Ann Cotten und Tada Kanako / Nikolaus Gansterer / Martina Menegon /Jörg Piringer Eröffnung: Freitag 11.11.2022, 19:00 Uhr mit einer Performance von Ann Cotten und Tada Kanako Ausstellungsdauer 12.11.2022 – 26.11.2022 MO/FR/SA 14:00 – 18:00 Uhr Medienwerkstatt Wien, Neubaugasse 40a, 1070 Wien In Kooperation mit FLUSS – NÖ.Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst Kuratiert von alien […]
The one photo to end all wars – A Lecture by Hito Steyerl on 03 Nov 2022, 07:00 pm. Hito Steyerl is Professor of Experimental Film and Video at Berlin University of the Arts. She studied cinematography and documentary filmmaking in Tokyo and Munich and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine […]
Elisabeth Falkensteiner (Curator and Co-Head of AIL) talked to Clemens Apprich 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? Elisabeth […]
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Nishant Shah about Her Book on Data Discrimination In her new book Discriminating Data (MIT Press), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal – not an error – within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through […]
This workshop is dedicated to the challenge of finding an alternative to the codification of value systems pursued by Artificial Intelligence methods by means of the system of thought of second-order cybernetics. In particular, second-order cybernetics offers a counter-position to the deterministic, mechanical, representational, and predictable interpretive architecture of Artificial Intelligence, in which any acquired […]
Ein reziproker Fachaustausch in Übungen von Gerda Lampalzer und Hanna Schimek 1990/91 revisited 2022. Bezugnehmend auf ein Konzept der „Bildung von unten“ entwickelten Gerda Lampalzer und Hanna Schimek 1990/91 einen spielerischen und zugleich ernsthaften künstlerischen Dialog, in dem die jeweilige Expertise der Künsterinnen mit der der anderen geteilt wurde. In Form von „Übungsaufgaben“ wurden einander […]
Being ecological, becoming more conscious about human activities on this planet, and examining the relationship between humans and non-humans are contemporary topical issues. On an (eco)philosophical level, they deal with existential issues of posthumanism by posing such questions as: What would a world without humans look like? How do things interconnect? How do we process […]
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun in Conversation with Nishant Shah about Her Book on Data Discrimination In her new book Discriminating Data (MIT Press), Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goal – not an error – within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through […]
The Department of Media Theory has moved from Vordere Zollamtstrasse to its new location at Postsparkasse. You can visit us at Rosenbursenstrasse 3, 1010 Vienna.
To commence the professorship in media theory and history, Clemens Apprich will offer a block seminar on the subject of ‘Pattern Discrimination’ in the summer semester. All interested students are cordially invited to register for the course via the Base. More information on the appointment of Clemens Apprich can be found here.
