Current & Upcoming Projects
Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at The University of Bergen
Associate Professor II at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Forthcoming book (edited volume) Ung uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture, & Design (Cappelen Damm Akademisk, forthcoming april 2021)
Exhibition and collaborative research project: Urban Ecologies: City Sensing Beyond the Human lead by Bull.Miletic, ROM for Art and Architecture, 11 February – 21 March 2021
Journal article “Being Plastic” published in Log 47
Editor of the essay series ‘Kunsthistorisk kritikk’ at ArtScene Trondheim
Conference paper: “From White Walls to Human Cells: The Surface Sustainability of Titanium Dioxide, 1916-Present” in the session New Material Histories of Architecture, The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, 14-18 April, 2021
Selected Past Projects
Courses taught fall 2020: “Objects of Research” at the PhD Programmet at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and “KUH3003 The Politics of Art Historiography” and “KUH2010 Texts that have Influenced Art History” at the Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU
Book launch: Game of Life: Feltkommentarer at Kristiansand Kunsthall, 5 September 2020
Courses taught spring 2020: “KUH2203/3203 Exhibitions in Context” (7,5 ECTS, BA/MA students) and “KUH2000/KUH2100 Bachelor’s Thesis in Art History” (15 ECTS, BA students) at the Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU
Courses taught fall 2019: “KUH3003 The Politics of Art Historiography” (15 ECTS, MA students) and “KUH2207 Art in its Context: Contemporary Climates” (7,5 ECTS, BA/MA students) at the Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU
Essay “Notes on Flexibility: On Radical Inflatables, Design Thinking and Marte Eknæs’ Air Body“ as part of Marte Eknæs’ exhibition “Kunsthall 2025” at Kunsthall Stavanger, October – December 2019
Trondheim Form Lab: Website for speculative art history and criticism
Guest lesture “Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Environmental Humanities Center, 18 November 2019 and at University of Groningen, Research Centre for Arts in Society, 19 November
Recipient of the George R. Collins Fellowship 2019 from The Society of Architectural Historians
Conference paper: “The Universitas 1972: ‘Radical Left’ and ‘Right-Wing Technocrats.'” The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Providence, USA, 24 – 27 April 2019
Interview with Talent Norge (in Norwegian)
PhD Completion Grant, 12 months, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, 2018 – 2019
Book chapter: “Origo: Quantum Field Theory, Deep Ecology, Touch” in A Square on a Sphere: Marte Johnslien (Oslo: Uten tittel, 2018)
Convener of Lurid Space: Ecology Beyond Organisms, PhD course at University of Oslo, 1 – 2 November 2018
Book chapter “(V)endepunkt: Plastikk og plastisitet i 1972/3072” in Kollaps: På randen av fremtiden (Oslo: Dreyer forlag, 2018)
Interview in Morgenbladet, 6 July 2018
Public PhD defense, 19 June 2018
Conference paper: “‘Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe.’ On Jean Baudrillard’s attempt to destroy the environment, 1970.” Association for Art History, 2018 Annual Conference, Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London, 5 – 7 April 2018
Visiting scholar at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York City, USA, 2016 – 2017
Interview with Design History Society in connection to the Essay Prize 2016
Co-convener of the Design History Society Annual Conference 2017 Making and Unmaking the Environment
Curator and Art Consultant at International Corporate Art, 2013-2014