Kim Albrecht is a German 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]}

Albrecht's works have been exhibited worldwide in internationally renowned institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums, ^{[5] [6]} the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York, the ZKM Center for Art and Media, ^[7] the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, ^[8] the Kunsthaus Graz, ^[9] and the Ars Electronica Center. ^{[10] [11]} Albrecht has won numerous international awards in the field of information design ^{[12] [13] [14] [15]} and his works are part of the permanent collections of the ZKM, ^[16] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum ^[17] und des Ars Electronica Center. ^[11] His project "Artificial Worldviews" was featured on the cover of the science magazine Nature’s 10 in December 2023. ^[18]

Biography

Born on a North Sea island, Kim Albrecht is a renowned researcher at the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture. ^[19] 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. ^{[20] [2]} Albrecht is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. ^[21] Since 2023, Albrecht has been a professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. ^[1]

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