Education and Positions
from 04/20
Freie Universität Berlin
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Research Associate, PhD Candidate
Project Digital Past. Facticity and Fiction in the Visualization of History part of the German Research Foundation priority programme The Digital Image
10/18–04/20
Tel Aviv University
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Postgraduate Studies, Project Modeling the Cosmos
Minerva Humanities Center
Digital Coordinator
Web-Administrator, Open Access Journal Mafte’akh
10/15–09/17
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science Berlin
Research Program History of the Max Planck Society
Student Research Assistant, Digital Humanities Group
2012–2018
Freie Universität Berlin
M.A. History of Art in Global Context
Thesis “Virtual Landscapes. Procedurality and the Representation of Nature in the Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)”
10/16–02/17
Humboldt University Berlin
Q-Program for research-oriented teaching formats
Tutor, Seminar Seeing Animals, Collecting Animals — Interdisciplinary Search for Traces in the Arts and Sciences
2008–2012
Freie Universität Berlin
B.A. Comparative Literature
Participations
01/20
MIT Reality Hack
5-day Virtual/Augmented Reality Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab in Boston
Project Augmented Reality Biopsy
11/19
W|E Berlin – Virtual Reality Documentation
Interactive VR exhibition for Kulturprojekte Berlin
Part of the official festival program commemorating 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Direction, art and technical implementation of one of the five featured narratives
08/18
MIT Media Lab Berlin – Signal and Noise
One week prototyping workshop organized by the MIT Media Lab
Workshop Track Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality based learning experiences
03/17
Coding Dürer – International Hackathon for Art History
5 Days Spring School in Digital Art History at the University of Munich
11/16
Reality Sucks – Risks and Chances of Virtual Reality
Symposium and Hackathon organized by gamelab.berlin of the cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Humboldt University Berlin
Project VR Network Visualization
10/15
Tagesspiegel Digital Science Match 2015
Platform for the exchange for young actors in the digital field
Participation with bursary
07/15
Coding da Vinci 2015
Hackathon for the visualization of open cultural data
Winner of “Best Software Design” Award with the project MIDIOLA
08/15
Pop-Kultur Berlin 2015
International Festival for Music and Culture
Participation in the 3-day Talent Program
01/14
transmediale festival for art & digital culture 2014
Volunteer as assistant of Art Hack Day Berlin 2014
Talks and Publications
June 2020
Modeling the Cosmos. A Novel Digital Humanities Research and Teaching Tool for the History of Astronomy, talk given at the remote conference Teaching Classics in the Digital Age, organized by Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
December 2019
“As Nature herself might do, were her such Intent”. Virtual Landscapes and the Representation of Nature in the Age of the Picturesque (1770-1820), talk given as part of the lecture series Representations, Haifa University Art School.
July 2019
“Full of Systems as the Universe”. Alexander Cozens (1717-1786) and the Procedural Generation of Nature, talk given at Structuring Nature – Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Summer School on Premodern Science and Technology, organized by Humboldt University of Berlin, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science Berlin and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
May 2019
Modeling the Cosmos. Creating a Digital Research Environment for the History of Ancient Astronomy, talk given at the Cohn Institute Internal Research Colloquium, Tel Aviv University.
December 2016
Die Rückkehr des Deutschen Wolfs. Spurensuche in der populären Kultur, talk given at the international workshop German Desires – The Image and the Sound, Tel Aviv University.
Fall 2016
Schmerz und Seligkeit. Walter Flex und die Tragödie des Deutschen Offiziers (with Gal Hertz), in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte 44 (2016), p. 157-174.
Spring 2014
Apfelkuchen und Atomphysik. Rafael Horzon und die Neue Wirklichkeit, in: DIE EPILOG – Zeitschrift zum Gesellschaftswandel 4/2014, pp. 90–94.
Spring 2014
Friedrich Kittler denkt gegen den Strom, in: DIE EPILOG – Zeitschrift zum Gesellschaftswandel 3/2014, S. 28-30.
Spring 2013
Strahlen im Gesicht. Röntgenstrahlen und die Fotografie der Gedanken, in: DIE EPILOG – Zeitschrift zum Gesellschaftswandel 2/2013, pp. 14–19.