Current Dissertation Projects
The artistic doctorate (Doctor Artium Program) is dedicated to innovative artistic work. It leads to the production of new knowledge and serves as an independent contribution towards developing and opening up the arts. It assumes a diversity of forms of knowledge and understanding. The program enables its graduates to generate independent artistic research work corresponding to international standards.
While mdw’s scientific doctoral programme (PhD / Doctor of Philosophy) goes beyond pre-professional academic training to further develop students’ ability to conduct independent scholarly research, the Dr. Artium program focuses on the student’s artistic practice in the context of artistic research. All listed dissertation projects are currently active; researchers are in the process of preparing their Research Catalogue presence. Until then, please refer to our homepage for further information, including the abstracts of each project. See the link below
Dissertation Projects Overview
Emergent properties – intra-acting with algorithms
By Marco Döttlinger
Supervisors: Thomas Grill, Tasos Zembylas (Lucia D´Errico), Georgios Sioros.
Between the On and Off Stages: Collaborative Performance with the Zheng
By Liangzi Li
Supervisors: Wei-Ya Lin, Johannes Kretz, Sandeep Bhagwati.
Re-Reading Cine & Photo Guides – on the Gendering of Imaging Techniques
By Caroline Heider
Supervisors: Evelyn Annuß, Christine Lang, Nanna Heidenreich, Barbara Albert.
Exploring Affordances During Collaboration in Thing-Performer-Composer Networks
By Katelyn Rose King
Supervisors: Thomas Grill, Tasos Zembylas (Lucia D´Errico), Leopold Dick, Jennifer Torrence.
Nothing really moves in a Landscape
By Gerhild Steinbuch
Supervisors: Susanne Granzer, Evelyn Annuß, Thomas Grill.
Getting Personal
By Athanasia Kontou
Supervisors: Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Tasos Zembylas (Lucia D´Errico), Angelica Castello.
Marimba Spiritual
By David Panzl
Supervisors: Johannes Kretz, Weiya Lin, Tasos Zembylas (Lucia D´Errico).
Multispecies Vocal Weaving
By Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir
Supervisors: Johannes Kretz, Weiya Lin, Evelyn Annuß.
Studies in music fundamentals and elementary counterpoint in extended composition. Essays, etudes, exercises
By Jagoda Szmytka
Supervisors: Johannes Kretz, Tasos Zembylas, Gesine Schröder, Franz Schubert.
Refiguring Composition
By Birgitta Flick
Supervisors: Tasos Zembylas, Samuel Grillusz, Annegret Huber, Fredrik Hedelin.
Transferring Voices
By Christoph Wichert
Supervisors: Susanne Granzer, Wei-Ya Lin (Hande Saglam), Johannes Kretz, Anothai Nitibhon.
Keyboard Culture during the Era of Wiener Klassik
By Daniel Maltz
Supervisors: Ingomar Rainer, Martin Haselböck, Johannes Kretz.
Choreographic Composition
By Brigitte Wilfing
Supervisors: Tasos Zembylas, Elisabeth Schäfer, Arno Böhler.
Chornobyldorf. opera aperta
By Illia Razumeiko
Supervisors: Johannes Kretz, Wei-Ya Lin, Michael Sturminger.
