Biografie
Katharina Gsöllpointner is a trained communication, media, and art theorist with a special focus on the crossover of media aesthetics, digital technologies, cybernetics of art, and with a long lasting passion for cross-disciplinary thinking and acting. Since 2023 she is Head of the Art x Science School for Transformation, a novel inter-university institute of University of Applied Arts Vienna and Johannes Kepler University Linz. Since 2019 she has been Head of the department International Programmes in Sustainable Developments at the University of Applied Arts Vienna which aims to explore and define new forms of future-oriented university education, and which develops and implements inter- and transdisciplinary master’s programmes in close cooperation with European and non-European universities and institutions. From 1991 to 1995 Katharina was manager of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (w/ Peter Weibel). She has conceived, led, and carried out a series of inter- and transdisciplinary research projects on issues of media aesthetics and media art, e.g. ‘AESTHETIC KNOW-HOW. Language – Technology – Media’ (2007–2009) or ‘Digital Synesthesia’ (2013–2016). Katharina publishes regularely about media and digital art history, media aesthetics and on topics of cross-disciplinarity of art and sciences. In her habilitation treatise Intermedia Production and Multimodal Perception. On the Aesthetics of Digital Art (2015,she formulated a media theory of digital art as an aesthetic model for the multimodality of perception.
