KONTEJNER’s curator Olga Majcen Linn talks to Jens Hauser about co-corporeality and microperformativity, liveliness, biomediality and onthological paradoxes in art that both discover and target different medialities, following up on the “Life as an object” symposium at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana (February 2022).

 

Jens Hauser is a media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology. He is currently a researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion, and a distinguished affiliated faculty member at Michigan State University, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency program. He is an affiliated faculty member at Danube University Krems, a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Innsbruck, a guest professor at the Department of Arts and Sciences of Art at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a researcher affiliated with École Polytechnique Paris Saclay. Hauser has been the chair of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts’ 2018 conference in Copenhagen. At the intersection of media studies, art history, and epistemology, he has developed an aesthetic and epistemological theory of biomediality as part of his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum, and also holds a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours.

Olga Majcen Linn graduated Art History and Comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Engaged in curatorial work since 2002 through NGO KONTEJNER, she has founded the NGO and authored many renowned international projects (Device_art, Touch Me, Extravagant bodies). Since 2003, she has been working at the Gallery VN in Zagreb, where she presents young and emerging Croatian artists. In this gallery, Majcen Linn has organized over 120 exhibitions. She is also active in the field of social theory and critique: she has worked and written for the TV show Transfer, the radio show Kretanje točke, T-portal, the journals Zarez and Život umjetnosti, Up&Underground, etc. She is a member of the international board of the Beijing triennial of new media arts, and a member of AICA.

Production: KONTEJNER, 2022
Audio editing: Filip Pacak