Francis Hunger

Francis Hunger’s practice combines artistic research and media theory with the capabilities of narration through installations, radio plays and performances and internet-based art. Since 2024 Francis is lecturer (‘Künstlerischer Mitarbeiter’) at the class for Emergent Digital Media at Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In 2020-2023 he was a researcher for the project Training The Archive at Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, critically examining the use of AI, statistics and pattern recognition for art and curating. In 2022 he co-curated with Inke Arns and Marie Lechner the exhibition House of Mirrors – Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm at HMKV, Dortmund. His Ph.D. at Bauhaus University Weimar developed a media archeological genealogy of database technology and practices. In 2022/23 Hunger was guest professor at the Intermedia program of the Hungarian Academy for Visual Arts, Budapest.

Hunger’s artistic work is exhibited internationally. Increasingly he writes papers on the history of computing, Artificial Intelligence, art and curating. Numerous festival participations, talks, lectures, publications, screenings and academic lectures. He occasionally curates exhibitions, teaches at universities regularly and publishes on mastodon. (2024)

Publications

• editor, How I Learned to Love RFID, Dortmund: HMKV, 2006, [18] pp. (English)

• editor, Satellite Voyeurism Reader, Dortmund: HMKV, 2008, 48 pp. (English)

• Setun: eine Recherche über den sowjetischen Ternärcomputer / Setun. An Inquiry Into the Ternary Soviet Computer, Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst, 2008, 200 pp. [1] (German)/(English)

• editor, with Inke Arns, Anna Kournikova von memeright trusted system beseitigt / Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System, Dortmund: Kettler, 2008, 224 pp. Catalogue. (German)/(English)

• editor, with Patrick Funk, Satellite, Border, Footprints / Satellit, Grenze, Fussabdruck, Dortmund: HMKV, 2010, 115 pp. With essays by Lisa Parks, Francis Hunger, Patrick Funk and the participating artists. [2] [3]

• Francis Hunger. History Has Left the Building, ed. Inke Arns, Dortmund: HMKV, and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2012, 102 pp. Publisher. [4] (English)/(German)

• Francis Hunger: History Has Left the Building / Suzanne Treister: Hexen 2.0, Dortmund: HMKV, 2012, 32 pp. With texts by Inke Arns and Fabian Saavedra-Lara. (English)/(German)

• editor, with Lena Brüggemann, Search Routines: Tales of Databases, Leipzig: D21 Kunstraum, 2015, 134 pp. Catalogue. Issuu. (English)

• editor, with Inke Arns and Marie Lechner, House of Mirrors: Künstliche Intelligenz als Phantasma / Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm, Dortmund: Kettler, and Dortmund: HMKV, 2022, 207 pp. Exh. magazine. Exhibition. (German)/(English)

• editor, with Inke Arns, Eva Birkenstock, and Dominik Bönisch, Training the Archive, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, and Aachen: Ludwig Forum Aachen, 2024, 213 pp. Project website, [5]. Publisher. (English)/(German)

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Links

• Website
• ORCID profile (academic texts)
• Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@databasecultures