Diakron is a platform and studio for transdisciplinary research and practice. We establish collaborations across disciplinary backgrounds and institutional frameworks. Our own backgrounds are composed of experiences from artistic practices, curatorial practices, social sciences and graphic design.
Diakron is based on explorative research as a core value. This means, that we adapt what our practices do and what the organization is, according to the research projects we undertake.
We are currently interested in creative and explorative ways of identifying and dealing with changes, that invisibly permeate or unavoidably overwhelm ways of life. This work is tied to concerned interests in various pervasive ecological, humanitarian, existential, digital, or economic shifts. We approach these issues through experimentation with our own ways of working and the relationships we maintain through our practices.
Our modes of engagement, processes of making and research methodologies grow out of our projects and collaborations. We combine our transdisciplinary outset with an open-ended and relational approach to methodological experimentation. Outputs and expressions are not predetermined, but are developed in a responsive manner according to each research process.
Amitai Romm
Artist. MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art. Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
Asger Behncke Jacobsen
Graphic designer. BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Aslak Aamot Helm
PostDoc, Medical Museion, Diakron and Serpentine Galleries. PhD, Space, Place and Technology at Roskilde University
Bjarke Hvass Kure
Artist. MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art
David Hilmer Rex
PostDoc, Human Centred Science and Digital Technology at The Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Danish Design Center, The Systems Innovation Initiative at The Rockwool Foundation and Diakron. PhD, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Aarhus University.
Victoria Ivanova
Curator and writer. R&D Strategic Lead, Arts Technologies, Serpentine Galleries. PhD, Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London Southbank University.
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email@diakron.dk
Networked Urban Mobilities was the 2014 conference of the Cosmobilities network – an international network of researchers from a wide variety of disciplines working with mobilities. The focus is to broaden and connect the studies of movements and communication in a globalized world. That is, the accelerated circulation of data, people, animals, plants, objects and materials via a rising number of infrastructures and technologies.
For the conference Diakron curated the ‘Mobile Art Exhibition’ featuring work by Antonia Hernandez (CA), Jen Southern & Chris Speed (UK), Lee Lee (US) Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel (AT) and Allan Sekula & Noel Burch (US) as well as a collaboration between Rhei (US/DK) and Diakron (DK). The exhibition brought together research practices in arts and social sciences, with an aim of adding creative and aesthetic layers to the multidisciplinary field of mobilities research. Diakron also hosted a walkthrough of the exhibition, and a panel conversation following it.
The exhibition focused on bringing forth the methodological dimensions of the artistic research projects. The practices installed on-going work through various forms of visual media, and established invitations to participate in or experience artistic methodologies. Furthermore the panel conversations narrated differential roles of artistic research practices in an academic field with a growing focus on transdisciplinary collaborations and projects. Some of the main topics where the role of methods as both starting points, ongoing reflections over choices and results of research processes, the power open-ended and creative questioning, and the ethical implications of different types of practices working with both “white” and “dark” magic in critical fields.
Moving in Multiple Directions at Once was the title of the collaborative work between Rhei and Diakron for the exhibition. The project explored new directions for the field of mobilities research. Influenced by the concept of the Anthropocene era, the research process and the research itself attempted to destabilize or decentre common human subjectivity by exploring patterns of individual fragmentation and emerging collectivities. In line with mobilities research, the project looked to further ideas connected not just with moving as one self, but as multitudes together with multiplicities.