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
Prospective Faculty Board Member (appointed by
Dr. Lotfi Kaabi, coordinator) of Science Art Nomadic Academy (under EU Science
in Society 2010 call) A project that aims to train artists and art teachers in science-arts
in 10 European Countries
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, 2005 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, Papers, Conferences and Exhibitions.
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 www.exp-city.dk. The
article ‘Urban Space as a Work of Art | Imaginary Realism’ is about my research
of urban space through my 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
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)
(
( 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
(
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)