Denise Helene Sumi

Denise Helene Sumi is a PhD candidate at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her research examines a set of cultural dynamics and political questions in a world replete with technological connections, engaging with media art history, network cultures, and relationality. She explores technology as the underlying and diverse means of shaping lived experience and engaging with the world and many worlds—including networks, listening-sounding, embodiment, and more. With a background in Art History, she worked for the Digital Solitude programme at Akademie Schloss Solitude. From 2016-2025 she co-directed Kevin Space, Vienna. Projects she has been involved in or presented at include: “Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research”, The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC), Orpheus Instituut (2026), “Zemljani (Earthlings)”, Šumski univerzitet (2025), “Encuentro entre Especies y Espectros”, Museo de Arte Moderno Medellín (2025), “Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies”, Summer School at Kevin Space (2024), Solitude Journal 5 – A Sound Was Heard (2024).