The Blue Light is a Promise
September 28 - October 22, 2026
Student Opening, Tuesday, October 6, 1-2pm
Opening Reception for Capitol Hill Art Walk, Thursday, October 8, 5-8pm
Directions to M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery at Seattle Central College
1701 Broadway, Seattle
Gallery hours: open Monday - Thursday, 10am to 3pm
Additional hours by appointment: contact meghan.trainor@seattlecolleges.edu
The Blue Light is a Promise is a group exhibition of seven Danish artists working across installation, video, digital media, and research-based practice. The exhibition grew out of my 2024 residency at Captive Portal, an artist-run residency and experimental media art space in Copenhagen. During that time, I became increasingly attentive to how seasonal light, atmosphere, and duration shape everyday rhythms in the city. The exhibition takes its title from the blue hour, the extended twilight that is especially pronounced in the Nordic countries, where shifting daylight conditions become a tangible part of daily life. It considers this environmental light alongside the blue light of screens, examining how different forms of illumination shape attention, time, and perception.
The exhibition includes work by Kristoffer Ørum, Ada Ada Ada, Nanna Debois Buhl, Rune Brink Hansen, Honey Biba Beckerlee, jacob remin, and Nazila Kivi. Their practices span installation, experimental video, networked media, research-based work, and interdisciplinary forms that connect art, writing, sound, and technological systems. While their approaches are distinct, many share an interest in how technological infrastructures intersect with landscape, perception, language, and cultural memory.
Presenting these artists in Seattle introduces contemporary Danish media art to audiences in the Pacific Northwest, a region with a strong history of experimental media and interdisciplinary practice. Seattle also has longstanding cultural ties to Scandinavia and a significant Scandinavian heritage community. The exhibition creates opportunities for dialogue between Danish artists, students, and local audiences while situating these practices within a broader international conversation.
Kristoffer Ørum is a Danish artist whose work examines digital infrastructures and the algorithmic systems that shape contemporary identity and social interaction. Through installations, images, and networked media, he explores how algorithmic logic structures everyday experience. Ørum studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, and received his MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He has held teaching and research positions including professor at the Funen Academy of Art and artistic researcher at the Uncertain Archives project at the University of Copenhagen. His work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals across Europe and the United States. https://oerum.org/grav/
Ada Ada Ada is an algorithmic artist, writer, and speaker based in Copenhagen whose work explores gender, queerness, and bodies as interpreted through computational systems. Her interdisciplinary practice spans generative art, performative photography, video, net art, interactive installations, and live AI-based performance. Drawing on her background as a programmer and interaction designer, Ada uses computational processes to explore how algorithms shape and mediate perceptions of gender and identity. Self-portraiture and her experience as a trans woman form a recurring thread in her work. Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including in Copenhagen, Berlin, New York, Tunis, and Arnhem. https://ada-ada-ada.art
Nanna Debois Buhl is a visual artist whose work connects scientific, historical, and speculative perspectives across scales, from plants and particles to clouds and computer memory. Working with photography, weaving, film, installation, and algorithmic media, she combines historical and emerging technologies to explore counter-histories embedded in materials and infrastructures. Buhl holds a practice-based artistic PhD from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Copenhagen and is currently an artistic postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the National Gallery of Denmark. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major collections including the MIT List Visual Arts Center, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. https://www.instagram.com/nannadeboisbuhl/?hl=en
Honey Biba Beckerlee is a Danish artist whose research-based practice explores material intelligence and more-than-human entanglements between technology, bodies, and planetary systems. Working with sculptural installations made from woven cables, ceramics, and industrial waste from the microchip industry, she examines the ecological and material infrastructures of the digital age. Beckerlee holds a PhD in practice-based art from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Aarhus Kunsthal, Kunsthal Trondheim, and Grimmuseum in Berlin. In 2024 she received an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica. https://www.honeybibabeckerlee.com
Rune Brink Hansen is a Copenhagen-based multidisciplinary artist working with digital media, light, and spatial installations. Beginning in the early days of the internet, he developed a practice spanning digital interfaces, live visuals for music and festivals, and exhibition design for museums. His work explores the relationship between digital imagery, architectural space, and immersive visual environments. In 2021 he introduced the project Spøgelsesmaskinen ("ghost machine"), through which he creates pixel-based 3D animations and digital installations that investigate the cultural history and aesthetics of computing. Hansen has exhibited installations and digital works at galleries, museums, and international media art platforms. https://www.runebrink.dk/about-rune-brink-hansen/
jacob remin is a Copenhagen-based artist and composer whose work explores performative and sculptural manifestations of alternative algorithmic logics. His practice combines sound, computation, and installation to investigate infrastructures and collaborative systems. Through experimental artistic frameworks, Remin develops speculative narratives and alternative technological imaginaries. He holds a BA in Design Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and an MA in Interaction Design from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Remin is a member of the Danish Composers' Society, the Danish Artists' Society, and Danish Visual Artists. https://www.jacobremin.com
Nazila Kivi is an Iranian-Danish writer, translator, and cultural critic whose work engages questions of gender equality, body autonomy, and women's liberation. She holds an MA in Cultural Encounters and Communication from Roskilde University and a BSc in Public Health Science from the University of Copenhagen. Kivi is currently a PhD fellow at Roskilde University's Department of Communication and Arts, where her project Birthing the (m)other explores minoritized women's experiences with childbirth and maternity care in Denmark. Her research develops collaborative and arts-based methods grounded in feminist writing traditions including écriture féminine. https://www.instagram.com/nazilavida/
Meghan Thréinfhir is Curator of the M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery at Seattle Central College. Her exhibitions connect contemporary media, art, and technology with projects that foreground community, interdisciplinary collaboration, and artists whose perspectives have historically been underrepresented in museum and gallery spaces. Alongside her curatorial work, she is an artist, writer, and educator who has exhibited internationally, including in Denmark, Germany, and Spain. Her long-standing collaborations with Danish creative communities, including Nazila Kivi's feminist forum Salon Hysteria and Kristoffer Ørum's artist-run media arts space Captive Portal in Copenhagen, continue to shape her work as both an artist and curator. https://meghanthreinfhir.com
Main image: Nanna Debois Buhl, Cloud Behavior, 2018
Ofelia Plads, The Royal Danish Playhouse, Copenhagen. Photo: Torben Eskerod.
Upper left image: Ada Ada Ada, Being represented by data is like losing a part of yourself, 2024
(video still, courtesy of the artist)
Middle left image: Rune Brink Hansen, 256x256_500frames, 2022
(GIF still, courtesy of the artist)
Lower left image: jacob remin, emotion is information, 2022–2023
(video still, courtesy of the artist)