ehemals Faculty & Staff

Christina Natlacen is an art and media theorist with a special emphasis on photography and film. Her working method is oriented towards Cultural Studies and is based on visual material from art, popular culture and science. Longstanding research focuses on the history, theory and aesthetics of photography. In recent years – supported by an inspiring collaboration with colleagues from Romance Studies and German Studies – film has become another center of interest. In terms of content, she is currently concerned with, among other things, visual forms of self-presentation in different contexts as well as with conceptions of nature in the age of the Anthropocene.

Petra Gemeinboeck leads the PEEK research project “Dancing with the Nonhuman”, funded through the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2019–22. At the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), University of New South Wales, AU, she leads an Australia Council Research (ARC) Discovery Project (2016–2019). Petra’s artistic research practice crosses creative […]

Univ.-Lekt. Dr. phil. Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi is a philosopher and media theorist with a focus on matrixial philosophy. Since 2019 she teaches the courses “Introduction to Media Theory” and “Prozessphilosophien und Medientheorie”at the Department of Media Theory. She gained her PhD in philosophy at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe with a dissertation […]

Günter Seyfried Günter Seyfried is an artist who lives and works in Vienna. Since 2017 he teaches the seminar “Understanding Biomedia” at the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna. He studied medicine and psychology at the University of Vienna and digital art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna where he gained […]

Mag. Sandra Ladwig Sandra Ladwig has been working at the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna since October 2016. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on leisure in Austrian amateur films as a phenomenon of modernity. Her research is financed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of the DOC-team-project […]

wiss. Mitarb. Mag.art. Michael Kargl Michael Kargl, born 1975 in Hall, Tyrol, is an artist who lives and works in Vienna. Since 2016 he is an artistic researcher and co-leader of the project Originalcopy—Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, financed by the Austrian Science Fund’s program for artistic research (PEEK). […]

wiss. Mitarb. MMag. Nina Jukić Nina Jukić holds a research position in the arts-based research project Reset the Apparatus! Retrograde Technicity in Artistic Photographic and Cinematic Practices, financed by the Austrian Science Fund’s program for artistic research (PEEK). She is currently writing her PhD thesis at the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts […]

wiss. Mitarb. Edgar Lissel Since March 2016 Edgar Lissel heads the arts-based research project Reset the Apparatus! Retrograde Technicity in Artistic Photographic and Cinematic Practices, funded by the Austrian Science Fund’s program for artistic research (PEEK) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Department of Media Theory. Edgar Lissel works with different types of photography […]