Jens Hauser

Jens Hauser is a media studies researcher, writer and curator who analyses the interactions between art and technology. Based in Paris, he is currently a research fellow at the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen and a distinguished faculty member in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at Michigan State University, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist residency programme. Most recently, he was professor of art history at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). At the intersection of art history and epistemology, he developed a theory of biomediality as part of his doctorate at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He also holds a degree in scientific journalism from the Université François Rabelais in Tours. As a curator, Jens Hauser has organised around thirty international exhibitions and festivals, including L’Art Biotech (Nantes, 2003), Still, Living (Perth, 2007), sk-interfaces (Liverpool, 2008/Luxembourg, 2009), l’Article Biennale (Stavanger, 2008), Transbiotics (Riga 2010), Que le chebal vive en moi - Art Orienté Objet (Ljubljana, 2011), Fingerprints... (Berlin, 2011/Munich/2012) Synth-ethic (Vienne, 2011), assemble | standard | minimal (Berlin, 2015), SO3 (Belfort, 2015) WETWARE (LA, 2016), Devenir Immobile - Yann Marussich (Nantes, 2018), {un][split}   (Munich, 2018), MATTER/S matter/s (Lansing, 2018), Applied Microperformativity (Vienne, 2018), UN/GREEN (Riga, 2019), OU \ / ERT (Bourges, 2019), Holobiont. Life is Other (Bregenz, 2021/Vienne, 2022), gREen - Sampling Colour (Munich, 2021), gREen - De/Growth (Munich, 2022), En vert et contre tout and De la performance à la microperformativité (Paris 2023), Useful Fictions (Paris 2025) and Corps Céleste: Zhao Duan (Paris 2025).