String Figures A Cultural Practice between Art, Anthropology, and Theory

Sarine Waltenspül Sarine Waltenspül (*1986, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland) is one of the
curators of String Figures / Fadenspiele: A Research Exhibition.
She is a media scholar and historian of science focusing on the
20th and 21st centuries, who also works as a filmmaker and curator. She studied philosophy, art history and cultural analysis,
theory and history in Basel, Zurich and Berlin, earned a doctorate in media studies, worked at the Zurich University of the Arts,
was a fellow at MECS/Lüneburg, Collegium Helveticum/ETH,
Deutsches Museum Munich and a visiting professor at the University of Basel. She has co-/led various research projects, currently
the Visualpedia project. She is the author of Modelle im Film. Eine
kleine Kinogeschichte (2024) and co-author with Mario Schulze of
Fließend. Die Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen Films (2025)..
Mario Schulze Mario Schulze (*1986, Halle/Saale, Germany) is one of the curators of String Figures/Fadenspiele: A Research Exhibition. He works
as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Basel, specializing in the history of scientific films and exhibitions from the 1920s to the present. Mario
Schulze holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University
of Zurich. Postdoctoral appointments and Fellowships took him
to the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Lucerne, Collegium Helveticum Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts.
He is the author of Wie die Dinge sprechen lernten. Eine Geschichte
des Museumsobjektes 1968–2000 (2017) and coauthor with Sarine
Waltenspül of Fließend. Die Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen
Films (2025).