Summary

I want to help Switzerland represent itself intelligently in this complex world, and I want to help the Swiss Abroad define a powerful voice with new perspectives in support of Swiss foreign policy.

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Detail

I graduated from the Gymnasium Freudenberg in Zürich and then became a Stone Mason. I studied Art History and Archeology at the University of Zürich and made a living restoring old buildings in the cantons of Zürich and Aargau. I then left Switzerland to travel the world. After that phase I studied Electrical Engineering, Physics, and then later at graduate level, Art, and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University while I worked in the summers at the IBM Research Center in Rüschlikon.

 

After stints in private industry, I became a Professor of Art, and Engineering at the University of Buffalo, where I specialize in the cultural dimensions of large-scale technical systems. Most recently I completed a project on spatially explicit Artificial Intelligence and how it might come to change the way we look and understand planet Earth.

 

Web: https://realtechsupport.org/   

Book: https://www.routledge.com/On-the-Logics-of-Planetary-Computing-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Geography-in-the-Alas-Mertajati/Bohlen/p/book/9781032857527

Membership/Active involvement in Swiss Associations/groups
Not yet

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Profession
Professor of Art and Engineering

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Languages

German, English, French

Interests
Art, Philosophy, Engineering, Mountaineering, Planetary issues, good company. 

Contact
marcbohlen@gmail.com

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