London-based artist and musician Anneke Kampman is the first Artist-in-Residence fellow selected to AIAS in the AIAS-ART fellowship programme. Anneke Kampman works at the intersections of writing, performance, music and the moving image, and in her practice, she engages technologies of sound (re)production such as microphones, speakers, synthesizers, drum-machines and digital watches. In 2023, she earned a practice-led PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK.

Machine-Characters: The Choreographed Subjectivity of Platform Media Performance

During her fellowship as an Artist-in-Residence at AIAS, Anneke Kampman will collaborate with Associate Professor Jan Løhmann Stephensen from the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture, and Museology at Aarhus University on a project entitled Machine-Characters: The Choreographed Subjectivity of Platform Media Performance.

Through a series of three events, performances, a publication and an exhibition, their joint project will explore the impact of an asset-based economy on digital personhood. It aims to ‘map’ the infrastructural and choreographic relationships between finance and performance, and to demonstrate how the interaction between personas and platforms conditions the kinds of subjectivities that are considered valuable in the digital public sphere.

Developing novel methods and reaching nonspecialist audiences

In their project, Kampman will develop new methods for formatting on-screen text which visualise enunciative qualities of voice, breath and punctuation. Through the tandem collaboration between artist and researcher, Kampmann and Stephensen aim at refining our understanding of online performance through exchanges and interdisciplinary conversations making theoretical claims legible to nonspecialist audiences through practical interventions and a written publication.

Seminar on 1 December 2025 at 11:00

As an AIAS Artist-in-Residence tandem fellow, Anneke Kampman will be based at AIAS and take part in the exchanges of the interdisciplinary AIAS research community. On 1 December, Anneke Kampman and Jan Løhmann Stephensen will present their project at the AIAS Seminar Series – the talk will be announced with the Autumn 2025 programme here in the end of June:
https://aias.au.dk/events/aias-seminar-series

Visit Anneke Kampman webpage to know more about her work:

https://www.annekekampman.co.uk/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/project/anneke-kampman

Know more about the AIAS-ART fellowship programme by visiting:

https://aias.au.dk/opportunities-at-aias/artist-in-residence-tandem-fellowship

Contact

Andreas Roepstorff, Director
andreas.roepstorff@aias.au.dk 
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, AIAS
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
DK-8000 Aarhus C