Workshop-lecture with former transmediale director Kristoffer Gansing

Event Description

In a workshop-lecture Kristoffer Gansing will present his research on media technology and multimodal practices to students of KABK and Leiden University. He will talk about his experiences as director of transmediale and enter into a conversation with students on the shifting techno-aesthetics of moving images as infrastructure for film as research. He will show contemporary artistic practices that seek to challenge such extractive infrastructures and that build alternatives.  

Please note: on 25 February 2024, Kristoffer Gansing will also be giving a presentation as part of ‘In the Making #3.’ For those interested in attending, click here for more information.  

Biography

Dr. Kristoffer Gansing is a media researcher and curator whose current work is on small-scale practices, the techno-aesthetics of infrastructure in audiovisual network culture and artistic research. He was artistic director (2011-2020) of the transmediale festival in Berlin and professor of artistic research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2020-23). He is currently Visiting Professor at Winchester School of Art. With Linda H. Ritasdatter he recently initiated the ongoing project ‘A Video Store after the End of the World’ and his most recent publication is ‘Homegrown, Outsourced, Organized – Network-based Arts and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure’ (2023).

Coordinates

26 February 2024 | 13:30 – 16:00

Location: KABK Auditorium

Address: Prinsessegracht 4 2514 AN The Hague.

Photo Credit: Adam Berry (transmediale, CC BY-SA 4.0)