Exhibitions | Festivals/ Lectures/ Workshops | Awards/Grants
Short Bio
Francis Hunger’s practice combines artistic research and media theory with the capabilities of narration through installations, radio plays and performances and internet-based art.
Currently he is a researcher for the project Training The Archive at Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, critically examining the use of AI, statistics and pattern recognition for art and curating.
In 2022 he co-curated with Inke Arns and Marie Lechner the exhibition House of Mirrors – Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm at HMKV, Dortmund.
His Ph.D. at Bauhaus University Weimar developed a media archeological genealogy of database technology and practices.
In 2022/23 Hunger was guest professor at the Intermedia program of the Hungarian Academy for Visual Arts, Budapest.
Hunger’s artistic work is exhibited internationally. Increasingly he writes papers on the history of computing, Artificial Intelligence, art and curating. Numerous festival participations, talks, lectures, publications, screenings and academic lectures. He occasionally curates exhibitions, teaches at universities regularly and publishes on mastodon and less and less on former twitter. His website is https://www.irmielin.org
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Exhibitions
2022
How to Dwell in Paradox, HGB Leipzig
More Planets – Less Pain. Kunsthalle Erfurt & ACC Galerie Weimar
The Smartification of Everything, Department of Visual Arts, University Ottawa
2021
Calculating Control: Net(Art) and Cybernetics. Haus der Statistik, Berlin
Cyberfeminism Index, https://cyberfeminismindex.com
Third Workshop on Obfuscation. TU Delft and Cornell Tech, online
2020
BIG D@T@! BIG MON€Y!, Halle 14, Leipzig
2019
WIN/WIN. Ankäufe der Kunststiftung Sachsen. Halle 14, Leipzig
2017
Mood Swings. Q21 Freiraum Gallery, Vienna
Die verschollene Utopie. Halle 14, Leipzig
A romance with revolution I. ACC Galerie, Weimar
A romance with revolution II. Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg
2016
European Media Art Festival, Kunstverein Osnabrück, cat.
Kingdom Paradise, Städtisches Museum, Zittau, cat.
2015
Who makes Europe, Gdanska Galerija Miejska, Gdansk, cat.
Kingdom Paradise, Kunstraum ACC Galerie, Weimar, commission
Unsichtbare Manöver – Interpretationsreservate und Definitionsreviere, Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2014
Memorial to Cold War Victory, Cooper Union Gallery, New York
Schwerelosigkeit für Alle! radio play, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, commission
Search Routines: Narrations of Databases, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, cat.
BER-DTM-HNL – Fasten your seatbelts! Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
2013
Monday begins on Saturday, The Bergen Assembly Triennial, Bergen, cat., commission
Der Ungeduld der Freiheit Gestalt zu geben, Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, cat.
Who Makes Europe, Matadero, Madrid
Who Makes Europe, Städtische Kunsthalle, Bremen
26. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart
2012
III. Moscow Biennial for Young Art, Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
History has left the building, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, solo exhibition, cat., commission
Monitoring Show, 29. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Festival, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, cat.
Festivals/ Lectures/ Workshops
2023
Gender Studies Association’s Annual Conference. Panel moderation for Marie-Luise Angerer and Waltraud Ernst. Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein, Halle
Unhype Artificial ›Intelligence‹. Lecture in the frame of ‘Trickster Science’. Bauhaus Universität, Weimar
Database Workshop – Databases in East-Germany from ‘adaption’ via ‘re-invention’ to ‘co-innovation’. Lecture. Universität Basel
Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data. Lecture. Ruhruniversität, Bochum
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit in Zeiten digitaler Disruption. Panel discussion with Hito Steyerl, Francis Hunger und Wolfgang Ullrich. MdBK, Leipzig
Curating AI. Panel Discussion with Răzvan Ion & Magda Tyżlik-Carver. ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Künstlerische Methoden der Sichtbarmachung von Infrastruktur. Lecture and Workshop. Universität Mainz, Professorship for Mediaculture Sciences
Digitale Prozesse des Auswählens und Kombinierens. Zur Kritik von KI im Kunstkontext. Academic Talk with Prof. Barbara Büscher, Ringvorlesung Universität Leipzig
2022
Ludwig-Gastprofessor Intermedia – Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem (Hungarian University of Fine Arts), Budapest
House of Mirrors – Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm – HMKV Dortmund (exhibition co-curation with Inke Arns and Marie Lechner with 24 international artists)
2021
Jurymitglied Neustart Kultur II, Modul D
Kybernetik war nicht alles – Die langen Ketten bürokratischer Praktiken im DDR Sozialismus, lecture – Haus der Statistik, Berlin
Artificial Intelligence Hype, lecture – Gaite Lyrique, Paris, online
The Database is not the Archive, talk – Kunstverein Mañana Bold, Offenbach a.M. online
2020
Vergiss den Algorithmus! – Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart/Merz Akademie – Stuttgart, online
On Table and Data practices, lecture – Constant, Brussels online
Pockets of Resistance, workshop/teaching – Intermedia Programme / Budapest Art Academy (canceled)
2019
Artist Talk and studio visits – School of Visual Arts, New York
Database Histories, academic workshop – Universität Siegen
Computation and Modernity, artist talk – Aarhus University
From Table to SQL, teaching/workshop – Aarhus University
2018
Deep Fake or Rendering the Truth, Panel, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Biased Futures, Panel, Transmediale 2018, Berlin
Research Values. Panel, Transmediale 2018, Berlin
Data Subjectivities. Panel, Universität Lüneburg – Digital Cultures Conference, Lüneburg
Verhalten und Vorhersage. Die techno-sozialen Zukünfte algorithmischer Bewertungssysteme, Lecture. Jahrestagung d. Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, TU Berlin
Research Values. Workshop, ZEM Potsdam
2017
Rosebuds – Hidden Stories of Things.Co-Curation with Lena Brüggemann, Fabian Reimann, Kunstraum D21 Leipzig
2016
Big Data as permanent future. Conference panel, EMAF Osnabrück , Osnabrück
Computing In-Formation: Data and its Base. Workshop, UdK Berlin, Research Center for Proxy Politics
Hannes Meyer – »Tradition the arch enemy, Modernism the false Friend«. Lecture, Städtisches Museum Zittau
2015
Pixxelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica Arts Centre, Nova Gorica
Database Derivé, workshop, Galerie Wedding, Berlin
2014
Database Infrastructure – Making the invisible visible. lecture, sublab/D21, Leipzig
Diagrammatik der Information, lecture, Interfiction Conference, Kassel
2013
Hannes Meyer – »Tradition the arch enemy, Modernism the false Friend«. lecture, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Deep Love Algorithm. screening, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2012
Why remember? lecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig
Hannes Meyer – »Traditionalism the arch enemy, Modernism the false Friend«. lecture, POT, Kassel
2011
Assembly Line Century, artist talk, gallery dieschönestadt, Halle/Saale
1917: Resurrection within the State, lecture, Kunstverein, Leipzig
The 20th Century–An Assembly Line Century, lecture, The Brno House of Arts, Brno
Awards, Grants
2020
Denkzeit stipend. Federal State of Saxony, Dresden
2018–2020
Graduate stipend, Federal State of Thuringia
2019
Acquisition of Deep Love Algorithm by the Federal State of Saxony, Dresden
2017
Project grant, Federal State of Saxony, Dresden with Fabian Reimann and Lena Brüggemann
2012
Production Grant for The woman who never went into Space, Film- und Mediafoundation, Federal State of North-Rhine-Westfalia, Düsseldorf
2011
Project Grant, Federal State of Saxony, Dresden
2007
Einstand grant for The SETUN Conspiracy, realization as artist book, Institute for Artistic Book Print, Leipzig
2005
Philip Morris Scholarship at School of Arts/ Columbia University, New York
2004
EMARE grant, V2 Institute for instable media, Rotterdam