imageExhibition 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

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topicAngewandte Festival 2024 26–29 Jun 2024, 11:00–21:00

Overview Program at AIL during Angewandte Festival

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exhibition26 Jun 2024, 11:00Showing Echoes From counter to encounter
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research presentation26 Jun 2024, 11:00Hallabudda Re-enactment Arts-based Research-Installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK in the course of the project SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS
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exhibition07 Jun 2024, 18:00Refractive Perspectives 3*10^8 m/s
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symposium26 Jun 2024, 18:00Unruly 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’.

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workshop27 Jun 2024, 17:00Giving Life with Light with Carolina Páez Vélez Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s
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performance29 Jun 2024, 15:00Worms, Stars and Metabolism A lecture performance with earthworms as special guests
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performance29 Jun 2024, 17:00Information presented by the department Digitale Kunst
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research presentation26 Jun 2024, 16:00Guided Tour: Refractive Perspectives 3*10^8 m/s
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research presentation27 Jun 2024, 16:00Guided Tour: Refractive Perspectives 3*10^8 m/s
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imageExhibition View: Reverse Imagining Vienna Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures

Research Presentation from May 2024

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newsLange 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!

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videoTo 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

imagePosthuman Social Club at AIL Performance and film screening from April 2024

An event presented by andother stage

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imagePerformance View: Re-enchantment Spiritus by Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière

Part of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past

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imagePerformance View: Re-enchantment Porphyra by Magdalena Forster and Milena Georgieva

Part of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past

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newsKlima Biennale 2024 Reverse Imagining Vienna. Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures / Energy At the Threshold of the Visible World
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imageExhibition View: RAUW. Das Zittern der Teile Artists: Albert Mayr, Thea Moeller, Samuel Schaab, Benjamin Tomasi, Hella Gerlach
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imagePerformance View: RAUW. Das Zittern der Teile Performances and concert by Melanie Maar, Alex Franz Zehetbauer and L.Twills for the opening of the exhibition.
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newsExhibition Opening and Performance Night 19 Mar, 18:00 / RAUW. Das Zittern der Teile
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newsRe-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

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newsOskar Kokoschka Prize 2024 for Miriam Cahn 1 Mar 2024, 17:00–19:00 at AIL, please register for this event
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textIm 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

textIn 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

imagePerformance 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

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imageExhibition View: radical ⇌ matter When Materialism is No Longer Enough

Jan / Feb 2024

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videoCreativity and AI. The End of Certainty? Talk in German from December 2023

Part of the series Digitaler Humanismus – Transformation Gestalten [Digital Humanism – Shaping Transformation]

newsSign Up: Workshop – The Cars We Like The environment must no longer be adapted to the car, but the car to the environment

5-day-workshop (4–8 Mar 2024), led by the Futurama.Lab

videoDialogues for Tomorrow: Radikale Wende. Weil wir eine Welt zu gewinnen haben Discussion in German from December 2023

Philipp Blom in Conversation with climate activist Lena Schilling

videoDialogues for Tomorrow: The Global South and the Future of World Order Philipp Blom in Conversation with political scientist Oliver Stuenkel
videoPerformance View: Station Rose 35.0 back < into >> the FUTURE ∞ delivering Digital Art since 1988. Lecture Performance in English, October 2023

Insights into Stations Rose’s digital work, music and art forms from 1988 until 2023

imagePerformance View: Phantom Voltage with Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger, Christina Kubisch / Part of Wien Modern, November 2023

Multimedia composition for electromagnetic fields, various kinetic sound and light objects and cello (2023 WP) ~60´.

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videoSymposium: Threads of Life Accompanying the exhibition of the same name, June 2023 [in German]

The Threads of Life exhibition spotlights the multifaceted relationship between textiles, medicine and the arts.

imageExhibition View: Conservator at Work Insights into the research and cultural heritage work of conservators by the Institute of Conservation of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (IoC)

13 Oct – 23 Nov 2023

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imageEs geht ums Ganze Workshop from the artistic research project Sensing Living Systems as part of Researchers Night, September 2023
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imagePerformance View: Sonic Specters Live Performance with KMRU and Inou Ki Endo & Misonica (DJ-Set), October 2023

Eerie atmospheres and flickering sound traces created by past audio sources and the coming times

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

Insights, Upcoming Dates and Work in Progress

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 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 – Feb 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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imageOn 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

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textWhat haunts us? A collection of thoughts and ideas revolving around the latest AIL Topic ‘Haunted. Persistence of the Past’: On hauntings of the future, virtualitites of the past, the seething presence of the seemingly non-existent, and predictions and prophecies.

Text from Elisabeth Falkensteiner

topicHaunted – Persistence of the Past AIL Topic starting Fall 2023
newsRe-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

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performance17 Apr 2024, 20:00Re-enchantment: Spiritus by Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière
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imagePerformance View: Re-enchantment Porphyra by Magdalena Forster and Milena Georgieva

Part of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past

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textWhat haunts us? A collection of thoughts and ideas revolving around the latest AIL Topic ‘Haunted. Persistence of the Past’: On hauntings of the future, virtualitites of the past, the seething presence of the seemingly non-existent, and predictions and prophecies.

Text from Elisabeth Falkensteiner

sound performance16 Jan 2024, 19:00Sonic Specters with Richard Skelton, Jung An Tagen and Firmament Between Nostalgia and Anticipation
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newsSonic Specters. Between Nostalgia and Anticipation New Series of Sound Performances, starting October 2023

A cooperation with Struma+Iodine, curated by Shilla Strelka and Elisabeth Falkensteiner

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imagePerformance View: Sonic Specters Live Performance with KMRU and Inou Ki Endo & Misonica (DJ-Set), October 2023

Eerie atmospheres and flickering sound traces created by past audio sources and the coming times

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imagePerformance View: Phantom Voltage with Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger, Christina Kubisch / Part of Wien Modern, November 2023

Multimedia composition for electromagnetic fields, various kinetic sound and light objects and cello (2023 WP) ~60´.

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sound performance15 Dec 2023, 19:00Sonic Specters with Katatonic Silentio and dieb13 Between Nostalgia and Anticipation
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sound performance08 Nov 2023, 19:00Sonic Specters with Perila and Afrodeo Between Nostalgia and Anticipation
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newsSonic Specters. Between Nostalgia and Anticipation New Series of Sound Performances, starting October 2023

A cooperation with Struma+Iodine, curated by Shilla Strelka and Elisabeth Falkensteiner

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newsHow to apply Future AIL Program Outlook 2023/24

Text by Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Alexandra Graupner (Heads of AIL)

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newsZukunft anwenden AIL Programm Ausblick 2023/24

Text von Elisabeth Falkensteiner und Alexandra Graupner (Leitung AIL)

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newsIT'S ALL ABOUT THE WHOLE! / ES GEHT UMS GANZE! Workshop and first insights into the artistic research project Sensing Living Systems with Alexandra Graupner, Jeanette Müller and Paul Divjak

As part of European Researchers Night at Vordere Zollamtstr. 7

imageExhibition View: evidence raum Large-scale series of installations showcasing the surmountable provocations of our times by Shaheen Merali and Ramesch Daha from Jun/Jul 2023

An enquiry about practices, strategies, and forums for an audience to move beyond the realm of public authority and corporate investment

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newsOPEN CALL Vienna Design Week Works wanted for SUPERSACHEN – ANGEWANDTE ALUMNI WERKSHOP 28–30 Sep 2023

A project by ARTist and AIL. Deadline: 21 Aug 2023

videoDiscussion: Sonic Sensibility Sound as an Instrument of Research

Panel discussion (in German) with Ricarda Denzer, Peter Kutin, Pia Palme, Karl Salzmann. Angewandte Festival 2022

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

newsWeb-Crawler Report An algorithmic real-time media installation at Café Exchange

Installation by Martin Kusch (Department of Digital Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

topicAngewandte Festival 27 –30 Jun, 11:00–21:00
exhibition27 Jun 2023, 11:00evidence raum Large-scale series of installations showcasing the surmountable provocations of our times by Shaheen Merali and Ramesch Daha
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exhibition25 Jun 2023, 18:00Cabriobeet Public intervention by Christoph Schwarz & neighbors in the 9th District of Vienna as part of Angewandte Festival 2023.
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live performance28 Jun 2023, 19:00Salon de Passage #5 Gathering, Hunting, Cultivating: Green

Passenger Diaries – Performative Research on Emergent Subjectivities in Trans-Urban Space

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live performance29 Jun 2023, 18:30Der weiße Hintergrund Lecture Performance by Kervin Saint Pere
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exhibition13 Jun 2023, 18:00Threads of Life Textiles in Medicine and the Arts
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imageExhibition View: Threads of Life Textiles in Medicine and the Arts

Some insights from our current exhibition still on till 14 Jul 2023

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topicArtistic Research What does it mean to conduct artistic research today?

Research Presentations at AIL

imageExhibition 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

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imageExhibition View: Reverse Imagining Vienna Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures

Research Presentation from May 2024

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research presentation26 Jan 2024, 19:00This Is Not a Glacier Thickening Description for Thinning Ice 
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research presentation25 Oct 2023, 15:00MorphoPoly Building, research and learning games on the question of the city model
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book presentation31 May 2023, 18:00Playing with Ludwig How do colours relate to memory? How does language relate to the world (and vice versa)? Can the invisible, such as thoughts, atmospheres or pain, be grasped through art?
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imageExhibition View: Threads of Life Textiles in Medicine and the Arts

Some insights from our current exhibition still on till 14 Jul 2023

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imageExhibition View: Holobiont. Life is Other Presentation of bodies, environments, texts, media, machines and biological organisms condensed into pictorial spaces / Oct 2022–Jan 2023

Curated by Judith Reichart, Lucie Strecker, Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser

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research presentation20 Mar 2019, 17:00Lighthouse Light as the building block of the future museum by architect Andrea Graser in cooperation with artist Friedrich Biedermann
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imageExhibition View: Labor der Plötzlichkeit. Elektrische Funken und Entladungen Different daily constellations will offer a new way of looking at the material of of lightning or electricity from 2016

The highly charged collection of items will diffuse over the course of the event

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imageExhibition View: Conceptual Joining – Wood Structures from Detail to Utopia Investigation on wood constructions in a series of structural and spatial experiments from 2019

The exhibition focuses on two projects that explore the relationship between material, structure and space

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textConceptual Joining: Backstage Report From our Newsletter 2019 (Interview in German)

Daniela Kröhnert and Lukas Allner giving us insights in their research project and experiences

videoDialogues for Tomorrow: A Green and Global Europe? Philipp Blom and Political Scientist Nathalie Tocci in Conversation

A cooperation between the Bruno Kreisky Forum, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

newsThis is not a Park Lab Who owns the city? Public Space = Parking Space?

Vienna offers space for 726.100 cars, but not for one AIL Park Lab

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imagePerformance View: Beyond My Skin by Flavia Mazzanti Performance Premiere as part of Loose Threads. Towards a Technodiversity, May 2023

A project by Flavia Mazzanti Produced by Immerea Performers: Olivia Hild, Imani Rameses Sound: Brootworth

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imageExhibition View: Fabric of Dreams. Towards a Technodiversity Curated by Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Clemens Apprich. 17 Mar 2023 – 12 May 2023

A cooperation with the department of Media Theory, concluding the series of talks and performances on ‘Decolonizing Technology’

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videoOperator: On Generative Choreography Talk in English from April 2023

Hosted by the Coding Lab of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

videoRamon Amaro: The Trouble with Visibility Lecture in English from 2022

Accompanied by a Dialogue with Tiara Roxanne, moderated by Nelly Y. Pinkrah