Anab Jain

DESIGN A CHAIRDesigning a chair is almost a cliché — yet no object carries more design history, symbolism, and expectation. Chairs hold the weight of bodies and ideas: from thrones and benches to folding stools and ergonomic machines. They signal comfort, power, exclusion, rest, and resistance. This summer semester we invite you to design and build a chair. Your chair… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 18.0 ECTS

Peter Mahlknecht

Project work This course must be completed as individual artistic tuition in the semester in which the intention is to complete the first stage of studies and to sit for the partial board examination only. 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 9.0 ECTS

Christian Ruschitzka

Vordiplom für Industriedesign. 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 9.0 ECTS

Christian Steiner

Project work This course is to be taken as individual artistic tuition in the semester in which the student intends to complete the first part of the degree programme and sit for the exam. 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 9.0 ECTS   2025W, Individual Artistic Instruction, 9.0 ECTS

Elisabeth Wildling

This course must be completed as individual art instruction in the semester in which the student intends to complete the first stage of their studies and take the partial examination before the examination board. 2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 9.0 ECTS

Stefan Diez

The semester project focuses on designing a seating object in conceptual reference to the Danish furniture manufacturer HAY. The chair serves as a condensed design challenge — a test for construction, proportion, ergonomics, material, joinery, manufacturability, and cultural significance. Precisely because the chair is an archetypal object, it is particularly well suited to explore questions of posture, responsibility, and precision… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 20.0 ECTS

Anab Jain

DESIGN A CHAIRDesigning a chair is almost a cliché — yet no object carries more design history, symbolism, and expectation. Chairs hold the weight of bodies and ideas: from thrones and benches to folding stools and ergonomic machines. They signal comfort, power, exclusion, rest, and resistance. This summer semester we invite you to design and build a chair. Your chair… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 20.0 ECTS

Andrea Unfried

Description This lecture was introduced to explain the origin of details of pattern and sewing techniques .It is important to understand why a pocket is placed on a particular position, why a slit has a certain length etc. The students get technical information, and they can apply some knowledge directly into practice when they invent new pockets, collars, sleeves etc… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 1.0 ECTS

Christian Steiner

The objective of the lecture is to impart & develop fundamental facts, theories and principles of ecology & sustainability. On four dates a guest lecturer from a different special field will be invited to share his experiences and point of views to that topic and discuss it with all participants. In addition to that, every student creates a meta-study for… 2025W, Lecture Series with Workshop, 3.0 ECTS

Alison Jane Clarke

Shenzhen in Focus: Design, Power, and the Global South The RVW course ‘Design in Social and Political Context’ introduces students across the design disciplines to international, leading ideas and voices in the field of design, curation, design writing, design history, social science and practice exploring design in contemporary theoretical context. This semester’s lecture series will explore the social and political… 2026S, Lecture Series with Workshop, 1.5 ECTS

Heng Zhi

Shenzhen in Focus: Design, Power, and the Global South The RVW course ‘Design in Social and Political Context’ introduces students across the design disciplines to international, leading ideas and voices in the field of design, curation, design writing, design history, social science and practice exploring design in contemporary theoretical context. This semester’s lecture series will explore the social and political… 2026S, Lecture Series with Workshop, 1.5 ECTS

Harald Gründl

Regenerative Design Lab x ReGenerativa This semester, the Regenerative Design Lab is collaborating with the ReGenerativa platform. Using backcasting, a strategic planning method, a desirable future goal is defined, and from there, the necessary steps to achieve it are determined backward to the present. Unlike forecasting, which extrapolates current trends, backcasting is used for complex, long-term, or sustainable initiatives to… 2025W/2026S, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS

Heri Irawan

DESIGN SKETCHING Nowadays, people are starting to debate about creativity, originality, and what it truly means to be an artist or designer. If AI can generate amazing images in seconds, that's pretty cool. But most importantly, we must continue to discover our own value/worth, and if necessary, make AI just a tool to help us. Learning Design Sketching is the… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Jian Haake

This course offers an introduction to the core principles of communication design while fostering a contemporary and cross-disciplinary understanding of the field. Aimed at first-year students, it covers fundamental design concepts such as composition, form, color, typography, and layout, with a focus on developing both visual literacy and creative thinking. Reimagining conventional approaches to Design Thinking, students are encouraged to… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 4.0 ECTS

Zeynep Aksöz Balzar

This term, we will explore visual generative AI through a hands-on and critically engaged investigation into how artists and designers can implement artificial intelligence within their own unique media and methodologies. Moving beyond off-the-shelf tools and pre-trained models, the course focuses on demystifying AI technologies and reclaiming artistic agency in a rapidly evolving media landscape increasingly shaped by algorithmic systems.… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Zeynep Aksöz Balzar

This seminar focuses on abstraction and abstract thinking and their application within machine learning (ML) processes. Students will investigate systems of abstraction as they emerge within their own creative and technical workflows, using machine learning both as a subject of inquiry and as a practical tool. The course combines hands-on experimentation with theoretical reflection. Students will be introduced to the… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Haspinger

Die Lehrveranstaltung richtet sich vorwiegend an die Anforderungen der Studierenden der Abteilungen Design und narrative Medien und Kommunikationsdesign.Programm: FigmaErklären der Programmoberfläche; Sinnvolles Anwenden der verschiedenen Werkzeuge für: Interface (Fills, Borders, Blurs, Colors, Gradients,…) Layerskonzept, Shapes, Textediting, Daten-Export und Prototyping 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Silke Vollenhofer

Geschichte des Management, Grundlagen, Methoden und Techniken des Managements, Online-Strategien sowie die Vermittlung der nötigen "Soft Kills". Einführung in die Begriffe Design und Management. Weiters werden Themen wie z. B. Markeneinführung und der Mensch im Arbeitsprozeß behandelt. 2025W, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Erwin Bauer

How to survive in daily (design) business The success of a project depends on more than just good design. Professionally managing deadlines, costs and production, communicating with clients, partners and other project participants, and delivering perfect results on time and as agreed is much more challenging. This practical course imparts essential knowledge ranging from starting a business, resource and time… 2025W/2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Tobias Fox

Artists and designers rely primarily on copyright as means to protect their intellectual property (IP). However, there are further IP rights such as registered designs, trademarks and patents. Not only participants of industrial design but also creative people in general regularly use these rights although to have them, they have to be applied for before an office, they may be… 2025W/2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Jan Jancik

In this seminar, we will work on creating a video portrait. Who or what you portray - a person, an object, a company - you can decide for yourself. The concept for each video portrait will be developed in the first two units. The next three units will be post-production sessions, where we will edit and finalize the video. The… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Jan Jancik

In this seminar, we will work on the creation of a music video. You decide which song you want to visualize, whether it's a popular song or even one you've produced yourself. The concept for the music video and how to best create it will be developed in the first two units. In the subsequent units, the video will be… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Ivana Pilić

This seminar is aimed at Master's students who wish to engage more deeply with issues of diversity and the mechanisms of discrimination within the arts. Central questions include: For whom do we create art – and with whom? Who remains invisible in our narratives, institutions, and on our stages? And how can we develop working methods that are critically aware… 2025W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Mauricio Ianes de Moraes

We will examine, both theoretically and practically, the intersections of transmedia performance art and the performative aspects of everyday life, blurring the boundaries between life and art, utilising various media including video, social platforms, installation, and live action, to reframe ordinary behaviours as performative acts. Drawing upon theories from performance studies, media studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Mauricio Ianes de Moraes

We will examine, both theoretically and practically, the intersections of transmedia performance art and the performative aspects of everyday life, blurring the boundaries between life and art, utilising various media, including video, social platforms, installation, and live action, to reframe ordinary behaviours as performative acts. Drawing upon theories from performance studies, media studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Sophia Rohwetter

In this seminar, we explore the history, politics, and aesthetics of Marxist avant-garde cinema. Looking at selected film examples—from Soviet revolutionary cinema and Italian Neorealism to the French New Wave, Third Cinema, and contemporary positions—we develop an overview of key historical and theoretical developments in avant-garde film and its various Marxist reference points. We examine both the reception of Marxist… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Doris Krüger

The flag as a national, political, religious, or commercial symbol and its interpretation in contemporary art. The theme of the flag offers a wide range of possibilities for conceptual artistic interpretation. We use familiar visual strategies to arrive at individual or collective manifestos. In the first semester, a block introduction covers everything from medieval heraldry to contemporary art. In the… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Doris Krüger

TRANSMYTHIC PROCESSION A collaboration between Transmedia Art and Wiener Festwochen Blending elements of religious ritual, military formation, and rural tradition, the Transmythic Processionunfolds as a unique collective act in public space. Suspended between ceremony, parade, and folk festival, it creates a dynamic and participatory experience. Conceived as a contemporary choreography, the procession traces a shared path each Wednesday—from the University… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Nikolaus Gansterer

Teaching of fundamental concepts of drawing practices as well as techniques of mapping and various notation systems. Introduction to questions of subjective cartographies, scores and choreographies through perception exercises. Methods of "drawing-on" (notating) and "writing-in" (inscribing) are tried out individually and collectively. Extension of drawing to "expanded drawing" by means of material and movement. The course is part of the… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Nikolaus Gansterer

Teaching of fundamental concepts of drawing practices as well as techniques of mapping and various notation systems. Introduction to questions of subjective cartographies, scores and choreographies through perception exercises. Methods of "drawing-on" (notating) and "writing-in" (inscribing) are tried out individually and collectively. Extension of drawing to "expanded drawing" by means of material and movement. The course is part of the… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Jorit Aust

Digital Circuit: a brief introduction to digital workflow. Focal points are: Process optimization strategies with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop; System profiling from capture to output; Exposure metering as the bas^is of an optimal digital negative; Raw development; the basic understanding of working with digital negatives; Exposure corrections, general color corrections and selective color adjustments, perspective and subject corrections with raw… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 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, scientific 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, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Andrei Gheorghe

DigDesFab25 in collaboration with: Wolf Mangelsdorf, Florian Medicus and the Structure, Materials, Tectonics and Space class This seminar researches the application of contemporary digital design and fabrication methods in applied, full-scale implementations. Student groups will generate knowhow through the analysis of reference examples, and will design prototypes in full-scale by using easily processable materials. Special emphasis will be put on… 2025W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Daniela Kröhnert

Today digital design and fabrication technologies are an integral part of common design workflows and at the basis of architectural practice. The translation/transformation from design to digital and physical matter is shaped by a range of tools and processes which are affected by material properties, technological advancements, culture and skill. Besides determining the respective boundaries/confines of digital and physical space,… 2025W, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Thomas Felder

Vound Frames / Sound Jamming in Audiovisual Dialogue In groups of 3–6 participants, students develop sonic and musical responses to visual source material in free jam sessions – ranging from narrative image sequences to abstract rhythmic structures. The resulting sounds are linked back to the image sequences in real time, giving rise to audiovisual improvisations and spontaneous compositions in a… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Frank Rausch

Designing ethical apps Big tech companies influence our behavior to their advantage. User interfaces are designed to exert power. Buttons, labels, and processes are optimized for maximum profit for the sender. The visual design directs attention to the detriment of the audience. Software design cannot be neutral because it is intended to sort information and make it accessible. But where… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Alexander Martinz

Anhand von Filmbeispielen und anschließenden Diskussionen vermittelt die LV Einblicke in verschiedene historische und gegenwärtige Zugänge zum Thema Canon / Countercanon Im Rahmen der LV werden Filme des klassischen Kanons der Filmhistorie (Fassbinder, Martel, Fellini, Lodon, etc.)  schrägen Underground Klassikern verschiedenster Länder gegenübergestellt. 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Alexander Martinz

Anhand von Filmbeispielen und anschließenden Diskussionen vermittelt die LV Einblicke in verschiedene historische und gegenwärtige Zugänge zum Thema Canon / Countercanon Im Rahmen der LV werden Filme des klassischen Kanons der Filmhistorie (Fassbinder, Martel, Fellini, Lodon, etc.)  schrägen Underground Klassikern verschiedenster Länder gegenübergestellt. 2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Florian Sturm

Character Design & Animation: In this course, we design and animate simple characters with personality. Starting from sketches, we develop original characters and gradually create basic animation sequences. The focus is on the fundamentals of movement, key poses, and expressing personality through animation. The goal is to build a solid understanding of visual storytelling, form design, and animated motion. 2025W, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Michael Tripolt

Digital drawing techniques and workflows for animation (motion design and animated short film). By way of example, the entire production process of a short animated sequence is worked through (concept, pre-production, production, post-production). Fundamentals of planning and composition Fundamentals of animation Illustration for animation and workflows Character design for cut-out animation Keyframe animation, cut-out animation, and frame-by-frame animation 2026S, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Martina Menegon

“Usurp the body. Become your avatar. Be the glitch.”— Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism. A Manifesto How do we become chimeric in virtual space, and what new forms of embodiment, identity, and myth might emerge in the process? This course explores glitched identities, extended selves, and hybrid bodies through avatar creation and world-building using Unity3D and a constellation of free and… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Martina Menegon

This course explores creative strategies and operations of glitching and chimering the self, unsettling normative expression of identity and embodiment by engaging with speculative modes of self-representation shaped by creative processes, technological mediation, and posthuman imaginaries. “Usurp the body. Become your avatar. Be the glitch.” Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism. A Manifesto Mobilizing posthuman, cyber- and glitch-feminist strategies, we will reclaim… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Haspinger

Die Lehrinhalte von Indesign-Grundlagen A und Grundlagen B sind ident. In der Lehrveranstaltung "Digitaler Satz" wird die Gestaltung und das Design von Printprodukten wie Poster, Flyer, Broschüren, Zeitschriften, Bücher etc. mit dem Programm Adobe InDesign CC vermittelt. Die TeilnehmerInnen lernen einen möglichst sinnvollen und effizienten Einsatz der Werkzeuge für Text- und Bildkomposition (Layout) der entsprechenden Printprodukte, sowie die für die… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Haspinger

Die Lehrinhalte von Indesign-Grundlagen A und Grundlagen B sind ident.In der Lehrveranstaltung "Digitaler Satz" wird die Gestaltung und das Design von Printprodukten wie Poster, Flyer, Broschüren, Zeitschriften, Bücher etc. mit dem Programm Adobe InDesign CC vermittelt. Die TeilnehmerInnen lernen einen möglichst sinnvollen und effizienten Einsatz der Werkzeuge für Text- und Bildkomposition (Layout) der entsprechenden Printprodukte, sowie die für die grafische… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Haspinger

Arbeiten mit Mengentext (Absatz- und Zeichenformate), Dokumentaufbau, Erstellen und Formatieren von Inhaltsverzeichnis, Querverweisen und Index, Fußnotenverwaltung und deren Formatierungen; Grep-Style;   Programmversion: Adobe Indesign CC 202x,  Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch Voraussetzungen: Grundkenntnisse Indesign und MacOs (Apple) / Windows Betriebsystem 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Alexi Kukuljevic

S05658 - Discourse, Figure (SEW) “Utopia is the fact that truth never appears where it is expected.” - Lyotard, Discourse, Figure This seminar will consist of a close reading of Jean-Francoise Lyotard’s Discourse, Figure. Published in 1971, this book is both one of the great works of aesthetic theory in the 20th century and one of the greatest and lesser-known… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Gabriela Krist

Präsentation und Diskussion der Dissertationsvorhaben Feedback der BetreuerInnen und DissertantInnen 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Virgil Widrich

Privatissimum for PhD students. Meetings by personal appointments. In general, the meetings will take place in the Art & Science Department. Registration online via base. 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Judith Eisler

Personal mentoring of the PhD candidate. Discussions regarding research and application of methods to take place at regular intervals in person or via email and Zoom. 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS