Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab

28/01/2026

Meet Conny Frischauf – our current Alumni in Residence! This Friday you can stop by for Open Studio Day (30 Jan, 14:00–19:00) and get insights into Conny‘s work and practice.

AIL, Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse / Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

During their residency Conny will work on the long term work Dwin City which deals with the Danube river and its environments between Vienna and Bratislava. This work is about collective memory, heritage, and the spaces that are inhabited in between scientific or (art) historical narratives. Driven by the question of how to gain, produce, and share the notions of knowing, not knowing, being, and acknowledging.
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One of AIL’s aims is to foster connections beyond the University’s structure and therefore support alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With the new ‘AIL Residency Program’, starting in January 2025, the AIL promotes and makes visible the artistic work and interdisciplinary research of alumni of the University of Applied Arts. For 2026 all residency slots are taken. Next open call for 2027 will be announced in spring 2026.

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Video: Evamaria Müller and Peter Paul Aufreiter

Concert: Sounds of the Living at AIL, 23 Jan 2026

26/01/2026

beauty in ugliness, uncanny reality of human life.
against the supposed order of the body
something closer to truth, rawness and complexity.
silent performance of transformation.
nature seems synthetic
and art is instinctively honest.
reconstruct the inherited identity.
it makes you uncomfortable
thinking everything is a lie for a moment.
it’s also about humans,
everything we have done and can do and we have to live with.
Iconic drama – rage mode is on.

Together with Claudia Holzinger’s Photographic Narration in Publication Formats course AIL created a new series of DIN A6-format postcards. Following the principle of silent mail, students developed ideas and subjects through dialogue to create a ­coherent series together. Presented as an installation at Café Exchange in the former cashier’s hall of the Postsparkasse, postcards can be taken and sent. In this place of exchange, we ­encourage you to stay ­connected.

Photographies and text:
Pavle Banović
Amina Ben Hassen
Francis Grill
Yevheniia Kriuk
Yaroslava Melnychenko
Mihaly Mundruczo
Darryl Oswald
Almut Rist
Dunja Savić
Yuliia Sudarchykova
Zinaida Tsyhliuk
Daniel Wendt

Full disclosure: this edition is already out since last summer, but there are some postcards left, so come by and pick one (or two) up. Next edition is already in the making and will launch this spring.

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17/12/2025

Last days of the exhibition Thinking Through Weibel. Beginnings, Diversions, Elsewheres!
(AIL will be closed from December 20 – January 6)

📍Save the date for the finissage on January 8, 17:00 and join the final guided tour with the curators Valerie Messini and Brooklyn J. Pakathi

Thinking Through Weibel gathers key works out of the Peter Weibel Archive, held by the Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts and positions them in relation to contemporary practices by invited international artists, that unfold through distinct conceptual and material approaches. Their contributions do not follow or extend Peter Weibel’s logic, but move across and against it, forming intersections without fixing relationships.

Artists:
Morehshin Allahyari, Nancy Baker Cahill, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jakob Lena Knebl, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Thania Petersen, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Weibel

The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures is a space for intervention, investigation, and experimentation within the expansive disciplines of arts, science, and technologies. Based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the institute critically engages digital and algorithmic cultures. Building on the rich heritage of Viennese investigations into cybernetics, net cultures, media art, and tactical media, the institute serves as a vital node within a global network of research institutions on digital cultures.

AIL is a platform for projects at the intersection of art, science and artistic research, part of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Otto Wagner-Sparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Mon–Fri 11:00–18:00

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01/12/2025

Is there a difference between speculative prototyping and AI forecasting? What temporalities and modes of relation open up when we engage these technologies as collaborators rather than instruments? This session invites us to reflect on how we can engage with the tools and narratives we work with, and how we might still use them to generate counter-speculations.

‚Everything is Computer – The Planned Obsolescence of the Future’ is an artistic-research project in the form of a playable video game that interrogates how dominant narratives, AI models, and game engines encode the future we are conditioned to imagine. Third Impact is a short film created in collaboration with AI systems, that explores counter-futures of coexistence between humans and non-humans.

The artists will be presenting their works and share insights into their general practice, followed by a roundtable conversation. Nada Zanhour will be joining online for the practice sharing part.

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This event is a collaboration between Civa x transmediale festival Berlin, hosted by AIL and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, curated and facilitated by Eva Fischer and Anna-Lena Panter.

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Laura Cugusi’s work has been nomadic across languages, disciplines and media. Her research focuses on mapping media ecologies, tech literacies, governance infrastructures and institutional world-building strategies that shape and consolidate the imagination (or lack thereof) about the future.

Nada Zanhour (machine yearning) works across sound, video, 3D and interactive media. Her research focuses on online aesthetics, internet hyper-niches, meme culture and digital militarism.

S()fia Braga is a New Media artist and pioneer in AI-driven cinematic storytelling based in Vienna. Her artistic practice explores emerging technologies to create speculative fabulations about counter-futures, engaging with themes such as human–machine collaboration, non-human agency, and transhumanism.

Credit: Everything is Computer c/o Laura Cugusi & machine yearning aka ncx3

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13/11/2025

Exhibition introduction with curators Valerie Messini and Brooklyn J. Pakathi – Come join us this Friday at AIL for a guided tour through the current exhibition ’Thinking Through Weibel’, followed by a discussion round as part of Vienna Art Week

Talking Through Weibel
Fr, 14.11., 17:30

Thinking Through Weibel gathers key works out of the Peter Weibel Archive, held by the Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts and positions them in relation to contemporary practices by invited international artists, that unfold through distinct conceptual and material approaches. Their contributions do not follow or extend Peter Weibel’s logic, but move across and against it, forming intersections without fixing relationships.

Artists:
Morehshin Allahyari, Nancy Baker Cahill, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jakob Lena Knebl, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Thania Petersen, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Weibel

Opening hours:
Mon–Fri: 11:00–18:00

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Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna

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17/10/2025

This Saturday, we invitite you to come see what our current Alumni in Residence Jona Wolf has been working on in the past few weeks.

OPEN STUDIO
18 Oct, 11:00–20:00
(Free entry, Café Exchange is open too till 17:00)

For the very first time you can see the AV installation ’Tender Resistance’ a collaborative work by Jona Wolf, Angel and Who I Why, which embraces the lives of trans people, the beauty and tenderness, while addressing the political violence and collective resistance of our community. .i.why

Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015.
Throughout the residency, Jona made the studio space as accessible as possible to foster a collective experience and to gather community.
Jona’s practice focuses on re-imagining and transforming educational models and collaborative creation.
They are actively engaged in community building and activism, with a focus on empowering marginalised groups and resistance to state oppression. Jona is part of The Palace Collective, which currently runs an urban community project in Berlin.


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Video: Evamaria Müller, Peter Paul Aufreiter

14/05/2025

AIL currently presents two exhibitions, coming from the field of artistic research at . Thanks for joining our double opening night last week!

Embrace the transformative power of play!
“Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities” invites you into an experimental landscape where you can explore new perspectives, rethink your role in the world, and discover how small shifts in viewpoint can unlock vast creative and collective potential.
An exhibition by the PSYCHOLUDIC / ROBOPSY research group, PI Margarete Jahrmann (Experimental Game Studies).
Join the Public Lab Meetings every Thursday at 15:00.

Artistic Researchers:
Thomas Brandstetter, Stefan Glasauer, Clara Hirschmanner, Margarete Jahrmann, Talos Kedl, Louise Linsenbolz, Georg Luif, Stefan Maier, Barbi Markovic, Max Moswitzer, Fabian Navarro, Tamás Pall, Thomas Wagensommerer
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How do we navigate the intricate dance between human agency and artificial intelligence?
“The Unexpected” explores the emotional and cognitive landscapes reshaped by AI, prompting a critical speculation on our technological future.

Artists: Pamela Breda, Patrícia J. Reis, and Ruth Schnell.

Guided tours 20 May / 5 June, 17:00
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Both exhibitions run until 28 June 2025
Opening hours: Mon–Fri, 11:00–18:00 (closed on public holidays)
Free entry
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Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL)
Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse / Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
AIL is a platform for art, science, and artistic research by die Angewandte.
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Opening Words: Maria Zettler (Managing Rector), Pamela Breda (Head of the research project The Unexpected), Margarete Jahrmann (Head of Experimental Game Cultures). Performance by Psycho-Ludic Research Groug (PLRG)
All photos: Lea Dörl

24/04/2025

Join Ramiro Wong today for final Open Studio and last day of his residency at AIL.
Studio is open from 16:00–22:00
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AIL, Otto Wagner Postsparkasse / Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
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Ramiro Wong (born in Lima, Peru in 1987) is a transdisciplinary and research-based artist. His work addresses political and socio-cultural questions of identity construction. Local narratives and individual experiences serve as the starting point for what he calls Dynamics of Displacement, a process in which identity is formed, understood and deconstructed in different historical and geographical contexts. Wong’s current work explores how these processes have been sustained by seemingly innocuous habits of consumption, reproduction and rebranding over the course of a 500-year-old tradition that the artist calls Aesthetics of Othering. He studied Sciences, Civil Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and TransArts at die Angewandte with Nita Tandon.
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All photos via Ramiro Wong

07/04/2025

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14/01/2025

Current Open Call for Alumni of Die Angewandte

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