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Haunted – Persistence of the Past

AIL Topic starting Fall 2023
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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

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performance 17 Apr 2024, 20:00

Re-enchantment: Spiritus

by Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière
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Performance View: Re-enchantment

Porphyra by Magdalena Forster and Milena Georgieva

Part of the Topic Haunted – Persistence of the Past

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What 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 performance 16 Jan 2024, 19:00

Sonic Specters with Richard Skelton, Jung An Tagen and Firmament

Between Nostalgia and Anticipation
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Sonic 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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Performance 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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Performance 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 performance 15 Dec 2023, 19:00

Sonic Specters with Katatonic Silentio and dieb13

Between Nostalgia and Anticipation
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sound performance 08 Nov 2023, 19:00

Sonic Specters with Perila and Afrodeo

Between Nostalgia and Anticipation
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Sonic 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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How to apply Future

AIL Program Outlook 2023/24

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

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Zukunft anwenden

AIL Programm Ausblick 2023/24

Text von Elisabeth Falkensteiner und Alexandra Graupner (Leitung AIL)

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IT'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

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Exhibition 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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OPEN 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

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Discussion: Sonic Sensibility

Sound as an Instrument of Research

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

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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

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Web-Crawler Report

An algorithmic real-time media installation at Café Exchange

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

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Angewandte Festival

27 –30 Jun, 11:00–21:00
exhibition 27 Jun 2023, 11:00

evidence raum

Large-scale series of installations showcasing the surmountable provocations of our times by Shaheen Merali and Ramesch Daha
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exhibition 25 Jun 2023, 18:00

Cabriobeet

Public intervention by Christoph Schwarz & neighbors in the 9th District of Vienna as part of Angewandte Festival 2023.
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live performance 28 Jun 2023, 19:00

Salon de Passage #5

Gathering, Hunting, Cultivating: Green

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

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live performance 29 Jun 2023, 18:30

Der weiße Hintergrund

Lecture Performance by Kervin Saint Pere
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exhibition 13 Jun 2023, 18:00

Threads of Life

Textiles in Medicine and the Arts
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Exhibition 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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Artistic Research

What does it mean to conduct artistic research today?

Research Presentations at AIL

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Exhibition View: Reverse Imagining Vienna

Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures

Research Presentation from May 2024

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research presentation 26 Jan 2024, 19:00

This Is Not a Glacier

Thickening Description for Thinning Ice 
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research presentation 25 Oct 2023, 15:00

MorphoPoly

Building, research and learning games on the question of the city model
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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

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Exhibition 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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Exhibition 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 presentation 20 Mar 2019, 17:00

Lighthouse

Light as the building block of the future museum by architect Andrea Graser in cooperation with artist Friedrich Biedermann
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Exhibition 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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Exhibition 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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Conceptual Joining: Backstage Report

From our Newsletter 2019 (Interview in German)

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

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Dialogues 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

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This 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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Performance 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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Exhibition 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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Operator: On Generative Choreography

Talk in English from April 2023

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

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Ramon Amaro: The Trouble with Visibility

Lecture in English from 2022

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

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Installation View: Eating Experience by Marianna Mondelos

From the opening of Fabric of Dreams. Towards a Technodiversity in March 2023

What would an algorithm serve at an opening and how could one feed the algorithm to break existing recognition patterns?

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Future of Art with Hanno Rauterberg

Talk in German from 2022

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Genetic Engineering: A Threat, Upgrade or the Reinvention of Art?

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown

Philipp Blom and political scientist Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation

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

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Katharina 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.

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BUSSI AUS WIEN at AIL

BUSSI AUS WIEN is a project by Nora Mayr and Julischka Stengele, inviting artists to develop works in response to selected routes and to present them in a publication.

You can find the publicatons at Café Exchange and at other selected BUSSI Stops all over Vienna

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AI in Art: Exploration of AI-generated Art

From the Media Art Nexus Studio, talk in English from May 2022

Artistic duo Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez about their current work – A cooperation with the department of Digital Arts

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Future of Work with Barbara Prainsack

Talk in German from Oct 2022

The Importance of Redefining Work in the Face of Today’s Technological Revolution

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Pop Up Book Shop: o*books

o*books is a place full of diverse stories that inspires, motivates and communicates diversity. Newly opened in 1020 Vienna, we are happy to host o*books with a special selection

1 Dec–16 Dec 2022 // Tue–Fri 12:00–18:00

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Exhibition 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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Web Tentacles in the Outdoors / An Erratic Concept for AIL by Valerie Prinz

AIL realized a special series of 4 posters which are currently out and about, inviting Vienna to come explore AIL universe online and offline

Find out more about the concept behind it and meet artist and writer Valerie Prinz

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: The Rage of Data

Talk in English from October 2022

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Nishant Shah – Moderation: Clemens Apprich

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Exhibition View: Sonic Sensibility

Critical Engagement in Sound – Part of Angewandte Festival, June 2022

About social dimension of sound and practices of listening

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Performance View: infinity rug

Sound & Lecture Performance by Lou Drago and marum within the Angewandte Festival 2022

infinity rug is a series of sonic-seances where sound, collective learning and intimate care create a space of togetherness

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Performance View: Sounds of the Living IV

Performance by Paul Ebhart, Pia Palme, Fabian Lanzmaier – Part of Angewandte Festival 2022

The series of sound interventions at the Otto Wagner Kassenhalle explores the concept of living matter and questions the notion of nature.

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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’

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Decolonizing Technology

What does it mean to decolonize technology, and how can it be that technology generates a colonizing practice in the first place?

‘Obviously, no technological innovation will be able to solve our social problems.’ (from our Interview with Clemens Apprich)

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Exhibition 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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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: The Rage of Data

Talk in English from October 2022

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Nishant Shah – Moderation: Clemens Apprich

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Ramon Amaro: The Trouble with Visibility

Lecture in English from 2022

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

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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’

discussion 04 May 2023, 17:00

Loose Threads – Towards a Technodiversity

Panel with Kristoffer Gansing, Tung-Hui Hu
, Luiza Prado de O. Martins
 / Moderation: Clemens Apprich & Elisabeth Falkensteiner
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performance 04 May 2023, 20:00

Loose Threads – Towards a Technodiversity

Performances Beyond My Skin, Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe (Ghostpoet), isocialbutterflyy (DJ-set)
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talk 03 Nov 2022, 19:00

The Ecstasy of Noise

The one photo to end all wars – A Lecture by Hito Steyerl

This talk is part of the lecture series Decolonizing Technology in cooperation with the department of Media Theory

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Dialogues for Tomorrow

Discussion Series

To be able to grasp the complexity of today’s societal challenges, we need multiple perspectives and methods.

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Dialogues 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

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Global South and the Future of World Order

Philipp Blom in Conversation with political scientist Oliver Stuenkel
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Dialogues 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

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown

Philipp Blom and political scientist Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation

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

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Future of Work with Barbara Prainsack

Talk in German from Oct 2022

The Importance of Redefining Work in the Face of Today’s Technological Revolution

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Thirst for Illusion

Start of the Discussion Series at Café Exchange from May 2022

Gerald Bast in Conversation (in English) with Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Future of Art with Hanno Rauterberg

Talk in German from 2022

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Genetic Engineering: A Threat, Upgrade or the Reinvention of Art?

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: Transformation or Disruption

Societies in Need of Change. Discussion (in German) at Café Exchange from June 2022

Gerald Bast in Conversation (in German) with Philipp Blom

discussion 23 Nov 2022, 19:00

Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Future of Design

Will Technology Fundamentally Change the Societal Role and Occupational Image of Designers?
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European Forum Alpbach 2022

We are taking part at this year’s conference with a special program of heated discussions over cooled drinks
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Schönste Bücher Österreichs

The exhibition catalogue Ecologies & Politics of the Living has been awarded the prize for The Most Beautiful Books in Austria 2021.
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Exhibition View: THE OCTOPUS

On Artistic Research and production-based Collaborations

From the educational program of artistic research and interdisciplinary approaches by Basak Senova (Visiting Prof. of Angewandte)

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Shaping Sustainable Societies Together

Introducing Key ASF Hub Projects

Research Presentation from 2022

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The Wetness of Hacking

Transhacking Feminist Perspectives from Wetlab Barcelona

Artist Talk by Gaia Leandra and Ce Quimera in English from 2022

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Lange Nacht der Forschung 2022

Arts and sciences help us replace the old with the new, thereby creating alternative perspectives and transformations – we approach, position and reflect in a joint process

Research Presentation from May 2022

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Performance View: Salon de Passage #3 – Gathering, Hunting, Cultivating: Green

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

Reserach Presentation at Café Exchange from May 2022

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Performance View: Hyperscan with two players in zero action

Žarko Aleksić sync Margarete Jahrmann. An emanation of Neuromatic Game Art: Critical play with Neurointerfaces

Lunch Break Performance, June 2022

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: Transformation or Disruption

Societies in Need of Change. Discussion (in German) at Café Exchange from June 2022

Gerald Bast in Conversation (in German) with Philipp Blom

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Dialogues for Tomorrow: The Thirst for Illusion

Start of the Discussion Series at Café Exchange from May 2022

Gerald Bast in Conversation (in English) with Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez

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Sonic Sensibility

Critical Engagement in Sound – As part of the program of Angewandte Festival, Sonic Sensibility will focus on the material and relational conditions as well as the social and political dimensions of sound.
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Exhibition View: Sonic Sensibility

Critical Engagement in Sound – Part of Angewandte Festival, June 2022

About social dimension of sound and practices of listening

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discussion 29 Jun 2022, 16:00

Sonic Sensibility

Within the Angewandte Festival 2022
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exhibition 28 Jun 2022, 11:00

Sonic Sensibility

Critical Engagement in Sound
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sound performance 29 Jun 2022, 18:00

Akustische Aktion für die Kassenhalle

Within the Angewandte Festival 2022
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Performance View: Sounds of the Living IV

Performance by Paul Ebhart, Pia Palme, Fabian Lanzmaier – Part of Angewandte Festival 2022

The series of sound interventions at the Otto Wagner Kassenhalle explores the concept of living matter and questions the notion of nature.

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sound performance 29 Jun 2022, 19:00

Sounds of the Living IV

Within the Angewandte Festival 2022 - Performance by Paul Ebhart, Pia Palme, Fabian Lanzmaier
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Performance View: infinity rug

Sound & Lecture Performance by Lou Drago and marum within the Angewandte Festival 2022

infinity rug is a series of sonic-seances where sound, collective learning and intimate care create a space of togetherness

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sound performance 30 Jun 2022, 18:00

infinity rug

Sound & Lecture Performance by Lou Drago and marum within the Angewandte Festival 2022
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Rewatch: Futures Brought to Life

Live-Streams from the Symposium, assembled by Time’s Up at Café Exchange, from 12 & 13 May 2022 (in English)

From Immersion via Agency to Engagement

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In Conversation with Sophia Panteliadou

Follow-Up Questions to the Curator of ::KAIROS. Recall of Earth from 2022 (in German)

Die Beziehung zwischen Natur und Mensch aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln

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Showcase: Rundumadrum by Wagner Felipe Dos Santos

Performance at Café Exchange as part of Wienmodern 2021