Recent & Scientific References
SELECTED PANEL DISCUSSIONS, TALKS, WORKSHOPS, JURIES
Juror Raw Science Film Festival 2025, an annual event that brings together people across science, technology, entertainment and media to showcase best in class film and media from around the globe.
Keynote "Bridging Analog and Digital: Creative Journeys Uniting
Scientists, Artists, and Technologists” at the International Visiting Program Sharing: “DIGITAL SENSIBILITY - Taipei Digital Art Networking Platform 2024 Mid-Year Showcase,” November 2024.
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Conducted a multidisciplinary and intercultural STEAM workshop for the project "The ETERNAL ZOO" by artist Yen Tzu Chang and her team of choreographers, dancers, musicians, researchers, and producers. Examined trends and drivers and discussed possible scenarios for the near future of zoos, August 2024.
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Panel guest within the framework of the Edinburgh Science Festival: Transformative Spaces: Science-Art Residencies, at Inspace Gallery, April 2024.
Insights on how artists, scientists, and school students created an innovative science engagement space to explore the promises and challenges of AI in future healthcare.
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Final Jury member for the Immersive Science Competition at Silbersalz 2023, which bridges art & science, and is awarded to an installation, an application, or online experience successfully communicating science using emerging storytelling technologies, including 360° video, VR/AR/MR programs, and games. 10 July 2023
Q&A Session – Creator in Residence: STEAM Imaging V Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account: Chris Speed, Director at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Bianka Hofmann, Head of Science Communication at Fraunhofer MEVIS, at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. 14. June 2023
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Guest talk at the Inspiration Session at Silbersalz Institute: Making Sense: Purpose and Impact Integrating Science, Art, and Technology; September 2022
Panel discussion EXPLORING THE TISSUE OF EXISTENCE: Integrating Science and Art to look Beyond the Limits of our Perception; LASER talk as part of the Medicine + Media Arts series; August 2021. Watch Here
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Lecture & hands-on workshop Radiological Data in Clinical, Artistic, and Educational Practice with my colleague Sabrina Haase at PLUS Paris Lordon Universität Salzburg, a course on “Art and Medicine” in the inter-university focus on science and art between PLUS & Mozarteum, May 2021.
Panel discussion at the conference “Navigating the Postdigital – How Arts & Sciences Shape Our Future” at AIL by SOUND:FRAME, curator Eva Fischer, January 2020.
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Statement New Pathways in Communicating QuantumTechnology. for the discussion at the networking event Entanglement Ongoing after the screening of the interactive artwork Quantum Logos at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019.
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Guest-lecture From STEM to STEAM – how and why Fraunhofer MEVIS injected STEAM at Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering January 31, 2019 by Bianka Hofmann within the EE376A Information Theory course.
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Workshop Science + Art = The Next Generation of Researchers? by Bianka Hofmann and Sabrina Haase at the intersection of art, science, technology, media, and entertainment at the Raw Science Film Festival January 7, 2018, CA.
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Workshop Flesh and Voxel: Making Sense of Medical Images | STEM to STEAM | UCLA, by Bianka Hofmann, Sabrina Haase and Alexander Köhn, January 8, 2018.
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Poster at The Workshop AESTHETICS get SYNTHETIC: KLAS Knowledge Link Through Art & Science, November 27, 2017, Potsdam.
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Conference Talk and Panel Discussion Dialog-oriented Sci-Comm: From "STEAM Imaging" to "Whose Scalpel" - An Artist-in-Residency including pupils. From the perspective of the scientific organization at Ars Electronica 2017 - Symposium II - European Digital Art and Science Network: by Bianka Hofmann and Sabrina Haase within the panel Art and Science Residencies - Just a "Fly-by" or really a "Rendezvous"?​​​
HONORS & AWARDS
Industry Award for Best Animation, Raw Science Film Festival 2024. Director, jointly with Barnaby Steel, Writer, and Science Communicator of the short documentary "We Flow into the World, and the World Flows into Us - The Beauty of Blood Flow"
Nominated as a finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 in Art and Science, Falling Walls Conference (D)
Industry Award for Best New Media Format, Raw Science Film Festival 2022, interactive installation “The Tides Within Us” (US). Partnership Development and Project Lead at Fraunhofer MEVIS
Jury Mention for Storyscapes Award, Tribeca Festival 2022, virtual reality experience “EVOLVER” (US). Partnership Development and Project Lead at Fraunhofer MEVIS; Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF), key scientific collaborator Fraunhofer MEVIS.
Honorary Mention, STARTS (Science, Technology & the Arts) Prize 2021, interactive installation “The Tides Within Us” (EU).
Partnership Development and Project Lead at Fraunhofer MEVIS for the cross-sectoral project; Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) in collaboration with Natan Sinigaglia and Fraunhofer MEVIS.
Industry Award for Best Visual Effects, Raw Science Film Festival 2020, immersive installation “Quantum Logos (vision serpent).”
Science & Art Producer and Project Developer. Media artists Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi teamed up with Bianka Hofmann and Bob Kastner.
Industry Award for Best Infographic, Raw Science Film Festival 2019, immersive installation “Eternerdy” (US). Director and Science & Art Producer, jointly with Alexander Köhn and Mathias Neugebauer.
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Nominated at the 12th Fulldome Festival, 2018, immersive
installation “Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis” (DE). Director and Science & Art Producer,” jointly with Alexander Köhn and Mathias Neugebauer.
Industry Award for Best Immersive Media, Raw Science Film Festival 2018, immersive installation “Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis” (US). Director and Science & Art Producer,” jointly with Alexander Köhn and Mathias Neugebauer.
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Finalists Best Educational Media, Raw Science Film Festival
2018, STEAM application “InsideInsight” (US). Created jointly
with Sabrina Haase and Alexander Köhn,​​
CHAPTERS IN PUBLICATIONS BASED ON INTERVIEWS
My transdisciplinary work over many years for Science Engagement at Fraunhofer MEVIS is presented as a case study (based on an interview with me and Sabrina Tölken, née Haase) in Fostering Transdisciplinary & Participatory Research and Public Engagement with Research Exploratory. Study on the Developmental Potential in Germany, by Mhairi Stewart and Victoria Shennan for the Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft, pp. 50 - 52.
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The experimental artist-in-residency "STEAM Imaging" I designed and lead is presented (based on an interview with me) in The Practice of Art & Science, The European Digital Art and Science Network (Hatje Cantz, 2017), pp. 50 – 55.
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The experimental artist-in-residency "STEAM Imaging" is discussed (based on interviews with the artists Yen Tzu Chang, Sabrina Haase, and me) in the book Creating ArtScience Collaboration – Bringing Value to Organizations, by Claudia Schnugg. (2019).
AFFILIATIONS
Juror Raw Science Film Festival 2025 | Member
SILBERSALZ, Documentary Campus, Immersive Science Competition at Silbersalz 2023 | Final Jury Member
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Advisory Board for the Medicine and Media Art Program UCLA Art Sci Center | Member
Artiscience Library, Edinburgh | International Advisor
Sci-Art Collective Quantum Travelers | Founding Member
Foundation Stiftung STUDIUM – Stiftung für Ost-West-Integration | Supporting Member, Patron
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS & POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Zoeger, V., Redlich, J., Diekmann, S., Hofmann, B., Rörich, A., & Tölken, S. (2025). KI-gestützte Histopathologie: Handlungsorientierter Unterricht zur Gewebeanalyse (Posterpräsentation). 2nd Conference on AI and Education KIBIS 2025, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Deutschland (9.–10. Oktober).
Hofmann, B., & Tölken, S. (2022). STEAM Imaging IV: Connecting digital medicine with the arts, future generations, and the community. A case study (Posterpräsentation). Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation 2022, „Shaping transformation – Science communication for a changing society“, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Deutschland.
Steel, B. C., Farrell, K., & Hofmann, B. (2021). The tides within us. SA '21: SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476123.3487872
Hofmann, B. (2021). Linking science and technology with arts and the next generation: The STEAM Imaging experimental artist residency, a case study. Leonardo, 54(2), 185–190. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01792
Hofmann, B., Haase, S., & Köhn, A. (2017). An artist-in-residency including pupils – Foster engagement with, and ownership of future technology (Posterpräsentation). Workshop Aesthetics get Synthetic: KLAS Knowledge Link Through Art & Science, Potsdam, Deutschland.
Rieder, C., Brachmann, C., Hofmann, B., Klein, J., Köhn, A., Ojdanic, D., Schumann, D., Weiler, F., & Hahn, H. K. (2013). Interactive visualization of neuroanatomical data for a hands-on multimedia exhibit. EuroVis Workshop on Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences (VMLS), Leipzig, Deutschland.
Scheer, M., & Hofmann, B. (2004). The Dolphin Space Program. Krankendienst, 1, 12–15.
Scheer, M., Hofmann, B., & Behr, I. P. (2004). Ethogram of selected behaviors initiated by short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) and directed towards human swimmers during open water encounters. Anthrozoös, 17(3), 244–257. https://doi.org/10.2752/089279304785643267
Hofmann, B., Scheer, M., & Behr, I. P. (2004). Underwater behaviors of short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off Tenerife. Mammalia, 68(2-3), 221–224. Cover photography of volume 68(2-3). https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2004.020
Scheer, M., Hofmann, B., & Behr, I. P. (2003). Vocalizations of free-ranging short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off Tenerife: Signal repertoire and characteristics. European Research on Cetaceans, 17.
Scheer, M., Hofmann, B., & Behr, P. I. (1998a). Interactions between whale watching vessels and short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the southwest coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Behavioural implications (Report). Viceconsejería de Medio Ambiente.
Scheer, M., Hofmann, B., & Behr, P. I. (1998b). Discrete pod-specific call repertoires among short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the SW coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands (Abstract). World Marine Mammal Science Conference, Monaco (20.–24. Januar), by European Cetacean Society and Society for Marine Mammalogy.
Hofmann, B. (1998). Kann die verhaltensbiologische Beschreibung ritualisierten Verhaltens dazu beitragen, religiös ritualisiertes Verhalten zu verstehen? (Interdisziplinäre Diplomarbeit, Fachbereiche Religionswissenschaft und Biologie).
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Additional Activities
Free-range Interaction Research: Inter-species Communication
Personal field studies on short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the Canary Islands (Atlantic): Data collection, analysis, and publication of three studies (1994, 1996, 2001). Results contributed to a Code of Conduct and specific protective measures for pilot whales off the southwest coast of Tenerife.
Behr, I. P., Diez, H., Hofmann, B., & Scheer, M. (Eds.). (2001). First Flow: Der erste Kontakt mit Pilotwalen. Books on Demand, easi publications. (Field diaries, photos, and research insights documented.)
Short-finned pilot whales underwater photographs by Behr, Hofmann, and Scheer were published in: Evans, P., & Raga, J. A. (Eds.). (2002). Marine mammals: Biology and conservation.
National Geographic Publications
Research mentioned and photographs published in National Geographic magazines (Germany, Spain, South Korea, Israel).
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SELECTED INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, BLOGPOSTS
Some Thoughts on Science and Speculative Fiction.
Blogpost. B. Hofmann
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What’s after Corona Crisis? Artists Shaping the Humane Future. Blogpost. B. Hofmann, Claudia Schnugg, 2020.
New Pathways in Communicating Quantum Technology.
B. Hofmann. Statement at the event Entanglement Ongoing, Ars Electronica 2019.
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Quantum Logos – An artistic Approach to Quantum Physics
Ars Electronica, Interview, 2019
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Bianka Hofmann; Linking Science and Technology with Arts and the Next Generation: The STEAM Imaging Experimental Artist Residency, A Case Study. Leonardo 2021; 54 (2): 185–190. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01792
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Hofmann, B., Haase, S., Black, D. (2017). STEAM Imaging: A Pupils’ Workshop Experiment in Computer Science, Physics, and Sound Art. SCIART MAGAZINE Special Topics August 2017: STEAM.
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STEAM Imaging: When Art, Science and the Next Generation Converge
Ars Electronica, Interview, 2018
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STEAM Imaging: An Experiment in Art & Science
Ars Electronica, Interview, 2017