Kristin Veel

My research focuses on the integration of digital technologies into everyday life, its impact on the cultural imagination and the trajectories of cultural history of which it is part. I have a particular interest in the invisibilities and uncertainties that arise from data-tracking and datafication processes and the ways in which they manifest in film, art, literature, architecture, design as well as everyday experiences. My methodologies are grounded in aesthetic and cultural theory and range but include practice-based artistic and speculative methodologies. I prefer working collaboratively and across disciplines, and I seek to think academic processes and outreach in new and experimental ways, taking great pride in fostering inclusive and caring research environments.

I am PI of a project that in collaboration with Landsorganisationen af Kvindekrisecentre (LOKK) is working on mapping and understanding the use of smart technologies in the home for coercive control and tech abuse (funded by Queen Marys Center) https://marycenter.ku.dk/ny-viden/startmidler/projekter-fra-2023/digital-vold-i-hjemmet/

Together with Kathrin Maurer I co-lead the project The Aesthetics of Bio-machines and the Question of Life (funded by The Velux Foundation and housed at University of Southern Denmark). The project aims to shed light on how we can rethink the status of the machine and explore new concepts of what it means to be alive, read more: https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/cult-tech/bio-machines

Together with Henriette Steiner I am co-leading the research hub INTERSECT https://intersect.ku.dk at the University of Copenhagen. INTERSECT is an academic community for interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and design. We intersect research on cities, landscapes and communities with questions of inequality and justice. Intersections are what we study, as well as how we work.

My work has been recognised with an honorary Research Fellowship at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University, Canada, and with the Lars Arge Award for Young Scientists 2021, awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters. 

I have organised and convened over 30 international seminars, conferences and workshops and is a frequent invited speaker. I have published the monographs Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), and co-authored with Henriette Steiner Tower to Tower: Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2020) and Touch in the Time of Corona: Reflections on Love, Care and Vulnerability in the Pandemic (2021). Moreover, I am co-editor of more than ten collected volumes and journal issues.