On December 18, Tokyo-based Austrian artist Georg Tremmel (BCL; Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis / University of Tokyo; metaPhorest biological/biomedia art platform, Waseda University) will give at talk on „Dolly, Lulu and Nana: Or – Control and CRISPR in the human and in the machine” and will offer insights into the body of his current […]
On December 14, Ingeborg Reichle will present a paper on Designing the Molecular Self: New Media Ecologies and the Commodification of Life in a Bioscience-based Economy at the AIL symposium Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. The event will ask how does the agency of genes or cell fragments, proteins or enzymes, […]
Mid November Ingeborg Reichle and Günter Seyfried will join the international TTT2018 conference on Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science in Mexico City (November 11-13, 2018) and present papers at the conference. The third TTT conference will be hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura […]
Like in 2017, Günter Seyfried is also in 2018 invited to join the Community Biotechnology Initiative at MIT Media Lab in Boston, USA. The second annual Global Summit on Community Biotechnology running from October 26 till October 28, is providing a vital space for the global community of DIY biologists, community biologists, biohackers, biomakers and […]
On October 30, 2018, the department of Media Theory will host a workshop on The Molecular Self: The Artist’s Self-portrait in the Age of Genome Editing with Asimina Kaniari (Athens School of Fine Arts) and Frank Rösl (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg): For centuries the art of portraiture concentrated above all on the face, a […]
On October 31, 2018 the Department of Media Theory is hosting a panel discussion on the future of education. The panel discussion will provide an opportunity to set out a debate on how the rise of Grand Challenges will affect the requirements and standards of twenty-first century higher education. Our societies are currently facing tremendous […]
On October 30, 2018, art theorist and curator Gunalan Nadarajan based at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), will give a lecture in Vienna titled “Galvanic Frog and Flying Boy: Bioelectricity in Art and Science”. Bioelectricity, which is the capacity of living things to generate, […]
Von Anfang September an wird die Abteilung für Medientheorie in die neue Expositur der Angewandten in die Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA7 (A-1030 Wien) umziehen. Die neuen Räumlichkeiten befinden sich im 4. Stock des Gebäudes. In der Vorderen Zollamtsstraße 7 werden ab dem kommenden Wintersemester zudem Lehrveranstaltung der Abteilung stattfinden, sowie Vorträge und Veranstaltungen. Als […]
Das Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Abteilung für Medientheorie für das Wintersemester 2018/19 ist gedruckt und liegt im Hauptgebäude und der Vorderen Zollamtsstraße 7 auf sowie im Sekretariat. Zudem ist es hier als PDF abrufbar. Drei Veranstaltungen werden im kommenden Semester auf Englisch angeboten: Die Einführung von Kristina Pia Hofer „Introduction to Media Analysis“, das Proseminar von Ingeborg […]
During the next winter term in 2018/19 artist Günter Seyfried will give a course in English on “Understanding Biomedia” (SE, 3 WST., 4 ECTS) that comes along with an open Lab Class. The aim of the seminar is that students should deepen their knowledge of “biomediality” interactively, in its constitutive artistic, technical, cultural, epistemological, and […]
