Jens Hauser
Jens Hauser is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology. He’s a researcher at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion, following a dual post-doctoral research position at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Hauser is also a researcher at the Art/Science Chair at École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay, a distinguished affiliated faculty member of the Department of Art, Art History and Design at Michigan State University where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency program, an affiliated faculty member at the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems, and a guest professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Hauser has been the chair of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts’ 2018 GREEN conference in Copenhagen. At the intersection of media studies, art history and epistemology, he has developed a theory of biomediality as part of his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum, and holds a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours. His curated exhibitions include L’Art Biotech (Nantes 2003), Still, Living (Perth, 2007), sk-interfaces (Liverpool 2008/Luxembourg 2009), the Article Biennale (Stavanger 2008), Transbiotics (Riga 2010), Fingerprints... (Berlin 2011/Munich 2012) Synth-ethic (Vienna 2011), assemble | standard | minimal (Berlin 2015), SO3 (Belfort 2015) WETWARE (LA 2016), Devenir Immobile (Nantes 2018), {un][split} (Munich 2018), MATTER/S matter/s (Lansing 2018), Applied Microperformativity (Vienna 2018), UN/GREEN (Riga, 2019) and OU \ / ERT (Bourges, 2019).