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Kim Albrecht
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Professor for Information Design at Folkwang University of the Arts
Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin
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Our data art symposium starts tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing many familiar faces. If you can’t join in person, tune into the livestream:

Day 1: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/218ca4...

Day 2: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/377dbd...

Looking forward!
Data / Art Symposium livestream
June 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I’m thrilled to bring together two institutions that shaped my work: BarabásiLab & metaLAB (at) Harvard.

On June 11–12, 2025, we’re hosting Data | Art—a conference on how data entangles with artistic, scientific & curatorial practices.

We have a stellar lineup of speakers! More soon: data-art.info
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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For me, 2024 added another dimension to understanding the power of mapping. While Donald Trump credits a chart for "saving his life," in Germany, the FDP's collapse is framed by a self-made pyramid diagram.

Ref.: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/u... | de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:D... | 📊
A photograph by the NYTimes of the chart Donald J. Trump was pointing at when shots rang out on Saturday at his rally in Butler, Pa. Diagram from the FDP paper on the planned course of the coalition break in November 2024.
December 5, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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#Introduction: Over the past decade, I have been visualizing data from mathematical concepts, social constructs, cultural phenomena, historical settings to imaginations of the universe. I am a professor at the Film University Babelsberg and principal at the metaLAB Harvard and FU Berlin. 📊
How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing and understanding. The research project »POST_NETWORKS« conducts a series of aesthetic experiments visualizing the traces of network algorithms. Post Networks reimagines the web away from the division of space toward the composition of the surface. What if what matters is not the network, but the spaces in-between? While lines emerge from the movement of points, surfaces emerge from the motion of lines through time. Space becomes occupied by the afterglow of repulsion and attraction. Not the network, but its past movement becomes present. Time collapses in a constant redrawing of the surface the network separated. Cosmologists say that most of the universe is structured by antimatter. We postulate that social media is similarly structured by effects of the unobserved discourse and experience. The backbone of a movement such as #MeToo is not based on the most-liked and most-retweeted, but by the masses of unobserved tweets. Vast numbers of #MeToo tweets that had no retweets and no likes nonetheless constituted acts of quiet testimony or unassuming solidarity. Conventional measures of network science thus fail to capture the true relevance of #MeToo.
October 18, 2023 at 7:58 AM