Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab

The AIL Residency Program continues and AIL invites alumni* of the University of Applied Arts Vienna to work on their interdisciplinary projects with a strong focus on research. Deadline for Submissions: July 5, 2026!

This Open Call is aimed at artists, designers, researchers or collectives, to use one of the AIL spaces as a workplace for artistic work or experimental formats and are interested in presenting their insights and practice to the public.

The AIL Residency Program 2027 focuses on the main topic of knowledge production. Find all details via link in Bio.

RESIDENCY TIMESLOTS:

8 Feb–8 Mar 2027
(dates can be slightly adapted if necessary)

15 Mar–16 Apr 2027
(dates can be slightly adapted if necessary)

*Please note: The Open Call is addressed only to Alumni, who are currently not affiliated with the Angewandte via a Phd, teaching position or employment.

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

The exhibition "[REVERBERATED]. Following the Movement of Memory" explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

With contributions by:
Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, A***n Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

OPENING PROGRAM, 9 Jun, 18:00
Welcome by Rector Ulrike Kuch,, Elisabeth Falkensteiner (AIL), Martin Reinhart (Art & Science) and participating artists
Performance Leah Giertz
Performance Laura Chalabi
Audio performance by Leonard Otterbein

P.IN.E.A stands for Photography, Intermedia Et Al. and focuses on contemporary artistic photography and related media. Inspired by the pineal eye of primitive vertebrates, a centrally positioned third eye sensitive to light and serving as a kind of compass, P.IN.E.A Periodical provides orientation in the cosmos of photographic imagery.
With P.IN.E.A – Photography, Intermedia Et Al., a new international periodical is taking shape at the intersection of art and theory, dedicated to the many states and manifestations of photography. Following the launch of the online magazine in late 2025, the presentation of the first print issue, P.IN.E.A 001, marks another milestone and offers an opportunity to get to know P.IN.E.A more closely.

As a cooperation project by he University of Applied Arts Vienna, AIL is hosting the magazine launch of Issue Nr. 1!

P.IN.E.A Periodical particularly promotes young and emerging artists from German-speaking regions and offers a wide forum for exchange and networking among photo enthusiasts. As a hybrid format, the new art magazine will publish continuous online content starting December 2025, and from Spring 2026, it will also appear twice a year in print.
All texts are bilingual (German/English), making them accessible to a global audience.
In view of the intensified circulation of photographs, the growing omnipresence of video clips, and the increasing spread of AI-generated imagery, P.IN.E.A Periodical is especially committed to sharpening the perception, analysis, and critical reception of (post-)photographic images.

Come see ’Shaken Grounds: Hell is Empty’ a three-channel film installation (2026) from Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Werner Moebius, Lucie Strecker. Only till 26 May / Mon–Fri: 11:00–18:00

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

’Shaken Grounds: Hell is Empty’ unfolds as a film in progress. The title refers to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the line “Hell is empty, all the devils are here,” shifting the idea of evil away from a distant hell towards human action and responsibility.
The work brings together footage from volcanic landscapes in southern Italy, the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria, and research material from Iceland, alongside recordings from earthquake monitoring rooms and studio-based explorations, developed between 2024 and 2025. It works with a three-channel composition that moves between establishing shots and performative actions in the field. The film remains open, assembling sequences that are provisional and subject to change. Chance encounters and unexpected relations become part of the editing process. Sound unfolds both spatially in the installation and in close ­dialogue with the image.
The installation moves through geological, somatic and philosophical zones, understood as overlapping fields rather than fixed categories. It traces how seismic transformations in the environment register in perception and in the body.

Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences is a transdisciplinary artistic research project that explores the interconnections between geological, social, and psychological upheavals. Starting point is the observation that not only natural processes but also human interventions such as climate change and technological interventions influence seismic dynamics and alter the stability of our environment.

All photos: Lea Dörl