Short presentation

Member of the research cluster Digital Culture

Karen Louise Grova Søilen received her PhD on the topic Atmospheres of Surveillance in Contemporary Art (University of Copenhagen 2021). Her research interests center on surveillance perceived as bodily, emotional, and multisensory experiences, surveillance in contemporary art and culture, nonrepresentational and feminist methodologies, cultural theory, and the changing notions of the home through the affordances of smart technologies. She is recipient of Surveillance Studies Network’s 2020 Early Career Researcher Award, and her work is published in Surveillance & Society, MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, and NTIK: Nordic Journal of Information Science and Cultural Mediation.  

Areas of research and supervision

• Surveillance Studies
• Philosophy of Atmosphere
• Contemporary Art
• Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives on Surveillance 
• Photography and video installation art
• Digital Visual Culture

CV

Work Experience

1.1.2023 - present. Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen

25.8.-31.12.2022. External Lecturer, DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen

20.8.2021-18.8.2022. Maternity Leave

15.3.2021-31.7.2021. Research Assistant, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen

1.11.2017-31.1.2021. PhD Fellow, Department of Information Studies, University of Copenhagen

1.9.-31.10. 2017.  Interim Program Director, European Humanities Department, DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen

15.3.2012-31.8.2017. Assistant Program Director, European Humanities Department, DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen

Teaching Experience

2023 - Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Visualization and Analysis, Spring 2023. BA minor and elective course.

2022 - DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen. Who's Watching: Surveillance, Art and Culture, Fall 2022. BA level semester course.

2021 - Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Interactive Mediation Spaces, Spring 2021. MA in Information Science and Cultural Communication.

2018 - Department of Information Studies, University of Copenhagen. Digital Culture, Fall 2018. BA in Information Studies.

2015-2017. DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen. A Sense of Place in European Literature. Recurring BA level semester course. 

2013-2017. DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen. Who's Watching: Surveillance, Art and Culture. Recurring BA level semester course.

 2013 - present. DIS -Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen. Women, Art, Identity, recurring guest lecturer, BA level semester course.

2019. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, Summer University. Surveillance Technologies and Cultural Transformations since 9/11, guest lecturer.

Activities

2018 -2020. Member of Editorial Board, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling 

Research Stay Abroad

2019 - Freie Universität Berlin, spring 2019

Education

2021 - PhD, Information Studies, University of Copenhagen

2011 - MA, Modern Culture and Cultural Communication, University of Copenhagen

2008 - BA, Aesthetics, specialization in Comparative Literature, University of Bergen

Study abroad at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, 2009