Joachim Sauter (16 May 1959 – 10 July 2021)[1][2] was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur.

He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991, and in 1993 he created Terravision (computer program), before pursuing a lawsuit against Google for infringing the patent.

[5] A pioneer of new media, he developed and shaped the field from the early 1980s on.

Their goal was to research the new medium in the realms of art and design,[6] emphasizing the translation of information (easily transmissible via new media) into physical spaces, offering a more communal, reality-grounded experience than could be achieved with computer monitors alone.

[7] As Head of Design at ART+COM, Sauter led the interdisciplinary group’s innovative experiments, using new technologies to convey complex topics while exploring their potential for spatial communication and art.