Kim Albrecht

Kim Albrecht
Kim Albrecht, 2026
Born	1987 (age 38–39) Germany
Education	BA Graphic Design; MA Interface Design; PhD Media Theory, University of Potsdam
Occupations	Information designer media artist academic
Employer	Folkwang University of the Arts
Known for	Critical and investigative data visualization
Title	Professor of Information Design
Website	kimalbrecht.com

Kim Albrecht (born 1987) is a German information designer, media artist, and media scholar whose work uses data visualization to examine the structures and assumptions of computational systems. He is professor of information design at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and a principal at metaLAB (at) Harvard.

Albrecht's projects have addressed the sensor data of consumer devices (Artificial Senses), commercial facial recognition (Watching Machines Loving Grace), the knowledge structures of large language models (Artificial Worldviews), and the cosmic web. His work has been exhibited at the Harvard Art Museums, the Ars Electronica Center, the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and is held in the permanent collections of the latter three institutions.