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.

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Honors and awards

TAIKE Visual Artist Grant

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

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

Publications

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

Digital Sculpture 3

Gregoire Rousseau 2021

Educating the Commons and Commoning Education: Thinking Radical Education with Radical Technology

Gregoire Rousseau, Nora Sternfeld 2021 Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education