INFORMATION DESIGN / DATA VISUALIZATION
Hey, I'm Mark-Jan, based in Berlin and my main field of interests lies in the creation of and research on
information visualization. I'm working as a research associate at the UCLAB (FH Potsdam), where my work lies at the intersection of the Digital Humanities and data visualization.
Furthermore, since April 2023 I'm guest professor at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
If you'd like to work together, if you are interested in anything or if just want to say hi, feel
free to drop me a message or find me at twitter (@markiaaan)!
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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
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
Exhibitions
»fontane.200 / Brandenburg – Bilder und Geschichten« at the Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte in Potsdam
with »Reading Traces«
6 Jun - 30 Dec 2019
»Zukunftslabor Indeland« at the Kreishaus Düren
with »Indeland – Energy Infographic Installation«
Apr 2015
»Diploma FH Aachen WiSe 2015« at FH Aachen
with »Rare Earth Elements – Infographic Series«
6 Feb – 7 Feb 2015

Awards
Information Is Beautiful Award 2019
Longlist: Arts, Entertainment & Culture
with 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






Publications
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


Talks, Workshops & Lectures
Upcoming 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
Lightning 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
University Course:
»Visualizing Cultural Collections«
with Viktoria Brüggemann & Marian Dörk (UCLAB, FH Potsdam)
FH Potsdam, Germany: Apr 2020 – Sep 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
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
Lecture:
»Introduction to D3.js«
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany: May 3 2017