Welcome to Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Platform for art, science and artistic research
AIL is run by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The projects in AIL’s program investigate current societal issues and encourage the development of new ideas and concepts. AIL is located in the heart of Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse and home of Café Exchange.
Alumni in Residence: Ramiro Wong
Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 28 Mar till 25 Apr 2025.
Open Studio: 12 Apr, 11:00–15:00
Performing Transformation
McKenzie Wark with Ariadne Randall and Nanna Heidenreich
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
Janina Loh: Trans- und Posthumanismus. Feministischer Blick im Digitalen
Talk in German from 2019, part of Vienna Biennale For Change
Where do patriarchal inscriptions, gender identities or stereotyping hide in the field of artificial intelligence and future technologies?
Open Studio: Ramiro Wong
Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 28 Mar till 25 Apr 2025. Ramiro opens his temporary studio and shares insights into the work progress.
The Dark Sides of Digital Humanism
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Claus Pias and McKenzie Wark – in conversation with Clemens Apprich (from Apr 2024, in English)
Presented by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures
20 Mar 2025 —
30 Jul 2025
AIL Ping-Pong #1: Liquidity
Manuel Cyrill Bachinger, Bartosz Dolhun, Annika Eschmann, Karina Fernandez, Miloš Vučićević
Get inspired
AIL broadcasts the research landscape of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. AIL is a source of inspiration, a place for exchange.
SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Artistic research project by artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK and AIL, started September 2023
Insights, Upcoming Dates and Work in Progress
SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Exploring the Potentials of Multisensory Scenography for Systems Awareness
Artistic research project by artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK and AIL, starting September 2023
Conception of SYS: THE SMELL OF A MYTHOLOGICAL BEING
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Series of Scenographic Studies / Part V, Feb 2025–Jun 2025
Nature After Nature: DRAWING TREES WITH SCENT
Olfactory Performance by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS,
Together with Lucie Strecker, Music: b.fleischmann
SENSING THEORY – Shredding Cognitive Overload
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Series of Scenographic Studies / Part IV, Oct 2024–Jan 2025
HALLABUDDA Reenactment
Series of Scenographic Studies / Part III, Jul–Sep 2024
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Expanding System Boundaries
feat. Tuntun Taratawan Krue-On: ‘The Table’ from ‘What If It Was All A Dream?’ / Series of Scenographic Studies / Part II, Feb–Jun 2024
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Am I a System? Where Are My Boundaries?
Series of Scenographic Studies / Part I, Oct–Dec 2023
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Workshop View: Es geht ums Ganze
Workshop from the artistic research project Sensing Living Systems as part of Researchers Night, September 2023
In Conversation with Clemens Apprich on ‘Decolonizing Technology’
About media technology and its political implications in terms of identity politics and the importance of critical thinking in digital cultures. What does it mean to ‘decolonize’ technology, and how can it be that technology generates a ‘colonizing’ practice in the first place?
Clemens Apprich is head of the department of Media Theory, which co-hosts AIL’s Talk Series on the topic of ‘Decolonizing Technology’
The Influencing Machine: Latent Moods, Emergent Bias and Distributed Ontologies
Sonia Bernac in Conversation with Monika Halkort
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
The Unexpected
Enquiries on Human-AI Interaction
Artists: Pamela Breda, Patricia Reis, Ruth Schnell
Ramon Amaro: The Trouble with Visibility
Lecture in English from 2022
Accompanied by a Dialogue with Tiara Roxanne, moderated by Nelly Y. Pinkrah
Monkeys, Machines, and Multi-Perspectivities
Transmissions from within the Ludic Mind
10 Years of AIL – Postcard Edition
Greetings from the University of Applied Arts Vienna
A collaboration with the department of Creative Writing [Sprachkunst], with student and alumni Valerie Prinz
The Future of AI in the Arts and Institutions
with Clemens Apprich (Head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna)
Alumni in Residence
Open Studio: Ramiro Wong
Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 28 Mar till 25 Apr 2025. Ramiro opens his temporary studio and shares insights into the work progress.
AIL Ping-Pong #1: Liquidity
Manuel Cyrill Bachinger, Bartosz Dolhun, Annika Eschmann, Karina Fernandez, Miloš Vučićević
Alumni in Residence: Suchart Wannaset
Suchart Wannaset is alumni of the department of Transmedia Art and will work at AIL from 24 Feb till 24 Mar 2025
Open Studio: Verena Tscherner
Verena Tscherner is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 10 Jan till 7 Feb 2025. Verena opens her temporary studio and shares insights into the work progress.
Please note the current open call for two more Residency slots. Deadline 25 Jan 2025
AD LIB. experimental music settings
Interdisciplinary experimental setting in the basement for art, music and research by Christoph Hudl
Choreo-graphic Figures
Summer Lab with artist Nikolaus Gansterer, choreographer Mariella Greil and writer Emma Cocker
Alumni in Residence: HALL presents soft fizz
Launched in 2020 as part of AIL.alternate during Lockdown 01
Video work by Benjamin Tomasi and Samuel Schaab aka HALL
On View: Supersachen
Impressions from the first ANGEWANDTE ALUMNI WERKSHOP / Part of Vienna Design Week 2023
A cooperation with ARTist – Alumni Association of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Exhibition View: Toxic Temple
A processual exhibition by Kilian Jörg and Anna Lerchbaumer from 2020
Alumni in Residence / Hosted by ARTist – Alumniverein der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Alumni in Residence: What’s inside a Girl?
Concert by Barbis Ruder, alumnus of the Brigitte Kowanz class, together with Roman Gerold and Joshua Korn
Hosted in 2016 by ARTist – the graduate association of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
May I introduce: Alien!
Depressed monkeys and sensitive dodos
Whether Bacteria, plants, humans or other animals – aliens welcome!
Exhibition View: Print Weekend III
Self-Publishing Fair from 2018
Hosted and curated by Micro-publishing house Soybot
10 Years of AIL
Collecting futures since 2014
