Mikkel Rørbo
Mikkel Rørbo is an interdisciplinary researcher and, sometimes, artist and curator. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures and holds degrees in philosophy and cultural studies from University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the philosophical dimensions of living with machine intelligences and speculative methods for critical engagement with emerging technologies. As an artist and curator, he has performed, released and exhibited internationally as well as collaborated with institutions, festivals and art spaces. He has written about and presented work on technology, philosophy and contemporary experiments in music.
Contact
Office Hours: by Appointment
Email: mikkel.rorbo[at]uni-ak.ac.at
Showroom: Mikkel Rørbo
- title
- Tendencies: The Overview Effect
- type
- Exhibition
- keywords
- Digital Arts, Artificial Intelligence, Sound Art, Sculpture
- texts
- Exhibition Announcement
- The Overview Effect The TENDENCIES exhibition focuses on works that question scientific and technological innovations as much as they incorporate them. For this fourth edition, it looks at our relationship with possible futures, be they dystopian or utopian. Sound and visual installations by six artists, Marjolijn Dijkman, Jerry Galle, Mikkel Rørbo, Kris Verdonck, Pierre Jean Giloux, and the SEAD collective, are brought together to provoke an overview effect, like that experienced by certain astronauts when they observe Earth from space and realise how fragile life is. Will artificial intelligence help all human beings to live together on Earth intelligently or, on the contrary, will it reveal our own limitations and those of our development strategy? TENDENCIES tries to find an answer…
- artists
- Mikkel Rørbo, Marjolijn Dijkman, SEAD collective, Jerry Galle, Kris Verdonck, Pierre Jean Giloux
- curators
- Raphaël Stevens
- date, opening and location
- date
- 2019-04-27 - 2019-06-09
- location
- Bozar, BU, Belgium
- URL
- https://www.bozar.be/en/calendar/tendencies-19