Kristin Klein

About

Kristin Klein researches the intersections of art, technology, and education and develops educational formats for critical action, speculative thinking, and co-creating a more sustainable future.

She is currently working on the project "Climate. Art. Education." at the Berlin University of Arts. From 2016-2021 she was a research associate at the University of Cologne and in 2019/20 took on a teaching position at Bauhaus University Weimar. Previously, she studied cultural studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, art education, German, and educational sciences at TU Dresden, and art history, film, and philosophy at Boston University.

She is a co-editor of the Workbook Arts Education (myow, org, since 2018), the anthology Postdigital Landscapes (2019), and the journal PIAER Texte (since 2020).

::: Ph.D. Dissertation
Navigating the Present, Prototyping the Future.
Art Education in the Context of Digital Cultures (2026).

::: Work focus
Art (pedagogy) in the context of post-digital cultures
Concepts of the future in contemporary art and educational theory

Employment

• Berlin University of the Arts Researcher
  2022 - Present
• Bauhaus University, Weimar Lecturer
  2019 - 2020
• University of Cologne Researcher
  2016 - 2021
• TU Dresden Research assistant
  2014 - 2015
• TU Dresden Tutor and student assistant
  2011 - 2014

Education

• TU Dresden Master of Education
  2013 - 2015
• Boston University
  2013 - 2014
• TU Dresden Bachelor of Education
  2009 - 2012
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  2008 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (6)

• Quirky AI, Data Bending, and Algorithms in Cornrows: Decolonial Practices in Postdigital Art and Education
  Communiars Revista de Imagen Artes y Educación Crítica y Social 2025 DOI: 10.12795/Communiars.2025.i13.04
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• Tab. Tabellen und Träume als Technologien des Wissens
  Doing Research - Wissenschaftspraktiken zwischen Positionierung und Suchanfrage 2022 DOI: 10.1515/9783839456323-043
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• Postdigitale Medienkultur in der Hochschullehre
  Die Materialwerkstatt. Zeitschrift für Konzepte und Arbeitsmaterialien für Lehrer*innenbildung und Unterricht. 2022 DOI: 10.11576/DIMAWE-5780
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• Auditions for Audacity
  Transdisziplinäre Begegnungen zwischen postdigitaler Kunst und Kultureller Bildung 2021 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-32079-9_4
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• Mapping Post-Internet Art
  2021 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16679.83367
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• Post-digital, Post-internet: Propositions for Art Education in the Context of Digital Cultures
  Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education 2021 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73770-2_2
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