Spøgelsesmaskinen (Danish, b. 1979) is the name Rune Brink Hansen adopted in 2021 for his 3D and NFT artwork. In the online art community he is known simply as “Spogel”. A self-taught, Copenhagen-based multidisciplinary artist, he began working with digital interfaces during the early internet era and later designed large-scale light installations for museums and festivals.
In 2023 he presented The Desktop, a solo exhibition at Bricks Gallery in Copenhagen curated by Majken Overgaard, using custom LED panels, an installation, a projection, and printed editions. The show traced the graphical user interface's desktop metaphor back to the physical writing desk, treating the pixel as the material basis of each work. The curator described the blockchain component of the show as “the coming of a decentralized web and most importantly a space for community and friendship”.
In Glitch Garden, a solo exhibition at Verse in Paris in 2024, he studied plant types, grasses, and leaves at a resolution of 128 by 128 pixels. The series grew from a longtime fascination with water and flow patterns, traced to reading Theodor Schwenk's “Sensitive Chaos”, combined with the flicker effect of one lit pixel giving way to the next.
His Screensavers collection has been cited as an example of glitch art, deliberately designed effects that make a viewer question whether software is behaving as intended.His work has also appeared in group exhibitions including “Perception of Reality” at Sixty Eight Art Institute in Copenhagen in 2023 and “Syntax Error” at Galerie Data in Paris in 2025, alongside Daturascore, loackme, and Mark Webster.,
