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
07/15
Coding da Vinci 2015
Hackathon for the visualization of open cultural data
Winner of “Best Software Design” Award with the project MIDIOLA
10/15
Tagesspiegel Digital Science Match 2015
Participation with bursary
08/15
Pop-Kultur Berlin 2015
Participation in the 3-day “Pop-Kultur Nachwuchs” Talent Program
01/14
transmediale festival for art & digital culture 2014
Volunteer as assistant of Art Hack Day Berlin 2014
Talks
Project Modeling the Cosmos – Digital Humanities Research Environment for the History of Ancient Astronomy
May 2021
Talk given at the Early Text Cultures Research Project, Oxford University
October 2020
Presentation given as part of the Lab Talks at VIS4DH, the 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS2020
June 2020
Paper given at the conference Teaching Classics in the Digital Age, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
May 2019
Project proposal at the Cohn Institute Internal Research Colloquium, Tel Aviv University.
Project Landscape 1800
December 2020
“As Nature Herself Might Do, Were Her Such Intent”: The Form-giving Forces of Nature and their Simulation in British Picturesque Landscape Art (ca. 1770–1820), talk given at the Paul Mellon Centre as part of the series British Art and Natural Forces: A State of the Field Research Programme
December 2019
Virtual Landscapes and the Representation of Nature in the Age of the Picturesque (1770-1820), talk given at Haifa University Art School as part of the series Representations.
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.
Older Projects
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.
Publications
Modeling the Cosmos. Developing a Digital Research Environment for the Computational History of Ancient Astronomy (with Ido Yavetz), in: Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.), Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy (Nuncius Hamburgensis. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Vol. 55), Hamburg 2021 (forthcoming)
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.
Apfelkuchen und Atomphysik. Rafael Horzon und die Neue Wirklichkeit, in: DIE EPILOG – Zeitschrift zum Gesellschaftswandel 4/2014, pp. 90–94.
Friedrich Kittler denkt gegen den Strom, in: DIE EPILOG – Zeitschrift zum Gesellschaftswandel 3/2014, S. 28-30.
Strahlen im Gesicht. Röntgenstrahlen und die Fotografie der Gedanken, in: DIE EPILOG – Zeitschrift zum Gesellschaftswandel 2/2013, pp. 14–19.