Speaker:
Prof Lise Autogena
Bio:
Lise Autogena is a Danish-born artist and professor of Cross Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Based in the UK since 1987, she has spent decades developing projects that uses artistic research methods as a vehicle to navigate the complex interface between science, policy, and society- usually in collaboration with artist and programmer Joshua Portway and diverse communities of scientists, economists, engineers, and citizens.
Major projects include Black Shoals; Dark Matter (a stock market planetarium), Most Blue Skies (visualising the currently bluest sky on Earth), HavObservatoriet, an ocean observatory, visualising the ocean dynamics of the sea surrounding Denmark and the Guinness World Record-holding Foghorn Requiem.
Her long-term engagement with the Arctic began with the film Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld (2016), which examined the social, democratic and geo-political tensions surrounding rare earth and uranium mining in Narsaq, South Greenland. She founded the non-profit organisation Narsaq International Research Station (NIRS) in 2000 as a pioneering cross disciplinary research Hub that has worked to ensure that environmental research happening in the Narsaq region directly benefits the local population. The organisation works to transform how international research is communicated and owned by the local population. The work of NIRS addresses critical issues of human rights, climate change, and environmental protection.
Autogena’s contributions to the arts have been widely recognised and her work has been exhibited in major art institutions worldwide. Autogena is a recipient of Fellowships from The Arts Foundation and The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. She has been awarded the Danish National Art Foundation Lifelong Honorary Award for her significant contribution to the arts.
Links:
https://www.autogena.org/work/kuannersuit-kvanefjeld
https://www.narsaqresearchstation.gl/
https://www.autogena.org/
Major projects include Black Shoals; Dark Matter (a stock market planetarium), Most Blue Skies (visualising the currently bluest sky on Earth), HavObservatoriet, an ocean observatory, visualising the ocean dynamics of the sea surrounding Denmark and the Guinness World Record-holding Foghorn Requiem.
Her long-term engagement with the Arctic began with the film Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld (2016), which examined the social, democratic and geo-political tensions surrounding rare earth and uranium mining in Narsaq, South Greenland. She founded the non-profit organisation Narsaq International Research Station (NIRS) in 2000 as a pioneering cross disciplinary research Hub that has worked to ensure that environmental research happening in the Narsaq region directly benefits the local population. The organisation works to transform how international research is communicated and owned by the local population. The work of NIRS addresses critical issues of human rights, climate change, and environmental protection.
Autogena’s contributions to the arts have been widely recognised and her work has been exhibited in major art institutions worldwide. Autogena is a recipient of Fellowships from The Arts Foundation and The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. She has been awarded the Danish National Art Foundation Lifelong Honorary Award for her significant contribution to the arts.
Links:
https://www.autogena.org/work/kuannersuit-kvanefjeld
https://www.narsaqresearchstation.gl/
https://www.autogena.org/
Date:
11 February 2026
Time:
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Lecture: Prof Lise Autogena
