Jan Hatt-Olsen
Poet, Conceptual, Media and Public Artist.
Cand.mag in History and Philosophy,
University of Copenhagen 2003.
Master Thesis: William Blake’s Cosmos
Member of the art group Urban Artscape, 2005 , www.urbanartscape.org
Member of The Poetry Group in The Danish Writer’s Union 1999 . www.danskforfatterforening.dk
Member of IUSA. International Urban
Screens Association, 2009, www.urbanscreensassoc.org
Member of Art + Environment 2009 http://artenvironment.nevadaart.org
Member of Synapse. Art Science Collaborations 2008 www.synapse.net.au
Member of NYP, Network of Younger Planners, www.nyp.dk
Member of DDC – Net, Danish Design Center’s network, (Competence is
urbanity and design of urban spaces), 2005 www.ddc.dk
Member of Koda (organization for composers and
writers of lyrics to music), 2003 www.koda.dk
Member of Gramex (organization for performing
artist, theaters, label companies etc), 2003 www.gramex.dk
Member of NTMSB (network of interdisciplinary studies of music and
meaning), 2001, board member
2004 - 2009. www.ntsmb.dk
Selected Works, Publications, Exhibitions and Conferences.
2015. Silkeprocessen- Metamorphoses
Poetry/Strret Art/ Light Art/Peformance
at lyse Nætter #1
2015.Readings from Silkeprocessen at Det Poetiske
Bureaus Forlag, Literaturhaus, Blækværk, Copenhagen
Art Works)
2015. Publication of
the poetry book Silkeprocessen by Jan Hatt-Olsen (Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag,
Copenhagen 2015)
2014. Artist talk about William Blakes Cosmos
and art of Jan Hatt-Olsen at the William Blake
arrangement at Literaturhaus, Copenhagen.
2014. Artist talk
about William Blake’s Cosmos at Poesi i Staden (Poetry in the City) -
the artist collective BobWhat -
2013. Urban Wiki |
Wiki Light at Vyom 2013 at PEC Chandigarh, Megashows, Exhibitions. 15 – 17
March
2013. Urban Wiki |
Wiki Light at LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen. 16 March.
In the web
magazine connected to the Danish Cultural Institute Indian
and Danes Co Create Now is there an interesting article
by Mik Aidt about the urban
wiki which took place in Chandigarh and
Copenhagen, photos by cross
media poet – artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
2012. Die Neu Kühle. In Schloss
Moabit II pp. 170 – 174, Berlin 2012
Poem ‘The New Cool’
translated into German and Russian and with photo of the installation - from ‘The
Exhibition as a Collection of Poetry’ at Dada Post, Berlin 2011
2012. Urban Space as a Collection of Poetry. In Writing
Urban Space, (eds.)
Gavin Goodwin and Liam Murray Bell pp. 99-106 (Winchester, Zer0 books) www.zero-books.net Publication date July 27
2012, Presenting a paper at ‘World Wide (Urban) Wiki | Bookscapes
in Metapolis’ at the conference ‘The Media of the Metapolis’ at Bauhaus
University,
Weimar
2012. Bidrag til
online-antologi ungdomsitet.dk udgivet ad Danskfagets forlag / contribution to the online-anthology
ungdomssitet.dk published by Danskfagets Forlag
( til brug i undervisningen i
dansk litteratur i gymnasiet og folkeskolens overbygning / to be used in education
in Danish literature, high school level) forthcoming.
Urban Wiki | Wiki
Light India 2012
Urban Wiki | Wiki
Light exhibited at Techfest 2012, IIT Bombay
Urban Wiki | Wiki
Light exhibited at Techkriti 2012, IIT Kanpur
Photos by poet –
media artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
2011. The Exhibition as a Collection of Poetry (the literature part of
the Optipism Exhibition)
Concept: Jan Hatt-Olsen. Curated by Paul Opstrup leader of LiteraturHaus,
Copenhagen,
(A collaboration between LiteraturHaus
www.literaturhaus.dk in
Copenhagen and the gallery Dada Post www.dadapost.com in
Berlin.)
POSING THE LITERARY AS VISUAL
essay about Jan Hatt-Olsen’s art at Dada Post
by Howard McCalebb
SUBMISSION TO DAM ARCHITECTURAL BOOK AWARD
LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen and Dada Post, Berlin invited poet/artist
Jan Hatt-Olsen, known for his work with augmented
poetry, a poetized world, where all are poets and poems and where works of
poetry both augment and explore the world. Several of his works has been
published both nationally and internationally as research through art and
artistic practices.
In Dada Post he was artist in residence form August 1 – September
10. Based on his meeting with the white
cube and the City of Berlin he explored the gallery exhibition as a bookscape - a Poetry Book - expressing Jan Hatt-Olsen’s meeting with Berlin its life, its vibe and its
neighborhoods
In the spirit of the Optipism Exhibtion as a whole, everything has a double side,
fragmented, coherent, reflecting, something you can pass through. But it’s not perception
and reality falling apart or being in an eternal confrontation. It’s Perception
and reality always in the making in flux. Always in the process of being
written and read, being a collection of poetry
To join this augmenting of realities, play with realities, to create the
new perception the poetized reality, has Jan Hatt-Olsen,
LiteraturHaus Copenhagen and Dada Post, Berlin
invited the Berlin based American visual artist / writer / photographer Kathryn
Nussdorf
2011. Artist in residence in the gallery Dada Post, Berlin ( August 1 – September 10)
2011. LiteraturCafé: Lone Aburas, Alexander Sâjin, Jan Hatt-Olsen og
Clara Bryld
(Poet Jan Hatt-Olsen is
guest in LiteraturCaféen 10/2. Jan is working with
the international project Urban ArtScape and has
earlier installed his poem in in the urban landscape,
an example is with Plexiglas plates in Downtown Værløse.
Jan will read own poems and talk about a coming literature exhibition projects
in the beginning of September in the gallery Dada Post in Berlin).
I’m giving a paper Urban
Space as a Collection of Poetry at Writing Urban Space (Creative Writing
Conference at University of Surrey in Guilford on 23 April 2010). --- I couldn’t get to London and Guilford
because of the volcanic ash cloud covering Europe ---
Urban Space as a Work of Art | Imaginary
Realism.
(2009 Presentation at the international
conference ‘Architecture and Stages in the Experience City’ of my article in
Hans Kiib (Ed). Architecture and Stages
of the Experience City pp. 313 - 321. Aalborg University, Aalborg 2009)
Jan Hatt-Olsen (2009). Urban
Spaces as a Work of Art | Imaginary Realism . In Hans Kiib (Ed).
Architecture and Stages of the Experience City pp. 313 - 321.
(Aalborg University, Aalborg 2009)
(The book is part of a larger action research project
that connects urban development with architectural quality, performative urban
spaces and art The
article ‘Urban Space as a Work of Art | Imaginary Realism’ is about Jan Hatt-Olsen’s research of urban space through his art and
artistic practices)
Jan Hatt-Olsen
(2009) Kommunikationenes grundlæggende teknologi (9
digte) s. 517-528. I Ordløst 119 digtere I Dansk Forfatterforening, (Ordløst,
København 2009)
(2009. Bidrag
til biblioteket i Vedr.tekst
- Udstilling
Foredrag og Bibliotek.
Udstillingslokalet
Q, arrangeret af Tværfaglig Studiekreds)
Urban Artscape – Furesø (2008). In Frank Eckardt, Jens Geelhaar, Laura Colini, Katharine S. Willis, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Ralf Hennig
(Eds.) Mediacity
– Situations, Practices and Encounters pp. 263 – 285 (Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008). The book is a publication from the Mediacity Project www.mediacityproject.com ,
Bauhaus-University, Weimar)
Draft
version of the chapter Urban Artscape
– Furesø, the final version shall be acquired
from the book.
Urban Wiki | augmented, porous, connected urban places
(2008 Presentation at Thinking Metropolis VI: New
Media // New Technology www.cph-metropolis.dk )
Urban Wiki | wiki light in urban places
(2008 Presentation at Metropolis Sound and Light
seminar www.cph-metropolis.dk )
Urban wiki |
limitations and possibilities in urban space
cross borders – create place
(2008. Workshops at Metropolis Laboratory and Sound
and Light seminar www.cph-metropolis.dk)
Jan Hatt-Olsen, Àsta Olga Magnúsdottir. (2008) Urban Alchemist in the Night. In
Changing Metropolis, Via Design, Copenhagen 2008 pp. 110-111.
Artscape Vollsmose | WikiVollsmose
(2008. Urban Wiki www.wikivollsmose.net created in connection with the establishment
of new culture house, media center and library in Vollsmose
www.vollsmose.dk ,
curator Illumenarts www.illumenarts.dk,)
Urban Artscape-Furesø | Connecting two towns and two squares Kulturpladsen in Værløse and Kulturtorvet in Farum in the
Greater Copenhagen Area
(2008. Paper
presentation at the Mediacity conference in the
Bauhaus-University in Weimar www.mediacityproject.com )
Urban Artscape – Furesø
(November 2007,
December 2007, January 2008. A large new media art, public art project based
upon ‘The Cinescape Street Creativity Charter’ I made
and presented together with a group of young architects and urban planners at
City Living – Living City | the 6’th Biennial of Towns and Town Planners. Urban Artscape – Furesø connected squares in two towns, private and public
space, virtual and outer reality http://www.urbanartscape.org/projekter/furesoeenglish.htm)
Debat om byrum.
(2007. Danmarks
Radio P1 Morgen. Medvirkende
byrumskunstner Jan Hatt-Olsen, Københavns Stadsarkitekt Jan Christiansen og
Flemming Skude praktiserende arkitekt / Debate about Urban Spaces. Denmark’s Radio P1
Morning. Participating Urban Space
Artist Jan Hatt-Olsen, City Architect for Copenhagen
Jan Christiansen and Flemming Skude
practicing architect)
International
Conference Music and Sound in Public Space.
(2007. Conference at
the University of Southern Denmark, I was head of the program committee)
The City as a Collection of Poetry
(2007. The version
of this article, which is published in Western Humanities Review has the title
‘The City as an Expression of Poetry’ and can only be acquired through the
volume of WHR or in a scanned version online through Encyclopædia
Britannica www.britannica.com )
The City as an Expression of Poetry.
(Published in Western Humanities Review.
Fall 2007: Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue: What is a City, s.
88-100, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 2007.
Editors on the Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue: Wayne McCready, Susan
Bennett (guest editors) PJ Carlisle (managing editor of WHR).
(2007. The article is a
presentation of the poetry-installation / public artwork ’Værløse
Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept.
2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’ and its concept
and implications in relation to the city, to the concept of the book and
poetry. Western
Humanities Review is published tri-annually by University of
Utah. Western Humanities Review Volume 61 number 3 is made in collaboration
with Western Humanities Alliance and University of Calgary. It consists of
selected papers from Western Humanities Alliance 25’Th annual conference ’What
is a City’ hosted by University of Calgary 2006.
The institutional members of Western Humanities Alliance : Arizona State University –
University of California, Riverside – Claremont Graduate University –
University of California, San Diego – Reed College – University of California, Santa
Barbara – Stanford University – University of California, Santa Cruz –
University of Arizona – University of Colorado, Boulder – University of Nevada,
Las Vegas – University of California, Berkeley – University of Oregon –
University of California, Davis – University of Southern California –
University of California, Irvine – University of Utah – University of
California, Los Angeles – University of Washington – Utah State University –
University of British Columbia – University of Calgary – Simon Fraser
University
Urban Artscape (Jan Hatt-Olsen, Ásta Olga Magnúsdóttir) participates in Metropolis Laboratory by
making the workshop ’Urban Space as an Artwork’ and the
installation/intervention ´Urban Alchemist in the Night’
(2007. Metropolis Laboratory is supported by the
Danish Art Council and Realdania and is connected to
the Metropolis Biennial)
The Municipality as a Work of Art | Urban Artscape – Furesø.
(2007. Presentation at the international
Metropolis Seminar – Biennale 2007, ‘The City as a Stage and the Stage as a
City’.)
The seminar was the opening of the Metropolis project,
2007 – 2017, www.kit.dk/2007/metropolis.htm
The presentation can be downloaded her. www.urbanartscape.org/municipalityart.ppt
Artistic planning consultant in Furesø Municipality.
( 2007. An experimental
position with the aim of creating an cross-over between art and urban planning
with the two as equal partners. The description of the concept and praxis as an
artistic planning consultant is a part of the presentation ‘The Municiplaity as a Work of Art | Urban Artscape
– Furesø’ at the opening seminar ‘The City as Stage
and the Stage as City’ in the Metropolis project www.cph-metroplis.dk
Poem in MultimediePoesi
DVD.
(2007. MultimediePoesi
DVD a montage made by Patricia Davelouis and Ada
Ortega Camara with 14 selected Danish poets, 14
Nordic video artist music by Sugarbeat and reading of
the poems by the actors Sarah Boberg and Ken Vedsegaard,
www.filmplatform.dk/mpoesiDK.html )
The
Danish Research Day. Hvordan bruger vi
vores byrum, How can we use
our Urban Spaces
(2007, speech about
‘Urban Artscape – Furesø’,
together with a speech from researcher Anni Greve, Civil høflighed, ritual,
free jazz, Urban civility, the ritual free jazz)
Urban Artscape. The Cinescape Street
Creativity Charter.
(2006, speech at the
conference music and sound in public space at the University of Southern
Denmark)
Music and Sound in
Public Space.
(2006, conference at
the University of Southern Denmark, I was head of the program committee)
The City
as a Collection of Poetry.
(2006. Paper
presentation at Western Humanities Alliance
25’Th annual conference ‘What is a City?’ the 2006 conference was hosted
by University of Calgary. My speech has been made into a completed paper and
been selected for publication in Western Humanities
Review in the fall 2007.
My speech and my paper is a presentation of the work of art ’Værløse
Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12
sept. 2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’ I made in 2004 and
the thoughts about the city as a poetical expression, with its consequences for
the city and poetry as concept and reality.)
The institutional members of the
Western Humanities Alliance are: Arizona
State University – University of California, Riverside – Claremont Graduate
University – University of California, San Diego – Reed College – University of
California, Santa Barbara – Stanford University – University of California,
Santa Cruz – University of Arizona – University of Colorado, Boulder –
University of Nevada, Las Vegas – University of California, Berkeley –
University of Oregon – University of California, Davis – University of Southern
California – University of California, Irvine – University of Utah – University
of California, Los Angeles – University of Washington – Utah State University –
University of British Columbia – University of Calgary – Simon Fraser
University
Poetry In Thrige
(2006, installation
of poetry printed on plexiglass in a large industrial
building Thrige Hal 7, as a part of the InThrige art and dance festival, www.urbanartscape.org/poetryinthrige.htm )
Rhizome | Psykogegrafisk kortlægning af New Herning
Kommune (Rhizome | Psykogegrafic
map of New Herning Municipality)
(2006, a crossover
project between art and urban planning made in Ny Herning Municipality as a part of Atlas | Kortlægning af Ny Herning Kommune,
Atlas | mapping New Herning Municipality, there has
been published a book about the project, a pdf version can be downloaded from www.nyp.dk click on Udgivelse:
"Atlas - En kortlægning
af ny Herning
Kommune" The Book is in Danish but there are
many pictures and illustrations, more pictures can be seen on www.urbanartscape.org/rhizome )
( 2005. The event and
urban revitalization competition ‘Sydhavnens Stemme’ )
Kan digte ændre byrummet ? / Can poetry change the cityscape
( 2005. City Art Performance. A
collaboration between Jan Hatt-Olsen and the
musician Kristian Bjerre Harting.
Impromusic in dialog with improreading
of poetry and projections on Toftegårds Plads of
poems from ’Værløse Bymidte
den 3. sept. – 12 sept. 2004 | Lyrik-Installation / Bog / Digtsamling’. The City Art Performance was a part of Kraftwerkets: Plads i din by - MakWerk )
The Cinescape Street Creativity Charter
(2005, a charter for
street creativity in Europe presented at ’City Living – Living City | the 6’th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners’ www.urbanartscape.org/streetcreativitycharter.htm)
The City as a Collection
of Poetry
( 2005, ’Værløse Bymide den
3.sept.-12.sept. 2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’ was one off the 30 examples of street
creativity in Europe exhibited at ’City Living – Living City | the 6’th
European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners’ in the biennials ’Street
Creativity Exhibition’ www.urbanartscape.org/street_creativity_exhibition.htm
Værløse Bymide den
3.sept.-12.sept. 2004
Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling
(2004, site-specific
urban installation/intervention – collection of poetry
web-catalogue www.lyrik-installation.dk/Vaerloese. Paper in English in the catalogue by the
art historian Nicoletta Isar www.lyrik-installation.dk/Vaerloese/Artikel_Nicoletta_Isar.htm)
In the book Comparative Hierotopy, A Lidov (Ed), Radunica,
Moscow 2009 Nicoletta Isar, (from 2005 associated
professor in Art History at the University of Copenhagen) has written the
chapter Vision and Performance | A Hierotopic
Approach to Contemporary Art, where she analyzes my work (urban space and
street art), Bill Viola (Video art), Antero Alli,
Jerry Grotowsky (experimental theater) and Marina Abromavic (body art)
Imp. Institut for musik og poesi
(2003, cd/
collection of poetry)
Tiara, forlaget (is this art !?) www.isthisart.dk
(2002- : web installation/intervention)
Vinterorkidéer
(2002: collection of
poetry)
SOM ORD HIGH FACT LOW FACT SAMPLE FACT
(2000: collection of
poetry)
ISBN 87-90739-00-0;1
(1998: book
installation / collection of poetry)