topicOne more Question Insights into processes, background experiences and the structures and challenges behind projects at AIL

Follow up conversations (in German and English)

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

textClose Up Research: Multispecies Soundscapes In conversation with reasearchers and artists Klaus Spiess, Ulla Rauter and Emanuel Gollob
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

textIn 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’

textIn 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

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

textMay I introduce: Alien! Erfahrungen mit der Umstellung auf eine digitale Ausstellung From our Newsletter 2020 (Interview in German)

Drei Fragen an die Kuratorinnen und Künstlerinnen Alexandra Fruhstorfer und Violetta Leitner

podcastIn Conversation with TOXIC TEMPLE Exhibition / Alumni in Residence from 2020
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videoArtist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama & Tracy Thompson Artist Talk in English from 2021

In the framework of the exhibition ‘Ecologies & Politics of the Living’. Moderation: Baerbel Mueller

videoHow Will We Work? How Shall We Study? Talk in English from 2017

Discussion about the challenges of higher education, the changing society, and how universities therefore will need to transform themselves

news10 Years of AIL Collecting futures since 2014
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videoSounds of the Living Part III Live-sets by Angélica Castelló & Christian Schröder. Online Stream from 2022

PRELUDE The Matter is Melting. Dismantling Smart Rainbow 7.0 from Anna Watzinger and Laurus Edelbacher ending the exhibition ::KAIROS. Recall of Earth

podcastSounds of the Living – Part I The series of sound interventions at the Otto Wagner Kassenhalle explores the concept of living matter and questions the notion of nature

Natalia Domínguez Rangel played on 2 Oct 2021 at the finssage of the exhibition Ecologies & Politics of the Living

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videoBazon Brock: Künstler als Philosophen Talk in German from 2014

Bazon Brock, professional philosopher and oeuvre-less artist

videoPetra Maitz: Visualisation of Evolution Talk in German from 2016

A model of praxis & theory

videoHow Will We Work? How Shall We Study? Talk in English from 2017

Discussion about the challenges of higher education, the changing society, and how universities therefore will need to transform themselves

textGerhild Steinbuch: Servus Welt, sagt der Mensch From our Newsletter 2020

COMMON GROUNDS – 4. Manchmal hab ich so eine Wut, dass ich die ganze Zeit nur kotzen könnte

textMay I introduce: Alien! Erfahrungen mit der Umstellung auf eine digitale Ausstellung From our Newsletter 2020 (Interview in German)

Drei Fragen an die Kuratorinnen und Künstlerinnen Alexandra Fruhstorfer und Violetta Leitner

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

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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videoJeanne Lambin: The Quest Talk in English from 2017

An experimental exercise that combines improvisation, storytelling, and urban exploitation

videoMaria Antonia González: Art, Science, Technology Talk in English from 2016

The Philosopher working in the fields of aesthetics and ontology speaks about interrelation of art, science and technology

videoVirgil Widrich: Projection and Reality Talk in German from 2016

A presentation that features film clips from Die Nacht der 1000 Stunden and unseen material from the film’s concept, review and development stages

videoJulia Voss: The Digitalization and Evolution of Art Talk in German from 2016

Is there one distinctive style of the early 21st century? And what does the aesthetic dimension reveal about society?

videoAlumni 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

imageExhibition View: Print Weekend II from April 2017

The goal of Print Weekend is to give a platform to national and international exhibitors to present and sell their selection of print editions

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imageWorkshop View: Analog Sonntag Part of Print Weekend II in 2017

Na, wie bist du offline so? Open laboratory, workshop, playroom and factory for ideas – only condition: the computer stays off!

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imageExhibition View: Silence Matters Alumni in Residence from 2018

International interdisciplinary performance and exhibition project which explores the increasing interest in mindfulness and awareness

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imageExhibition View: Built to Grow – Blending Architecture and Biology Growing As Building, 2015

Exploration of different pathways of Living Architecture, experimentation with biology, architecture and engineering

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imageExhibition View: Korrelation Opening Show at former location at FJK-3 in 2014

The new emerges from the margins. What can be regarded as new and innovative today?

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videobastardCROWD [mobile] Talks and Performances Performative installation by choreographer and performer Daniel Aschwanden and media artist Conny Zenk from 2015

Aschwanden and Zenk make us aware of the ways in which new interface cultures replace traditional communication

videoOpening of Angewandte Innovation Lab in 2014 In October 2014 AIL opened at Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, where it resided until early 2021. [AIL was renamed to Angewandte Interdisicplinary Lab in 2022]

There is nothing absolute about innovation. So, let’s focus on a concrete vision of the new and its specific meaning in a given social context

videoPeter Mörtenböck: The Capital of the Many Talk in German from 2015

From informal Markets to open-source Creativity

videoUnseen Science – See Aural Woods Performance and Talk (in German) from 2015

Luma.Launisch and Takamovsky present their interdisciplinary project in cooperation with Bundesforschungszentrum für Wald

videoAlumni in Residence: What’s inside a Girl? Concert by Barbis Ruder, alumnus of the Brigitte Kowanz class, together with Roman Gerold and Joshua Korn

Hosted in 2016 by ARTist – the graduate association of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

videoLet’s meet: CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine Research Presentations from 2016

AIL reaching out into other institutions and fields of research

videoDigital Emotions Katharina Gsöllpointner in Conversation with Robert Trappl & Adam Miklosi (I), Eva Hudlicka & Helmut Leder (II) about Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Talk Series in English from 2018

videoBook Presentation: Ecologies & Politics of the Living Published on the occasion of the Vienna Biennale 2021

Documentation of the presentation on Zoom from 16 Sep 2021

imageExhibition View: Ecologies & Politics of the Living Last insights on the Vienna Biennale exhibition 2021
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textSecond to Third Natures Agata Chomicz Video, 03 min 33 sec

This project explores the unique ecologies that have emerged on the site of the decommissioned dam in the central area of Tamale

textO bi gi dede (it is not decided) Georgios Albanis Video, 08 min 23 sec

How did the human species achieve that power? And, why is it not used to alter the crisis we have been creating for so long? I don’t know.

textMy Plantain is Our Property Abdul-Haqq Mahama & Carmen Egger Video, 07 min 41 sec

Reflection on territorial claims on the inner-urban Forest Reserve in the growing city of Tamale in northern Ghana.

textMultiscalar Fluidity Daniil Zhiltsov Video Piece, 04 min 43 sec

This research aims to expand our comprehension of the role of water as an important driver for activities within the Tamale Forest Reserve.

textAtmospheres on the Periphery Ana-Maria Chiriac Video, 13 min 38 sec

This collage-in-motion sets off on an exploration of the internal periphery within the centre of the city Tamale, Ghana

topicVienna Biennale Video Intervention Tamale Territories Interventions by [applied] Foreign Affairs – Video Intervention by students of the Vienna Biennale exhibition Ecologies & Politics of the Living
textAtmospheres on the Periphery Ana-Maria Chiriac Video, 13 min 38 sec

This collage-in-motion sets off on an exploration of the internal periphery within the centre of the city Tamale, Ghana

textMultiscalar Fluidity Daniil Zhiltsov Video Piece, 04 min 43 sec

This research aims to expand our comprehension of the role of water as an important driver for activities within the Tamale Forest Reserve.

textO bi gi dede (it is not decided) Georgios Albanis Video, 08 min 23 sec

How did the human species achieve that power? And, why is it not used to alter the crisis we have been creating for so long? I don’t know.

textMy Plantain is Our Property Abdul-Haqq Mahama & Carmen Egger Video, 07 min 41 sec

Reflection on territorial claims on the inner-urban Forest Reserve in the growing city of Tamale in northern Ghana.

textSecond to Third Natures Agata Chomicz Video, 03 min 33 sec

This project explores the unique ecologies that have emerged on the site of the decommissioned dam in the central area of Tamale

newsMess Next chapter of the processual exhibition TOXIC TEMPLE, after being held at AIL in February 2020. Visit the 60 hour non-stop performance at MQ Vienna.

Sep 25–27 2021

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videoCOMP[H]OST A project in dialogue with speculative thought and the human and social sciences, inspired by the notion of compost after Donna Haraway. A model for a fluid/co-evolutive and co-generative curatorial practice. Presented by HASENHERZ sessions
videoCircular Society Panel from the Conference Planet Matters – Vienna Biennale for Change 2021

With Mae-ling Lokko, part of our current exhibition, Angewandte-alumni Alexandra Fruhstorfer and others

newsFollow-Up: May I introduce: Alien! Bacteria, plants, humans and other animals – All aliens are welcome here!

Exhibition from 10–19 Sep 2021 at Fabrikraum Vienna

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videoShowcase: Anna Vasof on her project Non Stop Stop Motion ZFF – Zentrum Fokus Forschung (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

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

videoArtist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama & Tracy Thompson Artist Talk in English from 2021

In the framework of the exhibition ‘Ecologies & Politics of the Living’. Moderation: Baerbel Mueller

imageAIL-Publication: Ecologies & Politics of the Living

Published on the occasion of exhibition within the Vienna Biennale. Design: Marie Artaker

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videoMae-ling Lokko: Unalienation / IoA Sliver Lecture Hosted by Institute of Architecture. Talk in English from 2021

Mae-ling Lokko discusses a sustainable building material life cycle and presents her design research with coconut, mycelium and the moringa tree.

topicWhat future do you dream of? Dreams of the Post-Anthropocene
exhibition27 May 2021, 19:30Ecologies and Politics of the Living Vienna Biennale for Change 2021
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podcastIn Conversation: Ecologies & Politics of the Living Based on recordings made during the curatorial research by co-curator Li Falkensteiner in Ghana in February 2020 and material sent by the individual artists and others
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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.

exhibition22 Jun 2020, 11:00May I introduce: Alien!
online
Depressed monkeys and sensitive dodos

Whether Bacteria, plants, humans or other animals – aliens welcome!

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videoJanina Loh: Trans- und Posthumanismus. Feministischer Blick im Digitalen Talk in German from 2019, part of Vienna Biennale For Change

Where do patriarchal inscriptions, gender identities or stereotyping hide in the field of artificial intelligence and future technologies?

textGerhild Steinbuch: Servus Welt, sagt der Mensch From our Newsletter 2020

COMMON GROUNDS – 4. Manchmal hab ich so eine Wut, dass ich die ganze Zeit nur kotzen könnte

videoChange Is Our Only Chance – Discussion Talk in German from 2019, part of Vienna Biennale for Change
videoDavid Morley: Home Territories – Virtual and Material Geographies Talk in English from 2018

The relationship between virtual and material spheres

talk07 Sep 2016, 19:00Wolf Singer: Neuronal Principles of Consciousness This lecture will discuss the findings of both research approaches to point out the limitations of the neuroscientific explanation attempts
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workshop24 Jan 2020, 12:00Nazis & Goldmund / Hydra: The Future of Resistance 1. Interspeeches 6 – The End of Complaining? A call for civil disobedience
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newsAngewandte Festival 2021 The Angewandte Festival 2021 will take place from 29 Jun—2 Jul at various locations within die Angewandte and in the public space of the City of Vienna
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topicEnvironmental Care or How To Care for the Living World
newsHäuser aus Abfall Die Architekturforscherin Mae-ling Lokko, vertreten in der Ausstellung ‘Ecologies and Politics of the Living’, beschäftigt sich mit Abfallprodukten aus der Landwirtschaft. Ein Artikel im Standard
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podcastIn Conversation with TOXIC TEMPLE Exhibition / Alumni in Residence from 2020
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imageExhibition 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

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videoChange Is Our Only Chance – Discussion Talk in German from 2019, part of Vienna Biennale for Change
imageExhibition View: ::KAIROS. Recall of Earth from 2021/22

An exhibition about the relationship between humans and the phenomena of natural events. Curated by Sophia Panteliadou

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videoEAT politics ART oder: fressen moral kunst Perforamance Dinner in German from 2016

Do you eat sustainably? Do you eat up well? Do you eat politically? A collective dinner around food and sustainability.

videoDementia Arts Society – Symposium and Research Presentation Lectures in German and English from 2016 and 2017

Artistic Research: How can we meet the increasing challenges posed by dementia in our society?

imageShowcase: Sustainable and open exhibition system Work in progress of N.Nest & Re.use. The sustainable and open exhibition and furniture system. A project by Chien-hua Huang, alumni of the architecture master program

Showcase presents selected projects, topics and fields of research from die Angewandte

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newsShowcase: Ebru Kurbak on her project The Museum of Lost Technology A project from ZFF – Zentrum Fokus Forschung (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Showcase presents selected projects, topics and fields of research from die Angewandte.

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newsOpen Call! ASF Hub: Action for a sustainable future Call for key projects in the Open Innovation in Science Impact Lab

This laboratory for open innovation in science aims at the practical implementation of sustainable change within society

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newsHäuser aus Abfall Die Architekturforscherin Mae-ling Lokko, vertreten in der Ausstellung ‘Ecologies and Politics of the Living’, beschäftigt sich mit Abfallprodukten aus der Landwirtschaft. Ein Artikel im Standard
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videoShowcase: Cordula Daus – Outer Woman A project from ZFF – Zentrum Fokus Forschung (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Showcase presents selected projects, topics and fields of research from die Angewandte