Project Team

Core Team

Christian Freude is a researcher and PhD student at the Vienna University of Technology in the field of computer graphics. In particular, he works on the simulation of light and heat radiation and the generation of photorealistic images. In cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna he works interdisciplinary at the interface of art and technology.

Christina Jauernik is an artistic researcher and, as a trained contemporary dancer and architect, she is concerned with the interfaces and blurs between body, perception and space. She is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she has completed her PhD “Touching Distance. Inter-Views with the Virtual” under the supervision of Wolfgang Tschapeller and Vicki Kirby. She is involved in curatorial, performative and editorial projects, most recently as co-curator with Marina Grzinic and Sophie Uitz on the exhibition “Stories of Traumatic Pasts” at the Weltmuseum Vienna and with Andreas Spiegl and Wolfgang Tschapeller on the lecture series “Out of the Eye”.

Johann Lurf combines observational and documentary strategies in the field of structural film, as well as an interest in found-footage that draws on cinematic methods. After graduating from the class of Harun Farocki, he received the MAK-Schindler Residency Los Angeles, as well as artist residencies at SAIC Chicago, in Tokyo, Rotterdam and Israel, and the Akademie der Künste Berlin Residency. His work has been included in exhibitions at LACMA, Secession, Academy Museum Los Angeles and others, his films in cinematheques and festivals internationally.

Fabian Puttinger is a Vienna based architect. He is part of the Living for Future collective housing project in Vienna and has been working with Schmidt-Colinet Schmoeger Architects in Vienna on architectural designs and exhibitions since 2020. Currently Fabian is a LINA fellow with his project SOLARBLOCK. He has studied architecture at the Academy of fine Arts Vienna, where he finished his MArch studies in 2020 and has gained experience at the Atelier Peter Zumthor amongst others.

Rüdiger Suppin is an architect focusing on building and construction methodologies and its practical application. He is co-leading the IKA’s wood, metal and milling workshops as well as teaching digital design software courses. He is part of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Technology Vienna, contributing to the Integrated Planning Research Group. Recently he 11 has initiated and designed sustainable community projects in public space, such as TreeCycle, together with Johannes Wiener and Theresa Schütz.

Project Collaborators

Monica Gagliano - School of Life and Environmental Science, The University of Sydney Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology; Monica Gagliano’s research focuses on Plant Behavioural Ecology, which experimentally tests the cognitive abilities of plants, including perception, learning processes, memory and consciousness. She is the author of Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic Books, 2018), Memory and Learning in Plants (Springer, 2018), and The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature (Minnesota University Press, 2017).

Vicky Kirby - School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales Professor Emeritus. Vicki Kirby is a cross-disciplinary critical theorist in feminism, philosophy and science studies. Her research focuses on the puzzle of the nature/culture, body/mind, body/technology division. She is also interested in ‘the language question’ - what is language, and how does the way we answer that question define the human and inaugurate the political? She is author of Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large (Duke University Press, 2011); a member of Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities.

Tom Lamarre - Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago. Thomas Lamarre is a scholar of media, cinema and animation, intellectual history and material culture with projects ranging from silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shad- ows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics, 2005), animation technologies (The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, 2009) and on television infrastructures and media ecology (The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media, 2018).

Vlad Vyazovskiy - Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, University of Oxford; member of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi). Vlad Vyazovskiy is Professor of Sleep Physiology and researches the spatio-temporal organisation of brain activity during waking and sleep and its relevance for sleep’s function and brain disorders. He has previously collaborated with Monica Gagliano on plant bioacoustic signalling and learning by association in plants.
https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/vladyslav-vyazovskiy
http://vvlab.org/