Enable: Perspectives

Cooperations and relations

Support Kunst und Forschung is continuously working closely with leading institutions and practitioners to connect researchers at the Angewandte and to strengthen Vienna as a research hub. This ranges from event formats to publication projects. The below selection is continually updated.

Society for Artistic Research

The University of Applied Arts is a Portal Partner of the Research Catalogue of the Society for Artistic Research, the leading database for the documentation and presentation of artistic research. Angewandte Research Portal.

Research Salon

An inter- and transdisciplinary event series held since 2016, regularly offering space for networking on current issues within academia and involving practitioners from a wide range of fields. Objective: To improve innovation transfer from science to business and the larger society in Vienna as a research hub. Previous key topics: Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Labour – Work in Progress, Age and Society, Health and Care, Digital Transformation(s) and Urban Housing. Further information (available in German). 

Research Platforms

Platforms for the transversal deepening of specific content-related and methodological interests (keyword focus) in the Angewandte spectrum of art and research.

The research platforms are experimental spaces, teaching and research environments that bundle and connect offers on specific artistic and scientific forms of practice that are of great topicality, but to which no artistic department is explicitly assigned. The purpose of these cross-departmental offers is to stimulate collaborative and explorative ways of working and new communities of interest in artistic, scientific, research and project-related terms, and to help build connections to external communities. The platforms are designed as open work and research cells or transversal platforms.

ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory

Sound research laboratory at the interface of art and science.
ÆSR Lab – Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab is a modular, mobile sound research laboratory in three parts at the interface of art and science. It is an infrastructure – with precise instruments and state-of-the-art technology – that promotes interdisciplinary research and artistic design and helps to open up the development and testing of new technologies.
The ÆSR Lab is being developed by the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Zentrum Fokus Forschung) in cooperation with and with the Artistic Research Center (ARC) and the Institute for Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister Training (IKE) of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, as well as the Phonogrammarchiv (PhA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The project focuses on the following topics in the field of experimental sound research: machine learning, field recording methods, architectural sound design (spatialisation) and the reference to the physical world by means of sensors and actuators (physical computing). At the same time, the interface from analogue to digital is explored via the conservation, restoration and digitisation of sound carriers.
In order to make the cooperative use of and access to the lab and its equipment as low-threshold as possible, a representative and publicly easily accessible lending system is also being developed that will map all available research instruments.

ÆSR Lab is funded by the BMBWF and in cooperation with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of the EU.

 

Project lead and contact: Karl Salzmann

Project partner mdw: Thomas Grill

Project partner PhA:   Kerstin Klenke

Support Art and Research Platform

The Support Art and Research Platform offers the opportunity to exchange ideas on the field of support, in this respect on formats of enabling, accompanying and securing. The aim is to provide  reflective conceptual support for the actions towards artistic and scientific as well as artistic-scientific projects in their conception, realisation and securing of results, and thereby to enable the development of new perspectives, to think about what is best suited to adequate quality development and to link it with spaces of impact. It is essential that the processes required for the projects can develop well and that results are appropriately communicated at a national and international level so that their significance can unfold its full impact. In this context, effective fields are particularly important, whereby an open term off effect, is to be assumed here (see basic research), Co-Agency (check Society for Artistic Research – Special Interest Group – Co-Agency – Artistic Research as a transformative practice) is an essential context of reference and thus relevant in its meaningful quality for reflecting on the discussion of criteria.

Contact

Dr. phil. Alexander Damianisch, MAS