New website at www.oerum.org

The latest version of my website is now live at www.oerum.org, rebuilt using the open source CMS Grav ( getgrav.org - which is rather nice). This represents another iteration in the ongoing tension between maintaining control over one’s archive and the considerable workload that comes with any DIY approach. There are clear benefits to managing your own documentation: complete editorial control, independence from commercial platforms, and the ability to structure information according to your own logic rather than algorithmic preferences. Of course, the personal artist website has become a quieter space in recent years. Like in so many other fields, most audiences now encounter work through social media feeds, and visitor numbers here are modest — often limited to colleagues, institutions, or curators researching Danish media art for potential exhibitions. This makes the site less about instant reach and more about maintaining a stable reference point, a place where the work can exist outside the churn of platforms. Yet like any self-managed project, the reality involves substantial time investment in tasks that sit well outside artistic practice. The site remains incomplete and contains inaccuracies, reflecting the familiar compromise between the desire for comprehensive documentation and the hours available after making the actual work. The hope persists that this version might finally accommodate two decades of projects currently scattered across obsolete formats and failing storage devices. Whether this optimism proves justified depends largely on finding sustainable approaches to the administrative burden of self-archiving. Please accept the less than perfect text and structure you’ll encounter throughout the site. This imperfection is part of the partial documentation of working conditions rather than oversight. If you find anything particularly lacking or encounter broken elements, do let me know. The site will develop as time permits, embodying the characteristic unevenness of artist-maintained archives: thorough in some areas, sparse in others, shaped as much by available energy as by curatorial intention.