Kim Albrecht

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Born (1987-05-17) May 17, 1987 (age 36)
NationalityGerman
Known forDigital art, Data Visualization, Media Arts
Websitehttps://kimalbrecht.com/

Kim Albrecht is a German new media artist, information designer and researcher best known for his critical, investigative, and expressive data visualizations. He is professor at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF[1] principal of the metaLAB (at) Harvard University and co-founder of the metaLAB (at) FU Berlin.[2] Albrecht holds a PhD from the University of Potsdam is affiliated to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[3]

Albrecht’s work has been exhibited globally in internationally renowned institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums,[4][5] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York,[6][7] the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,[8][9][10][11] Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab,[12] Ludwig Museum Budapest,[13] Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum,[14] Kunsthaus Graz,[15] Kaestner Gesellschaft Hannover,[16] WRO New Media Biennale Wrocław,[17] and Ars Electronica Center in Linz[18][19] among others. Albrecht has won a number of international awards in the area of information design[20][21][22][23] and his work is part of the permanent collection of the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe[24], the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York,[25] and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz.[19]

Career

Albrecht's academic journey began with studies in graphic design, followed by interface design. Albrecht pursued a Ph.D. in Media Theory at University of Potsdam, which he completed between 2016 and 2021.[26][27] In the professional realm, Albrecht has held several prominent roles. Early in his career, he worked as a research assistant at the Interaction Design Lab FH Potsdam in 2013-2014.[28] This was followed by a stint as an artistic researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University with Albert-László Barabási from 2015 to 2017.[29] His time as a principle at metaLAB (at) Harvard began in 2017 joining the group around Jeffrey Schnapp. By 2021, Albrecht established metaLAB (at) FU Berlin.[30] His most recent appointment since the summer of 2023 is as a professor at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in Potsdam, where he imparts knowledge in the Masters Program of Creative Technologies, Digital Media Cultures, and Media Studies.[1]

Areas of Research

Investigative Design

Dr. Kim Albrecht's career has unfolded at the intersection of data aesthetics, technology, culture, and socio-political issues, utilizing investigative design as a significant method of exploration. Early projects saw Albrecht mapping complex topics like the wealth of billionaires[31] in 2012 and exploring migration and ethnic identity through the lens of Cultural Interflow[32] in 2016. Particularly notable was their endeavor to visualize Donald Trump’s extensive connections[33][34][35][36][37] in 2017 and the representation of over 28,000 fatal U.S. police encounters,[38][39] highlighting critical socio-political narratives and surfacing emergent patterns from vast datasets.

Visualizing Complex Networks

During his time at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University with Albert-László Barabási Albrecht specialized in the representation of network structures. Examples for this approach are his works on the cosmic web[40][41] the representation of randomness in scientific careers[42][43][44][45] and the network representation of the US Government.[46][47]

Data Aesthetics and Media Reflexivity

Not merely content to visualize entities, Albrecht's work gravitated towards accentuating the processes underpinning data and image creation, exploring computational logic, and inspecting the boundaries of algorithmic visualizations. Projects like Artificial Senses[48] and The Hairs of your Head are Numbered[49] were critical endeavors in exploring live data visualization and affective computing, respectively, while pieces like Distinction Machine[50][51] and Hypercam[52] navigated the nuances of computational visualization and digitized human interaction.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kim Albrecht". www.filmuniversitaet.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  2. ↑ metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin (2021-09-16). "Kim Albrecht metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin". metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  3. ↑ "Kim Albrecht | Berkman Klein Center". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. 2023-08-21. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  4. ↑ "Lightbox Gallery Talk: Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design | Harvard Art Museums". Harvard Art Museums. 2017. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  5. ↑ "Exhibitions, Curatorial A(i)gents | Living by Protocol: metaLAB in the Lightbox | Harvard Art Museums". Harvard Art Museums. 2022. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  6. ↑ "Black Lives Matter Street Mural Visualization". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Designing Peace. 2022. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  7. ↑ "Cosmic Web featured in "Nature-Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" Co-organized with Cube Design Museum". Smithsonian. 2019. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  8. ↑ "BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns | ZKM". zkm.de. 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  9. ↑ "Berechenbar – Unberechenbar | ZKM". zkm.de. 2020. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  10. ↑ "The Data and the Sovereign | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  11. ↑ "Seasons of Media Arts | ZKM". zkm.de. 2019-08-08. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  12. ↑ "Digital Corporeality". C-LAB. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  13. ↑ "Hidden Patterns. The Language of Network Thinking". Ludwig Museum Budapest. 2020. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  14. ↑ "Web Biennial APEIRON 2020". Web Biennial 2020, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  15. ↑ "Womanhouse @Kunsthaus Graz". metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin. 2020-06-07. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  16. ↑ "Wo Kunst geschehen kann. Die frühen Jahre des CalArts". kestnergesellschaft.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  17. ↑ "Artificial Senses". WRO 2019. 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  18. ↑ "Distinction Machine". Out of the Box, Ars Electronica (in Deutsch). 2019. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Artificial Senses". Ars Electronica Center (in Deutsch). 2020. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  20. ↑ "Artificial Senses". Information is Beautiful Awards. 2018. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  21. ↑ "Science Paths". Information is Beautiful Awards. 2017. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  22. ↑ "The Network Behind the Cosmic Web". Information is Beautiful Awards. 2016. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  23. ↑ "Meteorites 1900 - 2000". Information is Beautiful Awards. 2013. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  24. ↑ "Kim Albrecht, Albert-László Barabási | Cosmic Web | 2016 | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  25. ↑ Kim Albrecht, German; Barabási Lab, Boston. Visualizing the Cosmic Web.
  26. ↑ "Kim Albrecht | ZKM". ZKM | Center for Art and Media. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  27. ↑ "Kim Albrecht ZeM". Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  28. ↑ "Personen". Interaction Design Lab (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  29. ↑ "BARABASI LAB · SCIENCE · ABOUT". www.barabasilab.com. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  30. ↑ "Kim Albrecht Profile Page metaLAB". metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  31. ↑ Visnjic, Filip (2012-10-03). "Billionaires by Kim Albrecht". Creative Applications. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  32. ↑ "Cultural Interflow". Information is Beautiful Awards. 2018. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  33. ↑ Stinson, Liz. "This Astoundingly Complex Visualization Untangles Trump's Business Ties". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  34. ↑ "Event: 'Dynamic Nodes', January 23 at STATE Studio Berlin". 2020-01-19. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  35. ↑ Schwab, Katharine (2017-01-31). "Holy Crap, This Map Of Trump's Business Network Is Terrifying". FastCompany. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  36. ↑ Brücken, Timo (2017-01-30). "Das unglaubliche Geschäftsnetzwerk des Donald Trump". GQ (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  37. ↑ Lauwitz, Hanna (2017-01-31). "Das Firmennetzwerk des Donald Trump". Zeit (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  38. ↑ Peters, Adele (2020-06-15). "This stark site visualizes the 28,000 Americans who have been killed during police encounters in the last 20 years". FastCompany. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  39. ↑ Powell, Alvin (2020-06-26). "Project gathers stories of those killed in police violence". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  40. ↑ Montañez, Amanda. "The Beautiful Complexity of the Cosmic Web". Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  41. ↑ "Event: 'Dynamic Nodes', January 23 at STATE Studio Berlin". 2020-01-19. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  42. ↑ "Science Paths". Information is Beautiful Awards. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  43. ↑ Stinson, Liz. "See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  44. ↑ Montañez, Amanda. "The Science of Success in Science". Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  45. ↑ Ball, Philip (2016-11-03). "Scientists can publish their best work at any age". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20926. ISSN 1476-4687.
  46. ↑ "Mapping Project Reveals New Way to Study Government". Center for International Development, Harvard. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  47. ↑ Schwab, Katharine (2018-05-11). "This crazily complex image shows the online footprint of all 50 states". FastCompany. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  48. ↑ Stinson, Liz. "See the World Through the Eyes of Your Phone". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  49. ↑ "The Hairs Of Your Head Are Numbered". doublelucky productions (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  50. ↑ Stinson, Liz (2019-05-10). "This Digital Confetti? It's What Happens When a Computer Gets Confused". Eye on Design. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  51. ↑ Cho, Tony (2019-06-13). "KIM ALBRECHT, contesting computing & the language of machine". CLOT Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  52. ↑ "Berechenbar – Unberechenbar | ZKM". zkm.de. 2020. Retrieved 2023-11-03.

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