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).