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 Henrik's passion is to understand creativity in online spaces through practice and research. He wrote his MSc dissertation Creativity and Community; a case study in Second Life on these matters. For the past year and a half he has been the head of the Lifesquared research project at Stanford. The idea is to explore building a 3D immersive archive of the art of Lynn Hershman inside the virtual world of Second Life. The work is currently being in the final stages of preparation for exhibition is a number of museums and a publication is planned for Fall 2007.In Fall 2006 Henrik was a part of the Stanford course The Human and The Machine that used Second Life as a teaching tool.

Before his return to the world of academia Henrik was a professional musician in Denmark and still has a strong side interest in creative musical expression augmented by technology.

Henrik is Danish and has a MSc. In Media Technology and games from the IT University of Copenhagen and a Bsc. In medialogy from Aalborg University. Previously he managed the Lifesquared research project at the Stanford Humanities Lab and is now research director there.

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