Birgit Peterson

This lecture shall support finalists of the CDS Program in their thesis writing process. For this purpose, we provide topic specific seminar blocks, focused on the most important academic working, reading and writing strategies for their specific working phase of their thesis-writing process. The aim is, to provide feedback on their actual status and drafts, and feed forward for their… 2023W/2024S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

2024S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Eva Maria Stadler

Alle neuen Kuchen sind nett Lewis Carroll, der englische Mathematiker und Dichter, den wir als Autor von Alice im Wunderland kennen, verfasste 1896 das Spiel der Logik. Der Titel unseres Seminars ist eine von drei Propositionen, mit denen Lewis Carroll Spielregeln erstellte, um sie in Wahrheitstabellen einer spielerischen Prüfung zu unterziehen, nicht ohne ihre paradoxen Qualitäten zu berücksichtigen, ja mehr… 2023W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Clemens Apprich

What are digital cultures? The question is typically answered by reference to social media platforms, online services, or the computer in general. However, despite the ubiquity of digital media technologies in our everyday culture, a lack of knowledge prevails as to what ‘the digital’ actually is. The lecture series poses this seemingly simple, but all the more complex question by… 2023W, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS

Clemens Apprich

2024S, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS

Amanda Holmes

“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety “Anxiety… 2023W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Stefanie Kitzberger

„Instead of artists being proletarianized, Hardt and his co-thinkers in effect hold that the entire proletariat has been aestheticized.”(Ben Davis, 95. Thesis on Art and Class, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013, p. 11) How does contemporary art engage with aspects of class, class relations, class struggle and their multifaceted intersections with other categories of social and cultural analysis such as race,… 2023W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Jenni Tischer

„Instead of artists being proletarianized, Hardt and his co-thinkers in effect hold that the entire proletariat has been aestheticized.”(Ben Davis, 95. Thesis on Art and Class, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013, p. 11)How does contemporary art engage with aspects of class, class relations, class struggle and their multifaceted intersections with other categories of social and cultural analysis such as race, gender,… 2023W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Leander Gussmann

So to Speak - Interview as Method and Artistic Practice. The one-semester transdisciplinary and practice-oriented seminar focuses on the interview as a social science methodology and an artistic strategy. Rooted in the principles of practice-led research, this seminar encourages you to explore the multifaceted character of interviews, not merely as a method of data collection but as an artistic form.… 2023W, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Bouchra Khalili

In the last three years, this course has engaged with various formats: publication, lectures, exhibitions making. The focus of this year - Winter and Summer Semester - is on working with and through performance in relation to questions of self-representation, agency, and public visibility, at the intersection of the individual and the collective. Artistic strategies in relation to performance will… 2023W/2024S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 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… 2023W/2024S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Caroline Heider

2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

David Ross

2024S, Projektarbeit, 4.0 ECTS

Camille Belmin

Intertwining Data, Discourses, and Politics in Environmental and Population Science. How do narratives shape the world around us? How are data used (or not) to feed these narratives? This course will equip you with a combination of technical skills, such as (creative) data visualization, and theoretical knowledge about common scientific and political narratives on environmental and population issues. Focusing on… 2023W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Kathrin Kemp

Theater relevant technical drawing (2D) with the program AutoCAD. The course will be divided into two hours each for inexperienced and advanced students. Beginners: 14:00 - 16:00 Advanced: 16:00 - 18:00 2023W/2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Adnan Balcinovic

Give Me a Laboratory and I will Raise the World (Bruno Latour) In this study year we will be working around the topic of Measuring Nature. Following Voltaire’s dialogue between a philosopher and nature, we want to update and re-enact this conversation. We will also look into ideas of measuring and how through measurement we discovered, changed or created nature… 2023W/2024S, Projektarbeit, 4.0 ECTS

Fabian Fischer

Give Me a Laboratory and I will Raise the World (Bruno Latour) In this study year we will be working around the topic of Measuring Nature. Following Voltaire’s dialogue between a philosopher and nature, we want to update and re-enact this conversation. We will also look into ideas of measuring and how through measurement we discovered, changed or created nature… 2023W/2024S, Projektarbeit, 4.0 ECTS

Sarah Hager

Give Me a Laboratory and I will Raise the World (Bruno Latour) In this study year we will be working around the topic of Measuring Nature. Following Voltaire’s dialogue between a philosopher and nature, we want to update and re-enact this conversation. We will also look into ideas of measuring and how through measurement we discovered, changed or created nature… 2023W/2024S, Projektarbeit, 4.0 ECTS

Sarah Hager

This course is mandatory for students seeking to complete a CDS BA Thesis in WS 2023/24. The aim of the course is to support students in developing the thesis project from ideation to final exam. The CDC Bachelor Final Project Lab is co-taught by the CDS faculty supervisors - in WS2023/24 these are Adnan Balcinovic, Aurianne Chevandier, Fabian Fischer, Sarah… 2023W/2024S, Projektarbeit, 16.0 ECTS

Bernd Hader

The aim of the course is to convey the basic knowledge required for the use of collaborative robots. In addition to the theoretical content, students learn how to operate and program collaborative robots. The practical exercises are held in the pilot factory of the TU Vienna (Seestadt). After positive completion of the course students ... - know the basics about… 2023W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 3.0 ECTS

Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski

2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jonas Bohatsch

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to coding-related technologies and their applications in the realms of art and design. The primary objective is not to turn you into a coding expert but to equip you with the skills needed to navigate projects that extend beyond graphical user interfaces. You'll gain practical knowledge and the confidence to harness the creative potential… 2023W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Clemens Apprich

What is data? And how do contemporary forms of dataism shape the ways we measure, abstract, and categorize ourselves and the world around us? This course begins by considering recent approaches to data in contemporary media and social theory, especially the belief that all areas of life can – and should – be transformed into quantifiable data. But beyond computers,… 2023W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Peter Knobloch

The objective of the lecture is to impart & develop fundamental facts, theories and principles of for the design of repairable products. By the means of examples and practical exercises the following topics will by gradually developed: Life cycle assessment of products Principles of the circular economy Avoidance of premature obsolescence Possibilities to maximize repairability Dealing with conflicting goals The… 2023W/2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Martina Menegon

2024S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Schaffar

Economics and Politics - Practice Emphasis Social Sciences and Research In this course we will explore the thinking and concepts of Social Science: What are the conditions, the do’s, don’ts, and doings of Social Science as cross disciplinary research? At first the basics and framework of different approaches and methodologies are in the focus of the course. Reading as a… 2023W/2024S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Fabian Elbaky

Socio-Ecological Transformation and the Political Economy of the 'Imperial Mode of Living' The seminar deals with socio-ecological transformations of modern market societies and therefore puts a special focus on the "imperial mode of living" and, following the book of the same title by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen (original 2017, eng.: 2021), examines the imperial logics of domination that lead… 2023W/2024S, Proseminar, 2.0 ECTS

Pamela Bartar

2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 1.0 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

The family, according to sociologist Gisela Notz, has never existed - what does exist, however, is the ideology of familism (or familialism), the social organizational norm derived from the concept of an "ideal family." This familism, Notz argues, has shaped politics and social structure in most Western countries for several centuries. But although the family has practical (i.e., material) relevance… 2023W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Viktoria Luisa Metschl

The family, according to sociologist Gisela Notz, has never existed - what does exist, however, is the ideology of familism (or familialism), the social organizational norm derived from the concept of an "ideal family." This familism, Notz argues, has shaped politics and social structure in most Western countries for several centuries. But although the family has practical (i.e., material) relevance… 2023W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Nour Shantout

I will weave your story into the library born within these bones so our stories will never have to die so our stories will never have to live alone -Travis T. and William Nu’utupu Giles, Oral traditions Learning feminist and indigenous methodologies is a journey of unlearning, and in this course, we will learn to unlearn. Starting with Eve Tuck… 2023W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Caroline Heider

2024S, artistic Seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Edith Futscher

This lecture offers some orientation in the very broad field of artistic practices from prehistory to late Middle Ages. We will focus on basic questions that come along with material and artistic production, on different functions of cultural artefacts: We will explore ways of using images in different contexts and periods of time and deal with the respective significance of… 2023W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Rudolf Fuchs

Experimentell aufgebaute Lehrveranstaltung, die die Förderung der individuellen Formensprache in den Bereichen der angewandten, bildenden und medialen Kunst zum Ziel hat. Anhand von Werken internationaler Künstler*innen werden Methoden der Gestaltung, Denk- und Entwicklungsprozesse sowie Strategien und Funktionen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Kunst vorgestellt und analysiert. Der Fokus liegt auf der Inhalt-Form-Relation. Projektbesprechung: Die Ausarbeitung der künstlerischen Projektarbeit betreffend werden regelmäßig… 2023W/2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Eva Kernbauer

2024S, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Peter Knobloch

The objective of the lecture is to develop fundamental programming skills by the means of the programming language Python 3. By the means of examples and practical exercises the following topics will by gradually developed: What is a program? Which programming language for which purpose „Vocabulary “ & „grammar“ of a programming language Simple in- and output of data Conditions,… 2023W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Klaura

2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Eva Maria Stadler

2024S, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Alexi Kukuljevic

2024S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Christoph Abbrederis

"Learning to See" - "Understanding what has Happened" - "Speaking in Pictures" Students learn to recognize and analyze image content to develop a personal visual language. Basics of drawing (technique, design, areas of application) as a preliminary stage for various visual implementations (storyboard, layout, scribble). The course provides detailed information on the focus "Illustration". In the winter semester 23/24 my… 2023W/2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 1.0 ECTS

Anne Faucheret

We are all islands – isolated, yet ultra-connected. An immunological understanding of community differentiates between immunized and de-munized bodies and territories, protecting some and sacrificing others. Based on this vision of community, capitalist, imperialist, and patriarchal ideology (and technologies) separate, sort apart, and create all kinds of borders. They consolidate racisms and anti-feminisms, and they foster extraction and dispossession. They… 2023W/2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Birgit Peterson

Within this Lecture we will dive together deeper into the meaning of “Academic working”. Which skills do you have to develop to cope with the affordances of Academia? How to foster a successful “academic working behaviour” that satisfies the requirements to different academic disciplines and sciences you will come along within this study program? Throughout our Sessions we will check… 2023W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Birgit Peterson

2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Mika Maruyama

2024S, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Stephanie Misa

This course provides versatile tools with which to develop critical thinking. The student learns to situate their own artistic practice/interest in broader contexts in the field of art. The course surveys the current lexicon of art and aesthetics, and emphasizes decolonial perspectives and practices that challenge existing paradigms. Texts from Gloria Anzaldua, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Audre Lorde,… 2023W, Projektarbeit, 2.0 ECTS

Mika Maruyama

This course provides versatile tools with which to develop critical thinking. The student learns to situate their own artistic practice/interest in broader contexts in the field of art. The course surveys the current lexicon of art and aesthetics, and emphasizes queer feminist and decolonial perspectives that challenge existing paradigms. Texts from Gloria Anzaldua, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Audre… 2023W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Stephanie Misa

2024S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Schaffar

Social dynamics, communication and cooperation are part of everyday life and are underlying everything we in do in professional and private settings. Analysing these dynamics helps to better understand different settings and can be a tool for various topics: Planning a project, building a team, designing research processes, shaping an intervention, and developing a communication strategy, a.s.o.. In this course… 2023W/2024S, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS

Christine Böhler

2024S, Proseminar, 2.0 ECTS

Monika Mokre

Introduction to Politics 1 The course will provide an introduction into the research questions, topics, and methods of political science. Students will get a general introduction into the discipline of political science and understand the most important subfields and methodological approaches of this discipline. They will learn how to use political science in order to deal with political questions of… 2023W/2024S, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS