Curriculum

born 1955, studied mathematics, and physics at FU Berlin and at Hamburg University, graduated in theoretical physics and started work at Lüneburg University, where he did his Habilitation in 2008. By this he acquired the venia legendi for computer science and digital media. Until 2008 he chaired the section "Computers and Society" in the German "Gesellschaft für Informatik", did a project with Humboldt University funded by the German Ministery for Education and Research and now chairs the project "Meta-Image" in cooperation with Humboldt-University and Cologne University.

Research interests

Togehther with Prof Dr. Timon Beyes he heads the project "Hybrid Publishing" in the EU Innovation Incubator at Leuphana. He heads, with Prof. Dr. Claus Pias, the DFG-Kollegforschergruppe "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation". Together with the Steinheim Institute for german-jewish Studies in Essen and the Baukultur Institute at TU Berlin he works in the Project RiR: "Relations in Space".

As researcher he works in the field of orders of knowledge in the digital, analytically and synthetically by software development.

Martin Warnke has successfully completed a number of research projects, e. g. HyperImage, funded by the german BMBF (Ministery for Education and Resaerch). During these projects the XML standard PeTAL (Picture Text Annotation Language) has been developed. It now enters the scientific community. A project recently funded by the DFG (German Research Association) carries on this research.

Together with collegues from Lüneburg, Berlin and Basel he has established the annual „HyperKult“-Workshops and the discourse that evolved with it.

Teaching

Since 1983 Martin Warnke has been teaching contiously in Lüneburg, Basel, Klagenfurt and Vienna.

In several projects together with artists and students he has developed and produced artistic works on digital media.