is a media studies researcher, writer, and art curator who analyzes the interactions between art and technology. Based in Paris, he is currently a researcher at the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen and a distinguished faculty member in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist residency program. He was recently a professor of art history at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). At the intersection of art history and epistemology, he developed a theory of biomediation during his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum. He also holds a degree in scientific and technical journalism from François Rabelais University in Tours.

As a curator, Jens Hauser has organized around thirty exhibitions and festivals, including L’Art Biotech (Nantes, 2003), Still, Living (Perth, 2007), sk-interfaces (Liverpool, 2008 / Luxembourg, 2009), Article Biennale (Stavanger, 2008), Transbiotics (Riga, 2010), Que le cheval vive en moi — Art Orienté Objet (Ljubljana, 2011), Fingerprints…(Berlin, 2011 / Munich, 2012), Synth-ethic (Vienna, 2011), assemble | standard | minimal (Berlin, 2015), SO3 (Belfort, 2015), WETWARE (Los Angeles, 2016), Devenir Immobile — Yann Marussich (Nantes, 2018), {un][split} (Munich, 2018), MATTER/S matter/s (Lansing, 2018), Applied Microperformativity (Vienna, 2018), UN/GREEN (Riga, 2019), OU \ / ERT(Bourges, 2019), Holobiont. Life is Other (Bregenz, 2021 / Vienna, 2022), gREen— Sampling Colour (Munich, 2021), and gREen— De/Growth (Munich, 2022).

As a journalist and filmmaker, Hauser has collaborated with the European cultural channel ARTE since 1992 and has produced numerous reports, documentaries, and radio programs for German and French public broadcasters.