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]

Biography

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.

Exhibitions

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]

References

External links

• Kim Albrecht's Website