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2 m(inutes) distance – ONLINE Erstausstrahlung 17.6.2020, 17:00 Uhr

Um in Zeiten digitaler Festivals und Ausstellungen künstlerische Aussagen nicht ausschließlich ins Virtuelle zu transferieren, haben wir im Projekt 2 m(inutes) distance einen konkreten Raum als kommunikative Schnittstelle für eine künstlerische Kollaboration gewählt. Eine systematische Abfolge von Interventionen, Performances und medialen Inszenierungen lässt im Alten Kino des Sandleitenhofs eine kollektive Installation entstehen. Die Arbeit ist […]

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TTT 2020 Conference: Deadline extended to May 31st, 2020

Due to the current challenges brought by COVID-19 and the priorities of adaptation to our life under social distancing, the submission deadline to TTT 2020 Vienna is extended to May 31st, 2020. The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic made this decision an obvious and sensible one. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttt2020 On behalf of the Organizing Committee, thank […]

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Guest Lecture Series — Reiner Maria Matysik (artist, Germany)

The third Zoom guest lecture at the Department of Media Theory will be given during this summer term by the Berlin-based German artist Reiner Maria Matysik, a professor of three-dimensional design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany. The talk Create Hopeful Monsters will be hosted as a synchronous (real […]

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Guest Lecture Series — Anna Dumitriu (artist, United Kingdom)

The second Zoom guest lecture by the Department of Media Theory will be held this summer term by the British artist Anna Dumitriu. The lecture will be hosted as a synchronous (real time) online lecture and is scheduled on May 19, 2020 at 2pm.This guest lecture series is organized and hosted by Professor Ingeborg Reichle […]

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Guest Lecture Series — Pinar Yoldas (artist, USA)

The first Zoom guest lecture at the Department of Media Theory will be given during this summer term by the Turkish-American artist Pinar Yoldas, Ph.D., who is Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, USA. It will be hosted as a synchronous (real time) online lecture and is scheduled […]

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Peter Weibel on the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and media theory

Artist and media theorist Peter Weibel recently published an impressive article about the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on our society and communities (“Virus, Viralität, Virtualität: Wie gerade die erste Ferngesellschaft der Menschheitsgeschichte entsteht”, Neue Züricher Zeitung, March 20, 2020) and he sums up four lessons we have to learn while our world is transforming […]

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At the JKU Corona Update Gerald Bast talks with Linz colleagues about the digitisation boost forced by the COVID-19 crisis

Inspired by an article artist and media theorist Peter Weibel published in the Neue Züricher Zeitung on March 20, 2020, Meinhard Lukas, rector of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) invited on April 15, 2020 rector Gerald Bast as well as Martina Mara, Head of the Robopsychology Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology at […]

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The Essay “Bio-Art: Die Kunst für das 21. Jahrhundert” Selected as One of the Most Popular Reads in 50 Years of the Art Magazine Kunstforum International

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the art magazine Kunstforum International gives a free insight into the KUNSTFORUM online archive, which is with all the contents of the volumes published so far, over 25,000 texts and 200,000 images arguably one of the most extensive documentation on current art events. An 2018 essay by Ingeborg Reichle was […]

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The Biggest Distance Learning Experiment in History

This semester we have been tasked with putting all of our teaching online, because the Angewandte is closing its doors to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Therefore, we all have to be prepared to learn online. As a consequence we are all embarking on an unprecedented experiment: With little training and in just a […]

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Ingeborg Reichle spricht im April in der Klasse Grafik und Druckgrafik über Kunst und Reproduktionsgrafik

Am 29. April wird Ingeborg Reichle in der Klasse Grafik und Druckgrafik von Jan Svenungsson einen Vortrag halten über Kunst und Reproduktion: Fotografie und Reproduktionsgrafik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Original und Kopie: Bilder und Kunstwerke wurden immer schon vervielfältigt, zum Beispiel durch Nachzeichnungen. Von der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts an ermöglicht die Erfindung des Holzschnitts (Hochdruckverfahren) […]

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