Christopher Pietsch

is an artist and creative technologist working across data visualization, generative AI, and physical computing. He builds installations and interfaces that turn abstract technical systems into things you can touch, steer, and play with.

Photo: Jonas Parnow

His recent work brings AI out of the browser and into physical space. With projects like Transferscope (a handheld AI camera) and unStable Mirror, he turns generative models into instruments you can point at the world and improvise with. Because he builds the whole stack himself, from LoRA training and local inference to custom hardware and interfaces, he shapes the underlying pipeline right alongside the physical object.

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Alongside his installations, he designs large-scale data visualizations and open-source software, including VIKUS Viewer, an interface that lets people visually wander through massive cultural collections.

He works independently and with academic research labs, most recently at the AI+D Lab at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and previously at the Urban Complexity Lab at FH Potsdam. Christopher holds a degree in Interface Design from FH Potsdam, where his early work experimented with brain-computer interfaces (Brain State Sharing, Beyond Perception).