Katharina Meyer

Katharina Meyer is a science and technology historian and curator from Berlin who researches artistic practices and knowledge production at the intersection of society and technology, as well as implicit values in communities of user innovators. She regularly collaborates with media and conceptual artists on developing ideas around topics such as infrastructure and life sciences. Her main job is promoting public-interest software on behalf of the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) – and she's especially interested in ontologies of technical systems, innovation ecologies, and inclusion and exclusion criteria. She was a research fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg, a programme maker at the re:publica social conference for many years, and is a co-founder of Polynocular Tech Lab, for which she received a fellowship from the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Ruhr University Bochum. She is also an alumna of the Summer School Hackademia – Empirical Studies in Computing Cultures.