Christoph Engemann is Postdoc for Society and Digitization at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He research interests are digital statehood, digital identity, platforms and the history of transaction and graph systems.

Christoph has been a visiting researcher and teaching at universities in Germany and abroad, including Stanford Law School, ETH Zürich, Princeton University, University of Texas at Austin, Oxford Internet Institute, IKKM Weimar, the MECS Leuphana University Lüneburg and the SFU Berlin. 

Currently he is working on the relationship between orality and writing on the Internet and investigates the role of Youtube and podcasts for digital societies.

As a speaker and expert Christoph is active in civil society contexts such as the Hans Böckler Foundation, the Cusanuswerk and the Chaos Computer Club as well as in the private sector (Meetrics GmbH, Zukunftsinstitut). He also provides academic expertise at the intersection of the arts and humanities. Most recently to the Vitra Design Museum exhibition “Hello Robot” and the exhibition‚ “Uncanny Values” on artificial intelligence at the Museum Angewandte Kunst Wien. Currently he is working on a project on machine learning in contemporary music composition.

In addition to digital topics, Christoph is interested in barns and occasionally blogs findings of barnology at http://barnology.tumblr.com/