Kai Altmann

Names

• Kai Altmann
• Kari Altmann
• Hitashya

Mediums

• Installation, Performance, Video, Music, 3D and 4D, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Digital Media, Objects, Text, Websites, Social Media

Genres and Movements

• Conceptual Art
• Ceremonial Art
• Abstract Art
• Performance Art
• Installation Art
• Health & Healing Arts
• Post-Production Art
• New Materialism
• Ambiguationism
• Algorithms and AI
• Post-Institution
• Pop Culture
• Pop Music
• Social Media
• Digital Art and New Media
• Digital Nomad
• Music Videos
• Ecofeminism
• Intersectional Feminism
• Queer Studies
• DIY Culture
• Post-Western Art, Music and Film
• Post-Internet Art and Music
• New World Art, Music, Film and Culture
• Indofuturism and Desifuturism
• Global Futurism
• Spirituality and Consciousness
• Worlding

Solo Exhibitions, Performances, Projects, Releases and Screenings

• HITASHYA, "Jua Kali", Endless EP, Goa and Online, 2022
• FLEXIA XLE: Oasis III, Three Terra by XLE.LIFE, Anjuna, Goa, India and Online, 2022
• HITASHYA, "Tear Up La Tierra", Endless EP, Online, 2020
• TTOA: Native Arrangement II, Final Hot Desert, USA and Online, 2020
• SOFT MOBILITY: Monsoon Season (Precious Cargo), N22, Bangkok, 2019
• FLEXIA XLE: Oasis I, Garage Gallery, Prague, August 2019
• TTOA & SOFT MOBILITY, Forde, Geneva, 2018
• XOMIA, Ellis King Gallery, Dublin and Online, 2015
• First Look: Soft Mobility Abstracts, New Museum, New York and Online, 2014. Curated by Lauren Cornell.
• SMART MOBILITY, 131 Chrystie, New York, 2012
• CORE SAMPLES, Extra Extra, Philadelphia and Dis Magazine, New York and Online, 2011

Curated and Organized Projects

• XLE.LIFE, Editorial and Curatorial Platform, Videos, Social Media, Experiences and more, Global and Online, 2018-.
• GARDEN CLUB, Editorial and Curatorial Platform, Global and Online, 2011-.
• TROPING, Curatorial Projects, Online, 2010-.
• R-U-In?S, Editorial and Curatorial Platform, Global and Online, 2008-.

Residencies and Fellowships

• Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, New York, 2019.
• Rijksakademie Guest Resident and Lecturer, Art & Science Fellowship, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2015.

Awards

• Net Art Prix 2014, Rhizome and TASML Beijing, 2014.

Talks

• A New Aesthetic?, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, 12 Oct 2012. Curated and moderated by Melanie Bühler, speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, David M. Berry, Adam Cruces, James Ferraro, Bea Fremderman, Katja Kwastek, Pierre Lumineau, Daniel Pinkas. Supported by The Goethe Institute.

• Vital Content, Union Docs, New York, 21 Oct 2012. Screening and discussion. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Nick Lalla, Jacob Gaboury. Moderated by Jacob Gaboury.

• Seven on Seven 2014, New Museum, New York, May 2014. Speakers: Kate Crawford, Holly Herndon, Kate Ray, Aza Raskin, Kai (Kari) Altmann, Hannah Sawtell, Avi Flombaum, Simon Denny, Nick Bilton, Jen Fong-Adwent, Ian Cheng, Frances Stark, David Kravitz, Anil Dash, Kevin McCoy. Curated and Moderated by Michael Connor.

• Disassembling Stacktivism, Goethe Institute, London, 15 Oct 2014. Speakers: Jay Springett, Kai (Kari) Altmann, Paul Raven, Julieta Aranda. Moderated by Jay Springett.

• Do You Follow? Art In Circulation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 15-17 Oct 2014. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Alex Bacon, Hannah Black, Michael Connor, Constant Dullaart, Renzo Martens, Monira Al Qadiri (GCC), Derica Shields, Takeshi Shiomitsu, Martine Syms, Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Amalia Ulman. Moderated and Curated by Michael Connor. Part of Frieze London ICA Offsite 2014.

• Blame it on the Algorithm, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 4 April 2015. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, David Wightman, Dr. Bettina Speckman. Curated by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Rijksakademie and Melanie Bühler. Moderated by Melanie Bühler.

• Lacuna Sovereignity, Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, 10 April 2015. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Anne de Boer, Cory Scozarri. Moderated by Cory Scozarri.

• Kari Altmann Artist Talk, Artists Space, New York, 21 May 2015. Invited by Hito Steyerl as part of her solo exhibition. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Ruth Saxelby. Moderated by Ruth Saxelby.

• No Internet, No Art, Book launch and presentation of "Soft Brand Abstracts: Closer Than Ever Before", Swiss Institute, New York, 14 Jul 2015. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Melanie Bühler.

• Freeportism as Style and Ideology?, E-Flux, New York, 2016. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Julieta Aranda, Hayal Pozanti, Brad Troemel. Moderated by Julieta Aranda.

• Meta Images, Le Commun, Geneva, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann. Invited by Roxane Bovet and Yoann Mudry as part of Held Together With Water's vernissage.

• Meta Images, Strelka Institute, Moscow, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann. Invited by Holly Childs. Part of Strelka's program, The New Normal, by Benjamin Bratton.

Interviews

• Jean Kay, Kai (Kari) Altmann, An Interview with Kari Altmann, AQNB, Berlin, 5 Jun 2014.

Artist Essays and Editorials

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Core Samples Back End", Dis Magazine, New York and Online, 2012.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, Cadence Kinsey, "The Meta Image: Ambiguationist Bullets, Visual Culture in a Post-Western, Post-Production, Pan-Optic World", 2015, Posted in 2020.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "New Terms 2015", 2015-.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Consumer Reports: Kari Altmann", Dubai Travel Log, Art News Magazine, New York and Online, 24 Feb 2016. Edited by John Chiaverina.
  • "By The Time You're Thirsty, It's Already Too Late: Selected Media Streams from a Long Dubai Weekend 2015", Archived on Medium, 2016.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Welcome to the New World, You're Late", 2021, Posted in 2023.

Theses

• Andreas Ervik, Evolving Images: Attraction and Dispersion on the Tumblr Blog Garden Club, Oslo: University of Oslo, 2015, 103 pp. Master's thesis.

• Ceci Moss, Expanded Internet Art and the Informational Milieu, New York: University of New York, 2015. PhD dissertation.

• Ellen Wagner, False Signals: Strategies of Mimicry in Post-Internet Art, Offenbach: Offenbach University, 2019, PhD Thesis