Till Rückwart

Till Rückwart is a research associate at the Culture and Media Management Programm at Freie Universität Berlin and researcher at metaLAB (at) Berlin. His artistic research practice derives from non-human photography, sensor technologies, satellite imagery, interface studies and software-based glitches. The work includes interactive installations, video works, photography, and participatory net art, and focuses on the interplay of technology and unexpected malfunctions that lead to speculative and critical thinking about the interdependencies of media, society, and the environment. He holds an MA in Media Studies from the University of Potsdam and the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. His master’s thesis explored glitches in Google Earth satellite imagery, emphasizing its aesthetics as a potential for media-reflexive analysis. Currently he is doing his PhD in Visual Culture at the Institute for Theater Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, emphasizing errors and bugs in AI-related software as socio-technical phenomena.