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Dr. Birgit Schneider studied art history and media studies, philosophy, and media art and multimedia at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Goldsmiths College, London, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1998 to 2003, she worked as a graphic designer. She was a research associate in the project "Das Technische Bild" (The Technical Image) at the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt University from 2000 to 2007. There, she wrote her dissertation on the history of punched-card weaving, which was published in 2007 under the title Textiles Prozessieren: Eine Geschichte der Lochkartenweberei. In 2008 she worked as a content developer for art + com, a Berlin-based media design company, on an exhibition on sustainability and climate change. Since 2008, she has been Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Institute for Arts and Media, University of Potsdam, and in 2009 was a substitute professor at the Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar.
RCC Research Project: Images of the Climate: A Typology of Climate Visualization and Its Changes Since 1800
Selected publications:
- "Climate Model Simulation Visualization from a Visual Studies Perspective." In WIREs Climate Change 3, 2 (March/April 2012): 185–193.
- Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Edited by Birgit Schneider and Thomas Nocke, Bielefeld: transcript, 2014.
- "Ein Darstellungsproblem des klimatischen Wandels? Zur Analyse und Kritik wissenschaftlicher Expertenbilder und ihren Grenzen." In Kritische Berichte, Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 3 (2010): 80–90.
- Das Technische Bild. Kompendium für eine Stilgeschichte wissenschaftlicher Bilder. Edited with Horst Bredekamp, Birgit Schneider, and Vera Dünkel, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008.
- Textiles Prozessieren. Eine Mediengeschichte der Lochkartenweberei. Berlin: diaphanes, 2007.