Curriculum Vitae
Denise Helene Sumi is a PhD candidate at the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She studied Art History at the University of Vienna and from 2019–2024 she has been working as coordinator of the Digital Solitude programme at Akademie Schloss Solitude. In her current research she engages with artistic practices that embrace and maintain technology-based relationality, transversal knowledge exchange, and collective approaches that establish and sustain being with technology in a socially and ecologically responsible way in a networked world. Her reviews, texts and numerous interviews with artists have been published in Springerin, Camera Austria, Spike Art Quarterly, Medienimpulse, Schloss-Post, and the Solitude Blog, among others. Sometimes she co-curates exhibitions and co-edits printed matter. Since 2016, she is artistic co-director of Kevin Space, Vienna.