Florian Thalhofer is media artist and documentary filmmaker. He is the inventor of the Korsakow System, chief architect of the Korsakow software and korsakow.tv. In 1997, he started to tell stories via computer. That led him to the development of the Korsakow System, software and a principle for a new way of structuring narrations, which are non-linear and (usually) interactive. Thalhofer made numerous Korsakow films and one linear film. He has taught at the University of the Arts, Berlin at DFFB and at Deutsches Literatur Institute, Leipzig and given talks and lectures worldwide.