Morten Søndergaard

(2008 – present) Associate Professor in Interactive Media Art, AAU – cph, Aalborg University CPH (formerly CIT - Copenhagen Institute of Technology).

(2010- present) Head of research, The Unheard Avantgardes, at LARM infrastructure, DK.

From 1999 to 2008: Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark.

(2007) PhD in Media Art & Performance Design from Roskilde University, DK

(1995) M.A. in Modern Culture and Transdisciplinary Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen, DK

(1991) B.A. in English Literature, University of Copenhagen, DK

Since 1994: Internationally operating Media Art Curator & Art Critic; Currently invited visiting curator at ZKM. Curator of Exhibitions in US, Finland, Sweden, Russia, France, Germany, Austria and Denmark – (selected) worked with Damien Hirst (curator assistant), Sophie Calle (curator assistant), Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, and Stelarc.

Member of the Curator Board of PORT 2010 Festival of Contemporary Art in Aalborg; Senior Curator at re-new - digital Arts Festival in Copenhagen (www.re-new.org); (2007-10) member of the research group “Augmented Reality and Contemporary Art” at McGill University, Canada; (2004-10) Chairman of the advisory committee, Kulturnet Danmark (Culture Net Denmark), Copenhagen; (2004-06) Member of the Curator Board at Splintermind, Stockholm, Sweden.

Publications (selected): Get Real: Art + Real time + Theory + History + Practice (New York: George Braziller Publishers, 2005), (with Peter Weibel) MAGNET – The Visual Systems of Thorbjørn Lausten (Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2008), and (with Mogens Jacobsen) RE_ACTION – The Digital Archive Experience (Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2009). Upcoming publication (in Danish): Space Punctures – Show-Bix and the Media Conscious Practice of Per Højholt (spring 2011).