Eric Eitel

Eric Eitel works at the intersection of technology, culture, and societal transformation, with a particular focus on the future of production and emerging forms of human–machine interaction. Based in Berlin since 2002, his work spans curatorial, editorial, and advisory roles across technology-driven cultural contexts.

He is co-founder of Music Pool Berlin, a publicly funded advisory platform supporting cultural production, and was for many years a board member of all2gethernow e.V., a cultural think tank addressing structural change in music and digital culture. Alongside these activities, Eric has consistently engaged with technological shifts shaping production and labor, with a growing emphasis since 2013 on artificial intelligence and, more recently, on robotics and human augmentation.

He approaches these developments not as isolated innovations, but as infrastructures that redefine work, agency, authorship, and bodily experience. Eric is a long-time co-curator of re:publica Berlin and regularly publishes and moderates public discourse on technology, culture, and responsibility. A central element of his work is translation — between disciplines, between technical systems and cultural meaning, and between expert knowledge and public debate.