Klaus Speidel

AI, algorithms and art: Storytelling "Attention all artists and tech enthusiasts! The University for Applied Arts is proud to announce a new theory class, "AI, Algorithms, and Art," that will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and creative expression from both a practical and critical perspective. In this thought-provoking class, students will learn about the latest developments in AI… 2023S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Michael Huber

Based on historical-sociological considerations (cybernetics, Weizenbaum e.a.) (cybernetics, Weizenbaum e.a.), cornerstones of digital culture are illuminated (Hofstadter, Penrose, Rheingold e.a.). Besides the consideration of strictly formal systems (Mandelbrot e.a.), the interest is mainly directed to the social effects of technology ("net culture", "social media", Postman e.a.).The dominant theme of "AI and creativity" is also found here. Specific "applied" topics such… 2022W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Georg Luif

This course explores fundamentals for building creative prototypes to answer artistic research questions, developing ideas further by using up-to-date game development techniques and interfacing your projects with other technologies. Some concepts that will be covered include: basic artificial Intelligence, basic multiplayer (local/online), animated 3d models,... This course is a continuation of the Experimental Game Engines class of the winter semester… 2022W/2023S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Valerie Messini

Does architecture always need to be physical? What ways of spatial expression, notation, extension and new awareness can be achieved and designed through media? And what role could AR play in (re)programming and extending space, in exhibition design, performance spaces or within the confinements of our own habitat? In this course we will investigate possibilities of virtual and augmented space… 2023S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Bence Pap

Does architecture always need to be physical? What ways of spatial expression, notation, extension and new awareness can be achieved and designed through media? And what role could AR play in (re)programming and extending space, in exhibition design, performance spaces or within the confinements of our own habitat? In this course we will investigate possibilities of virtual and augmented space… 2023S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Gerd Haselsteiner

Who is the course for?Anyone who wants to learn how to build user-centered digital products using research and real-world methods. How ist the course built?The course is as pracitcal as it gets and it won’t take forever until the students will make their first small real world projects. Design is very important and the focus is on creative industries. (it’s… 2023S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Patrícia Reis

Hacking is in nowadays a common practice and creative strategy employed among post-internet artists. By subverting the system, reverse engineering, hacking creative processes, defending access and openismus, they instrument a top-down methodology using deconstruction as a method to “make” art. Acknowledging Vilém Flusser's (1986) challenge of opening the “black box” they question what is behind commercial apparatus, defying its potentials… 2022W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Julian Palacz

In this course, the technical foundations of Web3 / decentralized internet will be taught and its artistic potential will be explored. Concepts such as blockchain, DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), metaverse, NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), mints, smart contracts, etc. will be explained and critically discussed. The substantive discussion of blockchain technologies is accompanied by application-oriented teaching units in which students learn the… 2022W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Verena Repar

Introduction to several generative AI tools based on Machine Learning algorithms. Diffusion models as co-creators and design material, an interactive inspiration aiming to augment the creative process. Exploring unintentionality and unpredictability as expressive elements, rather than limitations. While keeping the balance between creation and curation, an improvisational and overall playful experience is focal when working with such technologies. _Introduction to… 2023S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Anna Vasof

Where can we find the essence of cinematic illusion when we look into everyday life, and what happens when we use everyday situations, objects, spaces, and actions as cinematographic mechanisms? During the course, we will use everyday objects and actions to cause, activate and reveal narratives and understandings of how we perceive the moving image illusions. Topics: • The prehistory… 2023S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Nikolaus Gansterer

TRACES OF PLACES: PRACTICES OF FIELD RECORDING Nikolaus Gansterer, M.A.Artistic project work (2 hours) in combination with practices (2 hours)The seminar will take place as a block within the framework of an excursion lasting several days at Whitsun 2023. (max. 10 persons), further preparatory meetings and individual meetings by arrangement. The course is part of the APL (Applied Performance Laboratory).… 2022W/2023S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Renée Gadsden

This seminar is an homage to my late professor Brigitte Kowanz (1957-2022). The focus of the course is Austrian women artists of the 20th century. By looking at their contributions to the development of society in Austria, we can see how Austrian women and the themes they examined influenced important discourses locally and had an impact internationally, especially on the… 2023S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Nikolaus Gansterer

TRACES OF PLACES: PRACTICES OF FIELD RECORDING Nikolaus Gansterer, M.A.Artistic project work (2 hours) in combination with practices (2 hours)The seminar will take place as a block within the framework of an excursion lasting several days at Whitsun 2023. (max. 10 persons), further preparatory meetings and individual meetings by arrangement. The course is part of the APL (Applied Performance Laboratory).… 2022W/2023S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Silke Geppert

FASHION AND TEXTILE FROM FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE 1920IES Based on the realisation that fashionable silhouettes are tied to the time in which they were created, this Cycle III teaches knowledge of fashion, textiles and the beginnings of the modern fashions system. The focus is on the 19th century, the democratisation of fashion and the development of the haute couture… 2022W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Monica Titton

The final thesis complements or reinforces each designer’s original design philosophy, and should demonstrate strong research practice integrating theory and the designer’s unique perspective in response. The final thesis challenges designers to deepen their knowledge on their area of interest and to become actively involved with academic research and relevant theoretical discourses.The theme of the thesis is self-proposed and provides… 2022W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Jenni Tischer

"Speculated Away"Speculating as an activity of thinking in the future perfect tense and as a visionary imagining of other pasts, presents and futures is currently (due to the pandemic) increasingly joined by the subjunctive, the form of possibility. Looking back, we have to say: We assumed it could’ve turned out differently. But solid forecasts that didn’t come true need not… 2022W/2023S, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva

Content This course is a collaboration between the MA Gender Studies program, the FWF project “Magic Closet and the Dream Machine” (Dep. for Anglistik, Uni Vienna) and the Ceramics Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The students of this course will engage in theoretical discussions and art practices, working on the topic of In_visibility. Visibility has an important… 2023S, Projektarbeit, 8.0 ECTS

Mauricio Ianes de Moraes

Materiality, synesthesia, aesthetics and affects. In the seminar Die Architektur des Lichts I will focus on producing artworks and analysing our perception of them and the material world. How do space, matter, sounds, smells, and light affect our senses and intellect? How has perception changed and was shaped by cultural and social-historical contexts?The meetings will bring theoretical and historical backgrounds… 2022W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Scott Clifford Evans

Geisterbahn Theory The Geisterbahn (ghost train) is a horror amusement park ride that exists in a long tradition of horror theater…installation, video, automatons, and illusion used in the service of creating a thrill, a scare. These rides, much like the plays of the Grand Guignol of the 20th century, trot out a variety of horror tropes to excite and amuse… 2023S, Workshop, 2.0 ECTS

Christian Höller

Digitality and ecology – how can they go together? How could an artistic mediation between these two, admittedly immense, complexes look like? And where exactly would a yet to be defined “eco-digitality” have to start in order to promote a transformational process in a positive sense? Climate catastrophe on the one hand, advancing digitization on the other – and virtually… 2022W/2023S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Yona Schreyer

city of bits an expedition into what makes a city Our cities are complex systems that interconnect all our social, economic, cultural, and infrastructural elements. Within these large systems, we then build own smaller networks – trying to make the city work for us. A good city allows the interdependency of the smaller and bigger systems to be a space… 2022W/2023S, scientific seminar, 4.0 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… 2022W/2023S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jogi Neufeld

Experimental Game Cultures Game Dev Studio visits guided by SUBOTRONThe participants of the tours will get the chance to experience different fields of work in game development and usage, gaining insight to the daily routine as well as the professional environment. The fields of work are explained by studio members in informal conversations on the basis of concrete projects and… 2023S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS