Biography
Florian Thalhofer is a new media artist, researcher and co-founder of the Korsakow Institut. He is the inventor of the Korsakow-System and the chief-architect of the Korsakow-software.
Thalhofer started in 1997 to make use of computers for sense-making through storytelling. That led him to the development of the Korsakow-System, a software and a principle for a new way of weaving narrations. These narrations are rule-based, non-linear and (usually) interactive. Thalhofer made numerous Korsakow-films and one linear film that was broadcasted on TV and forgotten soon after. He taught at the University of the Arts, Berlin, at DFFB and at Deutsches Literatur Institut, Leipzig and gave talks and lectures on every continent except Australia. He worked in the newsroom of DW, an international news broadcaster for more than 20 years. He is currently research assistant at HSLU within a project that researches interactive documentary and he is doing a practice practice based PhD at UWE (University of the West of England, UK).
