I am Julia Schneider aka Doc J Snyder, a Berlin-based comic author. I create tailor-made comic essays – often on complex topics at the intersection of society, economics, art, data and technology. Bridging the gap between intellect and intuition, I like to inspire people to form their own positions. I am very much about accessibility to knowledge, so I often use open licenses. Until 2018, I worked for many years in academic, data-loving economics and also earned a PhD in it (have a look: a microeconometric evaluation of Germany’s 2005 welfare reform). (Prior to that, I trained as a curtain and drapery salesperson. Just FYI.)
Reach out if you, too, like to approach complex issues with creativity and respect – and if you’re bored with clichés. I really enjoy such company:
hello@docjsnyder.net or @docjsnyder on social media
Right now I am interested in:
>> Overcoming the Flaschenhals – Ein Comic-Essay zu neuen Computing-Konzepten (Overcoming the Bottleneck – A Comic Essay on New Computing Concepts) with Noëlle Kröger in cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (2023, 3 p., in German)
>> AI in a Biased World, comic essay and artistic researh project for the South African Journal herri, Special Theme AI in Africa, illustrated by an AI to use the BIAS inherent in the algorithm, curated by Vulane Mthembu (2023, 1 p., in English)
Check out my other works:::
>> Schokoroboter und Deepfakes – Ein Comic-Essay über Künstliche Intelligenz aus der Perspektive von Jugendlichen (Chocolate Robots and Deepfakes – A Comic Essay on Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Teenagers) with Nele Konopka and Kristina Laube (2022, 80 p., in German)
>> Urheberrechte, oder: On the Shoulders of Giants – A Comic Essay about Copyright, with Karina Filusch, Eric Eitel and Nele Konopka (2022, 3 p., in German)
>> The Non-Fungible Comic – A Comic Essay about Non-Fungible Tokens, with Noëlle Kröger (2022, 56 p., in English, exhibition and digital release at re:publica22, release in print at 1E9 conference)
>> The Big Third and the Blockchain – A Comic Essay, in Scribbles, inspired by Katrin Becker (2022, 12 p., in English)
>> AI 🐂💩 Bingo – A playful intervention for panels, keynotes and workshops on Artificial Intelligence, with Katrin Fritsch and Theresa Reimann-Dubbers (2022, 4 variations of cards, in English)
>> The Corona Scribbles, a comic column about life in times of Corona, on 1E9 magazine (2020-2022, 30 episodes, in German)
>> We Need to Talk, AI – A Comic Essay on Artificial Intelligence, with Lena Kadriye Ziyal (2019, 56 p., in English, German (“KI, wir müssen reden – Ein Comic Essay über Künstliche Intelligenz”), Turkish, Spanish, Russian and Slovenian, and as open online course)
>> Money Matters – A Comic Essay about Money, with Pauline Cremer and Miriam Beblo (2021, 164 p., in German)
>> #teilenstattsplitten – ein Comic über das Ehegattensplitting – a Comic Essay about German Tax Splitting for Spouses, with Pauline Cremer, Miriam Beblo, Jutta Allmendinger, Janina Kugel and Monika Schnitzer (2021, 3 p., in German)
>> Abtreibung – ein Comic Essay, with Maren Burkhardt (2020, 2 p., in German)
As seen in:
Overcoming the Flaschenhals
Release: Schokoroboter und Deepfakes – Ein Comic Essay über Künstliche Intelligenz aus der Perspektive von Jugendlichen
Review and Release: Copyright, or On the Shoulders of Giants
“The Big Third and the Blockchain” – A Comic Essay
Release: Non-Fungible Comic – A Comic Essay on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Interview with CCB Magazine
Talk at txt_conference
Release and Exhibition of Non-Fungible Comic
Exhibition of the Non-Fungible Comic
AI 🐂💩Bingo
Artist Talk on our Non-Fungible Comic
Collaboration: Campaign against joint tax deductions for married couples (“Ehegattensplitting”)
Release: Money Matters – A Comic Essay about Money
Interview
Tenemos que Hablar, IA
Exhibition and Discussion at the “AI-Camp 2019”
Panel Event at Museum of Work, Hamburg: The Genuinely Human – Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
Colloquium on “Artistic Intelligence”
- Eric Eitel
- Pauline Cremer
- Miriam Beblo
- Noëlle Kröger
- Nele Konopka
- Lena Kadriye Ziyal
- Sebastian Schneider
- Iris Röll
- 1E9
- Ann Caroline Bahrs
- Katrin Becker
- Katrin Fritsch
- Theresa Reimann-Dubbers
- Maren Burkhardt
- Karina Filusch
- Tübingen AI Center
- KI-Campus
- Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – atingi
- Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
- Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen – SPRIN-D