Marc Schütze

Museum & Exhibition Technology

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

I make digital art actually work in exhibitions. Old browser art, complex installations, international touring shows - if it needs to run reliably in a museum, that's what I do.

Background

Since 2015, I've worked in the technical department at ZKM - often called the 'digital Bauhaus' and one of the world's first institutions dedicated to media art. My job is making sure digital art actually works when people come to see it.

This means everything from resurrecting 1990s browser art to managing infrastructure for exhibitions that tour 20+ countries. Sometimes it's expensive LiDAR sensors, sometimes it's a Raspberry Pi with a script that presses buttons every hour. Whatever works.