Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. He works as the curator of the Leuphana Arts Program in Lüneburg and is currently a guest professor for Art and Media at Universität Oldenburg. He was Founding Director of the Dortmunder U - Centre for Art and Creativity (2009–2011) and has curated exhibitions and festivals in major European venues, including transmediale and ISEA2010 RUHR. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of East Anglia, Norwich/UK, and lectures internationally about the history of modern art, media theory, machine aesthetics, and digital culture. He is the author of the recently published monograph Machine Art in the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 2016).