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Talks, Workshops, Exhibits & Publications

Boris is an Oslo based artist that works within a wide range of the digital medium. From bending reclaimed technology, to making expressive wearables, to co-opting algorithms for individual introspection.

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Contact

boris@kourtoukov.com

Exhibits, Performances & Collections

Upcoming

Oslofjord Triennale (Participating Artist) (2024)

  • 2024  · Oslofjord Triennale, Oslo

Nordpolen Figurteater (2024)

  • 2024  · Oslo

Past

Apex Anima & FRZNTE (2021)

  • 2024  · Nýló, Reykjavik
  • 2023  · Radar, Reykjavik
  • 2023  · Vill Vill Vest, Bergen
  • 2022  · Desertshore, Vienna
  • 2022  · Glasshouse, Rostock
  • 2022  · Sonic Morgue, Berlin
  • 2021  · Pop-Kultur, Berlin

Bodies of Water (2023)

  • 2023  · UrbanSoundArt, Fredrikstad

Site Visits (2021)

  • 2022  · Teknisk Museum, Oslo
  • 2021  · Bærum Kunsthall, Oslo

Lure of Slowness (2021)

  • 2022  · Creativity & Cognition, Venice
  • 2022  · Cosmic Rays Film Festival, North Carolina
  • 2021  · Asker Museum, Asker
  • 2021  · Kunstrom Skogen, Nærsnes

Ontolica (CG, Production)

  • 2021  · Midpunkt, Reykjavik
  • 2021  · Galleri Blunk, Trondheim

Machines that judge us (2018)

  • 2021  · ADAF 2021, Athens
  • 2020  · Oslo Prosjektrom, Oslo
  • 2019  · AHO Gallery, Oslo
  • 2019  · Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
  • 2018  · V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

Life of a Building (2021)

  • 2021  · Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa

Nothing to See Here (2021)

  • 2021  · Linz FMR, Linz

FAEN Meta.Morf X Exhibition OpeningFAEN Meta.Morf X Exhibition OpeningFAEN Digital (producer)

  • 2020  · Meta.Morf X, Online

FAEN Meta.Morf X (producer)

  • 2020  · Galleri KiT, Trondheim

FAEN Atelier Nord (producer)

  • 2020  · Atelier Nord, Oslo

Neon Cloud (2017)

  • 2019  · Y Oslo, Oslo
  • 2017  · RSD6, Oslo
  • 2017  · Elvelangs, Oslo

Monarch (2015)

  • 2019  · Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
  • 2015  · Making Patterns, Eyebeam, New York
  • 2015  · Electric Runway, Toronto
  • 2015  · ISEA 2015, Vancouver
  • 2015  · TEI 2015, Stanford
  • 2015  · FASHIONOTES x WEARABLES, Toronto

Expiry Dates (2017)

  • 2019  · Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
  • 2017  · EDIT, Toronto
  • 2017  · Facebook, Toronto

Cuerpxs de Luz (2019)

  • 2019  · Grace Exhibition Space, New York

Killing Time in the fieldKilling Time in the fieldKilling Time (2019)

  • 2019  · ITP, NYC
  • 2019  · Kulturhuset, Oslo

News Interrupted (2019)

  • 2019  · Kulturhuset, Oslo

RF 2050 (2019)

  • 2019  · Stockholm Design Week, Stockholm

Future Dialogues Now (2019)

  • 2019  · Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, Stockholm

Scroll - A Magic of Maybe (2018)

  • 2018  · Live Art Festival, Shanghai

DARaLuz (2018)

  • 2018  · Brooklyn Museum, New York

Shadow Capture (2018)

  • 2018  · by:Larm 2018, Oslo

TimelinesTimelinesEmerging Imperfections (2017)

  • 2017  · Timelines, Teknisk Museum, Oslo
  • 2017  · Timelines, AHO Gallery, Oslo

Quipucamayoc (2016)

  • 2016  · cheLA, Cusco & Buenos Aires

 

Select Positions

Co-Founder
2023 — Now   @ Ordinary Objects

Senior Creative Technologist
2022 — 2023  @ Bakken & Bæck

Fremtidspilot & Senior Advisor
2019 — 2021  @ Kulturtanken Kunstlab

Research Assistant
2013 — 2016  @ Social Body Lab

 

Residencies

  • 2023: ITP Camp, ITP NYU, New York.
  • 2020: ITP Camp, ITP NYU, Digital.
  • 2019: ITP Camp, ITP NYU, New York.
  • 2018: Summer Sessions, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam.
  • 2018: ITP Camp, ITP NYU, New York.
  • 2017: ITP Camp, ITP NYU, New York.
  • 2015: ITP Camp, ITP NYU, New York.

 

Talks

Sketching 2017Sketching 2017

  • 2022: Will machines inherit the earth?, Grafill, Oslo
  • 2021: Lure of Slowness, Futures of Living Technologies, Oslo
  • 2019: DOUBLESPACE, Kulturhuset, Oslo
  • 2018: Machines that Judge Us, Clojure/Conj, Durham NC
  • 2018: Machines that Judge Us, Notam, Oslo
  • 2017: Meatspace, Sketching in Hardware 2017, Detroit
  • 2015: Introduction to Clojure, ITP Camp, New York
  • 2015: Clojure, Sound, and Wearable Tech, Clojure West 2015, Portland OR

 

Workshops

  • 2019: How Are We Talking About AI?, Workshop, ITP Camp, New York
  • 2019: Web-Based Urban Projections, Workshop, ITP Camp, New York
  • 2019: Visual Sarcasm, Workshop, ITP Camp, New York
  • 2018: Kinetic Body Extensions for Social Interactions, TEI 2018, Stockholm
  • 2015: Wearables and Collaborative Performance, Workshop, InterAccess, Toronto
  • 2015: Bluetooth LE with the Light Blue Bean, Workshop, ITP Camp, New York
  • 2015: Introduction to Bluetooth LE, Workshop, ITP Camp, New York
  • 2014: Wearable Electronics, Teaching Assistant, Continuing Education, OCAD University.

 

Publications

Lee Jones, Greta Grip, Boris Kourtoukov, Varvara Guljajeva, Mar Canet Sola, and Sara Nabil. 2024.
Knitting Interactive Spaces: Fabricating Data Physicalizations of Local Community Visitors with Circular Knitting Machines.
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–14. DOI

Elly Vadseth and Boris Kourtoukov. 2022.
Lure of Slowness, Hydrological Rhythms.
In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 666–668. DOI

Lee Jones, Greta Grip, and Boris Kourtoukov. 2022.
The Life of a Building: Machine Knitting a Year of Visitor Data and Online Community Participation During a Pandemic.
In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’22), February 13–16, 2022, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. DOI

Kate Hartman, Boris Kourtoukov, Izzie Colpitts-Campbell, and Erin Lewis. 2020.
Monarch V2: An Iterative Design Approach to Prototyping a Wearable Electronics Project.
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2215–2227. DOI

Transitions, The PNEK Files, Interview with Zane Cerpina, Boris Kourtoukov, 2019

Kate Hartman, Boris Kourtoukov, and Erin Lewis. 2018.
Kinetic Body Extensions for Social Interactions.
In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 736- 739. DOI

12 Tools We Can’t Live Without for Making Wearables, Make Magazine, Kate Hartman & Boris Kourtoukov

Body Boards, Make Magazine, also in print.

Kate Hartman, Jackson McConnell, Boris Kourtoukov, Hillary Predko, and Izzie Colpitts-Campbell. 2015.
Monarch: Self Expression Through Wearable Kinetic Textiles.
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 413-414. DOI