Michael Markert is a cyberneticist and flaneur, working as a media-artist specializing in programming and Interaction Design.His research in intuitive musical interfaces and interest in spatial qualities started with a diploma in Multimedia / Design. Since then he has developed various interactive sensory devices for cybernetic installations. The focus of his work is exploring human behavior in space by using cybernetic interaction systems, typically utilizing immersive sonic and musical aspects. His latest works incorporate ubiquitous mobile devices as they aren’t only widely available – most of all, they are our main interface into the realms of augmented and virtual spaces while we’re moving through the physical world.Since 2005 he has been a member of the Urban Research Institute for Public Art and Urban Ethology (Intermedia). 2008 he graduated with a second diploma at the College of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He was Visiting Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in 2014. Since 2009 he was teaching at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, from 2015 to 2017 as well as 2018 to 2019 as Vertretungs-Professor for the chair of Interface Design and spokesman of the Media Art and Design Program (Studiengangsprecher). Michael obtained his Dr. phil. degree from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2020.From 2020 he is researching and teaching at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Coburg as Professor for Designbasics, Interaction and Digital Transformation. He is currently head of the examination committee of the study program "Integrated Product Design".