Tanya Ravn Ag

Tanya Ravn Ag, Ph.D, is a curator and researcher. Her work examines perceptual experience, memory and technogenesis in relation to art and urban media aesthetic phenomena. She studied Media Studies at The New School and Modern Culture with a specialization in Urbanity and Aesthetics at Copenhagen University before gaining her doctoral degree from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University. Her dissertation explores a critical, temporal perspective on urban media art. She has taken up visiting research at Columbia University, The New School and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (CuratorLab). In 2018-2020 she was a research fellow at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Ag has taught at Copenhagen University and at various universities worldwide in the framework of the Urban Media Art Academy, which she co-founded in 2017. She is editor of Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2019) and co-editor of What Urban Media Art Can Do – Why, When, Where, and How? (av edition, 2016). She is Chair of the IIAC, the International Advisory Committee to ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) and a member of various conference and gallery boards (Media Art Histories – RE:SOUND 2019, Media Architecture Biennale 2018, Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI) 2017 and 2018, Open Sky Gallery in Hong Kong 2015-2016).

Ag’s curatorial practice engages media art and media architecture in urban and hybrid environments. She was curator of the Screen City Biennial 2017 in Stavanger and led the biennial’s artistic research program. Since 2011 she has been associate curator of the Streaming Museum (New York City), and between 2012-2014 she was curator of the SP Urban Digital Festival and various public space exhibitions in São Paulo, produced by Verve Cultural. Her independently curated exhibitions include Voyage to the Virtual at Scandinavia House in New York City in 2015 and Here All Alone in a closed-down factory in Copenhagen in 2015.

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