Dr. Tanya Toft Ag (Denmark / Hong Kong)
Tanya Toft Ag 博士（丹麥）

Dr. Tanya Toft Ag is a curator, researcher, writer and lecturer examining urban media aesthetic phenomena and (media) art’s engagement with societal and urban change, in a global perspective. She holds a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School, and a Master of Arts in Modern Culture with specialization in Urbanity and Aesthetics from Copenhagen University. In 2017 she gained her doctoral degree from Copenhagen University with a critical perspective on urban media art as temporal, contemporary matter in perspective of conditions of intensity, intelligence and immersion in urban media aesthetics. She has taken up visiting scholarships at Columbia University, The New School and Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design (CuratorLab). She has presented her work at international conferences worldwide and held keynotes at Elektronika Festival 2018 in Belo Horizonte, Live the City 2016 in Bangkok, and City Link Conference 2015 in Copenhagen. In 2018-2020 she is a research fellow at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

Her curatorial practice evolves with media art and media architecture in urban environments. She was curator of the Screen City Biennial 2017 (Stavanger) and head of the biennial’s artistic research program, and associated with the Streaming Museum (NYC) since 2011 and Verve Cultural/SP Urban Digital Festival (São Paulo) since 2012. Independent exhibitions include Voyage to the Virtual (Scandinavia House, NYC, 2015) and Here All Alone (Copenhagen, 2015). She is chair and member of various conference and gallery boards (Media Art Histories - RE:SOUND 2019, Media Architecture Biennale 2018, Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI) 2017 and 2018, Open Sky Gallery 2015-2016). She is editor of Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2018/2019) and co-editor of What Urban Media Art Can Do – Why, When, Where, and How? (av edition, 2016). In 2017 she co-initiated the globally networked Urban Media Art Academy.

Tanya Toft Ag 博士是一位策展人、研究學者、作家以及大學講師，專注從全球角度審視城市媒體美學現像以及（媒體）藝術對社會和城市變化的參與的硏究。她擁有紐約新學院（The New School）媒體硏究文學碩士學位，以及哥本哈根大學城市與美學專業的現代文化碩士學位。2017年她獲哥本哈根大學頒發博士學位，其博士論文從城市媒體美學的強度、智慧和沈浸式角度出發，批判地審視城市媒體藝術的世俗與當代特質。其後她接受了哥倫比亞大學、新學院和斯德哥爾摩大學 – 藝術、工藝及設計(策展實驗室)的訪問學人奬學金的邀請。她的作品曾於多個國際硏討會發表，並在2018年貝洛奧里藏特的Elektronika Festival、2016年曼谷的Live the City以及2015年哥本哈根的City Link Conference發表主題演講。自2018年起，她於香港城市大學創意媒體學院擔任硏究人員，預計完成時間為2020年。

她的策展實踐著重於在城市環境中的媒體藝術及媒體建築。她是2017年斯塔萬格Screen City雙年展的策展人以及其藝術硏究項目負責人，自2011年起與紐約的Streaming Museum 以及2012以來與聖保羅的Verve Cultural / S Urban 數位藝術節緊密合作。獨立策展作品包括Voyage to the Virtual (紐約斯堪的那維亞之家，2015年)、Here All Alone（哥本哈根，2015年）等。她亦是多個國際會議及畫廊委員會的主席及成員，包括2019年媒體藝術歷史Media Art Histories – RE:SOUND、2018年媒體建築雙年展、2017及2018年人機交互論壇 (HCI)以及2015-2016年Open Sky藝廊等。她曾編輯由Intellect出版及發行的Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (2018/19)，曾共同編輯由av edition出版的What Urban Media Art Can Do – Why, When, Where, and How? (2016)。在2017年她聯合發起了全球聯結的城市媒體藝術學院。