Curriculum Vitae
Denise Helene Sumi is a PhD candidate at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her research examines a set of cultural dynamics and political questions in a world replete with technological connections, engaging with media art history, network cultures, transcultural studies, relationality, and interdependence. She engages with theory, artistic works, and collaborative methodologies that cultivate convivial and relational tools and infrastructures, alongside intuitive and embodied ways of transmitting, knowing, and sensing. Alongside prevalent notions of technology as computational, military, or large-scale engineering systems, she explores technology as the underlying and diverse means of shaping lived experience and engaging with the world: including networks, sound, listening, bodies, language, and much more. Her work centers on art practices and collective approaches that establish and sustain socially, ecologically, and ethically responsible and joyful ways of being with technology, fostering reciprocal, regenerative, and explorative relations of mutual care and curiosity among humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans. With a background in Art History, she worked as coordinator of the Digital Solitude programme at the international artist residency Akademie Schloss Solitude. From 2016-2025, she co-directed the art association Kevin Space, Vienna. Sometimes she co-curates exhibitions and workshops and co-edits publications.
