Design Informatics Seminar Series: Lise Autogena

Bridging the gap between global data and local lived experience

Autogena’s art practice spans three decades of cross-disciplinary inquiry at the intersection of data, technology, and ecology. In this talk, Autogena will trace her trajectory from large-scale real-time data visualisations such as Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium and Most Blue Skies to site-specific community-based performances and interventions, such as her current work establishing Narsaq International Research Station in South Greenland – a location that is of particular geo-political interest at this moment time. Her talk will explore how artistic projects can serve as a tool for collective inquiry at a time of systemic risk.

EVENT DETAILS

Lise Autogena [in-person]

Danish-born artist and professor of Cross Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam University

Talk Title: Bridging the gap between global data and local lived experience

Date: Thurs 19 March, 2026

Time: 16:00-17:00

Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, EH8 9AB

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PRESENTER BIOS

Lise Autogena

Lise Autogena is a Danish-born artist and professor of Cross Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Based in the UK since 1987, Autogena’s practice spans three decades of cross-disciplinary inquiry at the intersection of data, technology, and ecology – usually in collaboration with artist Joshua Portway. Major projects include Black Shoals; Dark Matter (a stock market planetarium), Most Blue Skies (identifying the bluest sky on Earth), HavObservatoriet (an ocean observatory, visualising ocean dynamics in the Sea Denmark) and the Guinness World Record-holding Foghorn Requiem.
Autogena and Portway’s film Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld (2016), examined the tensions surrounding uranium mining in Narsaq, South Greenland, and in 2000 Autogena founded Narsaq International Research Station, a pioneering cross disciplinary research Hub that works to ensure that environmental research happening in the Narsaq region directly benefits the local population.
In 2024 Autogena was awarded the Danish National Art Foundation’s Lifelong Honorary Award for her significant contribution to the arts.