Kim Albrecht is a German media artist, information designer, and scholar known for his critical and investigative data visualizations. He is a professor at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf,^[1] principle of metaLAB (at) Harvard, and co-founder of metaLAB (at) Berlin.^[2] Albrecht earned his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam and is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.^[3][4]

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Albrecht's works have been exhibited worldwide in internationally renowned institutions such as the Harvard Art Museums,^[5][6] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum New York, the ZKM Center for Art and Media,^[7] the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum,^[8] the Kunsthaus Graz,^[9] and the Ars Electronica Center.^[10][11] Albrecht has won numerous international awards in the field of information design^{[12][13][14][15]} and his works are part of the permanent collections of the ZKM,^[16] the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum^[17] und des Ars Electronica Center.^[11] His project "Artificial Worldviews" was featured on the cover of the science magazine Nature's 10 in December 2023.^[18]

Born on a North Sea island, Kim Albrecht is a renowned researcher at the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture.^[19] 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.^[20][2] Albrecht is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.^[21] Since 2023, Albrecht has been a professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.^[1]