how to
the unknown?
Florian Hadler advocates for new narratives around society-centered technology and runs initiatives strengthening the societal impact of arts and design.
He develops and implements strategies for organizations and brands, targeting c-level decision processes around technology, design, communication, and change management in the public and private sector.
His portfolio ranges from co-founding, developing, and managing startups, studios, and industry networks to designing and production of international award-winning products, services, and media.
In his capacity as visiting professor for Creative Entrepreneurship at the Berlin University of the Arts, he focuses on building bridges between academia and decision-makers in politics and industry. His academic background is in communication, media theory, and philosophy, where he obtained a Diploma and a Dr. phil. (summa).
VENTURES
STATE Productions GmbH
Partner since 2021
STATE is a multidisciplinary studio, enabling transformation in the cultural sector through strategy, design and technology.
To cultivate and amplify brands and organizations that make sense.
25A0 GmbH
Founder since 2019
25A0 is a management consultancy, navigating complexity with purpose-driven strategies and the co-creative development of shared visions.
To design strategic moves with tangible business results.
Berlin University of the Arts
Visiting Professor for Creative Entrepreneurship since 2020
Building bridges between academia, industry and politics and developing new narratives for human technology.
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.
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.
Studio Yukiko
Associate Strategy since 2020
YUKIKO is an award-winning international creative studio specializing in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, and graphic design for cultural and commercial clients, immersed in the internet and youth culture trends.
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.
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.
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
Depth of Field
Interface Critique Journal Vol. 3, 2021
How can we think about and focus on the depth of the interface?
Navigating the Human
Interface Critique Journal Vol. 2, 2019
Just as the human is always under way, technology remains ingrained in every step and every shape.
Beyond UX
Interface Critique Journal Vol. 1, 2018
Interfaces impact our relation to the world, while governing us through immersion and engagement.
Turing Complete User
Book Series Interface Critique Vol.1 by Olia Lialina, 2021
Collected essays from net-art pioneer Olia Lialina, resisting alienation in human-computer interaction.
Interface Critique
Edited Monograph, 2016
A multidisciplinary discourse about the interface as a cultural and historical artifact.
Dialektik des Geheimen
Monograph, 2019
The secret is a powerful leitmotif for culture and aesthetics and a necessary condition of the absolute.
Genealogie des Mediendenkens
Conversations between Siegfried Zielinski and Media Thinkers, 2017
What was the medium? Artistic and scientific discourses on the genealogy of media thinking.
Was erzählt Pop?
Edited Monograph, 2018
Exploring Pop as an aesthetic for the third millenium.
Geheimnis - Stimmungsatlas
Kleiner Stimmungsatlas in Einzelbänden, 2014
Following the phantasm of the secret through language, paranoia, silence and seduction.
ELSEWHERE
how to
the unknown?
Florian Hadler advocates for new narratives around society-centered technology and runs initiatives strengthening the societal impact of arts and design.
He develops and implements strategies for organizations and brands, targeting c-level decision processes around technology, design, communication, and change management in the public and private sector.
His portfolio ranges from co-founding, developing, and managing startups, studios, and industry networks to designing and production of international award-winning products, services, and media.
In his capacity as visiting professor for Creative Entrepreneurship at the Berlin University of the Arts, he focuses on building bridges between academia and decision-makers in politics and industry. His academic background is in communication, media theory, and philosophy, where he obtained a Diploma and a Dr. phil. (summa).
VENTURES
STATE Productions GmbH
Partner since 2021
STATE is a multidisciplinary studio, enabling transformation in the cultural sector through strategy, design and technology.
To cultivate and amplify brands and organizations that make sense.
25A0 GmbH
Founder since 2019
25A0 is a management consultancy, navigating complexity with purpose-driven strategies and the co-creative development of shared visions.
To design strategic moves with tangible business results.
Berlin University of the Arts
Visiting Professor for Creative Entrepreneurship since 2020
Building bridges between academia, industry and politics and developing new narratives for human technology.
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.
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.
Studio Yukiko
Director Strategy since 2020
YUKIKO is an award-winning international creative studio specializing in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, and graphic design for cultural and commercial clients, immersed in the internet and youth culture trends.
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.
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
Depth of Field
Interface Critique Journal Vol. 3, 2021
How can we think about and focus on the depth of the interface?
Navigating the Human
Interface Critique Journal Vol. 2, 2019
Just as the human is always under way, technology remains ingrained in every step and every shape.
Beyond UX
Interface Critique Journal Vol. 1, 2018
Interfaces impact our relation to the world, while governing us through immersion and engagement.
Turing Complete User
Book Series Interface Critique Vol.1 by Olia Lialina, 2021
Collected essays from net-art pioneer Olia Lialina, resisting alienation in human-computer interaction.
Interface Critique
Edited Monograph, 2016
A multidisciplinary discourse about the interface as a cultural and historical artifact.
Dialektik des Geheimen
Monograph, 2019
The secret is a powerful leitmotif for culture and aesthetics and a necessary condition of the absolute.
Genealogie des Mediendenkens
Conversations between Siegfried Zielinski and Media Thinkers, 2017
What was the medium? Artistic and scientific discourses on the genealogy of media thinking.
Was erzählt Pop?
Edited Monograph, 2018
Exploring Pop as an aesthetic for the third millenium.
Geheimnis - Stimmungsatlas
Kleiner Stimmungsatlas in Einzelbänden, 2014
Following the phantasm of the secret through language, paranoia, silence and seduction.
ELSEWHERE