13 Mar 2025
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Book Presentation “Fragments of Rotting Sounds”

March 13, 2025

Date: 27 March 2025, 18:00

Location: mdw Banquet Hall (AW SEG 23), Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna

Thomas Grill and the team will present the new book “Fragments of Rotting Sounds“ with Mark Pezinger Publishing on 27 March at 18:00 in the mdw Banquet Hall.

This marks the final culmination of the Rotting Sounds research project (FWF PEEK AR445). Presentations and artistic contributions will illustrate the project and the elaborate book production.

Trailer: https://rottingsounds.org/public/media/Fragments_of_Rotting_Sounds.mp4

credits: rotting sounds

29 Mar 2025
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SAR Conference 2025

March 29, 2025

Date: 7–9 May 2025

Location: i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society, University of Porto, Portugal

The 16th International Conference on Artistic Research, with the theme of Resonance, invites engagement with the transformative character of artistic research as a unifying element that elicits a response and renders our experiences meaningful. Registration and further information: https://sar2025.i2ads.up.pt/

At the conference, Thomas Grill will give a lecture performance on Dirty Spaces, a series of performative works developed in the framework of Spirits in Complexity—Making Kin with Experimental Music Systems.

More info about the project: https://www.mdw.ac.at/spirits-in-complexity

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (Grant DOI: 10.55776/AR821).

25 Mar 2025
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EPARM Conference

March 25, 2025

Date: 3–5 April 2025

Location: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia

This is an important platform for artistic research in higher music education, where artistic practice is central as the subject and source of research. Tian Fu, one of our candidates in the Dr. Artium program, will present his research on The Mutual Permeation of Rap Music and Contemporary Art Music.

Registration and further information: https://aec-music.eu/event/european-platform-for-artistic-research-in-music-eparm-2025/

13 Mar 2025
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Open Call: Sound as Score Composer Lab

March 13, 2025
  • Call open till: May 5, 2025
  • Duration: May 15, 2025 to May 14, 2026
  • First online meeting: May 15, 2025
  • Meetings: 4 – 5, appointment by arrangement
  • Language: English
  • Artist fee: € 3,000
  • Production costs: depending on the actual project
  • Host: mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

This composition lab serves as a platform for creation, interpretation, reflection, and analysis and (1) provides a platform for compositional experimentation with audio scores and their interpretation, (2) provides a space for interrogation into the methods and concepts underlying these audio scores, and (3) offers a forum for analysis and debate around the concept of mimesis as it applies to the perspectives of composers and performers. The aim of the composition lab is to experimentally explore and further develop the generation of audio scores.

For further information please visit: Sound as Score

credits: SaS

30 Jan 2025
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‘Trans-bodied Knowledge’ goes to World Expo Japan

January 30, 2025

The interdisciplinary teaching process, initiated by Christos Marantos (lecturer for piano in the ike mdw and artistic doctorate candidate in ARC mdw) between mdw and TU Wien, which discusses the topic of encouraging haptic design experiences in the digital age was selected to be exhibited, as an innovative education project, in the Austrian pavilion at the Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.

Under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, the Austrian Paivilion aims to communicate its ideas for ‘Composing the Future’ at the international Expo in 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Therefore, 140 innovative products and projects from Austrian companies, institutions and universities were submitted in the “Call for Innovations” organized by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich).

Within this framework, Christos’ project was selected to be presented in the category of ‘Research and Education’ pushing towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ‘High quality education’. From April to October 2025, a total of over 28 million visitors, 161 participating countries and 9 international organizations are expected to attend the Expo, where the discussed education project will be presenting, in the form of a video, the teaching process of the ‘Artistic project K: From Space to Wearables’, which took place in the summer semester 2024.

In the interdisciplinary context of synergizing artistic and scientific processes and within the framework of the artistic research project ‘Trans-bodied Knowledge’ funded by the FWF and led by Efilena Baseta, the above teaching was a collaboration between TU Wien/ Institute of Art and Design/ Research Unit of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)/ Department of Composition Studies and Music production.

This interdisciplinary teaching has been possible through a diverse teaching team:

Teaching staff/Research team:

 

Efilena Baseta – Design and Fabrication (TU Wien)
Christos Marantos – Spatial experience through music (TU Wien/mdw)
Marco Palma – Design and Fabrication (TU Wien)
Eva Sommeregger – Discursive sessions (LMA/Latvia)

 

Guest teaching staff:
Grace Jun – Observation and Co-design (UGA/USA)
Georg Misch – Sound recording and Worldizing (mdw/Vienna)

 

Website of the research project ‘Trans-bodied Knowledge’:https://tbk-research.webflow.io/

credits: Trans-bodied Knowledge

03 Dec 2024
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Film Screening: Moretones (Bruises) (2023)

December 3, 2024

followed by a discussion between the director Ginan Seidl and Wei-Ya Lin from the Artistic Research Center.

A cooperationbetween Lectures for Future @ mdw and the Artistic Research Center. With the kind support of Prof. Doris Ingrisch (Department for Cultural Management and Gender Studies) and Prof. Evelyn Annuß (International Research Center Gender and Performativity), as well as the Film Academy Vienna.

Directed by: Ginan Seidl and Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda

Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024

Time: 19:30–21:45

Location: Arthouse Kino, VEG06, Future Art Lab / mdw Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna

 

Animal spirits wander through the night. Bruises appear on people’s bodies. Echoes of displacement and slavery of Afro-descendants find resonance in the melancholic landscapes of the Mexican Costa Chica. https://moretones-film.com/

03 Dec 2024
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Performing Reflection: Improvisation in Word, Thought, and Action by Ivar Roban Krizic

December 3, 2024

Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024

Time: 14:00 sharp

Location: Klangtheater, AW VU149, Future Art Lab / mdw Campus,

Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna

 

Improvisation as a starting point, with all of its intertwining pathways, roads which often lead nowhere, forcing us to retrace our steps, only to arrive somewhere completely new and unexpected. A final performance as a destination, a process of re-reflection, or a way of coming to terms with the process of a doctoral research project.

credits: Luka Radek

07 Nov 2024
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The Social Organization of Arts

November 7, 2024

mdwPress is delighted to present The Social Organization of Arts – A Theoretical Compendium by Volker Kirchberg (Leuphana University) and Tasos Zembylas (mdw). In the compendium, Kirchberg and Zembylas critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim of encouraging further research and theoretical developments.
We warmly invite you to the book presentation, inluding a discussion with the authors.

 

10 Oct 2024
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Defensio Karl Salzmann “To start from Scratch”

October 10, 2024

The mdw Art Research Centre invites you to the defence of the artistic dissertation ‘To Start from Scratch’ by Karl Salzmann on 22 October 2024 at 16:00 in the mdw Bankettsaal.
Following the presentation in July, which included a comprehensive introduction to the project, an exhibition of the related works and a sound performance, Karl Salzmann will publicly discuss and defend his work with the examination committee on this day.
The members of the commission from mdw are Andrea Glauser, Professor of Cultural Studies, Katharina Klement, composer and lecturer at the Department of Composition Studies and Music Production, and Brandon LaBelle, an external member of the committee, artist and sound theorist.

 

The artistic work was supervised by Alexander Damianisch, Annegret Huber, Thomas Grill and Hans Schabus.

Prozess-Artefakt © Karl Salzmann, 2024