Kim Albrecht

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design researcher & information designer
Director metaLAB (at) FU Berlin & Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard
Exploring the boundaries of visual knowledge in the post-digital age.
Portfoliohttps://kimalbrecht.com/
Researchhttps://mlml.io/m/kim-albrecht/

I’m thrilled to bring together two institutions that shaped my work: BarabásiLab & metaLAB (at) Harvard.

On June 11–12, 2025, we’re hosting Data | Art—a conference on how data entangles with artistic, scientific & curatorial practices.

We already have a stellar lineup of speakers! More soon: https://data-art.info/

#DataArt #BarabasiLab #metaLAB #ArtAndData #Conference

DATA | ART

Data | Art explores the entanglements of data and artistic, scientific, and curatorial practices as a critical examination of how data configures aesthetic, social, and epistemic structures.

@jhilden Surely not what's on your mind but I think Beeline (https://beeline.co/) has a setting that is just pointing in a direction.
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**Call for papers / artworks / performances**: https://xcoax.org/

xCoAx explores the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that connects and affects them all.

The 12th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X will take place from 10–12 July at Fabrica, Treviso, Italy.
Call closes Jan. 31.

xCoAx 2026

xCoAx 2026 — Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X..

@nrchtct Congratulations. So grateful for the time 10 years ago at FHP. I look forward to seeing what you develop in the next ten years.

»Artificial Worldviews« by @kim is a compelling visualization of the central fields, people and concepts embedded into GPT 3.5 illustrating the limited horizon provided by such LLMs:

https://artificial-worldviews.kimalbrecht.com

#chatgpt #ai #datavis #xai

Artificial Worldviews

How will »prompting« change the way we experience the world? Artificial Worldviews inquired GPT-3.5 about its knowledge of the world in 1.764 prompts and mapped out the results.

@nrchtct Thank you, Marian. I'm just preparing slides for a class I'll be giving on using prompting to reflect upon machine learning systems. Very much looking forward to that.
@dichotomiker Wonderful. Thank you! In my analysis I checked https://pantheon.world In this ranking, the first female is Mary, mother of Jesus, at rank 33.
Pantheon

Pantheon is an observatory of human collective memory. With data on more than 85,000 biographies, Pantheon helps you explore the geography and dynamics of the most memorable people in our planet's history.

@uclab_potsdam Surely one of my favorite visualization projects of 2023. Funny and profound interactive chart narration.

@dichotomiker Here is a list of the top 10 most mentioned items:
1. Rachel Carson (73) | 2. Jane Goodall (60) | 3. Aristotle (52) | 4. Wangari Maathai (44) | 5. Isaac Newton (41) | 6. Leonardo da Vinci (41) | 7. Charles Darwin (40) | 8. Albert Einstein (39) | 9. Alan Turing (38) | 10. Elon Musk (36)

If you have any idea why Rachel Carson and Jane Goodall are leading I would love to hear your thoughts. You can find the entire dataset here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iZCuSDTpcH0qJqIOl-34tN7YXjfYfK_CbcLAkEyMJhA/edit#gid=1665484671

Artificial Worldviews Main Dataset

artificial-worldviews-all-23-07-15 file,column,name,kind,category,description,related,importance,field,subfield,temp,scrape humans_Abnormal_23-07-14-17-37-27.tsv,1,Sigmund Freud,Psychologist,Theorist,Known as the father of psychoanalysis, Freud developed theories of the unconscious mind, psychos...

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@dichotomiker Yes. This is a great way to think about it. I am mainly interested in what kind of lists it comes up with, what is included, and what is excluded. In most of the prompts naming the 10-15 most important things is impossible. But GPT is still doing it. There is a political dimension to this. And the results are intriguing.