PhD Anette Vandsø, associate professor of Aesthetics and Culture and co-director of the research programme Environmental Media and Aesthetics at Aarhus University. Her research explores how art and aesthetic experiences bother register and impact environmental and cultural issues, drawing on art, cultural, and environmental theory. Fields of expertise includes acoustic ecology, attention ecology, (Pl)Anthropocene art, the art of noticing, environmental humanities, and plant humanities. In continuation of her privious position as a researcher and Head of Collections and Research at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum she has a keen interest in how the practices of collecting and making public intersects with environmental issues.

Research projects

Her latest projects, Hidden Plant Stories (2023–2026) and The Garden: The Aesthetic Reconfiguration of Nature (2016–2019) investigate ecology, materiality, and art in the context of the (Pl)Anthropocene, with related exhibitions at ARoS, the Hirschsprung Collection, and Ordrupgaard. Earlier, her project A World in Sound (Sapere Aude Elite Research Program) examined how sound artists use listening technologies to address the issues relating to attention economy, digital culture, and environmental crisis.