Culture & Technology
Vienna is known for its cultural heritage and for the best art institutions in the world: theatres, museums and concert halls. In the course of digitalisation, digital solutions to improve presentation, communication, research and documentation are becoming increasingly essential.
Within the Creators Labs we would like to offer you a setting to work together on technological challenges and ideate new products and solutions.
Matchmaking Sessions
The Matchmaking Sessions are a quick way to meet potential partners and get to know the other workshop participants in 25 min - face-2-face talks.
Creators Labs
The Creators Lab on 23 September 2020 gave selected companies the opportunity to work with Viennese art and culture institutions such as the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Tourist Board, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Belvedere, viennacontemporary, Austrian National Library and the KHM- Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien on technological challenges and ideate new products and solutions.
- Visitor Experience
How do we explore culture in a future that is non-binary and yet emotional, inspirational, and educational? What is the role of data and technology in creating such an experience? How do we deal with privacy and intellectual property rights for cultural artifacts that are produced digitally by a generation of digital natives for whom there is no delineator between online and offline? What are models that engage the audience in yet unimaginable ways with the artist and designers like peer-to-peer networks? During the workshop we focus on empowering institutions to spearhead new models of cultural creation and exploration in society and explore financial models from a data cooperative to Fortnite creatives.
Workshop Lead: Sabine Seymour
Dr. Sabine Seymour is an entrepreneur, researcher, and athlete. As a technologist, Sabine conceives products at the intersection of sensors, data, and the body. As an economist, she develops wealth distribution and asset ownership models for citizens who generate biometric and environmental data using distributed technologies. Her recent venture SUPA® is democratizing data by tokenizing the body™.
- Research and Learning
What are digital objects? How do we define and understand them, and how do we seek to collect them now and into the future? In this workshop, we’ll look at digital collecting within museums, and current and potential opportunities for building digital collections. This won’t be about digitising your ‘analogue’ objects, but rather understanding those objects which are born-digital and digitally mediated, how they interact and intersect with infrastructures, are contextualised through digital culture and hold their own materiality. What new linguistic, social and cultural challenges arise? How do we present and preserve them, and what new roles and toolkits for interpretation might we need? How do we build our collecting strategies to allow for digital objects?
Workshop Lead: Natalie Kane
Natalie D Kane is a curator, writer and researcher based in London, UK. She is Curator of Digital Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK) within the Design, Architecture and Digital Department. As part of her role, she curated the official U.K. pavilion at the 2018 London Design Biennale.
- Exhibition & Stage Design
During the past few months questions of accessibility in exhibition design have become more pertinent than ever. This workshop will explore how digital media can help museums and cultural institutions to create hybrid models of engagement, mediating between physical and digital experience. The workshop will walk participants through examples and critical analysis of existing practices, while discussing specific opportunities for participants. We will explore the ways a hybrid visitor journey can help institutions to uncover and attract new audiences while creating lasting and engaging experiences for existing ones. Topics include the creative and integrated use of websites, VR, AR, MR and engagement through social media.
Workshop Lead: Bika Rebek
Bika Rebek is a partner at Some Place Studio (SPS), a New York City and Vienna based architecture practice She co-authored and designed the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and has worked with clients across the world, including The Met, 2x4, Samsung, Sagmeister & Walsh, the New Museum, the Dhaka Art Summit, MAO Ljubljana and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.
- Archiving & Documentation
The workshop examines the functions, frictions and fictions of archives in culture and technology. Exploring changing history of orders of knowledge - cabinets of curiosity, Wunderkammer, museum, archive, database and other media - it poses questions about what archives are and tries to uncover archival structures where we would not suspect them. Archives are ecosystems, but ecosystems are also archives. Instead of working about archives, the workshop will work within various archival forms, ranging from internet databases to the old-fashioned “Zettelkasten” to the city itself as archival infrastructure.
Workshop Lead: Paul Feigelfeld
Paul Feigelfeld is a researcher, teacher, writer and curator working on media technologies, art and the history of knowledge. He studied Cultural Studies and Computer Science in Berlin and was Friedrich Kittler's assistant. Currently, he holds teaching positions at the Art Institute and University in Basel, and is an IFK Vienna fellow at the Cluster of Excellency "Matters of Activity" at Humboldt-Universität z Berlin. Together with Marlies Wirth co-curated "Uncanny Values. Artificial Intelligence & You" for the 2019 Vienna Biennale.
