Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
During his Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship, Christian Ulrik Andersen will be working on the project 'Minor Tech'
Big Tech has been criticised for both flattening cultural expressions and resource overuse. This book uncovers how digital art and underground culture address Big Tech’s environmental, cultural, and societal impacts from minority viewpoints. It explores how pluralism, diversity, and sustainability can be woven into tech practices, offering new insights for critiquing and designing technology.
Christian Ulrik Andersen is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University. His research addresses artistic and cultural practices of software.Through analysis and design experiments (often with grassroots communities), he investigates how class, gender, race, and other cultural values are embedded in technological infrastructures; how they are exposed and negotiated in digital art and activism; and how a wider field of design may learn from this to create more responsible and sustainable technologies.
FORMER FELLOWSHIPS
AIAS-SHAPE Fellow
Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2023 – 30 Jun 2025
Project title: SHAPE Digital Activism
Jens Christian Skou Fellow
Fellowship period: 1 Feb 2015 - 31 Jan 2016
Project title: Vector Space - The aesthetics of contemporary interface culture
Project title: Minor Tech
Area of research: Digital Activism
Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2026
Fellowship type: Carlsberg Monograph Fellow
Contact: cua@cc.au.dk
This fellowship has received funding from The Carlsberg Foundation under the monograph fellowships.
