Talks & Papers

Talks I've given and papers I've written — mostly on museum technology, digital-art conservation, and exhibition infrastructure. Recordings are embedded on each page.

Das Kunstwerk als Black BoxTalk
A Story That Never Ends — Wüstenrot Stiftung & ZKM·Jul 30, 2026·with Daniel Heiss, Marlies Peller

How you conserve a software-based artwork without ever touching the work itself: understand it, rebuild the environment underneath it, and keep the human in charge of every decision. Presented as part of the ZKM and Wüstenrot Stiftung restoration project.

Wie steuert man eigentlich ein Museum?Talk
GPN24 — Gulaschprogrammiernacht·Jun 6, 2026

How ZKM keeps a media-art museum switched on — projectors, sensors, legacy machines and self-healing artworks, from the first hacks to open-sourcing the control system.

Choose Your Filter! — Vom Forschungsprojekt zur AusstellungTalk
GPN24 — Gulaschprogrammiernacht·Jun 5, 2026·with Inge Hinterwaldner

How a multi-year browser-art research project became a ZKM exhibition — and how you make decades-old software-based artworks run autonomously on a gallery floor for months.