Joshua Simon

The paradoxs of the digital constitute a rupture carrying an unknown future, and at the same time continuing traditions that can be traced at least since the early modern period. The digital, therefore, cannot be located in any set of devices, nor is it located solely in the social relations around any set of devices. The course attempts to delineate… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Sophie Publig

2027S, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jorit Aust

General topic: Large format photography with the view camera and the classic negative formats 4x5 and 8x10inch. A dialog about the meaning and justification of analog technology in the age of AI in artistic work with photography is an increasingly important aspect of teaching. This course builds on the students' basic knowledge of camera technology, light metering and negative development.… 2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Maria Dusl

I - Sprache und Theater I Mittwoch 7. Oktober 2026, 10h - 14h II - Theater und Sprache II Mittwoch 21. Oktober 2026, 10h - 14h III -Theater ist Sprache III Mittwoch 4. November 2026, 10h - 14h In den Lehreinheiten werden wir uns erst entlang eines Themas mit den Schnittstellen zwischen Sprache und Theater, sowie Text und Erkenntnisproduktion beschäftigen,… 2026W/2027S, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Hannah Lioba Egenolf

Topographies of the independent performing arts in ViennaBetween artistic practice, cultural infrastructure and social positioning How do independent artists in the performing arts work in Vienna? Which venues, networks and modes of production shape the city’s independent scene? How are productions created, which venues and networks form the scene, and which aesthetic and social issues are explored on stage?And: what… 2026W/2027S, Lecture, 1.0 ECTS

2026W, Workshop, 8.0 ECTS

Leah Armstrong

Deep Fake: A design history Design has always been closely related to ideas of artifice. In moments of political discontent and transition, experiments with new materials allowed designers to reinvent their relationship with the present and propose radical new futures. Through fast fashion and copy-design culture, design became a global tool of intellectual property. In the midst of debates about… 2026W, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Leah Armstrong

2027S, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Boris Buden

It's already translating; will it write tomorrow? Today’s increasingly important and widely used machine translation is commonly viewed as doing—by using advanced digital technology, especially AI—what the human intuition expects of translation: to bridge linguistic and cultural differences so as to facilitate communication. It does that indeed, but so much faster than humans, that the dream of a global communicative… 2026W, scientific seminar, 5.0 ECTS

Marius Linus Thomas Fischer

Der Zufall kam, [...] und die unendlichen Überlegungen, [...] konnten mich ebensogut zu dem Philosophen machen, der ich war, wie zu dem Künstler, der ich nicht gewesen bin. – Sokrates in Paul Valérys Eupalinos oder Der Architekt Eine Begegnung, ein Unfall, eine Nachricht, eine politische Erschütterung oder ein Kunstwerk können einen Zusammenhang verändern, ohne dass sich genau angeben ließe, wann… 2027S, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Fiel

This seminar explores artistic practice not as the production of static objects but as the unfolding of dynamic, time-based processes. At its core lies the proposition that art is fundamentally a practice of becoming rather than being—a continuous process of emergence in which ideas, materials, technologies, environments, and human actors co-produce forms that cannot be fully predicted or predetermined. Drawing… 2026W/2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Anika Meier

Protocol Art: How Artists Work with Rules and Systems What if the artwork is not an image, object, or output, but the rules that determine what can happen? This seminar explores Protocol Art, a term for artistic practices that shift attention from individual outputs to the systems, rules, and forms of coordination through which culture emerges. As artist and researcher… 2026W/2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Miya Yoshida

The course examines the notions of research, knowledge and knowledge-making in the framework of artistic research. The seminar introduces the discourse of artistic research, and its various perspectives and methodologies of writings to critically explore what is perceived “research” in the context. Writing is understood as a vital practice for reflecting on one’s own thinking, artistic processes and practices in… 2026W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Miya Yoshida

2027S, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Christina Schraml

Social Design Theory Course | Winter Semester 2026/27 with Christina Schraml | christina.schraml@uni-ak.ac.at Productive Frictions: Housing, Everyday Life and Conflicts – Negotiating Co-Existence in Wiens Gemeindebau „To think about the city is to hold and maintain its conflictual aspects: constraints and possibilities, peacefulness and violence, meetings and solitude, gatherings and separation, the trivial and the poetic, brutal functionalism and surprising… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Arch 1 presents a survey of architectural theory from around 1970ies to this day, with an emphasis on contemporary developments since the nineties. The course will focus on questions of disciplinarity, form, mediums and media, as well as political, environmental and technological issues facing architecture today. In order to trace the transformation of thought, we will discuss each… 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

2027S, Academic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Ongoing group and individual discussions for developing the students' individual diploma projects in architecture with a focus on architectural theory.  2026W/2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

The course addresses spatio-temporal interrelations between human and non-human living environments. By means of individual narrations we explore various kinds of interdependencies, paying particular attention to seemingly contradictory assessments of scales and angles of observation. Drawing from a distorted view of a genre that may be coined speculative documentary the course puts emphasis on developing a sense of reality that… 2027S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Miriam Stoney

In this course we will take the city of Vienna as a case study with which to observe, examine and reflect the multi-faceted relationships between built environments and the artistic practices housed in and by them. This semester, we will be looking at the ways in which other-than-human animals are accommodated in and by the city. Visiting parks, buildings, institutions,… 2026W, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Miriam Stoney

2027S, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Daniela Kröhnert

This seminar is looking at the relationship between architecture, embodiment and spatio-political dimensions of utopia. It is also an exploration of architecture’s agency between social realities and creative fiction assuming that possible futures have been imagined before in various ways. By revisiting past (architectural) utopias/futures through altered viewpoints - by moving the “view from nowhere” to a situated standpoint -… 2027S, scientific seminar, 1.5 ECTS

Maja Ozvaldic

This seminar is looking at the relationship between architecture, embodiment and spatio-political dimensions of utopia. It is also an exploration of architecture’s agency between social realities and creative fiction assuming that possible futures have been imagined before in various ways. By revisiting past (architectural) utopias/futures through altered viewpoints - by moving the “view from nowhere” to a situated standpoint -… 2027S, scientific seminar, 1.5 ECTS

Alexander Martinz

Anhand von Beispielen verschiedener Kompositionspraxen und anschließenden Diskussionen vermittelt die LV Einblicke in verschiedene historische und gegenwärtige Zugänge zum Thema Experimentelle Musik und Klangkunst   2026W, artistic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Alexander Martinz

2027S, artistic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Boris Buden

Can a machine think philosophically? What a miracle! A machine thinks like we do, or even better. Why then do we still need philosophy, if technology can give us answers to all its questions? Why do we have to read all these thick old books if the algorithms have already done it for us? Why to endlessly discuss those difficult,… 2026W/2027S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jan Schlüter

This course under the umbrella of "Topics in 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 six meetings, forming three topic groups: 1. Databases and Web Technology (15.10. + 22.10.) By dissecting two clones of… 2026W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Florian Medicus

Introduction into 'Structural Design' as an essential aspect of materialization in general, and fundamental  application within the broad field of Industrial Design. 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Reinhart

This course is primarily aimed at students of the Art & Science Department and engages with this year’s annual theme – tba in September.  2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS

Martin Reinhart

2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 4.0 ECTS

Adnan Balcinovic

"Tuesday I became clouds. Possibly a defensive measure. Everyone likes clouds. They lift the heart, they lift the eye. Actually they lift the heart because they lift the eye. Cognitive scientists say that people place gods in the high blue sky because looking up causes a rush of dopamine in the brain. Yet clouds do more than draw your eye… 2026W/2027S, Project Work, 4.0 ECTS

Marie Artaker

In this two-day typography workshop, a reader with the working title “Consider the Fragment” will be developed and produced through a collaborative process. The starting point is a collection of texts on the fragment, the note, and the rehearsal. Together, we will explore how these topics can be translated typographically and transferred into the haptic space of the book. Individually… 2026W, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Paulus Dreibholz

The seminar introduces the participants each term to different areas of typography and its related disciplines. Through a variety of briefs and projects, the seminar offers the opportunity to accumulate highly specific skills as well as process general and conceptual questions in the field of communication design. A more detailed description of the seminar will be posted later during summer.… 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Johannes Lang

The winter semester will cover designing with typography, applying typeface(s).Macro typography, typesetting and editorial design. Lectures and exercises on the following topics:– Font selection and font pairing– Setting type for reading– Ragged text and justified typesetting– Paragraph styles and their settings in InDesign– Hyphenation and Justification– Typographic hierarchies– Layout and grid systems, breaking the grid– Table of contents (design and… 2026W/2027S, Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Johannes Lang

The winter semester will cover designing with typography, applying typeface(s).Macro typography, typesetting and editorial design. Lectures and exercises on the following topics:– Font selection and font pairing– Setting type for reading– Ragged text and justified typesetting– Paragraph styles and their settings in InDesign– Hyphenation and Justification– Typographic hierarchies– Layout and grid systems, breaking the grid– Table of contents (design and… 2026W/2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Astrid Seme

Die Lehrveranstaltung widmet sich jedes Semester einer vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichsten Facetten von Typografie. Die Studierenden haben die Gelegenheit, sich durch praxisnahe Aufgaben und Projekte fundiert mit der Detailtypografie auseinanderzusetzen und zugleich konzeptionelle Fragestellungen der grafischen Gestaltung zu analysieren, reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Vorkenntnisse im Umgang mit Typografie sind unbedingt erforderlich.  2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Paulus Dreibholz

The seminar introduces the participants each term to different areas of typography and its related disciplines. Through a variety of briefs and projects, the seminar offers the opportunity to accumulate highly specific skills as well as process general and conceptual questions in the field of communication design. A more detailed description of the seminar will be posted later during summer.… 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Verena Panholzer

2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS

Astrid Seme

Die Lehrveranstaltung widmet sich jedes Semester einer vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichsten Facetten von Typografie. Die Studierenden haben die Gelegenheit, sich durch praxisnahe Aufgaben und Projekte fundiert mit der Detailtypografie auseinanderzusetzen und zugleich konzeptionelle Fragestellungen der grafischen Gestaltung zu analysieren, reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Vorkenntnisse im Umgang mit Typografie sind unbedingt erforderlich.  2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Gerald Grestenberger

From Fanzines to Artist´s Books What are Artist´s books for in todays media screen landscape?How to formulate, shape and design your Text and visual content in different types of settings and media? - portfolio in print and on screen- artist book- online (websides_social media) What are the `industry standard tools´ for those types of design work, and what are the… 2026W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Gerald Grestenberger

2027S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

the film is the pretext for dialogue ... it opens out to you, so that you can continue it (Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino: Towards a Third Cinema, 1969) Cinema is a defining media of the 20th century, and even in the 21st century, it has lost none of its significance or influence—on the contrary, even as keeps changing and… 2026W, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Paul Iby

Ideen stärken vom künstlerischen Anliegen zur Persönlichkeitsentwicklung im Sinn des übergreifenden Themas Entrepreneurship Education (BMBWF, 2023). Die Lehrveranstaltung Übersetzen I setzt einen Fokus auf die eigene künstlerische, gestalterische Praxis. Ausgehend von dieser in Verbindung mit dem oben genannten LV Thema werden Ansätze, Ideen, Überlegungen zu ihrer Vermittlung und möglichen Methoden hierzu entwickelt und diskutiert sowie laufend dokumentiert. Weiters beleuchtet die… 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Paul Iby

Ideen stärken vom künstlerischen Anliegen zur Persönlichkeitsentwicklung im Sinn des übergreifenden Themas Entrepreneurship Education (BMBWF, 2023). Die Lehrveranstaltung Übersetzen I setzt einen Fokus auf die eigene künstlerische, gestalterische Praxis. Ausgehend von dieser in Verbindung mit dem oben genannten LV Thema werden Ansätze, Ideen, Überlegungen zu ihrer Vermittlung und möglichen Methoden hierzu entwickelt und diskutiert sowie laufend dokumentiert. Weiters beleuchtet die… 2026W, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Bernadette Anzengruber

Die Lehrveranstaltung Übersetzen I setzt einen Fokus auf die eigene künstlerische, gestalterische Praxis. Ausgehend von dieser werden Ansätze, Ideen, Überlegungen zu ihrer Vermittlung und möglichen Methoden hierzu entwickelt und diskutiert sowie laufend dokumentiert. Weiters beleuchtet die Lehrveranstaltung allgemeine fachspezifische Themen wie den Lehrplan (Berufsbildend, MS, AHS, SEK I und II, Matura), Fachsaal und fachspezifische Gegebenheiten, Material, Ausstattung, Sicherheit, Benotung, Unterrichtsplanung… 2026W/2027S, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Bernadette Anzengruber

Die Lehrveranstaltung Übersetzen I setzt einen Fokus auf die eigene künstlerische, gestalterische Praxis. Ausgehend von dieser werden Ansätze, Ideen, Überlegungen zu ihrer Vermittlung und möglichen Methoden hierzu entwickelt und diskutiert sowie laufend dokumentiert. Weiters beleuchtet die Lehrveranstaltung allgemeine fachspezifische Themen wie den Lehrplan (Berufsbildend, MS, AHS, SEK I und II, Matura), Fachsaal und fachspezifische Gegebenheiten, Material, Ausstattung, Sicherheit, Benotung, Unterrichtsplanung… 2026W/2027S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Bernadette Anzengruber

Ziel der Lehrveranstaltung ist es, ein Unterrichtskonzept (mit Bezug und Verortung zum Lehrplan) zu entwickeln, dieses in der Praxis zu erproben und zu testen, im Anschluss zu reflektieren, evaluieren und adaptieren. Das adaptierte Konzept soll zu einem Toolbook als Open Source aufbereitet werden. Hierbei wird der Besuch der Lehrveranstaltung Übersetzen I ausdrücklich empfohlen, da an diese angeknüpft werden kann. 2027S, Academic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jure Purgaj

Ziel der Lehrveranstaltung ist es, ausgehend von einer eigenen gestalterischen und fachdidaktischen Auseinandersetzung ein individuelles Unterrichtskonzept für das Fach Technik und Design zu entwickeln, das einen klaren Bezug zum geltenden Lehrplan aufweist. Dieses Konzept wird im Rahmen des Fachpraktikums in der Unterrichtspraxis erprobt, anschließend reflektiert, evaluiert und weiterentwickelt. Die überarbeitete Fassung wird am Ende der Lehrveranstaltung als Open-Source-Toolbook aufbereitet, das… 2026W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jure Purgaj

Ziel der Lehrveranstaltung ist es, ausgehend von einer eigenen gestalterischen und fachdidaktischen Auseinandersetzung ein individuelles Unterrichtskonzept für das Fach Technik und Design zu entwickeln, das einen klaren Bezug zum geltenden Lehrplan aufweist. Dieses Konzept wird im Rahmen des Fachpraktikums in der Unterrichtspraxis erprobt, anschließend reflektiert, evaluiert und weiterentwickelt. Die überarbeitete Fassung wird am Ende der Lehrveranstaltung als Open-Source-Toolbook aufbereitet, das… 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS

Paul Iby

Title: Play for Humanities, the More-than-Human, and Shared Futures- Cultures of Play and Festivity (Play and Celebration Cultures – Aesthetic, Performative and Social Spaces in the Classroom) in cooperation with Univ.-Prof. Mag.a Dr.a Ruth Mateus-Berr and Univ.-Lekt. Petra Weixelbraun MEd. (Research Theories and Methods in Subject Didactics KKP & DEX) The aim of this course is to develop an individual… 2026W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS