Karin Hansson

Karin Hansson, Karin Margareta Kjellsdotter Hansson (born October 27, 1967, Gothenburg) is a Swedish artist and researcher.

Hansson, who graduated 1994 from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, is one of the Swedish pioneers in political art and new media.[1][2][3] In her work as an artist but also as an art curator Hansson has given the development of the IT sector a critical artistic comment. Karin Hansson founded the artists' group Association for Temporary Art [a: t] together with Åsa Andersson Broms, Nils Claesson, Astrid Trotzig, and Josefin Ericsson. Hansson is also a researcher at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, where she obtained her PhD in 2015 with the thesis Accommodating differences: Power, Belonging, and entertainment online.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Bydler, Charlotte (2003). Markerat kroppslig: om fysiska möten med digital konst.Från modernism till samtidskonst. S. 129-154
  2. ↑ Jansson, Mathias (2004) ”Konstnärerna och internet” [The Artists and Internet], Konstperspektiv (2)04. Available on Internet: http://www.konstperspektiv.nu
  3. ↑ Orrghen, A. (2015). ICT in Art in Sweden 1993–2011: Tool, Medium and Theme (pp. 78–89). Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17145-6_9
  4. ↑ Hansson, Karin (2015). Accommodating differences: Power, belonging, and representation online. PhD thesis at Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.

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