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Kim Albrecht | |
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| Nationality | German |
| Education | BA in Graphic Design; MA in Interface Design; PhD in Media Theory, University of Potsdam |
| Occupation(s) | Data artist; media artist; information designer; academic |
| Employer | Folkwang University of the Arts |
| Known for | Critical & investigative data visualizations |
| Title | Professor of Information Design |
| Website | kimalbrecht.com |
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 Folkwang University of the Arts, [1] [2] [3] principle of metaLAB (at) Harvard, and co-founder of metaLAB (at) Berlin. [4] Albrecht earned his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam and is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. [5] [6] His project "Artificial Worldviews" was featured on the cover of the science magazine Nature's 10 in December 2023. [7]
Born on a North Sea island, Kim Albrecht is a renowned researcher at the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture. [8] 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. [9] [4] Albrecht is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. [10] Between 2023 and 2024 Albrecht has been a professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. [11] Since 2025 he is professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts [1] [2] in information design.
Albrecht's works have been exhibited worldwide in internationally renowned institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums, [12] [13] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York, the ZKM Center for Art and Media, [14] the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, [15] the Kunsthaus Graz, [16] and the Ars Electronica Center. [17] [18] Albrecht has won numerous international awards in the field of information design [19] [20] [21] [22] and his works are part of the permanent collections of the ZKM, [23] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum [24] und des Ars Electronica Center. [18]
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