About
A cultural and institutional lens on how societies govern new technologies.
For more than ten years I worked inside the institutions that organize knowledge: universities, museums, archives. I ran publicly funded research and digitisation projects from scope to delivery, with budgets, teams, and accountability for what was published and made public. The procedures I wrote kept running after I left, which I still consider the best outcome this kind of work can have.
In 2024 I left the university track to work on the technologies being decided now. Today I advise institutions on AI governance, policy, and strategy, I research the cultural and institutional dimensions of new technologies, and I write. My training is art history and cultural research. The same eye that was taught to read what lies under the surface of a painting now reads money, institutions, and AI.
In the AI-safety and governance debate I work the structural risks the misalignment frame underweights: epistemic erosion, model collapse, and the concentration of interpretive power. The case I keep making is that people who study how institutions hold knowledge belong where the rules get written.
Experience
AI adoption and institutional change for public institutions and senior decision-makers across Europe and North America. Engagement with the EU AI Act and the governance debate, and a corpus of regulatory, policy, and institutional texts read with my own tools.
One of the magazine’s main contributors on culture, with essays in print and online that read Bitcoin and AI as cultural and institutional facts.
Advising museums on digital art projects: Viewfinder at the Belvedere, Vienna, and Ana María Caballero’s Arrangements at the Francisco Carolinum, Linz, later shown during Digital Art Mile at Art Basel.
Strategic advisory on AI adoption and digital strategy across the cultural, technology, and finance sectors, with AI-supported research pipelines and workshops for leadership and specialists.
Ran Kopialbücher digital: catalogued 9,000+ legal and administrative records to research standard, defined the metadata standard later adopted institution-wide, and trained colleagues at other archives.
Two multi-year publicly funded research projects: a catalogue raisonné with provenance research, and a 400-page critical edition. Taught seminars and organised the Young Scholars Forum at the 35th German Art Historians' Congress.
Led the digitisation of the museum's portrait holdings, coordinating curators, conservators, and IT, with responsibility for budget and final quality control.
Three digitisation projects, 15,000+ objects made available in open access, working with developers on the collection portal.
Education & fellowships
Writing & speaking
Languages
You can reach me directly.
I answer my own mail. Full CV on request.
stenreiss@gmail.com