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The artist and researcher joined the KHM on 1 February 2026 and will begin teaching in the summer semester.
Sarah Ciston is an artist and researcher who develops tools to create intersectional, critical-creative approaches to machine learning. Ciston was the winner of the Ars Electronica STARTS Grand Prize in 2025 with her project AI War Cloud Database. The database provides an overview of AI decision-making systems and their use in military and commercial contexts. Ciston is also the author of "A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets" and co-author of Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI (MIT Press, 2026). Ciston holds a PhD in Media Arts + Practice from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Experimental Writing from the University of California San Diego.
At KHM, Ciston plans to start a new chapter of Creative Code Collective, an interdisciplinary community for collaborative learning in programming that they founded in 2019. This will also be the focus of Ciston's first specialist seminar at KHM.
Ciston has received scholarships from the Academy of Arts, the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, the Processing Foundation and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, and was named AI Newcomer 2023 by the German Informatics Society. Ciston has exhibited works or presented research findings at the European Commission, the Mozilla Festival, Ars Electronica, the University of Cambridge, the Goethe-Institut, the Disruption Network Lab, Berlin Science Week, Dutch Design Week, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Scottish AI Alliance, the Chaos Communication Camp, MUTEK, the Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Culture Yard, the Royal College of Art and other venues. They have published or been featured in MIT Technology Review, AI & Society, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Tagesspiegel, Hyperallergic, Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, etc.
https://www.khm.de/termine/news.6142.dr-sarah-ciston-zur-professorin-fuer-comput...
Rektor Mathias Antlfinger und Prof. Dr. Sarah Ciston
Source: J. Kuhn / KHM 2026
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Rektor Mathias Antlfinger und Prof. Dr. Sarah Ciston
Source: J. Kuhn / KHM 2026
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