Kim Albrecht
Kim Albrecht is a German data artist, media artist, information designer, and scholar known for his critical and investigative data visualizations. He is a professor at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf,[1] principle of metaLAB (at) Harvard, and co-founder of metaLAB (at) Berlin.[2] Albrecht earned his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam and is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[3][4] His project "Artificial Worldviews" was featured on the cover of the science magazine Nature's 10 in December 2023.[5]
Biography
[edit]Born on a North Sea island, Kim Albrecht is a renowned researcher at the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture.[6] After earning a bachelor's degree in graphic design and a master's in interface design, he completed his PhD in media theory at the University of Potsdam under Jan Distelmeyer and Birgit Schneider. Throughout his career, Albrecht has served as a research associate at the Center for Complex Network Research with Albert-László Barabási and as Principal at the metaLAB (at) Harvard with Jeffrey Schnapp.[7][2] Albrecht is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.[8] Since 2023, Albrecht has been a professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.[1]
Exhibitions
[edit]Albrecht's works have been exhibited worldwide in internationally renowned institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums,[9][10] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York, the ZKM Center for Art and Media,[11] the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum,[12] the Kunsthaus Graz,[13] and the Ars Electronica Center.[14][15] Albrecht has won numerous international awards in the field of information design[16][17][18][19] and his works are part of the permanent collections of the ZKM,[20] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum[21] und des Ars Electronica Center.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Film university Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Portrait: Kim Albrecht". filmuniversitaet.de. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ a b Kim Albrecht (2021-09-16). "metaLAB Website: Kim Albrecht". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ Albrecht, Kim Frederic (2023). Insight by de—sign : a calculus of computation (Thesis). Universität Potsdam.
- ^ "Kim Albrecht | Berkman Klein Center". 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Nature's 10". nature.com. Nature. 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Kim Albrecht | ZeM" (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ "BARABASI LAB · SCIENCE · ABOUT". Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ "Harvard Berkman Klein Center: Kim Albrecht". 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ Harvard. "Lightbox Gallery Talk: Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design | Harvard Art Museums". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ Harvard. "Exhibitions, Curatorial A(i)gents | Living by Protocol: metaLAB in the Lightbox | Harvard Art Museums". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Kim Albrecht | ZKM". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Web Biennial APEIRON 2020". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Womanhouse @Kunsthaus Graz". 2020-06-07. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Distinction Machine". ars.electronica.art. Ars Electronica. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ a b "Artificial Senses – Ars Electronica Center". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Artificial Senses". informationisbeautifulawards.com. Information is Beautiful Awards 2018. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Science Paths". informationisbeautifulawards.com. Information is Beautiful Awards 2017. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "The Network Behind the Cosmic Web". informationisbeautifulawards.com. Information is Beautiful Awards 2016. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Meteorites 1900 - 2000". informationisbeautifulawards.com. Information is Beautiful Awards 2013. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
- ^ "Kim Albrecht, Albert-László Barabási | Cosmic Web | 2016 | ZKM". Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Digital Images Of Network Models, Visualizing the Cosmic Web". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
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