible, encountered through metaphors, embodiment, speculation, and care.
The presentation unfolded across two chapters. The first, The Platform Imagination, introduced the concept as a framework for understanding how we sense and imagine digital platforms through situated, embodied, and artistic encounter. The second, The End of the World, turned to A Video Store After the End of the World (2023) by Kristoffer Gansing and Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, presented at Enghave Park, Copenhagen.
Presented at DASTS 2026, TANTlab, Aalborg University.
References
Beloufa, N. (2018). L’ennemi de mon ennemi [Installation]. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
Crawford, K., and Joler, V. (2023). Calculating Empires: A genealogy of technology and power, 1500–2025 [Installation]. Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy.
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.
Gillespie, T. (2010). The politics of platforms. New Media & Society, 12(3), 347–364.
Gillespie, T. (2017, August 24). The platform metaphor, revisited. Social Media Collective. https://socialmediacollective.org/2017/08/24/the-platform-metaphor-revisited/
Hui, Y. (2016). The question concerning technology in China: An essay in cosmotechnics. Urbanomic.
Konior, B. (2020). The dark forest theory of the internet. Flugschriften, (6). https://flugschriften.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2.pdf
Pattison, Y. (2020–2021). Sunset provision ~ east [Installation].
Shanbaum, P. (2017). The interface is obsolete: A critical investigation of the digital interface in interactive new media installations [Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London]. Goldsmiths Research Online. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/20634/
Stalder, F. (2018). The digital condition (V. A. Pakis, Trans.). Polity Press.
Steyerl, H. (2019). This is the future / Power Plants [Installation]. 58th Venice Art Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. PublicAffairs.
Image Rights and Credits
All the visual material were recorded by the author during site visits to the artworks. The work by Kevin Bray was produced for fanfare, 2017. The sound used for the intro and outro is recorded by the author and from installation work by Nick Verstand (2018). No images are used for commercial purposes. Where works are reproduced from external sources, credits appear in the captions, and public domain images are identified by their institutional holding. Every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge copyright holders.
Direction, voice over, editing by
Freja Kir Kirchheiner
(2026)
Based on excerpts from the thesis
“The Platform Imagination:
A Critical Investigation into the
Digital Platform in Artworks”
(2026)
Freja Kir Kirchheiner