Jens Hauser

Jens Hauser is a Paris-based media studies scholar, writer and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology. He has recently been a Professor in Art History at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and currently is a researcher at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion, as well as a distinguished 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. At the intersection of art history and epistemology, he has developed a theory of “biomediality” and the concept of “microperformativity” in relation to artistic practice. As a curator, he has organized around 30 international exhibitions and festivals. His latest book, “Life is Other: A/Biotic Entanglements in Art and Curating” (co- edited with Thomas Feuerstein and Lucie Strecker) is dedicated to the concept of the holobiont, proposing life as a cooperative system in which all living beings exist through symbiotic relationships.