AIAS FORMER FELLOW
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture, and Museology, Aarhus University, Denmark
During his Artist-in-Residence Tandem Fellowship, Jan Løhmann Stephensen will collaborate with artist Anneke Kampman on the project 'Machine-Characters: The Choreographed Subjectivity of Platform Media Performance'
Digital selves articulate a performance of ‘personality’ able to navigate the precarious conditions of ‘volatile’ markets through the adoption of ready-made personas. Through three events, performances, a publication and an exhibition, this interdisciplinary project interrogates the impact of an asset-based economy on digital personhood using our insights to ‘map’ the infrastructural and choreographic relationships between finance and performance and demonstrate how interactions between personas and platforms condition the subjectivities considered valuable in digital public space.
FORMER FELLOWSHIP
AIAS-SHAPE Fellow
Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
Project title: Chat Democracy: AI, Democratic Talk, and a New Shared Language
In democracy, language is essential. With the ongoing integration of Large Language Model-based technologies like ChatGPT into a host of digital platforms, AI-technologies will soon be integral to the processes of cultural meaning-making, civic deliberation, and community-building in the democratic public sphere. Hence, this project asks, what kinds of publics and communities will emerge when discussions on political issues become entangled with and assisted by AI-driven ‘info-discursive auxiliaries’? Who gets to talk? In whose language? What kind of citizens will, and could, we become?
Project title: Machine-Characters: The Choreographed Subjectivity of Platform Media Performance
Area of research: Aesthetics and culture
Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2025 - 30 Jun 2026
Fellowship type: Artist-in-Residence Tandem Fellow
This fellowship has received funding from The Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF)
