Curriculum Vitae
March 1986 — Düren, Germany
Experience
Selected work across data visualization, interaction design, frontend engineering, AI prototyping, and public-facing tools. Clients: Fake Love (acquired by The New York Times in 2016) and Cosmic Berlin for Nokia, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zeit Online, Spiegel Online, NZZ, Finanzwende, Julian Oliver, OpenDataCity, MIT Senseable City Lab (Data Collider, Singapore), AlgorithmWatch, Technologiestiftung Berlin, facts and fiction, Universität Zürich, TU Berlin.
Interactive installations and AI prototypes including Transferscope, unStable Mirror, Lens interfaces, LoRA training workflows, and local/remote inference pipelines for exhibitions and teaching. Began with a six-month artist residency in 2023, then stayed on until the KITeGG project ended in December 2025; still affiliated with the lab.
Cultural collection interfaces, exploratory visualization, OpenGLAM tooling, urban data, and open-source systems including VIKUS Viewer.
Selected Technical & AI Work
Training, deployment, and serving with Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, Flux, LoRA style/object consistency, ComfyUI, OpenWebUI, vLLM, and Hugging Face Transformers; local and remote inference on Nvidia CUDA workstations and A100 clusters, plus AMD ROCm experiments on Radeon MI50 hardware.
Scribble-to-Concept iPad workflow with Apple Pencil input and custom style LoRA training for corporate-design concept imagery.
Education
Bachelor of Arts: Interface Design, specialized in Advanced Media and Information Visualization.
Applied Computer Science.
Rurtalwerkstätten Düren (sheltered workshop).
High School Diploma (Abitur) in Maths, Biology, Computer Science.
Exhibitions
Recognition
Publications
Archivi dei disegni di architettura: Fruizioni contemporanee (Sapienza Università Editrice). Dario Rodighiero, Lins Derry, Douglas Duhaime, Jordan Kruguer, Maximilian C. Mueller, Christopher Pietsch, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jeff Steward, metaLAB.
Mensch und Computer 2024 – Workshopband (Demos). Christopher Pietsch, Aeneas Stankowski.
DHd 2022. Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk.
Information Design Journal 27(1): 21–34. Dario Rodighiero, Lins Derry, Douglas Duhaime, Jordan Kruguer, Maximilian C. Mueller, Christopher Pietsch, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jeff Steward, metaLAB.
Leonardo 53(1): 6–24 (entry: cf. city flows). Till Nagel, Christopher Pietsch.
Information Design Journal 23(1): 39–47. Marian Dörk, Christopher Pietsch, Gabriel Credico.
Digital Humanities Quarterly 11(2). Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk.
Konferenzband zur DHd 2017. Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk.
Proceedings of the IEEE VIS 2016 Arts Program (VISAP'16), Baltimore, pp. 23–30. Till Nagel, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk.
International Journal for Digital Art History 2. Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Carsten Dilba, Marian Dörk.