Christopher Pietsch

is an artist working with data, code, and AI as material — building installations that turn invisible systems, from latent space to brain signals, into something you can perceive and play with.

His recent work puts artificial intelligence at the center: handheld and installation-based tools that turn a generative model into something you can point at the world, aim, and improvise with — treating AI as a creative material rather than a black box. Transferscope is a handheld AI camera; unStable Mirror shows how the model sees you. That means working through the whole pipeline — models, LoRA training, inference, APIs, and interface — so the technical system stays inspectable.

Shown at KIKK Festival · IEEE VISAP · Correlations Forum · The Art of Networks III · Konstmuseet i Skövde All exhibitions →

His practice spans data visualization, generative AI, and physical computing. He open-sources much of his work, including VIKUS Viewer — an explorative interface for OpenGLAM that lets people visually wander through large cultural collections.

Working freelance and across research labs — most recently the AI+D Lab at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, before that the Urban Complexity Lab at FH Potsdam — he keeps searching for new visual and material metaphors: ways to perceive, explore, and play with the systems that shape the world around us.

Christopher holds a degree in Interface Design from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam; his Bachelor's thesis was on Brain–Computer Interfaces — the territory of early works like Brain State Sharing and Beyond Perception.