Please note: Registration required due to spacial limitations.
For participation, please write to:
artscience.exhibition@uni-ak.ac.at
In this workshop, visitors will get the opportunity to experiment with lumen printing, a technique that emerged in the 19th century as a way of photographing without a camera. Lumen Prints are images created by pressing objects on top of photographic paper and exposing them to the sun. We will discover how light and time can hold the traces and reminiscences of something, creating the image of an object but in an unstable and changing way.
What can this technique tell us about memory?
Does photography preserve memories or does it produce them? Can it be a safeguard for our lived experiences or can it only alter them?
People are invited to bring different materials to experiment with their shape, density, transparency and shadows. These can be natural elements, such as leaves or flowers, but also any type of – preferably – flat item, like clothes, jewelry, or papers. The compositions will be done in a darkroom and then taken to the sun outside of the Postsparkasse building.
About the exhibition:
Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.
[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.
Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.
Yet for this fluidity of memory to persist, structures are necessary – a mind, a community, or an archive. These structures are required similarly to sound waves, requiring surfaces in order to reverberate. At AIL, the exhibition unfolds across two interconnected spaces that function as the surrounding structures. Each space gathers works that resonate with one another while simultaneously echoing across the architectural interior of the historic Kassenhalle. Through this spatial arrangement, the exhibition itself becomes part of the inquiry, staging memory as a process of resonance, interference, and transformation.
Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.
With contributions by:
Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil
An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated by the Department Art & Science in collaboration with the AIL.
About the department Art & Science:
The objective of the "Art & Science" master's degree program is to investigate the relationships between different artistic and scientific representational cultures and their respective cognitive and research methods. An inter- and transdisciplinary approach and project-oriented education should stimulate interaction between model and theory construction, and the application of methods, in particular, in the arts and sciences.
Preview image: Agustina Agüero, Lumen II (c) Agustina Belén Agüero, 2025
