Piotr Calvache-Modla

This English-language course introduces students to the world of 3D graphics programming through C# Unity scripting. Unity is a popular cross-platform game engine and is often used by architects and designers to showcase their ideas. With Unity, it is possible to deploy complex 2D and 3D graphics applications across a variety of devices, including mobile devices and VR systems. While… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 3.0 ECTS

Ferdinand Doblhammer

Detaillierte Kursbeschreibung folgt in Kürze! In diesem Kurs lernen wir die Grundlagen der Mikroelektronik innerhalb des Arduino-Ökosystems kennen. Wir beschäftigen uns mit Grundkenntnissen zu Inputs und Outputs, Sensoren, Motoren und vielem mehr, wobei wir auch versuchen, bestehende Hardware und zu wiederzuverwenden, bzw. upzucylen.    2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Ulrich Formann

As constant evolution drives both the production and consumption of new electronic devices, mountains of so-called “e-waste” are growing at the same rate. What some might consider obsolete technology or even trash has the potential to be an artistic playground full of nostalgia and free resources. This course is designed for both artists and designers with or without prior technological… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Valerie Messini

This seminar examines how virtual spaces and mediated spatial perception have shaped philosophy, art, and cultural imagination from antiquity to contemporary digital environments. Beginning with early models of virtuality such as Plato’s Cave, mythological world-building, and utopian imaginaries, the course traces how mediation became an epistemological and aesthetic force through perspective, optical devices, architecture, and modern mass media—from cybernetics and… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Birgit Peterson

This lecture shall support finalists of the CDS Program in their thesis writing process. For this purpose, it is designed as a writing workshop, offering space and time to discuss actual problems and questions popping up within the finalists working process. We will work in peer groups, set deadlines to structure your writing process, and give help with information about… 2025W/2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Clemens Apprich

What are digital cultures? The answer usually refers to social media platforms, online services, or computers in general. However, despite digital media technologies being ubiquitous in our everyday lives, there is a general lack of understanding of what 'the digital' actually is. The lecture series addresses this seemingly simple yet complex question by examining the 'deep history' of the digital… 2025W, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Clemens Apprich

What are digital cultures? The answer usually refers to social media platforms, online services, or computers in general. However, despite digital media technologies being ubiquitous in our everyday lives, there is a general lack of understanding of what 'the digital' actually is. This lecture series addresses this seemingly simple yet complex question by examining the 'deep history' of the digital… 2026S, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Antonia Birnbaum

Armut als Erfahrung In seinem Text „Das Programm der kommenden Philosophie” aus dem Jahr 1918 stellt Walter Benjamin zwei Prämissen der kantischen Erfahrung in Frage: dass es eine Unterscheidung zwischen Subjekt und Objekt der Erfahrung gibt und dass es niemals eine Erfahrung des Absoluten geben kann. Sein Programm besteht darin, das Absolute in die Erfahrung einzubeziehen, doch ohne es in… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Bouchra Khalili

In the last five years, this course has engaged with various formats. The focus of this year - Winter and Summer Semester - is on working with and through publication as space for experimenting with visual and discursive formats. During the Winter Semester, the group engaged with various case studies. The Summer Semester will be devoted to the production of… 2025W/2026S, Projektarbeit, 4.0 ECTS

Bouchra Khalili

Open Space is a course dedicated to long-term students’ individual projects. Operating as a transdisciplinary platform focusing on the group members’ projects and work, the course aims at supporting students with the development and the implementation of artistic strategies based on the specifics of their personal projects. As a group, we collectively investigate relevant artistic strategies contributing to the development… 2025W/2026S, künstlerisches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Kristina Pia Hofer

Teaching, silences, epistemologies: an all-ears practical seminar Within the negative dialectics of western modernity, silence often equals “not having a voice,” and therefore figures as expressing a subject’s lack of political agency. While imposed silencing can (and no doubt does) limit and exclude humans (and more-than-humans) from political participation, attuning to different, other forms of silences can render alternate agentialities… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Evie Reckendrees

Dieses Seminar untersucht Autotheorie als eine (trans)feministische Praxis, die nicht durch Selbstrepräsentation operiert, sondern durch die Auflösung des Selbst. Im Zentrum stehen exzessive, experimentelle und transgressive Schreibweisen, anhand derer wir herausarbeiten, wie zeitgenössische Autotheorie sich von identitätsbasierten Modellen queerer und feministischer Theorie löst. Unter Rückgriff auf ein breites Spektrum von Denker*innen wie Bataille, Moten, Hartman und Hayward erforschen wir, wie… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Eva Kernbauer

Leider entfällt Gastprofessor David Misteli. Die Vorlesung wird ab 20. Oktober von Eva Kernbauer abgehalten, wobei aus Termingründen mehrere Doppelsitzungen notwendig werden. Die Termine sind unten angegeben. Wir haben versucht, die Änderung so moderat zu halten wie möglich, bzw. für alle gut abzufangen. Wir bitten um Nachsicht und hoffen, dass die Neuorganisation nicht viele Terminschwierigkeiten bereitet. Wie auch bisher wird… 2025W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Hoke

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist den Kursen des Keramikstudios der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien zuzuordnen. Sie soll in Kooperation mit der Keramiksammlung der Universität für angewandte Kunst stattfinden. Die Studierenden setzen sich im Laufe des Kurses theoretisch und praktisch mit stillen, handwerklichen und künstlerischen Wissensaspekten auseinander und sollen diese anhand von Sammlungsstücken des MAK, im Sinne einer „material literacy“ (A.S. Lehmann… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist den Kursen des Keramikstudios der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien zuzuordnen. Sie soll in Kooperation mit der Keramiksammlung der Universität für angewandte Kunst bzw. der Glas- und Keramikabteilung des Museums für angewandte Kunst stattfinden. Die Studierenden setzen sich im Laufe des Kurses theoretisch und praktisch mit stillen, handwerklichen und künstlerischen Wissensaspekten auseinander und sollen diese anhand von… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 1.0 ECTS

Viktoria Luisa Metschl

This lecture + workshop addresses and analyzes the colonial power of visuality and the fundamental dialectics of anti-colonial filmmaking to counter the imperialist violence of and in the image. The cinematic practices we look at are primarily grounded in Algerian (film) history of national liberation but stretch beyond geographical and temporal limits in line with the Tricontinental, Panafrican and internationalist… 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jonas Bohatsch

Dieser Kurs bietet eine umfassende Einführung in programmierbezogene Technologien und deren Anwendungen im Bereich Kunst und Design. Das Hauptziel des Kurses ist es, den Student*innen die Fähigkeiten zu vermitteln, die sie benötigen, um Projekte zu bewältigen, die über den Einsatz grafischer Benutzeroberflächen hinausgehen. Die Teilnehmer*innen erwerben praktisches Wissen und gewinnen das Selbstvertrauen, das kreative Potenzial dieser Technologien zu nutzen. Kursinhalte:… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jan Völker

Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts brachte der Weltumsegler und Entdecker James Cook von einer Reise nach Polynesien den Begriff des Tabus nach Europa: Das Tabu bezeichnete bei den indigenen Völkern einen Gegenstand, der heilig und verboten zugleich war. Einhergehend mit einer Südseemanie, die sich in der Mitte de 19. Jahrhunderts in einen ausgeweiteten kolonialen Handel übertrug, zieht das Tabu weiteres Interesse… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Zeynep Aksöz Balzar

In diesem Semester setzen wir uns mit visuellen, generativen KI-Methoden auseinander – mit dem Ziel, die Technologien hinter Künstlicher Intelligenz zu entmystifizieren und die künstlerische Handlung im zunehmend von KI geprägten Medienfeld zu hinterfragen und neu zu definieren. Statt auf vorgefertigte Tools oder vortrainierte Modelle zurückzugreifen, entwickeln die Studierenden eigene KI-Systeme, die in ihre individuellen Medienpraktiken eingebettet sind – sei… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Ivana Pilić

Dieses Seminar richtet sich an Studierende im Masterstudium, die sich vertieft mit Diversität und den Wirkmechanismen von Diskriminierung im Kunstfeld auseinandersetzen möchten. Im Zentrum stehen Fragen wie: Für wen schaffen wir Kunst – und mit wem? Wer bleibt in unseren Erzählungen, in Institutionen und auf Bühnen unsichtbar? Und wie lassen sich Arbeitsweisen entwickeln, die machtkritisch, differenzsensibel und weniger gewaltvoll sind?… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Nina Bandi

The digital transformation of all parts of our life is constantly happening. But what does it mean in political terms? The hopeful promises of early 1990’s internet revolution have long been overtaken by questions of algorithmic control, surveillance, data ownership and privacy. Beyond those buzzwords and the implied power asymmetries there is often a lack of concepts and understanding when… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Nina Bandi

This course is a continuation of Digital Democracy : A Contradiction (WS25/26 ; S05824) but can also be attended without having completed the other course before. Taking as a starting point the assumption that the digital transformation is fundamentally changing our everyday lives as much as the way we may and should imagine and conceptualize the political, this time the… 2026S, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Adnan Balcinovic

“Viewed in this perspective, the cinema is objectivity in time.”(André Bazin)This very practice-oriented course is about retracing the steps before the invention of cinematography, and through that looking the for connections between science and film. Devices such as the thaumatrope, the phenakistoscope, the zoetrope, the praxinoscope, the flip-book, … were invented in parallel, without or with knowledge of each other.… 2025W/2026S, Projektarbeit, 4.0 ECTS

Zehra Baraçkılıç

Die Lehrveranstaltung beschäftigt sich mit Erinnerungen, Erzählungen und Stimmen, die in westlich geprägten historischen und kulturellen Narrativen häufig marginalisiert oder übersehen werden. Dabei wird auch kritisch betrachtet, wie dominante Erinnerungskulturen bestimmen, welche Perspektiven sichtbar werden – sei es in Liedern, Bildern, Ritualen, Archiven oder mündlichen Überlieferungen. Im Fokus stehen die Weitergabe, Transformation und bewusste Bewahrung von Erinnerungen – insbesondere im… 2025W/2026S, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Amanda Holmes

As a scientific term, “entropy” was coined in the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics in the mid 19th century in reference to the Ancient Greek term trope meaning “transformation.” While its technical definition has to do with the consumption of energy and the statistical measure of heat as it is transformed into work, broadly speaking entropy refers to… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Ryan Crawford

The contemporary world poses the problem of extinction in a way unprecedented in human history. From the variety of human languages, customs, and cultures already lost, to ancient ecosystems imperiled now that critical planetary thresholds have been breached; and from the planned obsolescence of vast technological systems, to the extermination of large sections of the human population made possible by… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

Beschreibung folgt in Kürze! 2026S, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Kamen Stoyanov

Wie beschreibe ich das Bild in meinem Kopf im Format eines Filmskripts? Geschult in der bildenden Kunst nähern wir uns dem filmischen Medium an, der erste Schritt hierfür ist das Schreiben für die Kamera. Die Vorlesung und Übung ist in drei Schwerpunkte aufgeteilt: (1) Erstens beleuchten wir die Grundlagen des Drehbuchschreibens: Wie werden Geschichten erzählt? Wie entwickele ich eine erste… 2025W/2026S, künstlerisches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Edith Futscher

This lecture offers some orientation in the very broad field of artistic practices from about 40.000 BCE to the 14th century CE. The course is organized around basic questions that come along with material and artistic production; we will focus on different functions of cultural artefacts, their roots in cultic or religious practices: We will ask what they can tell… 2025W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Barbara Reisinger

The lecture covers art from around 1945 to the present. In what way the works discussed can be regarded as "contemporary" (or even as "Art") is one of the questions this class seeks to tackle. Another line of inquiry concerns the adjective "global" that can be applied to art, the art market, and art history respectively. I aim to "provincialize"… 2026S, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Max Angerbauer

In dieser Lehrveranstaltung werden Grundlagen des Programmierens vorgestellt und anhand der Programmiersprache Python mit praktischen Beispielen erlernt. Ziel ist die Vermittlung von Basiswissen um eine Vertiefung im Selbststudium zu ermöglichen. Für diese Lehrveranstaltung sind keine Vorkenntnisse notwendig.Es gibt keine Vorbesprechung! Die Lehrveranstaltung wird in 6 x 4h abgehalten. 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Grödl

The objective of the lecture is to collectively develop fundamental theories, principles and approaches for understanding various aspects of the complex relationship between us and our device-based everyday technology. By means of examples, discussion and homework assignments the following topics will be developed: • Sociology and psychology of technology• Types of machines and their evolution• Digital systems; Stratification; Interconnection• Machine… 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Tyan Fritschy

In diesem Blockseminar erkundigen wir, wie Begehren anti-faschistische Zukünfte hervorbringt. Ausgangspunkt dieser Erkundung ist, dass Begehren nicht per se subversiv ist, sondern politisch wird durch die Art, wie es gebunden wird – an kollektive Befreiung oder an Vernichtung. Die fortschreitende Faschisierung intensiviert das Angebot an fantasmatischen Objekten, die Begehren faschistisch kanalisieren. Mit Impulsen aus den Queer Theory, Black Studies, Psychoanalyse,… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Sushila Mesquita

"Getting into Writing" SoSe 26, 1 SWS "To queer our writing is to trouble and unsettle the ways in which we write and, through this writing, the ways in which we see: playfully, critically, transgressively, insightfully." Phillips / Kara (2021): Creative Writing for Social Research, p.xi "Writing is a relationship with the self, after all. It's a ritual of tuning… 2026S, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Anne Faucheret

On how to speak about, with and through plants and how plants speak to us. "Plants, even those who adorn the pages of children’s herbaria or some living rooms of the Global North, are neither neutral nor passive ornaments. Be they observed, (re)-named and classified as botanical objects, extracted and transformed as pharmakon in healing practices, sown and grown as… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Birgit Peterson

Within this Lecture we will dive together deeper into the meaning of “Academic working” especially in cross-disciplinary circumstances. Which skills do you have to develop to cope with the affordances of Academia? How to foster a successful “academic working, reading and writing behaviour” that satisfies the requirements of different academic disciplines you will come along within this study program? What… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Birgit Peterson

In this lecture you will work through the phases of an academic writing project step by step: You start with defining a topic for a short paper and develop a precise aim or research question. Based on this, you will learn methods to structure the writing process as well as the text product. By applying different strategies of writing and… 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Mika Maruyama

In this course, students develop ‘critical thinking’ by engaging with both art theory and art practice —whether in visual art, performance, media art, or other creative approaches. The course explores the current lexicon of contemporary art, and emphasizes queer feminist and decolonial perspectives that challenge existing paradigms. The semester focuses on surveying different approaches to artistic practice, and to understand… 2026S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Stephanie Misa

In this course students develop ‘critical thinking’ by engaging with both art theory and art practice —whether in visual art, performance, media art, or other creative approaches— the course aims to survey the field of contemporary art. The course explores the current lexicon of art and aesthetics, and emphasizes queer feminist and decolonial perspectives that challenge existing paradigms. As an… 2025W, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Mika Maruyama

In this course students develop ‘critical thinking’ by engaging with both art theory and art practice —whether in visual art, performance, media art, or other creative approaches— the course aims to survey the field of contemporary art. The course explores the current lexicon of art and aesthetics, and emphasizes queer feminist and decolonial perspectives that challenge existing paradigms. As an… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Stephanie Misa

In this course, students develop ‘critical thinking’ by engaging with both art theory and art practice —whether in visual art, performance, media art, or other creative approaches. The course explores the current lexicon of contemporary art, and emphasizes queer feminist and decolonial perspectives that challenge existing paradigms. The semester focuses on surveying different approaches to artistic practice, and to understand… 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Sophia Rut

This is an ongoing course which started in October 2025! This semesters course is co-led by Sophia Rut and Nora Krenmayr. We will explore the usage of interviews in journalistic as well as research settings, working in groups on our interview material and own radio broadcasts for Radio Orange - based on the group projects and interviews we prepared last… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Peter Hochenauer

This course is about cross-disciplinarity beyond the buzzword. It provides an introduction to cross-disciplinary strategies against the backdrop of cross-disciplinarity as a critique of the prevailing academic knowledge culture. The following learning outcomes are targeted:* knowing the differences between disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to knowledge* knowing basic assumptions, major concepts and epistemological stances of cross-disciplinary approaches to knowledge* knowing cross-disciplinary… 2025W, Proseminar, 2.0 ECTS

Monika Mokre

Students will apply the knowledge gained in the Winter Semester to specific topics of their choice by reading selected articles or book chapters and presenting them in class. Every student must prepare and present an academic article or book chapter. All other students are expected to read this article before class and to participate in discussions. Topics will be decided… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Manfred Nowak

Beschreibung Building upon skills acquired in the first term, this course deepens the students’ understanding of the relationship between the arts and human rights from a multidisciplinary perspective. The course deals with the human rights of freedom of expression and the arts, the limits of freedom of the arts, the right of everone to take part in cultural life and… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 2.0 ECTS

Amanda Holmes

Jacques Lacan’s thought is a pillar in contemporary theory. Whether we turn to art theory, political theory, film theory, feminist theory, race theory, or media theory, we find concepts that were developed, influenced, or even invented by Lacan. This course will offer a systematic introduction to the key Lacanian concepts through close reading of Lacan’s texts and a selection of… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jan Schlüter

This course under the umbrella of "Introduction to Science and Technology" aims to strengthen basic AI literacy: an understanding of how computers are used to collect data, process it, and make predictions or generate new data. The course is held in three blocks: 1. Introduction, Databases and Web Technology By dissecting two clones of popular web platforms, we will see… 2025W, wissenschaftliches Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Tanja Traxler

How have scientists—especially physicists—produced knowledge about the natural world across the centuries? Why does reality in quantum physics defy our everyday intuitions? And what role do aesthetics, imagination, and the arts play in shaping scientific discovery? In this course, we will explore historical and contemporary methods of knowledge production in the natural sciences, examining how ideas, instruments, and institutions have… 2025W, Vorlesung und Diskussion, 3.0 ECTS

Brigitte Krenn

2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Elena Beringer

The course “Intruduction to Sustainability” examines various concepts and topics related to sustainability. Students are given an overview of important concepts such as the three pillars of sustainability, education for sustainable development, Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals, grand challenges such as climate change and planetary boundaries, the donut economy as well as the social and cultural dimension of sustainability… 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 1.0 ECTS