Gregoire Rousseau

Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral Researcher
A806 Department of Art and Media

Grégoire Rousseau is artist and educator based between Helsinki and Paris. He is graduated both as Electrical Engineer and Master of Fine Arts.  His artistic work questions the role of the machine, the algorithm within the digitally controlled society, and the complexity of the neo-liberal interests in relation to public knowledge, to commons within technological space. 

In 2001, he founded electronic music record label Tuulanauhat; in 2014, he co-founded Rabrab Press with Sezgin Boynik, Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Arts. In 2018, he authored the publication “Learning from electric energy in the arts, Knowledge happens together”; in 2020 he initiated Station of Commons a platform of commoning practices within technological space.

Full researcher profile
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Honors and awards

FRAME project grant

Granted funding (public project funding) Department of Art and Media Mar 2024

Goethe-institute Culture Moves Europe grant

Granted funding (personal grants) Department of Art and Media Jan 2024

Kone Foundation grant for lumbung Radio

Station of Commons received grant for lumbung Radio.
Granted funding (public project funding) Department of Art and Media Jan 2023

TAIKE Visual Artist Grant

Three-year personal grant for Artistic work.
Granted funding (personal grants) Department of Art and Media Jan 2023

Publications

African Art Book Fair

Gregoire Rousseau 2024

With Stations of Commons

Gregoire Rousseau 2024 Dismantling Digital Dominance in Culture: Exploring Alternatives Models to Tech Giants

A Vocabulary for Digital Commoning Methods

Juan Gomez, Gregoire Rousseau 2023 Commons in Design

Miss Read Radio x Lumbung Radio

Essi Pellikka, Gregoire Rousseau, Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Constantinos Miltiadis 2023

Miss Read Radio x Lumbung Radio PRE-FAIR PROGRAM

Essi Pellikka, Gregoire Rousseau, Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Constantinos Miltiadis 2023

Forum Pixelache x lumbung Radio

Gregoire Rousseau, Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Alain Ryckelynck 2023

Noise Traffic

Gregoire Rousseau 2023

lumbung Radio

Gregoire Rousseau, Malene Saalmann, Gözde Filinta, Ayşe Güleç, Reza Afisina 2022

lumbung Radio for documenta fifteen

Gregoire Rousseau, Malene Saalmann, Gözde Filinta, Ayşe Güleç, Reza Afisina 2022