Aesthetics of Transformation
Discussion Series Spring / Summer 2025
Curated by School for Transformation
Performing Transformation
McKenzie Wark and Ariadne Randall with Nanna Heidenreich
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
The Influencing Machine: Latent Moods, Emergent Bias and Distributed Ontologies
Sonia Bernac with Monika Halkort
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
Synthetic Images | Dynamic Maps
Svitlana Matviyenko with Ramón Reichert
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
The Paradoxes of Positionality: Diaspora Aesthetics and Transdisciplinary Research
Noit Banai with Amanda Holmes
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
Plastic Aesthetics
Heather Davies with Monika Halkort
Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation
Rewatch: 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
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
Alumni in Residence: Verena Tscherner
Verena Tscherner is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 10 Jan till 7 Feb 2025.
Please note the current open call for two more Residency slots. Deadline 25 Jan 2025
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: 24 Apr, 16:00–22:00
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
AIL Residency Program – Open Call for Angewandte Alumni
Use the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab for individual projects and share your work routine and processes
Deadline: 25 Jan 2025
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 till 22:00 and shares insights into the work progress.
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: 24 Apr, 16:00–22:00
AIL Ping-Pong #1: Liquidity
Intervention at Counter 13 with 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
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 – 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
Performance View: EXTC
AV Performance by Joanna Coleman and Martina Moro
Part of the opening of the exhibition Data Doom Desire
Performance View: Ghost in the Cog
by Kenneth Constance Loe and Moritz Nahold (Subletvis)
Exhibition View: Data Doom Desire
Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures; accompanying the symposium ‘In Terms of Media…’
Nov/Dec 2024
Open Call: AIL Ping-Pong #1
for Alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Deadline: 13 Jan 2025
Installation View: Cycloïd-E
Sound installation by COD.ACT, part of Wien Modern 2024
Find the second part COD.ACT: πTON/2 at MAK Forum
Exhibition View: Reflecting Oil. Petroculture in Transformation
Artistic Research Project Led by Artist Ernst Logar. Oct / Nov 2024
The exhibition intensively explores the substance of oil in connection with various concepts and phenomena of our petromodernity
10 Jahre AIL
Collecting futures since 2014
10 Years of AIL
Collecting futures since 2014
OPEN HOUSE 2024
Zaha Hadid and Peter Noever: Art and Architecture in Conversation
Sliver Lecture from 2015 (in English)
Hosted by the Institute of Architecture
Performance View: Unsafe+Sounds
Opening night of the festival 2024
Of Many Worlds
Close Up Research: Multispecies Soundscapes
In conversation with reasearchers and artists Klaus Spiess, Ulla Rauter and Emanuel Gollob
Angewandte Publications at AIL
Arts and science books by the University of Applied Arts Vienna now on display at the Kassenhalle of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
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
Exhibition View: Showing Echoes
From counter to encounter / Part of Angewandte Festival 2024
Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Nora Mayr in cooperation with departments from the Postsparkasse building
Symposium View: Unruly
Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s
This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’
Symposium View: Undisciplined
Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s
This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’
Symposium View: Unreasonable
Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s
This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’
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
Austrian Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2024 at AIL
17 Jun 2024, 18:00
Exhibition View: Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s
The annual exhibition by the department of Art & Science presents a collage of twenty-one artistic works, spanning from the socio-political to the deeply personal around the enigmatic topic of light
10–29 Jun 2024
Angewandte Festival 2024
26–29 Jun 2024, 11:00–21:00
Overview Program at AIL during Angewandte Festival
Showing Echoes
From counter to encounter
Hallabudda Re-enactment
Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
Refractive Perspectives
3*10^8 m/s
Unruly
Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s. Performance and workshop led by ars sciendi class member Rimon Alyagon Darr.
This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’.
Giving Life with Light with Carolina Páez Vélez
Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s
Worms, Stars and Metabolism
A lecture performance with earthworms as special guests
Information
presented by the department Digitale Kunst
Guided Tour: Refractive Perspectives
3*10^8 m/s
Guided Tour: Refractive Perspectives
3*10^8 m/s
Exhibition View: Reverse Imagining Vienna
Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures
Research Presentation from May 2024
Lange Nacht der Forschung – We are part of it!
Come join u s on May 24, 17:00–23:00pm
Immerse yourself in the world of art & science in the wonderful atmosphere of the 'Kassenhalle’ in the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse!
To watch: The Cars We Like Symposium
Thinking and Enacting Radical Transformation in Mobility
Beyond mere critique by combining theory and practice in a novel way / Symposium in English from March 2024
Posthuman Social Club at AIL
Performance and film screening from April 2024
An event presented by andother stage
Performance View: Re-enchantment
Spiritus by Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière
Part of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past
Performance View: Re-enchantment
Porphyra by Magdalena Forster and Milena Georgieva
Part of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past
Klima Biennale 2024
Reverse Imagining Vienna. Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures / Energy At the Threshold of the Visible World
Exhibition View: RAUW. Das Zittern der Teile
Artists: Albert Mayr, Thea Moeller, Samuel Schaab, Benjamin Tomasi, Hella Gerlach
Performance View: RAUW. Das Zittern der Teile
Performances and concert by Melanie Maar, Alex Franz Zehetbauer and L.Twills for the opening of the exhibition.
Exhibition Opening and Performance Night
19 Mar, 18:00 / RAUW. Das Zittern der Teile
Re-enchantment
Next chapter and two-part performance of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past, starting April 2024
Performances by Magdalena Forster and Milena Georgieva, Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière
Oskar Kokoschka Prize 2024 for Miriam Cahn
1 Mar 2024, 17:00–19:00 at AIL, please register for this event
Im Gespräch mit Kilian Jörg
Wie in fast allen europäischen Städten besitzt in Wien nur ein gutes Drittel der Menschen ein Auto. Trotzdem sind in den meisten Gassen und Straßen der Stadt bis zu 70-80% der Flächen als Verkehrs- und Parkfläche dem Auto gewidmet.
Über Autos und Mobilität; zur Reihe Exhaust(ed) Entangelements und dem Projekt The Cars We Like
In Conversation with Kilian Jörg
As in almost all European cities, only around a third of people in Vienna own a car. Nevertheless, in most alleys and streets in the city, 70–80% of traffic and parking space is dedicated to cars.
About cars and mobility; to the series Exhaust(ed) Entangelements and the project The Cars We Like
Performance View: Unplayed Realities (Ice cream so good)
by Julia Wolf in collaboration with Anni Katrin Elmer, Janis Lejins and Alexander Weiss
This performance took place as part of the opening of the exhibition radical ⇌ matter: When Materialism is no Longer Enough in January 2024
Exhibition View: radical ⇌ matter
When Materialism is No Longer Enough
Jan / Feb 2024
Creativity and AI. The End of Certainty?
Talk in German from December 2023
Part of the series Digitaler Humanismus – Transformation Gestalten [Digital Humanism – Shaping Transformation]