Martin is the Executive Director at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Co-Founder of the Tech Diplomacy Network. His work is at the intersection of arts, diplomacy, technology, and the environment. Martin served for two years as Austria’s first Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley. During more than five years as Head of Open Austria and Austrian Consul in San Francisco, he shaped the emerging field of tech diplomacy, engaged in transatlantic digital diplomacy and digital human rights. He initiated Open Austria’s “Art + Tech Lab”, and co-founded the European art + tech + policy initiative “The Grid”. Martin served as Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU, Deputy Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, and Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Mexico City.