About
Julian Netzer is an artist, media designer and lecturer based in Berlin. In 2020, he completed his master's degree in New Media at the Berlin University of the Arts.
His work spans interactive installations, sculptural objects and video pieces that explore the entanglement of human and machine perception — the moments where algorithmic systems mimic or misread human behavior, and where we project meaning onto their outputs.
Early works like cv.apophenia(); (2017) and Edges of Understanding (2019) examine how humans interpret computational processes, while GOTCHA (2020) and Trying since xx/xx/xxxx xx:xx (2020) probe the uncanny threshold where we begin to attribute agency to digital avatars. More recent works expand into broader sociotechnical territory: Blissful (2023) stages a machine confidently narrating cloud shapes it misrecognizes, All Square (2024) places humanoid ML agents in virtual training environments to reflect on simulated labor, and The One Best Way (2025) traces the logic of optimization from Taylorist scientific management to contemporary ML-driven workplace surveillance.
As a freelancer, he develops software for realtime 3D applications, mixed reality experiences and interactive installations. From 2021 to 2025, he was artistic researcher and lecturer at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and part of the research group +dimensions.
His works have been shown at EMAF INIT, Vienna Art Week, transmediale Vorspiel and Luminafest, among others.
He lives and works in Berlin.
Say hello at: hello[at]juliannetzer.de
CV
| 2021–2025 | Artistic researcher and lecturer at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin |
| 2016– | Media artist & freelance media designer |
Education
| 2019–2020 | Master, New Media Class, Berlin University of the Arts |
| 2015–2019 | Bachelor, New Media Class, Berlin University of the Arts |
| 2014–2015 | Art History, University Leipzig |
Awards & Nominations
| 2023 | Shortlist Kunstpreis Haus am Kleistpark Haus am Kleistpark Berlin |
Group Shows (Selection)
| 2026 | Vorspiel transmediale, S29, Berlin |
| 2025 | Symposium Spacing – Lernen zwischen Räumen, Bauhaus Uni Weimar |
| 2025 | Soft Spaces, Shared Grounds, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin |
| 2024 | Luminafest, Amberg/Weiden |
| 2024 | "Morph City - Eyes Everywhere", Berlin |
| 2023 | "Punctum", Haus am Kleistpark, Kunstpreis Haus am Kleistpark |
| 2020 | "Future Playground", Reeperbahnfestival Hamburg |
| 2020 | "First Person Plural", EMAF INIT |
| 2015–2020 | Rundgang UdK Berlin |
| 2017 | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Berlin |
| 2017 | "processing", Vienna Art Week |
| 2016 | "moving images underground", Berlin |
| 2016 | "Visuelle Musik", Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Berlin |
Teaching & Workshops (Selection)
| 2025 | Workshop "Einführung in die künstlerische Praxis des Worldbuildings in Unity3D" @ bbk berlin |
| 2025 | Seminar "Die sieben(?) Todsünden" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge & Anja Tiedjens |
| 2024-2025 | Seminar "Complexity" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge |
| 2024 | Workshop "Worlds of Stories. Stories of Worlds." @ Shanghai Institute for Visual Arts |
| 2024 | Seminar "Looking backward, looking forward? - AI and the future of work" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Matthias Hübner |
| 2024 | Workshop "From Code to Pixel. From Pixel to Space." @ Shanghai Institute for Visual Arts |
| 2024 | Workshop "Climate Reality - Interactive AR Posters" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge & Mark-Jan Bludau |
| 2023 | Seminar "Climate Reality" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge & Mark-Jan Bludau |
| 2023 | Seminar "Unlearning for the Chtuluscene" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge |
| 2023 | Seminar "Speculative Social Media" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge |
| 2022–2023 | Seminar "Coexisting Realities" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge |
| 2022–2023 | Seminar "Farewell Fantastic Earth?" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Madeleine Madej |
| 2022 | Seminar in the Gutshof Sauen @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Stefanie Rau & Matthias Hübner |
| 2022 | Seminar "Edge of Chaos" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge |
| 2022 | Workshop "Serious Games" @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin with Prof. Barbara Junge |
| 2022 | Workshop Introduction to Augmentend Reality @ weißensee kunsthochschule berlin |
| 2021 | Workshop Storytelling in Virtual Reality @ Fouqué-Bibliothek Brandenburg with Chris Höhn |
| 2021–2022 | Seminar "Design Computation" @ TH Brandenburg teaching assistant, with Prof. Alexander Peterhänsel and Chris Höhn |
| 2021 | Seminar "Generative Design" @ TH Brandenburg teaching assistant, with Prof. Alexander Peterhänsel and Chris Höhn |
Contact
Say hello at: hello[at]juliannetzer.de
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