Johanna Barnbeck
OWNER, STRATEGY & FORMAT DEVELOPMENT
Johanna Barnbeck is an expert in audiovisual science communication and format development. Having trained as a cultural analyst and artistic researcher, she oversees the production process, produces creative concepts, and offers consulting and support for science communication. She gets particularly excited about creative science videos and audiovisual formats. She has served as a jury member for the Fast Forward Science film prize and for the university competition Year In Science, as well as teaching at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany’s National Institute for Science Communication (NaWik), and the University of Tübingen. She’s passionate about using modern communication to work creatively in the areas of tension between theory and praxis.
Since 2019
Founder of Spread the Nerd – Agency for Science Communication and Format Development
Since 2014
Science videos, science communication, and creative format development
Main topics
Media
Audiovisual media
Camera-based Artistic Research
Further networking activities
Jury member for the FastForward Science Award
Jury member for the university competition Year In Science
Member of the Siggener Kreis think tank on the future of science communication & science journalism
Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, Participatory Science Academy, CitSci Helvetia.
Regular lectures, podium discussions, workshops, seminars and publications in the scientific and artistic-scientific fields.