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Björn Kämmerer
Björn Kämmerer creates sensuous yet rigorous visual explorations in 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm film, transforming captured imagery into abstract patterns with a strong emphasis on light and shape. Björn Kämmerer has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Mumok, Austria; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, among others.
Peter Jellitsch
Peter Jellitsch was born in Austria in 1982. After completing an apprenticeship as carpenter, he studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from where he graduated in 2010. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and can be found in collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKK), the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Pradeep Devadass
Pradeep Devadass is an architect and roboteer. He specialises in bridging the gap between architectural design and robotic construction. He is a Lecturer in Design for Manufacture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he has played a proactive role in advancing research in robotics and automation within architecture and construction. He also leads the B-made (Bartlett Manufacturing and Design Exchange) Robotics Lab overseeing strategic robotic infrastructure, teaching innovative robotic workflows in architecture, and driving collaborative research in advanced automation. He has led numerous successful research projects as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I), securing funding from various competitive grants. His work has focused on sustainable materials and innovative robotic processes, including autonomous manufacturing of low-carbon materials like earth, stone, and timber.
Sushant Verma
Sushant Verma (M.Arch. Em.Tech. – AA London, B.Arch. SSAA New Delhi, MCoA India) is a Design Entrepreneur, Architect, Computational Designer & Educator, currently leading rat[LAB] Studio (Research in Architecture and Technology) that investigates intersections of design, art & technology through architecture, interior design and art installations.
Maria von Hausswolff
Maria is originally from Sweden, and studied in Germany and Denmark, where she currently lives and works. Maria's first narrative feature film was Parents for director Christian Tafdrup.
Heidrun Holzfeind
Heidrun Holzfeind is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at Cooper Union in New York.
She is interested in how architecture interacts with people’s everyday life. Her works question immanent architectural and social utopias and explore the relationships between history and identity, individual histories and political narratives of the present.
Michael Hieslmair
Michael Hieslmair, born 1974 in Linz lives and works in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and Delft University of Technology. He was fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck and architect in residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, taught at various universities, e.g. University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle an der Saale, Innsbruck University, Graz and Vienna Technical University. He collaborated on the research project "Crossing Munich, Places, Representations and Debates on Migration in Munich" (with Sabine Hess) which culminated in an exhibition at the Rathausgalerie. From 2014 to 2016 he was research associate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and co-head of research of "Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition" investigating the production of space along pan-European Traffic Corridors in East Europe.
Christian Mayer
Christian Kosmas Mayer (b. 1976, Sigmaringen, Germany) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. His work produces and preserves a constellation of narratives about historical remains and representations that are often on the verge of disappearing, or have already been rendered imperceptible. Mayer’s projects, which are the outcome of extensive artistic research and close collaborations with specialists across various disciplines, transform the minor, forgotten, and obsolescent into material artifacts, discursive objects, multi-media installations, and performances. Linking technology to memory and care, his practice explores the methods by which important issues can be approached in conceptually and aesthetically surprising ways: techniques of reversal, of compressing and stretching time, of looking at things from both ends at once.
Johannes Zotter
Johannes Zotter (*1980) is an Austrian-born architect and designer. Johannes Zotter studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. During his studies he took part at several design/building projects, such as the "Orangefarm" project in Johannesburg which received the Austrian Building Award in 2006. After graduation he worked for various architects in Austria and Switzerland.
Deniz Sözen
Deniz Sözen is of mixed Turkish-Austrian heritage and grew up between Turkey and Austria. She studied Fine Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at Goldsmiths, University of London and completed her practice-based PhD at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the University of Westminster (2019).