since October 2013

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Research Professor for "Information Visualization & Management".?
Co-director of Urban Complexity Lab together with Prof. Boris M¨¹ller.?
Founding of the research institute and master's program Urban Futures.?
Further teaching in interface design and information sciences.

2012 - 2013

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
research associate (Postdoc) at Culture Lab
"PATINA: Personal Architectonics Through Interactions with Artefacts"?

June - August 2012

Google, Paris, Frankreich
research internship: "Making Data Exploration More Inviting"?

October - December 2011

Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
research internship: "Visualizing Academic Information Spaces"?

July - October 2009

IBM Research, Cambridge, USA
research internship: "Supporting Participation in Large Scale Events"?

2008 - 2012

University of Calgary, Kanada, Department of Computer Science
Ph.D. in Computer Science (GPA: 4,0)
supervisors: Sheelagh Carpendale und Carey Williamson
topic: "Visualization for Search: Exploring Complex and Dynamic Information Spaces"?

May - September 2006

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
research internship at the Centre for Web Research
topic: "Decentralized Photo Sharing on the Web"?

2003 - 2008

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Faculty of Computer Science
Dipl.-Ing. in Computational Visualistics (German grade: 1,2)?

since 2001

freelance web development and visualization design for research laboratories, academic conferences and non-profit organizations

2023

• Ester Scheck, Florian Ledermann, Andrea Binn and Marian D?rk.?Mapping public space in urban neighbourhoods using OpenStreetMap data.?Proceedings of the OSM Science at State of the Map Europe 2023, Dec 2023.
• Sabine de G¨¹nther, Giacomo Nanni, Ilias Kyriazis, Linda Freyberg and Marian D?rk.?Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives.?EVA Berlin: Proceedings of the Electronic Media and Visual Arts conference, pages 333-338, Dec 2023.
• Francesca Morini, Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann and Marian D?rk.?From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism.?IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Nov 2023.
• Ester Scheck, Andrea Binn, Marian D?rk and Florian Ledermann.?A Contemporary Nolli Map: Using OpenStreetMap Data to Represent Urban Public Spaces.?Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association, 6, 223. Aug 2023.
• Giacomo Nanni, Linda Freyberg, Sabine de G¨¹nther and Marian D?rk.?¡°The research is happening in the text fields¡± ¨C Are Linked Open Data and Art History a good match??Digital Humanities conference (DH 2023): Collaboration as Opportunity. Graz, July 2023.
• Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian D?rk and Christian Tominski.?Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization.?Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 42:3, 297-309, June 2023.
• Manuela Garret¨®n, Francesca Morini, Daniela Paz Moyano, Gianna-Carina Gr¨¹n, Denis Parra and Marian D?rk.?Data Stories of Water: Studying the Communicative Role of Data Visualizations within Long-form Journalism.?Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 42:3, 99-110, June 2023
• Manuela Garret¨®n, Francesca Morini, Pablo Celhay, Marian D?rk and Denis Parra.?Attitudinal effects of data visualizations and illustrations in data stories.?TVCG: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Feb 2023.
• Francesca Morini, Marian D?rk and Ester Appelgren.?Sensing What¡¯s New: Considering Ethics When Using Sensor Data in Journalistic Practices.?Digital Journalism,?11:3,?465-483.

2022

• Isabel Meirelles, Marian D?rk and Yanni Loukissas.?Editorial: Information+ 2021 Conference.? Information Design Journal, 27(1):1-4, Dec 2022.
• Hannah Schwan, Jonas Arndt and Marian D?rk.?Disclosure as a critical-feminist design practice for Web-based data stories.? First Monday, 27(11), Nov 2022.
• Francesca Morini, Marian D?rk and Ester Appelgren.?Sensing What¡¯s New: Considering Ethics When Using Sensor Data in Journalistic Practices.?Digital Journalism, Oct 2022.
• Sara Akhlaq, Arran Ridley, Mark-Jan Bludau and Marian D?rk.?Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation. DH Benelux 2022: RE-MIX. Creation and alteration in DH, June 2022.
• Sina Menzel, Mark-Jan Bludau, Elena Leitner, Marian D?rk, Juli¨¢n Moreno Schneider, Vivien Petras and Georg Rehm.?Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources.?Graph Technologies in the Humanities - Proceedings 2020. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (3110), pages 123-149, March 2022.
• Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Christopher Pietsch und Marian D?rk.?Von der Wolke zum Pfad: Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen. DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Ged?chtnisses, M?rz 2022.
• Mark-Jan Bludau, Thorsten Halling, Eva Maria Holly, Jasmin Wieloch, Hannes Schnaitter, Sandra Balck, Melina Plakidis, Georg Rehm, Heiner Fangerau und Marian D?rk.?Was sehe ich? Visualisierungsstrategien f¨¹r Datentransparenz in der Historischen Netzwerkanalyse. DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Ged?chtnisses, M?rz 2022.

2021

• Pauline Junginger and Marian D?rk.?Categorizing Queer Identities: An Analysis of Archival Practices Using the Concept of Boundary Objects. Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 19 (Fall), pages 66-79, Dec 2021.
• Andrea Scholz, Thiago da Costa Oliveira and Marian D?rk.?Infrastructure as digital tools and knowledge practices: Connecting the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin with Amazonian Indigenous Communities. Digitalisierung ethnologischer Sammlungen: Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis, pages 299-315, transcript, Sep 2021.
• Kendra Wannamaker, Sandeep Kollannur, Marian D?rk and Wesley Willett.?I/O Bits: User-Driven, Situated, and Dedicated Self-Tracking. DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, pages 523¨C537, June 2021.
• Fabian Ehmel, Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann and Marian D?rk.?Topography of Violence: Considerations for Ethical and Collaborative Visualization Design. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis). 40(3):13-24, June 2021.
• Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian D?rk and Christian Tominski. Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs. Poster at Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), June 2021.
• Tobias Kauer, Arran Ridley, Marian D?rk and Benjamin Bach. The Public Life of Data: Investigating Reactions to Visualizations on Reddit. CHI 2021: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, May 2021.
• Sarah Goodwin, Sebastian Meier, Lyn Bartram, Alex Godwin, Till Nagel and Marian D?rk. Unravelling the Human Perspective and Considerations for Urban Data Visualization. IEEE 14th Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), pages 121-125, April 2021.
• Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian D?rk and Frank Heidmann. Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(Supplement 2):ii17¨Cii29, March 2021.

2020

• Marian D?rk, Boris M¨¹ller, Jan-Erik Stange, Johannes Herseni and Katja Dittrich. Co-Designing Visualizations for Information Seeking and Knowledge Management. Open Information Science, 4(1):217-235, Dec 2020.
• Pauline Junginger, Dennis Ostendorf, Barbara Avila Vissirini, Anastasia Voloshina, Timo Hausmann, Sarah Kreiseler and Marian D?rk. The Close-up Cloud: Visualizing Details of Image Collections in Dynamic Overviews. International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 5, pages 6.2-6.13, Dec 2020.
• Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau und Marian D?rk. Zwischen Distanz und N?he. Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen. Das digitale Objekt ¨C Zwischen Depot und Internet, Seiten 115-123, Deutsches Museum Studies, Band 7, Okt 2020.
• Barbara Avila Vissirini, Franziska Morlok and Marian D?rk. A Visual System for Grammar Instruction in Foreign Language Learning. ECLL2020: Proceedings of the European Conference on Language Learning, Sep 2020.
• Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau and Marian D?rk. The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 14:3, Aug 2020.
• Magdalena Kovarik and Marian D?rk. Postdigital Art in Design Education. xCoAx 2020: Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, pages 74-86, July 2020.
• Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Anna Busch and Marian D?rk.?Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data.?Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis). 39(3), May 2020.
• Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau und Marian D?rk. Die Falte: Ein Denkraum f¨¹r interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen. DHd 2020 Paderborn - Spielr?ume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation, M?rz 2020.
• Philipp Geuder, Marie Claire Leidinger, Martin von Lupin, Marian D?rk and Tobias Schr?der. Emosaic: Visualizing Affective Content of Text at Varying Granularity. arXiv cs.HC, Feb 2020.

2019

• Judith Ackermann, Marian D?rk und Hanne Seitz. PKKB: Postdigitale Kunstpraktiken. ?sthetische Begegnungen zwischen Aneignung, Produktion und Vermittlung. Forschung zur Digitalisierung in der Kulturellen Bildung, Seiten 173-184, kopaed, Okt 2019.
• Tobias Kauer, Benjamin Bach and Marian D?rk. Participatory Deep Maps: Towards Discursive User Engagement With Data Visualizations. CityVis: 2nd Workshop on Urban Data at IEEE VIS, Oct 2019.
• Hannah Schwan, Janina Jacke, Rabea Kleymann, Jan-Erik Stange and Marian D?rk. Narrelations ¡ª Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 13:3, Oct 2019.
• Tobias Schr?der und Marian D?rk (Hg.) mit Beitr?gen von Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs Urbane Zukunft. St?dte der Zukunft modellieren, visualisieren, transformieren: Das Beispiel Eberswalde. Verlag der Fachhochschule Potsdam, Sep 2019.
• Pauline Junginger, Dennis Ostendorf, Barbara Avila Vissirini, Anastasia Voloshina, Sarah Kreiseler and Marian D?rk. Close-Up Cloud: Gaining A Sense Of Overview From Many Details. DH 2019 Utrecht ¨C Complexities, July 2019.
• Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian D?rk and Frank Heidmann. Relational Perspectives as Situated Visualizations of Art Collections. DH 2019 Utrecht ¨C Complexities, July 2019.
• Florian Windhager, Paolo Federico, G¨¹nther Schreder, Katrin Glinka, Marian D?rk, Silvia Miksch and Eva Mayr. Visualization of cultural heritage collection data: State of the art and future challenges. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(6): 2311¨C2330, June 2019.
• Anna Busch, Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Marian D?rk, Kristina Genzel, Klaus-Peter M?ller, Sabine Seifert und Peer Trilcke. Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ?Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes?. DHd 2019 Frankfurt & Mainz - Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal, M?rz 2019.

2018

• Katrin Glinka und Marian D?rk. Zwischen Repr?sentation und Rezeption ¨C Visualisierung als Facette von Analyse und Argumentation in der Kunstgeschichte. Computing Art Reader ¡ú Einf¨¹hrung in die digitale Kunstgeschichte. arthistoricum.net, Seiten 235-250, Dez 2018.
• Heike Otten, Lennart Hildebrandt, Till Nagel, Marian D?rk and Boris M¨¹ller. Shifted Maps: Revealing spatio-temporal topologies in movement data VISAP¡¯18: Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Arts Program, Oct 2018.
• Flavio Gortana, Franziska von Tenspolde, Daniela Guhlmann and Marian D?rk. Off the Grid: Visualizing a Numismatic Collection as Dynamic Piles and Streams. Open Library of Humanities (Remaking Collections), 4(2), Oct 2018.
• Mitchell Whitelaw, Geoff Hinchcliffe, Tim Sherratt and Marian D?rk (Co-Eds.). Remaking Collections. Open Library of Humanities, April 2018.
• Florian Windhager, Katrin Glinka, Eva Mayr, G¨¹nther Schreder und Marian D?rk. Zur Weiterentwicklung des ¡°cognition support¡±: Sammlungsvisualisierungen als Austragungsort kritisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung. DHd 2018 K?ln - Kritik der digitalen Vernunft, Feb 2018.
• Marian D?rk und Katrin Glinka. Der Sammlung gerecht werden: Kritisch-generative Methoden zur Konzeption experimenteller Visualisierungen DHd 2018 K?ln - Kritik der digitalen Vernunft, Feb 2018.
• Fanny Chevalier, Melanie Tory, Bongshin Lee, Jarke van Wijk, Giuseppe Santucci, Marian D?rk and Jessica Hullman. From Analysis to Communication Supporting the Lifecycle of a Story Data-Driven Storytelling. CRC Press, pages 169-202, March 2018.
• Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Katja Dittrich, Marian D?rk, Johannes Herseni, Jens Rauenbusch und Fidel Thomet. Die bibliografischen Daten der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek entfalten. Dialog mit Bibliotheken, Seiten 11-16, Jan 2018.

2017

• Marian D?rk, Boris M¨¹ller, Stephanie Neumann, Johannes Herseni, Katrin Glinka, Katja Dittrich, Christopher Pietsch, Linda Freyberg and Jan-Erik Stange. Urban complexity lab. interactions, 24(5), pages 16-19, Sep 2017.
• Marian D?rk, Christopher Pietsch, and Gabriel Credico. One view is not enough: High-level visualizations of a large cultural collection. Information Design Journal. 23:1, July 2017.
• Stephanie Neumann, Richard Banks, and Marian D?rk. Memory Dialogue: Exploring Artefact-Based Memory Sharing. alt.chi 2017: Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, pages 884-895, May 2017.
• Sarah Kreiseler, Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, and Marian D?rk. Tracing exploratory modes in digital collections of museum Web sites using reverse information architecture. First Monday. 22:4, April 2017.
• Kim Albrecht, Marian D?rk and Boris M¨¹ller. Culturegraphy.?Leonardo. 50(2):209-201, MIT Press, April 2017.
• Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, and Marian D?rk. Past Visions and Reconciling Views: Visualizing Time, Texture and Themes in Cultural Collections. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 11:2, March 2017.
• Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch und Marian D?rk.?Von sammlungsspezifischen Visualisierungen zu nachnutzbaren Werkzeugen.? DHd 2017 Bern - Digitale Nachhaltigkeit, Feb 2017.

2016

• Viktoria Br¨¹ggemann, Sarah Kreiseler, and Marian D?rk.?Museale Best?nde im Web: Eine Untersuchung von acht digitalen Sammlungen EVA Berlin: Proceedings of the Electronic Media and Visual Arts conference, pages 227-236, Nov 2016.
• Till Nagel, Christopher Pietsch, and Marian D?rk.?Staged Analysis: From Evocative to Comparative Visualizations of Urban Mobility. VISAP¡¯16: Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Arts Program, 2016.
• Jan-Erik Stange and Marian D?rk.?Visualizing the spatiality in fictional narratives. Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS, 2016.
• Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Carsten Dilba, and Marian D?rk. Linking Structure, Texture and Context in a Visualization of Historical Drawings by Frederick William IV (1795-1861). International Journal for Digital Art History, No 2, 2016.
• Owen Gaffney, Marian D?rk, Jason Dykes, Greg McInerny, and Denise Young.?Rewiring science-policy with visual information design.??Future Earth Media Lab ¨C Medium, 16 Oct 2016.
• Michael Prytula, Tobias Schr?der, Marian D?rk, Michael Ortgiese, Antje Michel, Heike Neuroth und Janina Lehmann. Transformation lernen: Der Masterstudiengang Urbane Zukunft an der Fachhochschule Potsdam.??Transforming Cities, Seiten 76-79, Sep 2016.
• Martin von Lupin, Philipp Geuder, Marie Claire Leidinger, Tobias Schr?der und Marian D?rk.?Emosaic: Visualisierung von Emotionen in Texten durch Farbumwandlung zur Analyse und Exploration. DHd 2016 Leipzig ¨C Modellierung - Vernetzung ¨C Visualisierung, M?rz 2016.
• Julian Stahnke, Marian D?rk, Boris M¨¹ller and Andreas Thom.?Probing projections: Interaction techniques for interpreting arrangements and errors of dimensionality reductions.? TVCG: Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings InfoVis 2015). 22(1):629-638, Jan 2016.

2015

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• Tom Schofield, David Kirk, Telmo Amaral, Marian D?rk, Mitchell Whitelaw, Guy Schofield and Thomas Ploetz. Archival Liveness: Designing with Collections Before and During Cataloguing and Digitization.?DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 9:3, Dec 2015.
• Katrin Glinka und Marian D?rk. Museum im Display. Visualisierung kultureller Sammlungen (Vikus).?EVA Berlin: Proceedings of the Electronic Media and Visual Arts conference, Seiten 21-27, Nov 2015.
• Jonas Parnow and Marian D?rk. Micro Visualization: Data-driven typography and graphical text enhancement.?Poster at IEEE VIS, Oct 2015.
• Heike Otten, Lennart Hildebrandt, Till Nagel, Marian D?rk and Boris M¨¹ller.?Are there networks in maps? An experimental visualization of personal movement data.?Paper at IEEE VIS Personal Visualization Workshop, Oct 2015.
• Katrin Glinka, Sebastian Meier and Marian D?rk.?Visualising the ?Un?seen?: Towards Critical Approaches and Strategies of Inclusion in Digital Cultural Heritage Interfaces Kultur und Informatik 2015 (Culture and Computer Science), vwh, pages 105-117, May 2015.
• Marian D?rk and Dawn Knight.?WordWanderer: A Navigational Approach to Text Visualisation Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, 10(1), pages 83-94. April 2015.

2014

• Johannes Landstorfer, Ivo Herrmann, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian D?rk and Reto Wettach.?Weaving a Carpet from Log Entries: a Network Security Visualization Built with Co-Creation. VAST 2014: Proceedings of IEEE Symposium On Visual Analytics Science And Technology, Nov 2014.
• Jan-Erik Stange, Johannes Landstorfer, Marian D?rk and Reto Wettach.?Visual Filter: Graphical Exploration of Network Security Log Files. VizSec '14: Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security (IEEE VIS 2014), pages 41-48, Nov 2014.
• Marian D?rk, Rob Comber and Martyn Dade-Robertson.?Monadic Exploration: Seeing the Whole Through Its Parts. CHI 2014: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, pages 1535¨C1544, April 2014.?
• Ko-Le Chen, Marian D?rk and Martyn Dade-Robertson.?Exploring the Promises and Potentials of Visual Archive Interfaces. Proceedings of the 2014 iConference, pages 735-741, March 2014.
• Cody Coljee-Gray, Marian D?rk and Sheelagh Carpendale.?Visually Exploring Books Along Their Subject Headings. Proceedings of the 2014 iConference, pages 729-734, March 2014.
• Marian D?rk.?Visualisierung Kultureller Sammlungen. Posterpr?sentation beim 3. Einstein-Zirkel Digital Humanities Workshop, Berlin, Feb 2014.