Karen Louise Grova Søilen

Karen Louise Grova Søilen

Teaching associate professor

Member of the research cluster Digital Culture

Karen Louise Grova Søilen received her PhD on the topic Atmospheres of Surveillance in Contemporary Art (University of Copenhagen 2021). Her research interests center on surveillance perceived as bodily, emotional, and multisensory experiences, surveillance in contemporary art and culture, nonrepresentational and feminist methodologies, cultural theory, and the changing notions of the home through the affordances of smart technologies. She is recipient of Surveillance Studies Network’s 2020 Early Career Researcher Award, and her work is published in Surveillance & Society, MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, and NTIK: Nordic Journal of Information Science and Cultural Mediation.  

Areas of research and supervision

  • Surveillance Studies
  • Philosophy of Atmosphere
  • Contemporary Art
  • Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives on Surveillance 
  • Photography and video installation art
  • Digital Visual Culture

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