Frischknecht, M. (2025). Generative Data Design: Data Visualization as Argumentative Process in The Digital Humanities. Universität Bern. (in Press)

Frischknecht, M. (2025). Through the Eyes of the Machine: Exploring Historical Photo Collections with Convolutional Neural Networks. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 51(2). ↗

Huber, B., & Frischknecht, M. (2024). Digitalisierung und (De-)Konstruktion: Überlegungen zur Entwicklung eines Prototyps für die digitale Zugänglichmachung des Atlas der Schweizerischen Volkskunde. Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde | Archives suisses des traditions populaires, 2024(1). ↗

Felsing, U., Fornaro, P., Frischknecht, M., & Raemy, J. A. (2023). Community and Interoperability at the Core of Sustaining Image Archives. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 5(1), 40–54. ↗

Frischknecht, M. (2022, October 20). Generating Perspectives: Applying Generative Design to critically explore the Atlas of Swiss Folklore, DARIAH-CH Study Day, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland ↗

Frischknecht, M. (2022, October 13). Tracker: Die Bausteine unseres digitalen Panoptikums. Digitale Gesellschaft. ↗

Frischknecht, M. (2022, January 13). Nodegoat: Eine web-basierte Forschungsumgebung für die Geisteswissenschaften. Einblicke in die Digital Humanities. ↗

Felsing, U., & Frischknecht, M. (2021). Critical Map Visualizations. In C. Schranz (Ed.), Shifts in Mapping (pp. 95–124). Transcript. ↗

Frischknecht, M. (2021, August 9). Zur Barrierefreiheit der kantonalen Impfplattformen. Learning from Corona. ↗

Frischknecht, M. (2019). Predicting Voters: The Significant Role of Personal Data for Political Communication in Switzerland’s Social Networks. ↗

Frischknecht, M. (2020, April 17). Digitaler Balanceakt. Saiten – Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin. ↗

«Generative Design in Digital Archives», Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ↗

«Community and Interoperability at the Core of Sustaining Image Archives». DHNB2023 Sustainability: Environment - Community - Data, Bergen, Norway, with Julien Raemy

«Prozesse Generativer Visualisierung», Historische Daten-Visualisierung in Wissenschaft, Kultur und Medien, Zentralbibliothek, Zürich ↗

«Tracking & Profiling», Netzpolitischer Abend der Digitalen Gesellschaft, Debattierhaus Karl der Grosse, Zürich ↗

«Generative Design: A Methodology to Visualize Dynamic Cultural Archives», DHCH, Instituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy ↗

«Participatory Interfaces for Photo Archives», Photo Archives VIII, University of Basel, with Ulrike Felsing & Adrian Demleitner ↗

«Critical Map Visualizations», Shifts in Mapping Online Symposium, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, with Ulrike Felsing ↗

«How to Visualize Computational Propaganda» Lecture at Interaction Design, Zürich University of the Arts

«Processing Poster Generators», Processing Community Day 2019, HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel

Lecturer for «Data Cultures», Data Design & Art, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art HSLU

«Data Driven Design», online workshop, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan

«Critical Visualization Workflow», input on data visualizations of cultural heritage, in the «Extending the Museum» class, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

«Call for Participation: Partizipative Wissensgenerierung in digitalen Archiven», Seminar with practice, Seminar for Cultural Studies and European Ethnology, University of Basel, with Birgit Huber and Fabienne Lüthi

«Nature of Data», input on critical data analysis and visualisation, in the «Digital Humanities» class, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

«Digitale Nachhaltigkeit», workshop on digital sustainability, Hochschule der Künste, Bern

«Digitale Nachhaltigkeit», workshop on digital sustainability, Interaction Design Lab 2021, Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel

«Digigène», workshop on fundamentals of privacy and data economy, Big Biennale, Geneva ↗

Mentoring BA & MA Students at the Bern University of the Arts HKB

«Terminal & Twitter», one-day workshop on creating Twitter-Bots, Processing Community Day 2020, Basel, with basel.codes

«Fundamentals in Digital Design Practice», two-week workshop on web design and development (Sketch/Figma, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP) at Institute for Visual Communication, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel ↗

«Creative Coding in Processing», one-week introductory workshop at Institute Hyperwerk FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, with Mark Iandovka ↗

«Copy It Right! On sharing, caring, data and network politics», three-day workshop on visualizing personal Facebook data at Masterstudio Design, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, with Yann Patrick Martins ↗

«0/1 – Black/White – On/Off – Dead/Alive», one-day workshop on creative coding (Processing) with evolutionary algorithms, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich ↗

«P5js for Beginners», one-day introductory workshop on creative coding (Javascript) at FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, with Mark Iandovka ↗

«Train Connect Assemble Extract», Screening, MIT in 3:00, MIT School of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA ↗

«An Artistic Research Into The Use of Personal Data for Political Communication», The Wall group exhibition, Deep City Latsis Symposium, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne ↗

I and the Machine: Experimentieren mit Digitalität, media art group exhibition, Regionale20, at E-Werk, Freiburg ↗

Swiss Graphic Design Exhibition Graphic design group exhibition, Teh-Chun Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

100 Digital Shapers in Switzerland 2021, Category «Coders», by Bilanz and Handelszeitung

Josef Müller-Brockmann Förderpreis für junge Gestalterinnen und Gestalter 2021 (Nomination)

«Commons der Alpen», Institute Contemporary Design Practices FHNW, Basel, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF, researcher with a focus on interface design and data modelling. ↗

«Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analog and Digital Image Archives», Institute of Design Research HKB / University of Bern, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF, researcher with focus on critical data visualization of cultural heritage archives. ↗

Institute of Design Research, Bern University of the Arts, researcher in the field of knowledge visualisation ↗

Self-employed, Basel, graphic & interaction designer, web developer, creative coder

Début Début GmbH, Basel, Founder, managing director of the digital department, graphic & interaction designer, web developer

Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures IXDM, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Assistant

Self-employed, St. Gallen/Basel, graphic & interaction designer, web developer, creative coder

we:pixel GmbH, St. Gallen, Founder, managing director of the graphic department, graphic & interaction designer

Doctoral Student in Digital Humanities, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, with a dissertation on Generative Data Design, a critical method for data visualization in the digital humanities that conceptualizes data visualization as an argumentative process supporting the interpretation of digital cultural heritage collections.

Visiting PhD Student in Comparative Media Studies / Digital Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Master Design, Bern University of the Arts BFH, major design research with a thesis on the use of personal data for political communication in Switzerland ↗

Bachelor Visual Communication, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, major interaction design with a thesis on the impact of digitisation on journalism

School for Design, GBS, St. Gallen, Fachklasse Graphic Design, with a final project on visualizing global conflicts between 1945–2000