Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab

Meet Conny Frischauf – our current Alumni in Residence! This Friday you can stop by for Open Studio Day (30 Jan, 14:00–19:00) and get insights into Conny‘s work and practice.

AIL, Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse / Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

During their residency Conny will work on the long term work Dwin City which deals with the Danube river and its environments between Vienna and Bratislava. This work is about collective memory, heritage, and the spaces that are inhabited in between scientific or (art) historical narratives. Driven by the question of how to gain, produce, and share the notions of knowing, not knowing, being, and acknowledging.
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One of AIL’s aims is to foster connections beyond the University’s structure and therefore support alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With the new ‘AIL Residency Program’, starting in January 2025, the AIL promotes and makes visible the artistic work and interdisciplinary research of alumni of the University of Applied Arts. For 2026 all residency slots are taken. Next open call for 2027 will be announced in spring 2026.

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Video: Evamaria Müller and Peter Paul Aufreiter

Concert: Sounds of the Living at AIL, 23 Jan 2026

Last days of the exhibition Thinking Through Weibel. Beginnings, Diversions, Elsewheres!
(AIL will be closed from December 20 – January 6)

📍Save the date for the finissage on January 8, 17:00 and join the final guided tour with the curators Valerie Messini and Brooklyn J. Pakathi

Thinking Through Weibel gathers key works out of the Peter Weibel Archive, held by the Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts and positions them in relation to contemporary practices by invited international artists, that unfold through distinct conceptual and material approaches. Their contributions do not follow or extend Peter Weibel’s logic, but move across and against it, forming intersections without fixing relationships.

Artists:
Morehshin Allahyari, Nancy Baker Cahill, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jakob Lena Knebl, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Thania Petersen, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Weibel

The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures is a space for intervention, investigation, and experimentation within the expansive disciplines of arts, science, and technologies. Based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the institute critically engages digital and algorithmic cultures. Building on the rich heritage of Viennese investigations into cybernetics, net cultures, media art, and tactical media, the institute serves as a vital node within a global network of research institutions on digital cultures.

AIL is a platform for projects at the intersection of art, science and artistic research, part of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Otto Wagner-Sparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Mon–Fri 11:00–18:00

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This Saturday, we invitite you to come see what our current Alumni in Residence Jona Wolf has been working on in the past few weeks.

OPEN STUDIO
18 Oct, 11:00–20:00
(Free entry, Café Exchange is open too till 17:00)

For the very first time you can see the AV installation ’Tender Resistance’ a collaborative work by Jona Wolf, Angel and Who I Why, which embraces the lives of trans people, the beauty and tenderness, while addressing the political violence and collective resistance of our community. .i.why

Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015.
Throughout the residency, Jona made the studio space as accessible as possible to foster a collective experience and to gather community.
Jona’s practice focuses on re-imagining and transforming educational models and collaborative creation.
They are actively engaged in community building and activism, with a focus on empowering marginalised groups and resistance to state oppression. Jona is part of The Palace Collective, which currently runs an urban community project in Berlin.


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Video: Evamaria Müller, Peter Paul Aufreiter