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Kim Albrecht

Kim Albrecht, born on an island in the North Sea, Germany, is a Professor of Information Design at the Folkwang University of the Arts. His work explores the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture, delving into the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of data. Albrecht holds a BA in Graphic Design, an MA in Interface Design, and a Ph.D. in Media Theory from the University of Potsdam. His career includes research appointments at the Center for Complex Network Research under Prof. Laszlo Barabasi and at metaLAB (at) Harvard with Jeffrey Schnapp, where he served as a principal. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Albrecht’s work bridges teaching, research, and practice, offering new perspectives on how data shapes and reflects contemporary culture.

Kim Albrecht profile picture portrait photograph 2024

projects

2025

DATA | ART 2025

Harvard University

2024–2025

Up-Dates on Weather

metaLAB (at) Berlin

2022–2025

Artificial Worldviews

metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin

2024–2025

Performance

Galleria in Trento

2022–2024

Records

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2020–2024

Data Decay

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

2021–2023

B4 Tomorrow

metaLAB (at) Berlin

2021–2022

Post_Networks

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2021–2022

Black Lives Matter Street Mural Map

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2020–2021

#MeToo Anti-Network

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2019–2021

AdA Invitations

metaLAB (at) Berlin

2016–2020

Tudor Networks

Arts and Humanities Research Council, Stanford Humanities Center, and Queen Mary University of London

2019–2020

Watching Machines Loving Grace

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2020

Their Names

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2020

Hypercam

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2017–2020

The Map of Mathematics

Quanta Magazine

2017–2019

Curricle

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2019

Womanhouse (a memory theater)

metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin

2018–2019

CalArts Mapping

metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin

2018–2019

True You

doublelucky productions

2017–2019

Distinction Machine

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2015–2018

Government Structure

Barabasi Lab

2017–2018

The Hairs of your Head are Numbered

doublelucky productions & HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin

2016–2017

cultural interflow

Goethe-Institut

2017

artificial senses

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2017

trump connections

Self-initiated

2015–2016

science paths

Barabasi Lab

2015–2016

nine eleven

Self-initiated

2016

100 greatest films of the 21st Century

BBC

2015–2016

cosmic web

Barabasi Lab

2015

untangling tennis

Barabasi Lab

2014

charting germany

Die Zeit, Newspaper

2013–2014

culturegraphy

FH Potsdam

2013

meteorites

FH Potsdam

2012

atlas of powerlaws

AAA School

2012

analysis of space

AAA School

2012

billionaires

AAA School

2012

mira.li

AAA School

talks

2025

L'Art des données, les données de l'art

Université Rennes

2025

STS Hub 2025 || Diffracting Data

HU Berlin

2025

Daten Metamorphosen | | Salon Sophie Charlotte 2025

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

2024

Keynote at Discourses of Capital, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence

DiscourseNet

2024

Talk at the Robert Koch Institute

Center for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research

2024

Data Wise Talk 2024

University of Groningen

2024

Debating Design – Harvard Design Engineering Session

Harvard University Graduate School Of Design

2024

The Art of Living Through System Failure Symposium

Malta Society of Arts

2024

Guiding distinctions | Luhmann Conference 2024

Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia

2024

xCoAx Artist Talk 2024

xCoAx, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy

2024

xCoAx Data Decay Talk 2024

xCoAx, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy

2024

ECDF Artificial Worldviews Talk

Einstein Center Digital Future Berlin

2024

APIs as media

Brandenburgische Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften

2024

Seminar Visit FU Berlin

Kultur- und Medienmanagement, FU Berlin

2024

Video Conferencing Book Presentation

Humbold University, Berlin

2024

Man & Machine - Back to Nature with more Artificial Intelligence?

Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin

2024

Data as Material for Design Lecture

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

2024

metaLAB (at) Basel Launch

Basel, Swiss

2024

Network Science Institute Talk 2024

Network Science Institute, Northeastern University

2024

Talk at Boston City Hall

Boston City Hall

2024

Computing Fantasy Class Harvard

Harvard University

2024

College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University

Northeastern University

2024

metaLAB (at) Harvard Artificial Worldviews Talk

metaLAB (at) Harvard

2023

Keynote MOVE! Ideafest 2023

Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

2023

Information+ Talk

University of Edinburgh

2023

Growing Virtuality Conference

Ruhr-University Bochum

2023

Inaugural Lecture Film University

Film university Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

2023

Vladan Joler & Kim Albrecht at Loops UDK & TU Berlin

New Practice in Art and Technology

2023

Talk at GEM 2023

Projektraum Drahnsdorf

2023

Talk at City University London

City University London

2023

DATA CHALLENGE, YOUTH & CULTURE

University Bologna

2023

Driving the Human Book Launch

Matters of Activity

2023

Talk at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

City of Melbourne, Australia

2022

4S Conference: Data De-Invisibilization: Visualizing the Dark Matter of Networks

Cholula, Mexico

2022

Driving the Human Festival

silent green, Berlin

2022

Knowledge Design talk at London College of Communication

London College of Communication

2022

Knowledge Design talk at Columbia University

Columbia University

2022

Knowledge Design talk at University Groningen

University Groningen

2022

Google Material Design, “The Future of Images”

Google Material Design

2022

Presenting "Post_Networks" at Algocount Conference

Museo Scienza e Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milan

2022

8th International Forum of Design as a Process

Bologna

2022

IBM Research Talk

IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Cambridge

2022

Curatorial A(i)gents: Investigative Panel

Harvard Art Museums

2021

Social Sculpture – Temporal Communities. A one day laboratory

Hamburger Bahnhof

2021

#MeToo Anti-Network Project Presentation

Schlesinger Library, Harvard University

2021

The Technology Future We Want

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

2021

PhD Defense

University of Potsdam

2021

Data Reflection & Design

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

2021

Roundtable: The Nonhuman in artistic practice/research

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin EXC "Matters of Activity"

2020

Discussions about Time and Visualization

FH Potsdam

2020

THE wild STATE / Uncanny Friends

Ars Electronica Festival 2020

2020

Ars Electronica Garden of … Knowledge for Humanity / CURATORIAL A(I)GENTS

Ars Electronica Festival 2020

2020

Science of Intelligence

FU Berlin

2020

Adversarial Hacking in the Age of AI

Transmediale, Berlin

2020

Kritik der Digitalität

EMW Potsdam

2020

Data and the Sovereign

ZKM, Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2019

Distinction Machine at xCoAx

xCoAx, Milan

2019

Doctoral symposium

Doctoral symposium, xCoAx

2019

Leben mit Maschinen

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2019

STOP MAKING SENSE, WRO 2019

Culture Zone Wrocław

2019

Labyrinths of Morality & Machines of Distinction

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard

2018

Data Literacy Conference

Aix-en-Provence

2018

Digital Cultures

Warsaw, Poland

2018

Element Talks

Poznan, Poland

2018

Embodied Potentials

MIT Media Lab

2017

Design as (de-) Construction of Form

Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel

2017

Insightful Images

Gordon Research Conference - Bates College

2017

Imagining Complex Systems

Technical University of Denmark

2016

Imagining Complex Systems

Harvard Visual Computing Group

2016

Visualized

Parsons New School - New York

2016

Information Plus Conference

Vancouver

2016

OpenVis Conf

Boston

2015

Symposium on Visualization in Data Science

IEEE VIS Chicago

2015

Renewable Futures conference - RIXC

Riga

2015

Mapping Complexity and Postmedia Architecture

RIXC Festival: Renewable Future Conference

2015

aggregation+navigation

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

2015

Culturegraphy

Visualization Lab - Northeastern University

2014

Culturegraphy

visualized.io - London

2014

The Search Is Over!

DL2014 - London

2014

Culturegraphy, Visualizing Cultural Network Dynamics

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks - NetSci - University of California

media

2025

The Washington Post: Black Lives Matter Street Mural Map

The Washington Post

2023

Nature 10 Cover

Nature Journal

2023

Video Conferencing Cover

transcript publishing

2023

Artificial Worldviews by Harvard Magazine

Harvard Magazine

2023

Se o ChatGPT tivesse cérebro, sua aparência seria mais ou menos assim

FastCompany Brazil

2023

If ChatGPT had a brain, this is what it would look like

FastCompany

2022

Insight: #MeToo Anti-Network, analysing the unobserved side of social media data

clotmag.com

2021

Slanted: #MeToo Anti-Network

Slanted Publishers

2021

kulturnews: Hidden Patterns. Netzwerkdenken

kulturnews

2021

e-flux: Hidden Patterns

e-flux

2021

Breve: A Network of Knowledge

Jason Heppler

2021

ZDFkultur: Digitale Kunsthalle

meedia

2021

Hidden Patterns Publication

Hatje Cantz

2020

Editors’ Choice: Tudor Networks | Data Visualization | History

Digital Humanities Now

2020

Exploring Tudor Government’s Letter Communication Networks, 1509-1603

Anychart

2020

Visualizing 16th century letter correspondence of the Tudor government

Flowing Data

2020

Data visualisation sheds new light on Britain’s Tudor past

Queen Mary University of London

2020

ZKM Karlsruhe stellt in der “Digitalen Kunsthalle” von ZDFkultur aus

shortfilm.de

2020

ZKM-Ausstellung in der „Digitalen Kunsthalle“ des ZDF: Wo Computer Menschen generieren

Badische Neueste Nachrichten

2020

Data Cookbook

Market Coffee Magazine

2020

Fatal encounters with police

The Harvard Gazette

2020

This stark site visualizes the 28,000 Americans who have been killed during police encounters in the last 20 years

FastCompany

2020

The Philosophy of Visual Knowledge with Kim Albrecht

Somebody Call a Doctor

2020

Curricle Aims to Reinvent Harvard’s Course Search

Harvard Technology Review

2019

Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix

Harvard Magazine

2019

contesting computing

Clot Mag

2019

Nature: Collaborations in Design

Cooper Hewitt, New York

2019

This Digital Confetti?

AIGA Eye on Design

2018

This crazily complex image shows the online footprint of all 50 states

FastCompany

2018

Center for International Development

Harvard University

2018

‘Error’ brings opportunity to metaLAB

Harvard Gazette

2018

metaLAB unveils Curricle

The Harvard Gazette

2018

Human-Data Interaction in the age of Industry 4.0 - Part 1

DigiCult

2018

Deine Kopfhaare sind gezählt

Süddeutsche Zeitung

2018

„Spy on me“-Festival Kluge Perfomances zu Chancen und Risiken der Digitalität

Berliner Zeitung

2018

Human-Data Interaction in the age of Industry 4.0 - Part 1

DigiCult

2018

Am Puls der Zeit

nachtkritik.de

2017

Wired Japan: スマートフォンが「見ている」世界を、視覚化したらこうなった──その不思議な画像が伝えてくるもの

Wired Japan

2017

See the World through the Eyes of your Phone

Wired

2017

These Eerie GIFs Show How Your Phone Feels, Hears, And Sees You

CO.Design

2017

Pattern Research

Form Magazine

2017

Holy Crap, This Map Of Trump’s Business Network Is Terrifying

CO.Design

2017

Diese interaktive Karte zeigt das Geschäftsnetzwerk von Donald Trump

Galileo

2017

Datenprojekt zeigt Trumps riesiges Firmennetzwerk

Zeit

2017

Das unglaubliche Geschäftsnetzwerk des Donald Trump

Wired Germany

2017

Astoundingly Complex Visualization Untangles Trump’s Business Ties

Wired

2016

kim albrecht's interactive graph visualizes the 'science of success'

Designboom

2016

Randomness of scientific impact

FlowingData

2016

Scientific Proof That It’s Never Too Late To Make It Big

CO.Design

2016

See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves

Wired

2016

The Science of Success in Science

Scientific American

2016

Hey scientists, how much of your publication success is due to dumb luck?

Science

2016

Scientists can publish their best work at any age

Nature

2016

Kim Albrecht on Untangling Tennis and the Cosmic Web

Data Stories

2016

Breathtaking Visualization of the Universe Will Make You Feel Like an Ant

Gizmodo

2016

We Can't Stop Watching These Cosmic Visualizations

Popular Mechanics

2016

Mit diesen Grafiken könnt ihr ins Netzwerk des Kosmos eintauchen

Wired Germany

2016

Interconnectedness of the galaxies

FlowingData

2016

Explore the Cosmos With This Bonkers Interactive Model

Wired

2016

The Beautiful Complexity of the Cosmic Web

Scientific American

2016

Visualizing The Cosmic Web That Holds The Universe Together

CO.Design

2016

Culturegraphy: Understanding the World through Networks

DigiCult

2014

The quick and the dead

Economist

2014

Infographics That Reveal Kooky References in Your Favorite Films

Wired

2014

100 Years of Movie References, Visualized

Gizmodo

exhibitions

2025

Artificial Worldviews | | Salon Sophie Charlotte 2025

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

2024

Machines as Humans as Machines

Adapter Budapest

2024

Commons Cosmodrome | ZK/U | Berlin Art Week

Berlin Art Week at ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics

2024

OPENHAUS at ZK/U Berlin

ZK/U Berlin

2024

Artificial Worldviews at xCoAx 2024

xCoAx, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy

2024

Records Exhibition Galleria Trento

Galleria in Trento

2023

Information+ Exhibition

University of Edinburgh

2023

Unblackboxing

Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin

2023

Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant

FACE B Bruxelles

2023

KI Camp 2023

Factory Berlin Görlitzer Park

2023

The Art of Connection

Meet Digital Culture, Milan

2022

IEEE VIS Arts Program, #MeToo Anti-Network

Oklahoma City

2022

Designing Peace Exhibition - Cooper Hewitt

Cooper Hewitt, New York

2022

Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty

Alte Münze, Berlin

2022

Post Networks at Living by Protocol Exibition

Harvard Art Museums

2022

Curatorial A(i)gents Exhibition

Harvard Art Museums

2021

Digital Corporeality

Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab

2021

BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

2020

Berechenbar – Unberechenbar

ZKM & Digitalen Kunsthalle ZDF

2020

Where Art Might Happen

Kunsthaus Graz

2020

Web Biennial 2020: APEIRON

Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum

2020

Dynamic Nodes

Transmediale, State Studio

2020

Data and the Sovereign

ZKM, Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2019

36c3, Resource Exhaustion

Leipzig

2019

Experimental Diagramming

Architekturmuseum, TU Berlin

2019

Plexus Exhibition

Lodz, Poland

2019

Confirm Humanity

The Wrong Biennial, Buenos Aires

2019

IEEE VIS 2019 Arts Program

Vancouver, BC, Canada

2019

Ars Electronica Festival 2019

Postcity, Linz, Austria

2019

Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts

Kaestner Gesellschaft

2019

Seasons of Media Arts

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

2019

Distinction Machine Exhibition

Distinction Machine at xCoAx

2019

Compass – Navigating the Future

Ars Electronica Center

2019

WRO 2019

Four Domes Pavilion

2019

NATURE Collaborations in design

Cube design museum

2019

Nature Design Triennial

Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

2019

The X

WHITECONCEPTS Gallery

2018

Data and Identities Exhibition

IEEE VIS 2018 Arts Program

2018

ERROR - The Art of Imperfection

Ars Electronica Festival 2018

2018

Watch your Bubble

Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord

2018

123data

fondation EDF

2018

metaLAB + friends openLAB

Arts @ 29 Garden

2018

Machine Experience II

Vorspiel Transmediale

2018

Art of Networks III

Art of Networks Exhibition

2017

Artificial Senses at Hacking Arts

MIT List Visual Arts Center

2017

Volatile Truths

Rainbow Unicorn Berlin

2017

Machine Experience

Harvard Art Museums

2017

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science

Worldwide Venues

2016

Information Plus Exhibition

Vancouver

2016

Solo Exhibition

Baltan Laboratories

2015

Data Drift exhibition

kim? contemporary art

2014

Culturegraphy

IEEE VIS Art Show Paris

2013

Frieder Nake - Licht ins Dunkel

Hochschule für Künste Bremen

writings

teaching