Creative Days Vienna 2025

Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture. She is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction, Terraform, and co-editor of the accompanying anthology Terraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022). Her history of women in computing, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Penguin, 2018) has been translated into six languages and was named one of the Top 10 Best Nonfiction Tech Books of All Time in 2023. Her writing has appeared in MIT Technology Review, WIRED, The Verge, and The Guardian among others.

Curator and creative lead for 180 Studios, 180 the Strand, collaborating with artists to create original exhibitions and art commissions, including The Vinyl Factory: Reverb (2024), UVA - Synchronicity (2023), Gabriel Moses - Regina (2023), Jon Rafman - Minor Daemon Vol.1 (2023), Richard Mosse - Broken Spectre (2022) amongst others. Editor and creative director for Fact, a bi-annual large format publication, online platform and curatorial body focusing on the intersection of electronic music and audio visual art. Creative Director for arts and music enterprise The Vinyl Factory, working with artists and musicians on record releases and publishing.

Eva commissions artists working with advanced technologies, and is a collaborator in conceptualising novel approaches, workflows, and philosophies of emerging tech. At Serpentine she has worked with artists such as Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Hito Steyerl, Suzanne Treister, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, amongst others. Eva is researcher and writer for the annual Future Art Ecosystems briefing, and Co-Investigator of the Creative AI Lab (Serpentine and King’s College London). Eva also has an independent design practice that investigates applications of emerging computation, information, analysis, and predictive technologies, in order to better understand how they form our belief systems.

Claudia Larcher is an artist and filmmaker who also works as a teacher. Since 2021, she has been focussing on the role of AI in art, using this technology as an experimental tool to explore the intersection between artistic and machine intelligence. Her artistic work includes film, site-specific video animation, collage, photography and installations. Larcher lives and works in Vienna and has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad. She has received numerous awards, including the Kunsthalle Wien Prize, the Outstanding Artist Award and the Austrian Art Prize.

Ursula Winterauer aka Gischt’s eclectic soundscapes deliver differentiated interpretations of the genres industrial, techno and ambient, which are reflected by means of bass guitar, synthesizer and electro-smog clouds. She is the bassist of the doom pop band Eaeres and is part of the duo The Answer is No with Maja Osojnik. Winterauer works as a sound designer and composer for film and develops compositions for contemporary dance, is co-founder and label boss of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and curator of New Salt – Festival for sonic exploration & digital art.

Michael Loebenstein is the Director of the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna). He has worked as a curator, researcher and author in the field of film archiving, history, memory and digital culture since the late 1990s. He was the founder of the Film Museum’s Research & Education department which he headed from 2004–2011 when he left for Australia to lead the National Film & Sound Archive (2011–2016). He is a published author and was involved in a number of publications dealing with film, archives and museums, and history. He served as Secretary-General of FIAF – International Federation of Film Archives (2013-2023) and is a board member of maa – Medienarchive Austria.

Never At Home has been promoting art and culture through the temporary activation and artistic use of vacant properties since 2021 and is now in its fourth location with the former ORF Funkhaus. There, they provide studios for over 100 visual artists, musicians and creatives. The former studios of Radio Wien now serve as event spaces where Never At Home curates a diverse programme. The thematic focus is on dealing with vacancies and the significance of the historic Funkhaus as a cultural centre.

Clara Grillmaier works as a curator and cultural practitioner at the interface of art, creative industries and communication. In recent years, she has realised exhibitions as part of her Never At Home project and for partners such as the museum in progress, Foto Wien and the Parallel Vienna art fair. As a founding member of the cultural initiative Never At Home, Clara Grillmaier's curatorial work specialises in exhibition concepts relating to the use of vacant spaces and contemporary visual art.

Vera Grillmaier is an interdisciplinary cultural manager with a focus on the creative appropriation of space, networking with non-art sectors and community building. As co-founder of the Never At Home vacancy initiative, she is committed to the interim cultural utilisation of urban spaces and creates platforms for artistic experiments and space for collaboration. The aim is to strengthen interdisciplinarity not only within creative and artistic disciplines, but also beyond them. She finds a contrast to theoretical cultural studies in her work as a ceramicist, where she combines classical craftsmanship and design in her own objects.

Juni-Nyusta Ruckendorfer is the director of Echo Correspondence and co-founder of Never At Home. Between 2017 and 2020, she lived and worked in Shanghai, worked at the 021 Art Fair and conducted research at the Guangdong Times Museum. She also founded 女書 NüShu with three collaborators, a platform for LGBTQ*, non-binary and female musicians with events in Basel, New York, Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong.

Carmen Lael Hines’s recent work deals with AI-generated pornography, home automation, femtech, sextech and digital contraception. From 2020 to 2024 she taught critical theory in the Department of Visual Culture at the Vienna University of Technology and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a curator at The Ryder Projects in Madrid. She has taught at the Department of Spatial Design (TU Vienna), at HEAD (Geneva) and at the Institute of Contemporary Art (TU Graz) and has presented her research at many international institutions. She is currently co-editor of the book Dissident Practices: Posthumanist Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy, which will be published by Bloomsbury.

NODE Media Lab is a Vienna-based, non-profit and multidisciplinary creative centre founded in 2021 by Ozan Turkkan and Burcu Öztürkler. The focus is on research and production of interdisciplinary experiences at the intersection of media art, science and technology. NODE Media Lab integrates new media technologies into the creative process and builds a bridge between digital and physical reality. As an interdisciplinary and collaborative platform, NODE Media Lab focuses on the relationship between technology, visual culture and performance in contemporary art. The central focus is on the promotion of digitisation and digital archiving - in Vienna and beyond.

Mariya Vasilyeva is a video and performance artist whose work is located at the intersection of performance, digital collage and video installation. With a background in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, she has developed a unique artistic practice in which she inserts herself into multi-layered roles and scenarios. Her experiences as a Ukrainian migrant in Western Europe flow deeply into her artistic reflection and influence her investigation of female identity. She uses intercultural discourses to develop universal narratives that interweave individual and collective experiences.

Daniela Weiss / aka. Litto is a digital artist who examines the worlds of analogue and digital art. Having a background in visual and digital arts, as well as applied Business Administration, in 2017 she has been expanding her artistic research from interaction design and UX Design to the field of mixed reality. In 2020 , she co-founded the web-based AR platform "The Artificial Museum”.

Jascha Ehrenreich is a platform architect and programmer of virtual experiences. He has been programming homepages, games and community platforms for more than twenty years. Most of his clients were small companies and non-profit NGOs. In 2020, together with Litto, Jascha laid the foundation of the Artificial Museum, taking it from idea to international plattform, ready to envelope the globe.

Rebecca Merlić is a digital artist, architect and experimental filmmaker. Merlić's work is characterised by alternative societies and transgressions of socio-economic conventions as well as novel forms of artistic and architectural production using new technologies. She was awarded the Marianne.von.Willemer. 2020 - Prize for Digital Media, Ars Electronica Prix 2023 honorary mention and Content Vienna 2023. Merlić works as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As part of the DOMUM Vienna project, which was awarded the 2023 Theodor Körner Prize, she is researching the disappearance of café and coffee house architecture as nourishing social spaces in the contemporary cityscape.

Bettina Katja Lange is a core member of SOAP, Some Online Architecture Practice, an artistic research collective that works at the intersection of new media and critical spatial practice. Lange is a German stage designer and visual media artist. SOAP has exhibited widely, including at Onassis Stegi in Athens, MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, ETH Zurich, the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, and The Segal Center in New York, among others.

Uwe Brunner is a core member of SOAP, Some Online Architecture Practice, an artistic research collective that works at the intersection of new media and critical spatial practice. He is an architect, experience designer, teacher and researcher, and lives and works in Vienna. SOAP has exhibited widely, including at Onassis Stegi in Athens, MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, ETH Zurich, the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, and The Segal Center in New York, among others.

Anna Högner graduated in Film and Media Studies. She worked as an exhibition coordinator and curator at Filmarchiv Austria (2015–2020) where she (co-)curated several exhibition projects. She was a staff member at the research project “The Wien-Film. A Comprehensive Analysis of the Studio 1938–1945” (2018–2021) at the Austrian Academy of Science. In 2020 she joined the Austrian Film Museum team and the EU Horizon 2020 project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” as a research associate. Since 2024 she oversees the collection information at the Austrian Film Museum.

Radu is an accomplished AI programmer and game developer. At modl.ai she leads teams in developing cutting-edge AI solutions for games.