Jens Hauser

Jens Hauser is a prominent media studies scholar and art curator based in Paris and Copenhagen, with affiliations across multiple institutions. He holds roles as a researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion, a senior postdoc researcher at the Medical University Vienna, and a distinguished affiliated faculty member at Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History and Design. He also serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, a guest professor at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne’s Department of Arts and Sciences of Art, and an affiliated researcher at École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay. Hauser co-directs the BRIDGE artist residency program and coordinates the (OU)VERT network for Greenness Studies.

His education includes a PhD in media studies and art history from Ruhr University Bochum, with a focus on biomediality theory, and a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours. His research bridges media studies, art history, and epistemology, exploring intersections of art, technology, and biomedial processes. Notable contributions include curating over 20 exhibitions since 2003, such as L’Art Biotech, Transbiotics, and Holobiont. Life is Other, which interrogate biotechnological aesthetics and microperformativity.

Hauser has chaired conferences like the 2018 European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts meeting in Copenhagen and serves on juries for awards like Ars Electronica. He is a founding collaborator of European culture channel ARTE, producing radio features and reportages for public broadcasting. His 2022 lecture on microperformativity analyzes non-human agencies in contemporary art, blending aesthetics, media theory, and science studies.

His work challenges mesoscopic human-centric frameworks, emphasizing microscopic and technological agencies in art. Collaborations span interdisciplinary networks, with a focus on green studies and bio-art intersections. Hauser’s contributions extend beyond academia to public engagement through exhibitions, residencies, and media production.