Welcome to Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL)

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.

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exhibition18 Nov 2026, 18:00Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Opening with Live Set by Rudi Gier and DJ Set by Oko Oko

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newsOpen Call: Artist at Risk Residency 2027 A collaboration with Office Ukraine

Application is open till 20 Nov 2026

workshop19 Nov 2026, 14:00Densities of Time On Speculative Climate Futures

with Beatrice Tulagan. Part of the exhibition ‘Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice’

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sound performance27 Nov 2026, 20:00When Acceleration Falters with Tati au Miel, Babak Ahteshamipour, Klimentina Milenova & Paul Böhm

In cooperation with CIVA – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art, soundframe and MUTEK Montréal

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topicExhibition Activations Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Extended exhibition program, 19 Nov 2026–29 Jan 2027

workshop19 Nov 2026, 14:00Densities of Time On Speculative Climate Futures

with Beatrice Tulagan. Part of the exhibition ‘Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice’

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exhibition19 Nov 2026, 16:00Guided Tour: Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Camille Belmin

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exhibition02 Dec 2026, 16:00Guided Tour: Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Elisabeth Falkensteiner

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discussion07 Dec 2026, 18:00How to Collide? On the Frictions, Encounters and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

with Jonas Staal and Radha D’Souza. Moderated by Monika Halkort

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exhibition10 Dec 2026, 16:00Guided Tour: Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Elisabeth Falkensteiner

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exhibition15 Jan 2027, 16:00Guided Tour: Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Adriano Vinca

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gathering21 Jan 2027, 16:00Climate Litigation Summit Save the date!
exhibition22 Jan 2027, 16:00Guided Tour: Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Camille Belmin

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exhibition29 Jan 2027, 16:00Guided Tour: Future on Trial Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Camille Belmin and Adriano Vinca

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imageExhibition View: 03: Soil Between (De-)Composition and (Re-)Construction in the Climate Crisis

running till 6 Nov 2026

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topicFollow-Ups: Alumni in Residence Collection of Q&As with former participants of the AIL Residency Program
imageFollow-Up: Conny Frischauf Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Conny Frischauf is alumni of TransArts and worked at AIL from Jan till Feb 2026

textFollow-Up: Karina Fernandez Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Karina Fernandez is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and worked at AIL in March 2026

textFollow-Up: Lena Michalik Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Lena Michalik is alumni of the department of Social Design and worked at AIL in March 2026

textFollow-Up: Jona Wolf Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Jona Wolf is alumni of the institute of architecture and worked at AIL from September till October 2025

textFollow-Up: Suchart Wannaset Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Suchart Wannaset is alumni of the department of Transmedia Art and worked at AIL from February till March 2025

textFollow-Up: Ramiro Wong Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and worked at AIL from March till April 2025

textFollow-Up: Verena Tscherner Q&A with former Alumni in Residence

Verena Tscherner is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and worked at AIL from January till February 2025

Neither a museum, nor a gallery – think of AIL as a stage for ideas and formats, a flexible organism

AIL broadcasts the research landscape of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. AIL is a source of inspiration, a place for exchange. Get inspired:

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videoRenée Schroeder: Was ist Leben? Talk in German from 2017

A poet, a philosopher, the pope, a physicist and a chemist have different views and ideas of what life is.

videoShowcase: Non Stop Stop Motion by Anna Vasof An investigation of cinematic illusion in everyday life

Each month we present a selected project realised at ZFF, Angewandte’s department for postgraduate research projects between art and science.

discussion07 Dec 2026, 18:00How to Collide? On the Frictions, Encounters and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

with Jonas Staal and Radha D’Souza. Moderated by Monika Halkort

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topicSENSING LIVING SYSTEMS Artistic research project by artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK and AIL

Insights, Upcoming Dates and Work in Progress

performance04 Jul 2026, 13:00LIMINAL TRACES Celebrating Acoustic Ecologies. Performance by MUELLER-DIVJAK

Part of Angewandte Festival

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newsSENSING LIVING SYSTEMS Exploring the Potentials of Multisensory Scenography for Systems Awareness

Artistic research project by artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK and AIL, starting September 2023

research presentation04 May 2026, 11:00THE WORLD IN MY ROOM Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the artistic project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS

Series of Scenographic Studies / Part VIII, March–May 2026

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research presentation02 Nov 2025, 11:00POKING SYSTEMS – Celebrating Synfluence Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the artistic project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS

Series of Scenographic Studies / Part VII, Nov 2025–Mar 2026

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research presentation01 Sep 2025, 11:00SΫS DANCE: Sound and scent installation Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the artistic project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS

Series of Scenographic Studies / Part VI, Jun – Oct 2025

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research presentation12 Jun 2025, 18:30Smell Talk Dance Scenographic Studies of the artistic research project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS

Multisensory presentation and discussion

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research presentation10 Feb 2025, 11:00Conception 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

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imageNature After Nature: DRAWING TREES WITH SCENT Olfactory Performance by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS

Research presentation together with Lucie Strecker, Music: b.fleischmann

research presentation01 Oct 2024, 11:00SENSING 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

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imageHALLABUDDA 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

imageExpanding 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

imageAm 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

imageEs geht ums Ganze Workshop from the artistic research project Sensing Living Systems as part of Researchers Night, September 2023
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imagePosthuman Social Club at AIL Performance and film screening from April 2024

An event presented by andother stage

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topicAIL Platform: Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures
symposium05 Nov 2026, 15:00In Terms of Media… Lore, Noise, Sense, and Air

Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures. The symposium will be held in English

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talk30 Jun 2026, 18:00Axioms of AI with Alexander R. Galloway

presented by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

talk16 Apr 2026, 18:00 AR, Expanded Cinema, and Social Sculpture in Polycrisis Engagement Strategies and Sympoiesis

A Lecture by Nancy Baker Cahill, fellow at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

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discussion04 Dec 2025, 18:00Languages of AI M. Beatrice Fazi and Anna Longo in Conversation, Soundperformance by Dario Sanfilippo

Organized by Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures (part of M. Beatrice Fazi's fellowship and the Weibel Lectures series) in cooperation with the AIL

imageExhibition View: Thinking Through Weibel Beginnings, Diversions, Elsewheres

Exhibition from Nov 2025 till Jan 2026, presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

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discussion14 Nov 2025, 17:30Talking Through Weibel Part of Vienna Art Week 2025

Presented by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures as part of the exhibition ‘Thinking Through Weibel’

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videoRewatch: In Terms of Media… On Data Materialism, Techno Poetics, Atmospheres of Conflict, and Planetary Interfaces. Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

Symposium in English from Nov 2024

imageExhibition View: Data Doom Desire Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures; accompanying the symposium ‘In Terms of Media…’

Nov/Dec 2024

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videoKatharina Klappheck: The Joy of Being an Error Lecture by Katharina Klappheck followed by a dialogue with Katta Spiel from Jan 2023 in German

The argument will be that disability is a condition of possibility for AI.

exhibition

04 Nov 2026 —
29 Jan 2027

AIL Ping-Pong #4: Blob Intervention at Counter 13 with with Christos Kyritopoulos-Ninas, Florian Sorgo, Felix Helmut Wagner, Agnes Varnai

Showcase of artistic projects by alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

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videoMcKenzie Wark, Ariadne Randall, Nanna Heidenreich: Performing Transformation Talk in English from April 2025

Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation

gathering04 Dec 2026, 16:30 20 Years tranzit.org AIL hosts this year’s assembly by tranzit.org in Vienna
newsAngewandte Publications at AIL Arts and science books by the University of Applied Arts Vienna now on display at the Kassenhalle of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
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topicKind Regards – AIL Postcard Editions Installation at Café Exchange
newsPostcard Edition Nr. 4 – Reflex A cooperation with the department of ­Drawing and Printmaking

A series of postcards extracted from the course ‘Drawing: Here & Now’ by Simon Goritschnig, installed in the former cashier hall, Jul 2026–Jan 2027

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newsAIL Postcard Edition Nr. 3 – Algorithmic Vertigo A cooperation with Digitale Kunst / UBERMORGEN (Digital Arts)
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newsAIL Postcard Edition Nr. 2 – (dis)honest images In cooperation with the department Applied Photography & Time-Based Media
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news10 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

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topicExtending Intersections Special program to foster interdisciplinary work at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Please note: This program is mostly dedicated to members of the university, specific events will be open tot the public and indicated as such

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discussion07 Dec 2026, 18:00How to Collide? On the Frictions, Encounters and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

with Jonas Staal and Radha D’Souza. Moderated by Monika Halkort

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newsAIL Capsule Starting 19 Nov 2026

The central reception booth in the big cashier hall becomes a capsule for collective research and sound experiments

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newsSprechstunde For members of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Are you interested in working across, between, or beyond disciplines with other departments, universities, or external collaborators?

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