INFORMATION DESIGN / DATA VISUALIZATION

Hey, I’m Mark-Jan, an information visualization designer and researcher based in Berlin. I'm working as a research associate at the UCLAB (FH Potsdam), where my work lies at the intersection of Data Visualization and the Digital Humanities. Furthermore, since April 2023 I'm guest professor for Interactive Data Visualization at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Whether you want to collaborate, have questions, or just want to say hi, feel free to send me a message or find me on twitter/x (@markiaaan)!

WORK / PROJECTS




About



Biography

since Apr 2023
guest professor
Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

since Apr 2018
research associate
UCLAB, FH Potsdam

Oct 2015 – Oct 2017
master of arts, Design (Interface Design)
Fachhochschule Potsdam – University of Applied Sciences

since Aug 2014
Freelancing

Feb 2014 – Aug 2014
internship (infographic artist)
Golden-Section-Graphics (now Infographics Group), Berlin

Aug 2012 – Feb 2013
term abroad (graphic design)
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Sep 2010 – Feb 2015
bachelor of arts, communications design,
Fachhochschule Aachen – University of Applied Sciences

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 & Jan 2011 – Feb 2011
internship, photography
Photographic Studio Vauth, Datteln


Teaching

Design Project Seminar:
»METABOLISM - greenlab 13.0«
with Zane Berzina, Barbara Schmidt, Mina Mahouti, Lucy Norris & Andreas Kallfelz
weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Germany: summer term 2024

Design Project Seminar:
»Climate Reality«
with Barbara Junge & Julian Netzer
weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Germany: winter term 2023/2024

Design Project Block Seminar:
»Climate Reality – Interactive Storytelling in Print und Augmented Reality«
with Barbara Junge, Julian Netzer, Anja Tiedjens & Holger Heißmeyer
weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Germany: winter term 2023/2024

Design Project Seminar:
»Elastic Time: embodiment of time-based information«
with Thomas Ness, Anna Schäffner, Dominic Eger Domingos, Simon von Schmude, Yolanda Leask, Felix Rasehorn, Robin Hoske & Georg Klöck
weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Germany: summer term 2023

Theory Seminar:
»InfoVis Reading Group«
FH Potsdam, Germany: summer term 2023

Workshop:
»Introduction to Data Visualization with D3.js Workshop «
weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Germany: May 8 2023

Theory Seminar:
»InfoVis Reading Group«
with Fidel Thomet
FH Potsdam, Germany: summer term 2022

Design Project Seminar:
»Advances in Data Visualization: Networks & Hierarchies«
FH Potsdam, Germany: winter term 2021/2022

Theory Seminar:
»InfoVis Reading Group«
with Fidel Thomet, Arran Ridley & Francesca Morini
FH Potsdam, Germany: winter term 2021/2022

Design Project Seminar:
»Visualizing Cultural Collections«
with Viktoria Brüggemann
FH Potsdam, Germany: summer term 2020

Workshop:
»Introduction to D3.js«
FH Potsdam, Germany: May 3 2017



Awards

Information Is Beautiful Awards 2019
Longlist (Arts, Entertainment & Culture) for Reading Traces

Designpreis Brandenburg 2019
Digital Services – Young Professional Winner for Reading Traces

Information Is Beautiful Award 2015
Gold: Infographic for Rare Earth Elements

ADC 2015
Bronze: Corporate Publishing – Extern with Team of Golden Section Graphics for Saisonbroschüre des Symphonieorchesters des BR

SELECTED from Bilbao 2015
Shortlist: Student category for Rare Earth Elements

IIID Award 2014
Student Gold for Indeland, Energy Infographics



Other Academic Services

VIS4DH (IEEE VIS Workshop)
Organizing Committee (2021, 2022, 2023)

Staff council for the academic and artistic staff
FH Potsdam (2021-2023)

Information+ Conference 2018
Print Material



Publications

Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk & Christian Tominski (2023), »Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization« , in: Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 42, No. 3). URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14831

Sina Menzel, Mark-Jan Bludau, Elena Leitner, Marian Dörk, Julián Moreno-Schneider, Vivien Petras & Georg Rehm (2022), »Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources«, in: Graph Technologies in the Humanities - Proceedings 2020. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (3110)

Sara Akhlaq, Arran Ridley, Mark-Jan Bludau & Marian Dörk (2022), »Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation«, in: DH Benelux 2022: RE-MIX. Creation and alteration in DH. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6594779

Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk & Christian Tominski (2021), »Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs« , in: EuroVis 2021 - Posters. URL: https://doi.org/10.2312/evp.20211070

Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk & Frank Heidmann (2021), »Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections« , in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab003

Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau & Marian Dörk (2020), »Zwischen Distanz und Nähe. Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen«. In A. Geipel, J. Sauter, G. Hohmann (Ed.), Das digitale Objekt – Zwischen Depot und Internet (Deutsches Museum Studies, Vol. 7, pp. 115-123). Munich, Germany: Deutsches Museum Verlag. URL: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/fileadmin/Content/010_DM/060_Verlag/studies-7.pdf

Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau & Marian Dörk (2020), »The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization« (2020). DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 14:3. URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000487/000487.html

Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Anna Busch & Marian Dörk (2020), »Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data« (2020), in: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis). 39(3). URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13964

Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau & Marian Dörk (2020) , »Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen« in: DHd 2020 Paderborn - Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation. Konferenzabstracts

Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Frank Heidmann (2019) , »Relational Perspectives as Situated Visualizations of Art Collections« in: Digital Humanities Conference 2019, URL: https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0208.html

Anna Busch, Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Kristina Genzel, Sabine Seifert & Peer Trilcke (2019) , »Scalable Exploration. Prototype Study For The Visualization Of An Author’s Library On The Example Of 'Theodor Fontane’s Library'.« in: Digital Humanities Conference 2019, URL: https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0490.html

Anna Busch, Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Marian Dörk, Kristina Genzel, Klaus-Peter Möller, Sabine Seifert & Peer Trilcke (2019) , »Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹« in: DHd 2019 Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal. Konferenzabstracts, p. 204–207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2596095

Dominik Braunschweiger, Marco Pütz, Frank Heidmann & Mark-Jan Bludau (2018), »Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland«, in Regional Studies, Regional Science, 5:1, p. 398-401, DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507

Carsten Dilba, Anette Mertens, Michaela Völkel; Mark-Jan Bludau, Constantin Eichstaedt, Jana Klausberger, Swann Nowak; Katrin Glinka & Marian Dörk (2016), »Ostasiatische Porzellane digital«», in: Texte des RECS #1, https://recs.hypotheses.org/279.



Talks, Workshops & Other Activity

Conference Talk:
»GraDiM – Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality Visualizing a Photo Archive about Diaspora«
with Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
#DHJewish conference
MAI Tagung, Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany: May 16-17 2024

Conference Talk:
»GraDiM – Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality Visualizing a Photo Archive about Diaspora«
with Viktoria Brüggemann & Marian Dörk (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
#DHJewish conference
Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: Apr 11-12 2024

Invited Talk:
»Digitale Sammlungen mit Omeka-S – ein Workshop für Anwender*innen«
FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany: Apr 8 2024

Conference Panel Chair:
»AI and the digital image« conference
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany: Mar 21–23 2024

Dagstuhl Seminar Participation:
»Visualization and the Humanities: Towards a Shared Research Agenda (23381)«
Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany: Sep 17-23 2023

Conference Workshop:
»From Sketching to Coding: Visualization as a Thinking Process«
with Uta Hinrichs, Florian Windhager, Mennatallah El-Assady, Eric Alexander & Adam Bradley
DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity
Graz, Austria: Jul 10 2023

Conference Talk:
»Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization«
Eurovis 2023
Leipzig, Germany: Jun 15 2023

Invited Talk & Workshop:
»Visualizing Cultural Collections: From abstract questions of representation to concrete design implementations«
S-H-O-W 2023: PLAY - PAUSE - STOP. And REPEAT
Utrecht, The Netherlands: Jun 1–2 2023

Conference Talk:
»Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs«
Eurovis 2021
Zurich, Switzerland (virtual): Jun 21 2021

Invited Talk:
»FH Aachen FUTURE BOX«
Aachen (virtual), Germany: Jun 09 2021

Panel Discussion:
»Das Archiv diskutiert: Visualisieren und explorieren: Zur Transformation, Vernetzung und Kommunikation digitaler Inhalte/strong«
Graduation Studios, HfG Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany (virtual): Nov 19 2020

Conference Workshop Talk:
»Lab Talk« presenting the UCLAB
VIS4DH – 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (virtual): Oct 25 2020

Conference Talk:
»Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data«
Eurographics & Eurovis 2020
Norrköping, Sweden (virtual): May 28 2020

Conference Talk:
»Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen«
with Viktoria Brüggemann & Marian Dörk (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
DHd 2020
Paderborn, Germany: Mar 04 2020

Conference Talk:
»Graphtechnologien für die Analyse historischer Netzwerke mit heterogenen Datenbeständens«
with Elena Leitner, Julian Moreno-Schneider & Georg Rehm (DFKI), Sina Menzel & Vivien Petras (HU) & Marian Dörk (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
Graph Technologies in the Digital Humanities: Modelling the Scholarly Process
Vienna, Austria: Feb 22 2020

Invited Talk:
»Kleine Diagrammatik des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs«
with Peer Trilcke & Anna Busch (Theodor-Fontane-Archiv)
DH-Kolloquiums an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
Berlin, Germany: Dez 06 2019

Invited Talk:
»Visualisierung kultureller Sammlungen – Explorative Zugänge für digitale Sammlungen gestalten«
Sichtbarmachen! Kulturelles Erbe in Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken. Teil 2 : Ephemera, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunst- und Museumbibliotheken (AKMB) / Initiative Fortbildung für wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e.V.
Erfurt, Germany: Nov 15 2019

Conference Talk:
»Scalable Exploration. Prototype Study For The Visualization Of An Author’s Library On The Example Of 'Theodor Fontane’s Library'«
with Anna Busch (Theodor-Fontane-Archiv) & Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
Digital Humanities 2019
Utrecht, The Netherlands: Jul 11 2019

Conference Talk:
»Relational Perspectives as Situated Visualizations of Art Collections«
Digital Humanities 2019
Utrecht, The Netherlands: Jul 10 2019

Invited Talk:
»Theodor Fontanes Schreibverfahren im Spiegel seiner (digitalen) Bibliothek«
with Anna Busch, Kristina Genzel (Theodor-Fontane-Archiv) & Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
Fontanes Medien (1819-2019) – Internationaler Kongress
Potsdam, Germany: Jun 14 2019

Conference Talk:
»Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹«
with Anna Busch (Theodor-Fontane-Archiv) & Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
DHd 2019
Frankfurt, Germany: Mar 27 2019

Invited Talk:
»Zwischen Distanz und Nähe: Einzelne Objekte und übergreifende Muster in Sammlungen visualisieren«
with Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
German Museum Symposium: Das digitale Objekt
Munich, Germany: Dec 12 2018

Invited Talk:
»Fontanes Handbibliothek visualisieren«
with Anna Busch (Theodor-Fontane-Archiv)
Randkulturen. Lese- und Gebrauchsspuren in Autorenbibliotheken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Zurich, Switzerland: Nov 16 2018

Invited Talk:
»Visualisierung und Gestaltung digitaler Kultursammlungen«
with Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
Exponat – Raum – Interaktion.Perspektiven für das Kuratieren digitalerAusstellungen.
Gotha, Germany: Nov 9 2018

Invited Workshop:
»A dive into the depot – Co-Designing Visualizations of Cultural Collections«
with Viktoria Brüggemann (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
Information+ Conference 2018
Potsdam, Germany: Oct 19 2018

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Berlin, Germany


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