New professor for post-digital Art from 1.10.: Claudia Larcher
We warmly welcome Claudia Larcher (Professorship for post-digital Art, Insitute for Fine Arts) to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna!
Claudia Larcher is an artist, experimental filmmaker and AI researcher. For over two decades, she has been investigating how reality emerges when analogue and digital processes overlap. From photographic fragments of architecture, landscapes and bodies, which she dissects, mirrors, resizes and assembles, she has developed her own formal language in which static images become fictitious tracking shots. Her often deserted, kaleidoscopic architectural portraits negotiate spaces that are connected to home and memory and at the same time prove to be illusory idylls.
In more recent works, Larcher expands the image through algorithmic animation and immersive phygital installations in which analogue and digital intertwine. Her current research focuses on the materiality of data, ecological future scenarios and a critical, bias-conscious approach to artificial intelligence. She intervenes in the data sets from which the systems learn: gaps are filled, altered images are returned to archives. Because algorithmic systems reproduce the power relations of their training data, she leads the research project "Imagine AI for Dignity" on regenerative and anti-discriminatory values in the design of AI systems together with curator Eva Fischer.
For Larcher, post-digital means that the digital has become normal and the question is no longer what technology can do, but what it does. For her, post-digital art is therefore a cross-sectional perspective that affects every artistic practice. In teaching, she is less concerned with using digital tools than with enabling students to understand the systems in which they live and work anyway and to act in them with artistic precision and confidence. For her, the university is the place where technology is critically appropriated.
Claudia Larcher studied media art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she lives and works. Her films, installations and collages have been shown at the Anthology Film Archives New York, the Centre Pompidou Paris, Ars Electronica and the HOW Art Museum Shanghai, among others. The Viennale (2013) and the Anthology Film Archives (2016) have dedicated her solo exhibitions, and in October 2026 she will have a solo exhibition at the Austrian Film Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include "No applause. No life. No pain." (Francisco Carolinum Linz, 2026) and "Extinction Stories" (Recontemporary, Turin, 2025). She received the Outstanding Artist Award for Video and Media Art (2016) and the Austrian Art Prize (2023). Larcher was a senior lecturer in the leadership team of the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2021 to 2023) and a visiting professor at TU Wien (2014).