Research Projects

Schaubilder. Strategies of Visual Efficiency

FWF I Elise Richter Fellow
led by Katharina Steidl, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.10.2025 – 30.9.2029

A schematic illustration of a typical day at the museum shown as a cross-section of a building: various rooms depict visitors, staff, and activities such as exhibitions, film screenings, library use, and storage work, accompanied by statistics on attendance and operations.

Ignored Technology: Reweaving the Fabric of Innovation

Erasmus+ | Cooperation Partnership KA2
led by Michelle Howard, Institute for Art and Architecture
Duration: 1.9.2025–31.8.2028

Different items made from textiles and cardboard are placed next to each other and hung on the wall. A pile of books on folded cardboard. On the wall, there is a print titled "women and other anomalies" and a heart-shaped Ukraine sticker.

Harvest Rituals: A Call for Visitation

FWF I PEEK project
led by Anette Baldauf, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.7.2025 – 30.6.2027

Historical depiction of an agricultural year and the associated 39 tasks and events in Ethiopia.

Adorno’s Aesthetics in the Age of the Anthropocene

FWF | ESPRIT
led by Rolando Vitali, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.7.2025 – 30.6.2028

Smart Map of Jewish History

Interreg | Slovakia – Austria
led by Herbert Peter, Institute for Education in the Arts
Duration: 1.06.2025–31.5.2028

A screenshot of a map showing Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Bratislava. On the map, there are points of interest for Jewish Heritage. To the left of the image, there is a legend with a list of places and categories.

Threads

FWF | Top Citizen Science
led by Anette Baldauf, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.6.2025 – 31.5.2026

Photo of two young performers carrying a multi-masted model ship on blue fabric on wheels on the floor.

Biopatinas on buildings in urban environments: biofilters, CO2 sinks and cooling systems with an aesthetic-architectural effect

WWTF | Environmental Systems Research
led by Katja Sterflinger, Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts
Duration: 1.5.2025 – 30.4.2028

The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics

FWF | ESPRIT
led by Lisa Moravec, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.3.2025 – 29.2.2028

Photo of Lisa Moravec, a seated blonde woman, holding a microphone in one hand and notes with text in the other.

Political Ontologies beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Nature, Society and Politics in Critical Posthumanist and Heterological Ontologies

ÖAW | DOC
led by Isabella Schleihaider, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.1.2025 – 31.12.2026

Daring Emotions! Exploring feelings in education and teacher professionalization

BMFWF (formerly BMBWF) | Sparkling Science 2.0
led by Marion Thuswald, Institute for Education in the Arts
Duration: 1.10.2024–30.9.2027

Several people are grouped around a table and are designing a poster in a workshop. In the background, other people are engaged in conversation.

Viena Latina. Articulating Latin American migration memory in a European capital

European Union | CERV Programme
led by Carla Bobadilla, Institute for Education in the Arts
Duration: 1.7.2024 – 30.6.2026

Viena Latina, Copyright: Marisel Bongola

Commemorating a Revolution yet to come.

FWF I PEEK project
led by Ujjwal Utkarsh, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.6.2024 – 30.11.2027

Discourse of Trauma as a Source for 'Cruel Optimism' in Visual Projects of the Artists in Wartime Ukraine (2013-2023)

FWF | Elise Richter Fellow
Lesia Smyrna, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Duration: 1.3.2024 – 29.2.2028

Identification, stability and ageing phenomena of colorants used in modern inks in archive documents, prints, caricatures and other written heritage objects

OeAD | S&T Cooperation
led by Dubravka Jembrih-Simbürger, Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts
Duration: 1.1.2024 – 31.12.2025

Research Projects

Schaubilder. Strategies of Visual Efficiency

Ignored Technology: Reweaving the Fabric of Innovation

Harvest Rituals: A Call for Visitation

Adorno’s Aesthetics in the Age of the Anthropocene

Smart Map of Jewish History

Threads

Biopatinas on buildings in urban environments: biofilters, CO2 sinks and cooling systems with an aesthetic-architectural effect

The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics

Political Ontologies beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Nature, Society and Politics in Critical Posthumanist and Heterological Ontologies

Daring Emotions! Exploring feelings in education and teacher professionalization

Viena Latina. Articulating Latin American migration memory in a European capital

Commemorating a Revolution yet to come.

Discourse of Trauma as a Source for 'Cruel Optimism' in Visual Projects of the Artists in Wartime Ukraine (2013-2023)

Identification, stability and ageing phenomena of colorants used in modern inks in archive documents, prints, caricatures and other written heritage objects

Data Colonialism in Indonesia. Artist’s Strategies against Digital Colonialism

Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style

Fabricating Adjacency

Interdisciplinary Puppetry Modules for Art Universities (IPMAU)

Extractivism and the Arts

Reenacting Revolution

Research Projects

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