Andreas Gehrlach

Fredric Jameson is said to have once remarked, “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” That may have been true in the 1990s, but it is no longer the case today. This is particularly evident in the literary genre of utopia, which is flourishing today as rarely before. Not only are new utopias… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Götz Leineweber

–– Das Nebensächliche, das Vergessen und der Rest Kryptomnesie heißt das Phänomen, bei dem wir auf eine anscheinend originelle Idee kommen und sich später herausstellt, dass wir sie in Wirklichkeit von einer anderen Person gehört oder irgendwo gelesen haben. Das lässt sich experimentell leicht herstellen: Die Kunst liegt darin, "zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt genau so viel Vergessen unter die Erinnerung… 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Walter Moser

In dieser Lehrveranstaltung werden zentrale Aspekte des Genres der Street Photography an der Schnittstelle zwischen intuitiver Praxis und kalkulierter Planung untersucht. Das Seminar behandelt historische Fotografien des 19. Jahrhunderts, in denen die Momentfotografie noch stark von technischen Entwicklungen abhängig war, ebenso wie Aufnahmen der 1920er- und 1930er-Jahre, die einen sozialen Anspruch mit formalen Mitteln der Avantgarde verbinden. Darüber hinaus sind… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

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, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS

Ferdinand Doblhammer

Microcontrollers have quietly transformed the arts over the past two decades. Artists and designers have embraced these small, programmable devices as a core medium for creative expression. Hardware hacking was once the domain of engineers, but is now a fundamental tool in media art and design practice. Microcomputers have become more accessible than ever. Initially developed for hobbyists, they have… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 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, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 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, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Maria Bussmann

Die Vereinnahmung der Kunst anderer Kulturen bestimmte lange die Praxis des Kunstschaffens oder der Kunstbetrachtung. Gastfreundschaft als ein positiv besetztes Gegenmodell zu begreifen und AutorInnen nachzuspüren, die das Andere in umfassenderer Weise konzeptualisieren und zum gemeinsamen Diskurs (und am Schluss zum Essen?!) einladen, ist Anliegen des Seminars. Ein breit-gefächerter Ansatz bei der Wahl der gemeinsam zu lesenden Text-Beispiele geht von… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Marina Rauchenbacher

„No! No!“, schreit die Figur im Vordergrund, jene im Hintergrund hält eine Axt in der Hand und droht: „Now you die!!“ Im nächsten Panel sehen wir nur mehr eine Mondsichel, eine Häuserkulisse und den Ausruf „EEYAA!!“ Der Comictheoretiker Scott McCloud spricht hier vom „special crime“ der Leser*innen (1994, 68). Dass die erste Person durch die zweite verletzt oder gar getötet… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Oliver Rene Alunovic

This course is the first of a two-part series, followed by "AI as a Subversive Medium" in the next semester; completion of both is highly recommended for all participants. (Please note: Students of "Design and Narrative Media" have priority for enrollment.) This course explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and the visual arts, providing a hands-on introduction to machine learning… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Leon-Etienne Kühr

How does an AI system semantically compute with images or texts? Where do assumptions, biases, and prejudices arise, and how can we navigate these contingent results in both conceptual and practical ways? In this extended workshop, we will experiment with Python programming to gain insights into how these black boxes operate. The course also serves as an introduction to how… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 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. The lecture series addresses this seemingly simple yet complex question by examining the 'deep history' of the digital… 2025W, Lecture and Discussion, 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, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS

Judith Fegerl

working with non-iron metals, mainly brass - knowledge and theory on metals, characteristics and use - tools and how to employ them - scetching, planning and producing threedimensional objects - manual and machine lcutting - bending and forging (hot and cold) - filing and polishing - soldering: preperation, soldering with silver and brass and other useful techinques Please register ONLINE… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Matthias Boeckl

Selected episodes from Austrian architectural history in their international context. Course language is German. The English architectural history course takes place in summer term. Topics in winter term 2025/26: Key works in Austria from pre-history 19th centuries. Lecture course in German. Registration (starting 25 Aug 2025) via BASE required. The lecture course takes place on Zoom: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/66747641415 Meeting-ID: 667 4764… 2025W, Lecture, 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, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Moriz Stangl

A “crit session” is a strange space: we show something without really knowing what we are trying to say, and often only realize what we have said through the reactions of others. On the other hand, we evaluate work without being able to specify clear criteria for our judgment in advance. A crit session can drag on for hours without… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 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, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Julia Preisker

In this seminar we will concentrate on theories that challenge normative notions of time and history. We will deal with ideas of queer temporalities (Freeman), follow communist phantoms (Adamczak), as well as discuss the general refusal of a vision of redemptive futurism (Edelman). Thereby, we will close-read theories that oppose repetitive paradigms and that produce - sometime fraglie - connection… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Judith P Fischer

The implementation of an idea at the interface between art, culture, and society can lead to complex results. This course develops strategies and teaches methods that lead to an exhibition project, utilizing all available resources. Individual brainstorming sessions (idea + concept) result in (fictitious, independent) projects, which are supported from the initial idea through planning to implementation. In addition to… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Doris Grossi

Nature as an exhibithas broken through the walls of natural history museums and is increasingly appearing in connection with artistic and scientific works in the fields of contemporary art, design, architecture and advertising. The cyclical concept inherent in exhibition planning is examined using a series of relevant examples from large and small projects. We will visit three exhibitions in the… 2025W/2026S, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Evie Reckendrees

This seminar explores autotheory as a (trans)feminist practice that operates not through self-representation but through the undoing of the self. Focusing on excessive, experimental, and transgressive writing we examine how contemporary autotheory breaks with identity-based models of queer and feminist theory. Using a broad range of thinkers such as Bataille, Moten, Hartman and Hayward we explore how autotheory is used… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Nikolas Heep

Die Ringvorlesung/Workshop „Wirtschaft und Recht“ versteht sich als Einführung und Einstieg in ein großes und komplexes Themengebiet. In der Lehrveranstaltung werden Fragen zu wirtschaftlichen Aspekten bearbeitet, die den Karriereweg unserer Absolvent*innen erheblich beeinflussen werden. Eine Reihe von Gastredner*innen wird unterschiedliche Zugänge zu den Mechanismen des ‚Business’ vorstellen. Dabei geben Designer*innen, Finanzexpert*innen, Marketing-Spezialist*innen, Berater*innen und Coaches anhand von best-practice Beispielen Einblicke… 2026S, Lecture Series with Workshop, 3.0 ECTS

Katrin Sailer

Die Ringvorlesung/Workshop „Wirtschaft und Recht“ versteht sich als Einführung und Einstieg in ein großes und komplexes Themengebiet. In der Lehrveranstaltung werden Fragen zu wirtschaftlichen Aspekten bearbeitet, die den Karriereweg unserer Absolvent*innen erheblich beeinflussen werden. Eine Reihe von Gastredner*innen wird unterschiedliche Zugänge zu den Mechanismen des ‚Business’ vorstellen. Dabei geben Designer*innen, Finanzexpert*innen, Marketing-Spezialist*innen, Berater*innen und Coaches anhand von best-practice Beispielen Einblicke… 2026S, Lecture Series with Workshop, 3.0 ECTS

Eva Maria Stadler

„Ich bin, weil ich gesehen werde und wie ich gesehen werde; was mich ausmacht, ist zuallererst das Bild, zu dem ich werde, verfügbar dafür, ausgestrahlt, verbreitet und durch Zuschauer konsumiert zu werden.“* (Jean Luc, Marion, Die Öffnung des Sichtbaren, 2005) Um Geld einen Wert zu verleihen, bedarf es der Beglaubigung. Diese basiert auf Versprechen, auf Hoffnung und Vertrauen. Die Vorlesung… 2025W, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Renate Vergeiner

EXKURSIONEN INS KUNSTHISTORISCHE MUSEM WIEN Um sich selbst und andere besser zu verstehen, bedarf es bestimmter Grundlagen. In meinen Proseminaren geht es um die zwei großen Erzählungen des Okzidents: die homerischen Epen und die Bibel, beide haben den europäischen Sprach- und Bildwortschatz geprägt und sind als die sogenannte humanistische Allgemeinbildung unverzichtbar für den allgemeinen kulturellen Austausch und insbesondere die Künste.… 2025W, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Renate Vergeiner

Inhalt: im Sommersemester 2026 wird das Neue Testament im Hinblick auf die populärsten Bilderfindungen Gegenstand unserer Betrachtungen und Diskussionen sein. Typologisch hängt alles was darin vorkommt, mit den mythischen Geschehnissen im Alten Testament zusammen, weshalb das Neue als legitime christliche (!) Fortführung der jüdischen Tora, der ältesten und heiligsten schriftlichen Tradition der Menschheit gilt. Die persönliche Begegnung mit dem Kunstwerk… 2026S, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Eva Kernbauer

This course is taught in GERMAN. All introductory courses in Art History (Kunstgeschichte 1-4) are held alternately in German and English, with the English course "Global Modern Art / Kunstgeschichte 3" following in Fall 2026.   2025W, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Franz Schubert

The seminar will explore the possibilities of real-time 3D with the free game engine Unity in conjunction with 3D animation/texturing software (Cinema4D/Blender, Substance Painter) for interactive applications. Game Asset and Level Creation (Modular Low Polycount Modeling, Composite Texture Maps, Modular Animations), User Interaction, Character Controller. Terrain Building, Terrain Texturing, Trees, Plants, Environmental Effects C#: User Interaction, Triggering Animations, Scripting Projectiles,… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 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, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Ramón Reichert

In a period of accelerated innovation—particularly in machine learning and artificial neural networks—the societal reach of AI-enabled technologies has greatly expanded, with far-reaching consequences for social organization, knowledge regimes, and global economic structures. These consequences include: (1) the reshaping of power dynamics, as AI systems mediate decision-making processes previously governed by human judgment; (2) the intensification of surveillance and control… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Christian Liclair

Was ist „queer“ an Kunst und Kunstgeschichte? Welche Methoden kennzeichnen queere Kunsttheorie, welche Gegenstände lassen sich als queer bestimmen? Lässt sich Queerness auf Fragen von Sexualität und Geschlecht begrenzen – auf den menschliche Körper? Und wenn, wie José Esteban Muñoz in Cruising Utopia betont, Queerness sich der Gegenwart entzieht und eher als Horizont zukünftiger Möglichkeiten zu denken ist, welchen Sinn… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Elena Shapira

The seminar, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora," draws from scholarly research on emigration, marginalized groups, and cultural integration. It examines the complex and circumscribed relationships that émigré artists and designers developed in their home and adopted countries. The seminar aims to promote a qualitative understanding of émigrés' and exiles' experiences within broader "host communities" when confronted with different environments and cultural… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Barbara Reisinger

The seminar examines contemporary art from the perspective of disability studies. The prosthetic expansion of bodies by means of medical and technical devices can be regarded as a basic condition of contemporary experience. Accordingly, the question is how current art reflects the hybrid, post-human quality of our bodies. Exemplary artistic positions include Lorenza Böttner, Park McArthur, Caroline Lazard, Jesse Darling.… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 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, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Sophia Rohwetter

„Si j’écris dans ma voiture, mon autobiographie sera mon AUTO-FICTION.“(Wenn ich in meinem Auto schreibe, wird meine Autobiographie zur AUTO-FIKTION.)— Serge Doubrovsky In diesem Seminar untersuchen wir das mögliche Verhältnis zweier allgegenwärtiger Phänomene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst und Literatur: das Genre der Autofiktion und das Objekt des Automobils. Autofiktion und Automobil sind – so die Ausgangsthese der Lehrveranstaltung – nicht… 2025W, 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… 2025W/2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 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

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

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

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

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

Gert Hasenhütl

The seminar addresses current theories on manual drawing, and examines drawing by hand in times of digitalization. Politics and poetics open up a spectrum of didactics and practices for drawing, e.g., phantom or court drawings, children's drawings or drawings in an art education context. Value and function of manual drawing will be examined theoretically as well as practically: From a… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jenni Tischer

In this seminar, we will examine how internalized, system-induced patterns of perception are repeated, negotiated, and/or revealed in artistic practices. The methodology that interests us here is that of working-through. The psychoanalytic term working-through refers to the transformative work on those structural conditions that constantly maintain the subject's mode of enjoyment (jouissance). This is achieved through a practice of memory,… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jenni Tischer

In this seminar, we will examine how internalized, system-induced patterns of perception are repeated, negotiated, and/or revealed in artistic practices. The methodology that interests us here is that of working-through. The psychoanalytic term working-through refers to the transformative work on those structural conditions that constantly maintain the subject's mode of enjoyment (jouissance). This is achieved through a practice of memory,… 2026S, scientific seminar, 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

Simon Huber

Mapping Ways of Reading Our practices of reading are inconceivable without a basic hand-eye coordination. In the case of the book, readers do not decode text word by word, but present it to themselves page by page. Beyond the cognitive deciphering of writing, the topography of reading aims at mapping the terrain of visual culture in which knowledge is made… 2025W, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Boris Roland Manner

Drei Blicke auf die Malerei Was ist ein Bild ? Ist jedes Gemälde ein Bild ? Wie erfahren, begegnen BetrachterInnen Bildern ? Das Seminar beginnt mit der Lektüre von What´s Natural About Painting ? Assoziativ, tänzelnd, einem inneren Monolog gleich bewegt sich das Denken von Lynne Tillman um das Phänomen Malerei. In weiterer Folge werden Texte zur klassischen Moderne vorgestellt… 2025W/2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Maria Bussmann

Wir lesen einen Querschnitt von AutorInnen und diskutieren viel. Der Kurs gibt einen Einstieg in feministische Theorie, in Gender- und Queer-Theory und setzt keine Vorkenntnisse voraus. Warum denken wir so wie wir denken? Worauf bauen wir unsere Urteile auf? Durch welche Brille sehen wir dabei die Wirklichkeit als (vorwiegend) westlich- privilegierte Personen? Ein Schwerpunkt des Seminars liegt bei Schlüsseltexten des… 2025W, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Nicolaj Kirisits

This semester, students will work along a continuous production chain from recording to spatial installation. The course begins with an introduction to recording studio technology, focusing on multichannel and ambisonics as formats for three-dimensional sound imaging. In addition, Dante will be introduced as an audio-over-IP connection in order to understand and practically utilise the signal paths and routing between the… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS