Sarine Waltenspül (*1986, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland) is one of the curators of String Figures / Fadenspiele: A Research Exhibition. She is a media scholar and historian of science focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries, who also works as a filmmaker and curator. She studied philosophy, art history and cultural analysis, theory and history in Basel, Zurich and Berlin, earned a doctorate in media studies, worked at the Zurich University of the Arts, was a fellow at MECS/Lüneburg, Collegium Helveticum/ETH, Deutsches Museum Munich and a visiting professor at the University of Basel. She has co-/led various research projects, currently the Visualpedia project. She is the author of Modelle im Film. Eine kleine Kinogeschichte (2024) and co-author with Mario Schulze of Fließend. Die Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen Films (2025).