imageExhibition View: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind. Exhibition from May–July 2025

By the PSYCHOLUDIC / ROBOPSY research group, PI Margarete Jahrmann (Experimental Game Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

topicAngewandte Festival 2025 25–28 June 2025
exhibition06 May 2025, 18:00The Unexpected Enquiries on Human-AI Interaction

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

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exhibition06 May 2025, 18:00Monkeys, Machines, and Multi-perspectivities Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind
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performance26 Jun 2025, 19:00PLRG LabMeeting Performance by Psycho-Ludic Research Group (PLRG)

Part of Angewandte Festival 2025

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workshop26 Jun 2025, 15:00Public Lab Meeting Exhibition program: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from within the Ludic Mind

Brainwave Broadcast with Margarete Jahrmann and Stefan Glasauer

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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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newsAIL Postcard Edition Nr. 2 – (dis)honest images In cooperation with the department Applied Photography & Time-Based Media
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exhibition20 Mar 2025, 13:00AIL Ping-Pong #1: Liquidity Intervention at Counter 13 with Manuel Cyrill Bachinger, Bartosz Dolhun, Annika Eschmann, Karina Fernandez, Miloš Vučićević
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topicExhibition Activations Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind

Extended exhibition program, 7 May–28 Jun 2025

workshop15 May 2025, 15:00Public Lab Meeting Exhibition program: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from within the Ludic Mind

Come and play! Every Thursday (except public holidays), until 28 Jun 2025

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workshop22 May 2025, 15:00Public Lab Meeting Exhibition program: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from within the Ludic Mind

Come and play! Every Thursday (except public holidays), until 28 Jun 2025

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workshop12 Jun 2025, 15:00Public Lab Meeting Exhibition program: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from within the Ludic Mind

Come and play! Every Thursday (except public holidays), until 28 Jun 2025

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workshop26 Jun 2025, 15:00Public Lab Meeting Exhibition program: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities. Transmissions from within the Ludic Mind

Brainwave Broadcast with Margarete Jahrmann and Stefan Glasauer

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performance26 Jun 2025, 19:00PLRG LabMeeting Performance by Psycho-Ludic Research Group (PLRG)

Part of Angewandte Festival 2025

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imagePerformance View: PLRG Lab Meeting Performance by Psycho-Ludic Research Group (PLRG). Part of the opening of Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind
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imageExhibition View: Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind. Exhibition from May–July 2025

By the PSYCHOLUDIC / ROBOPSY research group, PI Margarete Jahrmann (Experimental Game Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

imagePerformance View: PLRG Lab Meeting Performance by Psycho-Ludic Research Group (PLRG). Part of the opening of Monkeys, Machines, and Multiperspectivities Transmissions from Within the Ludic Mind
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newsOpen Call: AIL Ping-Pong #2 for Alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 21 Jul 2025!

topicAesthetics of Transformation Discussion Series Spring / Summer 2025

Curated by School for Transformation

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discussion11 Apr 2025, 18:00Performing Transformation McKenzie Wark and Ariadne Randall with Nanna Heidenreich

Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation

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discussion29 Apr 2025, 18:00The Influencing Machine: Latent Moods, Emergent Bias and Distributed Ontologies Sonia Bernac with Monika Halkort

Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation

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discussion27 May 2025, 18:00Synthetic Images | Dynamic Maps Svitlana Matviyenko with Ramón Reichert

Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation

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discussion10 Jun 2025, 18:00The Paradoxes of Positionality Diaspora Aesthetics and Transdisciplinary Research. With Noit Banai and Amanda Holmes

Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation

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discussion17 Jun 2025, 18:00Plastic Aesthetics Heather Davies with Monika Halkort

Part of the lecture series ‘Aesthetics of Transformation’, curated by the School for Transformation

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videoRewatch: In Terms of Media… On Data Materialism, Techno Poetics, Atmospheres of Conflict, and Planetary Interfaces. Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

Symposium in English from Nov 2024

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

newsAlumni in Residence: Verena Tscherner Verena Tscherner is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 10 Jan till 7 Feb 2025.

Please note the current open call for two more Residency slots. Deadline 25 Jan 2025

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newsAlumni in Residence: Ramiro Wong Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 28 Mar till 25 Apr 2025.

Open Studio: 24 Apr, 16:00–22:00

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newsAlumni in Residence: Suchart Wannaset Suchart Wannaset is alumni of the department of Transmedia Art and will work at AIL from 24 Feb till 24 Mar 2025
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newsAIL Residency Program – Open Call for Angewandte Alumni Use the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab for individual projects and share your work routine and processes

Deadline: 25 Jan 2025

topicAIL Residency Program Next residencies coming spring 2027 (Open Call just closed)
newsAIL Residency Program – Open Call for Angewandte Alumni Deadline for Submissions: 5 July 2026

Are you a graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna? Apply to work on your projects and share your work routine and research at AIL!

newsAlumni in Residence: Karina Fernandez Karina Fernandez is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 2 Mar till 28 Mar 2026
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newsAlumni in Residence: Lena Michalik Lena Michalik is alumni of the department of Social Design and will work at AIL from 2 Mar till 28 Mar 2026
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newsAlumni in Residence: Conny Frischauf Conny Frischauf is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 12 Jan till 12 Feb 2026
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newsAlumni in Residence: Jona Wolf Jona Wolf is alumni of the institute of architecture and will work at AIL from 24 Sep till 20 Oct 2025.

A workshop, performance, film screenings and open studio day will accompany this residency.

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newsAlumni in Residence: Ramiro Wong Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 28 Mar till 25 Apr 2025.

Open Studio: 24 Apr, 16:00–22:00

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newsAlumni in Residence: Suchart Wannaset Suchart Wannaset is alumni of the department of Transmedia Art and will work at AIL from 24 Feb till 24 Mar 2025
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newsAlumni in Residence: Verena Tscherner Verena Tscherner is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 10 Jan till 7 Feb 2025.

Please note the current open call for two more Residency slots. Deadline 25 Jan 2025

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alumni in residence07 Feb 2018, 12:00AD LIB. experimental music settings Interdisciplinary experimental setting in the basement for art, music and research by Christoph Hudl
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alumni in residence06 Jul 2016, 12:00Choreo-graphic Figures Summer Lab with artist Nikolaus Gansterer, choreographer Mariella Greil and writer Emma Cocker
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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: 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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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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imageExhibition View: Print Weekend III Self-Publishing Fair from 2018

Hosted and curated by Micro-publishing house Soybot

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news10 Years of AIL – Postcard Edition Greetings from the University of Applied Arts Vienna

A collaboration with the department of Creative Writing [Sprachkunst], with student and alumni Valerie Prinz

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imagePerformance View: EXTC AV Performance by Joanna Coleman and Martina Moro

Part of the opening of the exhibition Data Doom Desire

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imagePerformance View: Ghost in the Cog by Kenneth Constance Loe and Moritz Nahold (Subletvis)
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imageExhibition View: Data Doom Desire Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures; accompanying the symposium ‘In Terms of Media…’

Nov/Dec 2024

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newsOpen Call: AIL Ping-Pong #1 for Alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Deadline: 13 Jan 2025

imageInstallation View: Cycloïd-E Sound installation by COD.ACT, part of Wien Modern 2024

Find the second part COD.ACT: πTON/2 at MAK Forum

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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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news10 Jahre AIL Collecting futures since 2014
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news10 Years of AIL Collecting futures since 2014
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newsOPEN HOUSE 2024
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videoZaha Hadid and Peter Noever: Art and Architecture in Conversation Sliver Lecture from 2015 (in English)

Hosted by the Institute of Architecture

imagePerformance View: Unsafe+Sounds Opening night of the festival 2024

Of Many Worlds

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textClose Up Research: Multispecies Soundscapes In conversation with reasearchers and artists Klaus Spiess, Ulla Rauter and Emanuel Gollob
newsAngewandte Publications at AIL Arts and science books by the University of Applied Arts Vienna now on display at the Kassenhalle of Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
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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

imageExhibition View: Showing Echoes From counter to encounter / Part of Angewandte Festival 2024

Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Nora Mayr in cooperation with departments from the Postsparkasse building

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imageSymposium View: Unruly Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s

This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’

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imageSymposium View: Undisciplined Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s

This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’

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imageSymposium View: Unreasonable Part of the exhibition Refractive Perspectives. 3*10^8 m/s

This three-part symposium was developed in the class of Tonica Hunter: ‘ars sciendi’

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videoThe Dark Sides of Digital Humanism Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Claus Pias and McKenzie Wark – in conversation with Clemens Apprich (from Apr 2024, in English)

Presented by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

newsAustrian Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2024 at AIL 17 Jun 2024, 18:00
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 June 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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topicExhibition Activations Reverse Imagining Vienna. Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures

Extended exhibition program, 30 Apr–29 May 2024

research presentation08 May 2024, 18:30Reverse Imagining Vienna – Reading Night I Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures
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research presentation15 May 2024, 18:30Reverse Imagining Vienna – Reading Night II Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures
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research presentation22 May 2024, 18:30Reverse Imagining Vienna – Reading Night III Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures
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research presentation29 May 2024, 18:30Reverse Imagining Vienna – Reading Night IIII Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures
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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: Reverse Imagining Vienna Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures

Research Presentation from May 2024

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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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