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
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Stefan Bruckner, Christian Tominski. Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations. Computer Graphics Forum1-262025.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Sarah Kreiseler, Silvia Casavola, Jona Pomerance, Marian Dörk. Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora. Medaon1-192025.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Laying it all out : Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces. Digital Humanities 2025 : Accessibility & Citizenship2025.
2024
- Florian Windhager, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Nicole Hengesbach, Houda Lamqaddam, Isabel Meirelles, Bettina Speckmann, Michael Corell. Complexity as Design Material: Position Paper. Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization71-802024.
2023
- Uta Hinrichs, Florian Windhager, Mennatallah El-Assady, Eric Alexander, Adam Bradley, Mark-Jan Bludau. From Sketching to Coding: Visualization as a Thinking Process. Digital Humanities 2023 : Collaboration as Opportunity1-22023.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Christian Tominski. Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization. Computer Graphics Forum297-3092023.
2022
- Sara Akhlaq, Arran Ridley, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation. 2022.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk. Von der Wolke zum Pfad: Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses1-52022.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Thorsten Halling, Eva Maria Holly, Jasmin Wieloch, Hannes Schnaitter, Sandra Balck, Melina Plakidis, Georg Rehm, Heiner Fangerau, Marian Dörk. Was sehe ich? Visualisierungsstrategien für Datentransparenz in der Historischen Netzwerkanalyse. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses1-52022.
2021
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Frank Heidmann. Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanitiesii17-ii292021.
- Anna Busch, Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Marian Dörk, Kristina Genzel, Klaus-Peter Möller, Sabine Seifert, Peer Trilcke. Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹. 204-2072021.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Christian Tominski. Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs. 23rd Eurographics Conference on Visualization17-192021.
2020
- Victoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2020 : Spielräume - Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation1-42020.
- Sina Menzel, Mark-Jan Bludau, Elena Leitner, Marian Dörk, Julián Moreno-Schneider, Vivien Petras, Georg Rehm. Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources. Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2020124-1492020.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Anna Busch, Marian Dörk. Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data. Computer Graphics Forum77-872020.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Elena Leitner, Sina Menzel, Gerhard Müller, Vivien Petras, Georg Rehm, Clemens Neudecker, David Zellhiefer, Julian Moreno Schneider. SoNAR (IDH): Datenschnittstellen für historische Netzwerkanalyse. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2020 : Spielräume - Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation1-32020.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization. Digital humanities quarterly : DHQ1-162020.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Zwischen Distanz und Nähe: Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen. 115-1232020.
2018
- Dominik Braunschweiger, Marco Pütz, Frank Heidmann, Mark-Jan Bludau. Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland. Regional Studies, Regional Science398-4012018.
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