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Dan Tommi Hildén

Senior Lecturer

The Pedagogy Unit: Visual Art and Sloyd
Mail
dan.tommi.hilden@hdk.gu.se
Visiting address
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
Göteborg
Postal address
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

About Dan Tommi Hildén

Sculptor and audiovisual artist

It is said that every high-tech era is followed by a high-touch era and where the pendulum is right now is an interesting question. What I do know is that I have one foot in each camp.

The research area explores digital realities and virtual sculptures as an expansion of sculptural practice. It investigates how materiality, place, and form can be understood when the digital is not only a tool for representation, but a medium in its own right with inherent qualities and resistance. Through concepts such as plasticity and aesthetic limits, the research examines how forms emerge in the interplay between human control and technological constraints, where errors, glitches, and unpredictability also become part of the artistic expression.

A central aspect is the shifting notion of place. Site-specificity and siteness acquire new dimensions in digital environments, where sculptures can exist simultaneously in physical and virtual spaces, and where the relationship between body, technology, and environment becomes crucial.

The research further engages with neo-materiality, where digital and physical materials merge. Techniques such as 3D-printing translate virtual forms into tangible objects, opening up new ways of experiencing and understanding sculpture. Importantly, these processes are not only visual, but involve multiple senses – tactile, auditory, and spatial – which together shape a more holistic aesthetic experience.