Janne Kummer

About

Janne Kummer (they/them, no pronouns) is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, digital art, game design, and critical theory. Their practice integrates technological research with a somatic understanding of body politics and power. Janne’s work critically engages with Artificial Intelligence, representations of bodies, and the ways digital technologies shape social and political hierarchies.

At the Weizenbaum Institute, Janne examines the emotional economies of AI companionship and analyses how algorithmic intimacy operates as a tool of socio-political manipulation, reinforcing inequalities related to gender, race, and class. 
After studying directing and stage design at the Ernst Busch and the Weißensee Academy of Art, alongside study periods at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Danish National School of Performing Arts, Janne is currently pursuing a PhD at LUCA School of Arts on artificial intimacy.

Janne is an alum of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and has been a fellow at the Academy for Theatre and Digitality, the ATLAS choreography program at ImPulsTanz Vienna, the DiGiTal programm of BCP, Berlin Open Lab, and XR_Unites. Janne also leads workshops on queer self-defense, trauma and collective empowerment

Forschungsgruppe: Design, Diversity and New Commons (20.11.-18.12.2025)