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VENTURES

STATE Productions GmbH

Partner and Managing Director since 2021

STATE is a creative studio that creates, transforms and amplifies brands and institutions that make sense, delivering uniquely tailored solutions to strategic, technological and design challenges.

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Berlin University of the Arts

Visiting Professor for Creative Entrepreneurship since 2020

Building bridges between academia, industry and politics and strengthening the societal impact of arts and design.

LINK

25A1

Partner since 2023

25A1 is unicode for white square and a research and consulting office for museums and archives, implementing change to strengthen the societal impact of cultural heritage.

LINK

Interface Critique

Founder since 2014

Interface Critique is an academic journal, book series and platform, facilitating trans-disciplinary dialogues about human-machine interaction and bridging gaps between art, science and technology.

LINK

Agents of Transformation

Co-founder since 2021

Agents of Transformation is a student-driven platform for systemic changes through arts and design, connecting the next generation with decision makers in politics and industry.

LINK

25A0 GmbH 

Founder since 2019

25A0 is unicode for black square and a strategy and research office at the intersection of culture, arts, and science, conducting commissioned and self-initiated ventures, partnering with clients from the public and private sector.

LINK

AKA-AKI Networks GmbH

Co-founder, 2006-2011

aka-aki was a location-based mobile social network that showed you interesting people nearby and enabled you to get in touch again with the ones you have met - before the iPhone and way before tinder. Failed successfully in 2011 after burning through several millions of venture capital.

LINK

ESNG

Co-founder, 2011-2014

The European Social Networks Group (ESNG) was an interest group comprised of the largest European social media networks (most of them are now extinct) and was advocating for a leveled playing field for the digital economy in Europe, eg. general data protection regulations and the European digital single market.

Berlin University of the Arts

Visiting Professor Media Theory, 2017-2019

Teaching history and philosophy of human-machine interaction, conducting seminars on ai-driven conversational interfaces and digital culture.

BOOKS

Diagrammatic Operations

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 4, 2023

buy for €29,90

Diagrammatic operations are – as practices of interfacing – always already specific types of ‘interface operations.’

LINK

Depth of Field

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 3, 2021

buy for €32,90

How can we think about and focus on the depth of the interface?

LINK

Navigating the Human

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 2, 2019

buy for €29,90

Just as the human is always under way, technology remains ingrained in every step and every shape.

LINK

Beyond UX

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 1, 2018

buy for €24,90

Interfaces impact our relation to the world, while governing us through immersion and engagement.

LINK

Turing Complete User

Book Series Interface Critique Vol.1 by Olia Lialina, 2021

buy for €49,90

Collected essays from net-art pioneer Olia Lialina, resisting alienation in human-computer interaction.

LINK

Interface Critique

Edited Monograph, 2016

buy for €29,80

A multidisciplinary discourse about the interface as a cultural and historical artifact.

LINK

Genealogie des Mediendenkens

Conversations between Siegfried Zielinski and Media Thinkers, 2017

buy for €34,80

What was the medium? Artistic and scientific discourses on the genealogy of media thinking.

LINK

 

Dialektik des Geheimen

Monograph, 2019

buy for €29,80

The secret is a powerful leitmotif for culture and aesthetics and a necessary condition of the absolute.

LINK

Was erzählt Pop?

Edited Monograph, 2018

buy for €29,90

Exploring Pop as an aesthetic for the third millenium.

LINK

Geheimnis - Stimmungsatlas

Kleiner Stimmungsatlas in Einzelbänden, 2014

buy for €12,00

Following the phantasm of the secret through language, paranoia, silence and seduction.

LINK

ABOUT

Florian Hadler works as an author, researcher, and entrepreneur in the realm of digital culture, aesthetics, strategy, and transformation. He studied communication, media theory, and philosophy and obtained a Dr. phil. focusing on the cultural dynamics of the unknown.

In his capacity as visiting professor for creative entrepreneurship at the Berlin University of the Arts he builds bridges between academia, politics, and industry, strengthening the societal impact of arts and design, and advocates for new narratives for society-centered technology. He has lectured at various universities, is the founder of the interface critique journal and of the Agents of Transformation Platform, and editor of numerous books.

As partner and managing director of the creative studio STATE Productions, he develops and implements strategies for the public and private sector, targeting decision processes around technology, design, communication, and change. His entrepreneurial portfolio ranges from co-founding and managing technology startups, creative studios, and industry networks to designing and production of international award-winning products, services, and media.

Across his roles he collaborates and works with organizations such as the European Commission, the New European Bauhaus, Deutsche Telekom, and Volkswagen Group. Florian enjoys complexity and believes that visualizing thoughts can solve a lot of problems.

 

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how to

the unknown?

VENTURES

STATE Productions GmbH

Partner and Managing Director since 2021

STATE is a creative studio that creates, transforms and amplifies brands and institutions that make sense, delivering uniquely tailored solutions to strategic, technological and design challenges.

LINK

Berlin University of the Arts

Visiting Professor for Creative Entrepreneurship since 2020

Building bridges between academia, industry and politics and strengthening the societal impact of arts and design.

LINK

25A0 GmbH 

Founder since 2019

25A0 is unicode for black square and a strategy and research office at the intersection of culture, arts, and science, conducting commissioned and self-initiated ventures, partnering with clients from the public and private sector.

LINK

25A1

Partner since 2023

25A1 is unicode for white square and a research and consulting office for museums and archives, implementing change to strengthen the societal impact of cultural heritage.

LINK

Interface Critique

Founder since 2014

Interface Critique is an academic journal, book series and platform, facilitating trans-disciplinary dialogues about human-machine interaction and bridging gaps between art, science and technology.

LINK

Agents of Transformation

Co-founder since 2021

Agents of Transformation is a student-driven platform for systemic changes through arts and design, connecting the next generation with decision makers in politics and industry.

LINK

Berlin University of the Arts

Visiting Professor Media Theory, 2017-2019

Teaching history and philosophy of human-machine interaction, conducting seminars on ai-driven conversational interfaces and digital culture.

AKA-AKI Networks GmbH

Co-founder, 2006-2011

aka-aki was a location-based mobile social network that showed you interesting people nearby and enabled you to get in touch again with the ones you have met - before the iPhone and way before tinder. Failed successfully in 2011 after burning through several millions of venture capital.

LINK

ESNG

Co-founder, 2011-2014

The European Social Networks Group (ESNG) was an interest group comprised of the largest European social media networks (most of them are now extinct) and was advocating for a leveled playing field for the digital economy in Europe, eg. general data protection regulations and the European digital single market.

BOOKS

Diagrammatic Operations

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 4, 2023

buy for €29,90

Diagrammatic operations are – as practices of interfacing – always already specific types of ‘interface operations.’

LINK

Depth of Field

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 3, 2021

buy for €32,90

How can we think about and focus on the depth of the interface?

LINK

Navigating the Human

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 2, 2019

buy for €29,90

Just as the human is always under way, technology remains ingrained in every step and every shape.

LINK

Beyond UX

Interface Critique Journal Vol. 1, 2018

buy for €24,90

Interfaces impact our relation to the world, while governing us through immersion and engagement.

LINK

Turing Complete User

Book Series Interface Critique Vol.1 by Olia Lialina, 2021

buy for €49,90

Collected essays from net-art pioneer Olia Lialina, resisting alienation in human-computer interaction.

LINK

Interface Critique

Edited Monograph, 2016

buy for €29,80

A multidisciplinary discourse about the interface as a cultural and historical artifact.

LINK

Dialektik des Geheimen

Monograph, 2019

buy for €29,80

The secret is a powerful leitmotif for culture and aesthetics and a necessary condition of the absolute.

LINK

Genealogie des Mediendenkens

Conversations between Siegfried Zielinski and Media Thinkers, 2017

buy for €34,80

What was the medium? Artistic and scientific discourses on the genealogy of media thinking.

LINK

 

Was erzählt Pop?

Edited Monograph, 2018

buy for €29,90

Exploring Pop as an aesthetic for the third millenium.

LINK

Geheimnis - Stimmungsatlas

Kleiner Stimmungsatlas in Einzelbänden, 2014

buy for €12,00

Following the phantasm of the secret through language, paranoia, silence and seduction.

LINK

ELSEWHERE

Google Scholar 

 

LinkedIn

 

Instagram

Florian Hadler works as an author, researcher, and entrepreneur in the realm of digital culture, aesthetics, strategy, and transformation. He studied communication, media theory, and philosophy and obtained a Dr. phil. focusing on the cultural dynamics of the unknown.

 

In his capacity as visiting professor for creative entrepreneurship at the Berlin University of the Arts he builds bridges between academia, politics, and industry, strengthening the societal impact of arts and design, and advocates for new narratives for society-centered technology. He has lectured at various universities, is the founder of the interface critique journal and of the Agents of Transformation Platform, and editor of numerous books.

 

As partner and managing director of the creative studio STATE Productions, he develops and implements strategies for the public and private sector, targeting decision processes around technology, design, communication, and change. His entrepreneurial portfolio ranges from co-founding and managing technology startups, creative studios, and industry networks to designing and production of international award-winning products, services, and media.

 

Across his roles he collaborates and works with organizations such as the European Commission, the New European Bauhaus, Deutsche Telekom, and Volkswagen Group. Florian enjoys complexity and believes that visualizing thoughts can solve a lot of problems.

 

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