Mark-Jan Bludau, M.A.
Academic assistant at UCLAB in the research project "GraDiM: Granularitäten von Zerstreuung und Materialität – Visualisierung eines Fotoarchivs über Diaspora"
CV
Academic education:
- since Apr. 2021: Doctoral studies, University of Rostock, Computer Science (Data Visualisation)
- Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2017: Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Design (Interface Design)
- Aug. 2012 - Feb. 2013: Semester abroad, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Diseño Gráfico
- Sep. 2010 - Feb. 2015: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Communication Design
Main fields of activity (research, teaching)
Main areas of activity:
- Data visualisation and digital humanities
- Explorative Interfaces
- Cultural Collection Visualisation
- InfoVis Research
- Hierarchical data and networks
- Fluid interaction and animated transitions
- Cultural Heritage Data
- Omeka S Database
- Historical Network Analysis
- Co-Design
Awards:
- Design Award Brandenburg (2019): Winner Young Professional. Für »Reading Traces: Visualizing Fontane's Reference Library«.
- Information Is Beautiful Award (2015): Gold. Für »Rare Earth Elements – Infographic Series«.
- ADC Awards – Corporate Publishing – Extern (2015): Bronze. Mit dem Team von Golden Section Graphics, für »Saisonbroschüre des Symphonieorchesters des BR».
- IIID Student Award (2014): Gold. Für »Energy Infographics: Energiewende Indeland«.
Research focus
- Academic assistant at UCLAB in the research project "GraDiM: Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality - Visualisation of a Photo Archive on Diaspora" with a focus on data visualisation and digital humanities
Publications at FHP from 2018 onwards (according to core data set for research)
2025
- Bludau, M.-J., Dörk, M., Bruckner, S., & Tominski, C. (2025). Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations. Computer Graphics Forum, 44(3), Article e70152. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70152
- Brüggemann, V., Bludau, M.-J., Kreiseler, S., Casavola, S., Pomerance, J., & Dörk, M. (2025). Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora. Medaon, 19(36), 1–19. https://www.medaon.de/de/artikel/granularities-of-dispersion-and-materiality-visualizing-a-photo-archive-about-the-jewish-diaspora/
- Brüggemann, V., Bludau, M.-J., & Dörk, M. (2025). Laying it all out: Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces. In G. D. R. Riande, M. Portela, D. Alves, & J. V. Paulino (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2025: Book of Abstracts. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18935041
- Windhager, F., Lamqaddam, H., Bludau, M.-J., Jacomy, M., Freyberg, L., Grandjean, M., & Hinrichs, U. (2025). Visualization & the Humanities: Bridging Communities, Building Practices. In G. D. R. Riande, M. Portela, D. Alves, & J. V. Paulino (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2025: Book of Abstracts (pp. 62–64). Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19696752
2024
- Windhager, F., Abdul-Rahman, A., Bludau, M.-J., Hengesbach, N., Lamqaddam, H., Meirelles, I., Speckmann, B., & Corell, M. (2024). Complexity as Design Material: Position Paper. In Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Ed.), 2024 IEEE Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization: BELIV 2024 (pp. 71–80). https://doi.org/10.1109/beliv64461.2024.00013
2023
2022
2021
- Busch, A., Bludau, M.-J., Brüggemann, V., Dörk, M., Genzel, K., Möller, K.-P., Seifert, S., & Trilcke, P. (2019, March 25–29). Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹ [Paper presentation]. Digital humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2019 : Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal, Frankfurt (Main), Deutschland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4622219
- Bludau, M.-J., Dörk, M., & Tominski, C. (2021). Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs. In J. Byska, S. Jänicke, & J. Schmidt (Eds.), 21st Eurographics Conference on Visualization (pp. 17–19). Eurographics Association. https://doi.org/10.2312/evp.20211070
2020
- Menzel, S., Bludau, M.-J., Leitner, E., Dörk, M., Moreno-Schneider, J., Petras, V., & Rehm, G. (2020). Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources. In T. Andrews, F. Diehr, T. Efer, A. Kuczera, & J. van Zundert (Eds.), Graph Technologies in the Humanities: Proceeding 2020 (pp. 124–149). RWTH Aachen.
- Brüggemann, V., Bludau, M.-J., & Dörk, M. (2020). Zwischen Distanz und Nähe: Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen. In A. Geipel, J. Sauter, & G. Hohmann (Eds.), Das digitale Objekt: Zwischen Depot und Internet (Vol. 7, pp. 115–123). Deutsches Museum Verlag. https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museum/verlag/publikation/das-digitale-objekt
2018
- Braunschweiger, D., Pütz, M., Heidmann, F., & Bludau, M.-J. (2018). Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 5(1), 398–401. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507
Additional publications
- Bludau, M.-J., Dörk, M., & Tominski, C. (2023). Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 42, No. 3).
- Menzel, S., Bludau, M.-J., Leitner, E., Dörk, M., Moreno-Schneider, J., Petras, V., & Rehm, G. (2022). Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources. Proceedings of Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2019 and 2020. Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2020, Vienna, AU, CEUR-WS.org,
- Brüggemann, V., Bludau, M.-J., Pietsch, C., & Dörk, M. (2022). Von der Wolke zum Pfad:Vi Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen. DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses.
- Akhlaq, S., Ridley, A., Bludau, M.-J., & Dörk, M. (2022). Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation. DH Benelux 2022: RE-MIX. Creation and alteration in DH.
- Bludau, M.-J., Halling, T., Holly, E. M., Wieloch, J., Schnaitter, H., Balck, S., Plakidis, M., Rehm, G., Fangerau, H., & Dörk, M. (2022). Was sehe ich? Visualisierungsstrategien für Datentransparenz in der Historischen Netzwerkanalyse. DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses.
- Bludau, M. J., Dörk, M., & Heidmann, F. (2021). Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(Supplement_2), ii17-ii29.
- Bludau, M.-J., Dörk, M., & Tominski, C. (2021). Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs. In J. Byška, S. Jänicke, & J. Schmidt (Hrsg.), EuroVis 2021—Posters. The Eurographics Association.
- Bludau, M. J., Brüggemann, V., Busch, A., & Dörk, M. (2020). Reading traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 77-87).
- Brüggemann, V., Bludau, M.-J., & Dörk, M. (2020). The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14(3).
- Brüggemann, V., Bludau, M.-J., & Dörk, M. (2020). Zwischen Distanz und Nähe. Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen. In Das digitale Objekt – Zwischen Depot und Internet (Bd. 7, S. 115–123). Deutsches Museum Verlag.
- Bludau, M.-J., Dörk, M., Fangerau, H., Halling, T., Leitner, E., Menzel, S., Müller, G., Petras, V., Rehm, G., Neudecker, C., Zellhöfer, D., & Moreno Schneider, J. (2020). SoNAR (IDH): Datenschnittstellen für historische Netzwerkanalyse. In C. Schöch (Hrsg.), DHd 2020 Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation. Konferenzabstracts. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities, March 2-6, Paderborn, Germany (S. 360–362). Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.
- Braunschweiger, D., Pütz, M., Heidmann, F., & Bludau, M. J. (2018). Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 5(1), 398-401