Daniel Irrgang is a scholar in media, art, and culture with a focus on the enactment of knowledge, be it in exhibitions, diagrammatic depictions, or algorithmic practices in art and design. Since October 2024 he is visiting professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICMA), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, subbing/representing the chair for Media Aesthetics and Media Technology.
Between September 2022 and August 2024 Daniel was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre Art as Forum. Here he conducted research on Bruno Latour’s and Peter Weibel’s concept of “Thought Exhibition” (EU Horizon 2020, grant agreement no. 101028379).
He is an affiliated researcher with the Einstein Center Digital Future and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, both in Berlin. At the Weizenbaum Institute he was, until August 2022, senior researcher and deputy head of the Berlin University of the Arts research group ‘Inequality and Digital Sovereignty’ (now: ‘Design, Diversity, and New Commons‘).
Daniel Irrgang completed his doctorate at the University of the Arts Berlin at the Chair of Media Theory/Archaeology of Media on diagrammatics and expanded mind theories. His research topics include visual representations of information from a media theory, art studies, and cognitive science perspective; historiographies and archaeologies of the relationship between artistic and media practices; critical investigations into the premises of human-computer interaction and its roots in Californian Ideology; investigative practices in the field of art and technology; aesthetics of computer-generated imagery; exhibition and curatorial concepts; and epistemological problems in connection with corporeality and media technology.
From January 2018 to November 2019, Daniel coordinated the research seminar “Critical Zones” with Bruno Latour at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. He also contributed to the exhibition catalogue at MIT Press and served as the web editor of the research section of the ZKM exhibition website.
From May 2016 to July 2019 he was research associate in the Media Philosophy and Art Studies department and between May 2016 and March 2018 assistant to the rector at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From 2013 to 2016, he was a research associate at the Chair of Media Theory (Siegfried Zielinski), Institute for Time-Based Media, at the Berlin University of the Arts as well as research supervisor at the Vilém Flusser Archive located there.
Daniel Irrgang is the author and editor of numerous books on the history and theory of media, communication and the arts. Together with Florian Hadler and Alice Soiné, he is also editor of the journal Interface Critique and, together with Siegfried Zielinski and Marcel René Marburger, of the book series International Flusser Lectures. He has also organised various conferences and (co-)curated exhibitions, including at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Einstein Center Digital Future in Berlin and the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Daniel is an editor, along with Florian Hadler and Alice Soiné, of the journal , and, with Siegfried Zielinski and Marcel René Marburger, of the book series ‘’. He has also edited numerous anthologies. Additionally, he has organized various conferences and co-curated exhibitions at venues such as the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Einstein Center Digital Future, and the Berlin Academy of Arts.
From 2008 to 2016, Daniel was a founding member of the communication agency AFKM in Berlin.