I am passionate about culture and digital technologies. My expertise lies in bringing both areas together in a meaningful way. In recent years, I have worked on applying visualisation techniques to cultural collection data and on exploring interaction concepts in the context of digital research approaches in the humanities and museum interpretation with a specific focus on Human-AI Collaboration.
My work is guided by the conviction that digital technologies offer the potential to re-think and re-configure research and practices in the humanities and in cultural institutions, allow us to implement critical and interventionist approaches, and strengthen visitor orientation and accessibility in museums. I believe in the value of collaboration and enjoy working with colleagues from different disciplines, which regularly challenges me to explore new practices and methods. The strongest influences on my academic and applied work have come from fields such as design, human-centred computing, and critical cartography.
My dissertation »Festgeschrieben - Cultural-technical manifestations of museum collection orders and transformative effects of digital technologies« is concerned with the institutionalised form of collecting in European museums. I analyse the effects of digital socio-technical systems in museum collection documentation, especially regarding knowledge representation. For this, I combine a theoretical approach grounded in cultural studies with a practice-oriented perspective informed by critical museology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and visualisation research. Conclusively, I address the question of whether and in what way digital socio-technical systems and algorithmic processes can amplify or trigger »transformative impulses« in the context of museum collecting.
In October 2025 I joined the School of Culture and Design at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin where I am professor for Digital Museum Documentation and Transformation Management in the study programs Museum Studies and Museum Management & Communication.
The »Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities (ADA)« systematically gathers, connects and promotes digital humanities activities at Freie Universität.
Conception and establishment of formats for interdisciplinary knowledge transfer and research at the intersection between computer science, human-centred computing, the humanities and social sciences.
Programmatic, strategic, and scientific development of the overall project. Concept and development of digital applications for museums. Publication and lecture activities. Evaluation and reporting.
Courses on cultural theory, visualisation, and interface design for cultural institutions.
2014 - 2017 — Potsdam, Germany
Research Associate
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Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
Research Associate at the »UCLAB« in the research project »VIKUS - Visualisation of Cultural Collections«. Visualisation research, digital humanities, digital art history, design theory. Conception and writing of research proposals, publication and lecture activities.
2014 - 2014 — Berlin, Germany
Self employed
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freelance work (selection)
VISLAB: Co-Founder - research, website editing and development. WHITE RABBIT: editor online marketing. DREINULL: Production office assistant. Koenig & Clinton Gallery (NY): art fair production & sales at Art Cologne. beamAround: marketing consulting, consulting online presence.
2013 - 2014 — Berlin, Germany
Head of Press & Communications
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me Collectors Room/Stiftung Olbricht
Press work, initiating media partnerships, guided tours, social media communication, website & newsletter editing, collection database integration, print production (Maternity Leave Cover).
2012 - 2013 — Berlin, Germany
Self employed
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freelance work (selection)
Gallery Leo Koenig (NY): Art fair production & sales at Art Cologne. Nowadays: coordinator production office, Hugo Boss Show. Gallery CRONE Berlin: art fair support at abc - art berlin contemporary. Gallery Kornfeld: Editor and co-translator of exhibition catalogue.
Press and public relations for exhibition project, print production and mailings, social media communication, project management, writing and coordination of grant applications, accounting, concept development for website, supervision of CMS implementation.
2011 - 2012 — Berlin, Germany
Project Management & Art Marketing Advisor
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Art for Industry
Project management and event organisation. Consulting and mediation between corporate clients and public institutions. Implementation of marketing strategies in museum cooperations (e.g. with Hamburger Kunsthalle, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin). Collection management, database management.
co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Kassung at the Department of Cultural History and Theory (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn at the Institute for Computer Science (Freie Universität Berlin).
Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, edoc-Server - Open Access publication server of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
In: P. Kuroczynski, P. Bell, L. Dieckmann (Eds.). »Computing Art Reader. Einführung in die digitale Kunstgeschichte«. Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, (Computing in Art and Architecture, Vol. 1).
In: Michael P. Peterson (eds.). Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Selections from the International Cartographic Conference. Springer International Publishing - Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Best exhibit award.
Glinka, K., Iskin, S., Jaguttis, M., Möhre, H., Schmidt, D., Stankovic, S.,
Firmen in der Verantwortung für historisch begangene Verbrechen, das Beispiel Woermann/Deutsche Afrika-Linien
In: Arndt, Krümmel, Schmidt et al. (Eds.): Dierk Schmidt. The Division of the Earth - Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Afrika Conference. Köln: König.
2008 — Book
Glinka, K.,
Das Entstehen von Halbbildung vor dem Hintergrund der Ökonomisierung
In: Steinbrügge, B. (Ed.): EDU TOOL BOX, Cross critique - towards a subjective university. Lüneburg: Halle für Kunst.
4. Teaching
2023 — Visiting Lecturer (October 2023)
Collection Technologies and Human-AI Collaboration,
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA
2022 — Workshop
Digitale Arbeitstreffen »dive in«, Themenbereich »Verbindung digitaler und analoger Formate«,
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
2021 — Workshop at the »Visualizing Open Access« Summer School
Visualization Review and Critique,
FU Berlin in cooperation with Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, HU Berlin and Open Access Büro Berlin
2020 — Workshop
Digitale Strategien für Kultureinrichtungen,
digiS - Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Digitalisierung Berlin
2019 — Seminar
Was soll schon schiefgehen? Kulturtheorie als kritische Gegenwartsreflexion,
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Design Department
2018 — Workshop
Promoting the Museum in the Digital Age,
ICOM - International Council of Museums, Capacity Building Programme at Qatar Museums
2018 — Seminar
Active Archives - Engaging Interfaces,
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences - in collaboration with HyperStudio at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2016 — Seminar
Die Regierung des kreativen Körpers und das erschöpfte Selbst,
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Design Department
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Design Department
2015 — Workshop
Was machen mit den Daten? Museumsdisplay und Museum im Display,
Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin (digiS)
2014 - 2017 — Seminar (Co-teaching)
Visualisierung kultureller Sammlungen,
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
5. Talks(selection)
2025 — Berlin, Germany
Panel: »Open Science und Künstliche Intelligenz in der Wissenschaft«,
Yes, we are open!? Künstliche Intelligenz verantwortungsvoll gestalten, Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin
2024 — Virtual event
#arthistoCast Folge 12: Digitalität und Kunstgeschichte - ein Theorie- und Metagespräch über aktuelle Debatten,
#arthistoCast - der Podcast zur Digitalen Kunstgeschichte (https://doi.org/10.11588/heidicon/1738702), produziert von Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert im Auftrag des Arbeitskreises Digitale Kunstgeschichte
2023 — Berlin, Germany
»Gestaltungsziel: kritische Reflexion. Digitale Vermittlung und datenbasierte Interaktionen aus der Perspektive der Human-Computer Collaboration«,
Roundtable Discussion »Digital Storytelling in Classical Studies«, Freie Universität Berlin
2023 — Los Angeles, USA
»Collection Technologies between Continuity and Transformation«,
Getty Research Institute
2023 — Virtual event
»Computer Vision und Kunstgeschichte: Überlegungen zu einer nachhaltigen Zusammenarbeit«,
Digitaltag Kunstgeschichte 2023: Nachhaltigkeit, Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e.V., Ulmer Verein - Verband für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften e.V. und Arbeitskreis Digitale Kunstgeschichte
2022 — Aachen, Germany
»Alter Kanon, neuer Bias. Machine Learning und Wissensrepräsentation in Museen«,
Training the Archive Conference on »Art and Algorithms«. Ludwig Forum Aachen
2022 — Berlin, Germany
»Wer dient hier wem? Voraussetzungen für kritisch-reflexive Human-AI Collaboration«,
Digital * Humanities im Gespräch, Freie Universität Berlin
2021 — Berlin, Germany
Festrede zum Festakt »Unfassbares Ausstellen«,
»Kein schöner Archiv«, Archiv für immaterielles kulturelles Erbe in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft, von und mit Nuray Demir und Michael Annoff, Leyla Jagiella, Ismahan Wayah, Nesrin Tanç
2021 — Halle/Saale, Germany (virtual event)
»Visitor-Oriented Design Research. Interaktion und Partizipation methodisch gestalten«,
HoloLab #2 - Digitale Ideenwerkstätten im Programm dive in. Kulturstiftung des Bundes
2020 — Berlin, Germany (virtual event)
»Strukturen von Ähnlichkeit - Repräsentation und Verweis in digitalen Sammlungen«,
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2020 — Halle/Saale, Germany (virtual event)
»Wir müssen reden: interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit in Digitalprojekten«,
Digital Lab #1 - Akademie im Fonds Digital. Kulturstiftung des Bundes
2020 — Basel, Switzerland (virtual event)
Online-Talk »Wissensort Museum?«,
Panel with Régine Bonnefoit, Sonja Gasser, Katrin Glinka and Bernd M. Scherer. Kunstmuseum Basel
2020 — Svolvær, Norway (virtual event)
»Imagining the Future: one Project at a time«,
Future Digital Possibilities, CINE TALKS: See the Past - Imagine the Future
2020 — Berlin, Germany (virtual event)
»Gaze-Based Interaction and Object-Centred Learning in Mixed Reality: a Museum Case Study«,
What is the Digital Doing? A Workshop in the Interface. EXC 2020: Temporal Communities
2020 — Stockholm, Sweden (virtual event)
»Digital Technologies in Museums: A Field of Interdisciplinary Research«,
DIGARV Seminar: Digital Tools & Methods
2020 — Jakarta, Indonesia (virtual event)
Keynote: »The Future of Open GLAM«,
Goethe-Institut Indonesien: Festival Retas Budaya
2020 — Düsseldorf & Ulm, Germany (virtual event)
»GLAMs im digitalen Wandel - Barbara K. Fischer & Katrin Glinka im Gespräch«,
nextmuseum.io
2020 — Bologna, Italy (virtual event)
»Visual Representations of Thought: on Museum Displays and Visualization Interfaces«,
9th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS)
2019 — Berlin, Germany
»Anwendungen und Perspektiven der digitalen Geschichtsvermittlung«, Panel-Talk on the occasion of the event »20 Jahre Lebendiges Museum Online (LeMO)«,
Deutsches Historisches Museum and Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
2019 — Heidelberg, Germany
»Visualisation Critique and Critical Visualisations«,