Anti-Colonial Week: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Solidarity, Liberation, Resistance

03.11.2025 - 07.11.2025

The Forum for Anti-Colonial Inquiry in the Humanities and Social Sciences (FAIHS) and the student collective Uni Wien for Palestine are pleased to announce the programme for Anti-Colonial Week 2025 (3-7 November, Vienna & online).

The week includes a series of lectures, discussions, creative events, and a film screening, all highlighting anti-colonial perspectives in politics, media, philosophy, literature, and global health.
Programm and Infos
https://linktr.ee/anticolonialweek

****** Join us for the Spoken Word Night, hosted by SHEFALI BANERJI ******

on Friday 7th November 18h - 21h
Location: VinziRast-Lokal "mittendrin", Währingerstraße 19, Wien

free tickets here :)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spoken-word-night-tickets-1837990441889?aff=oddtdtcreator

poetic wishes!

KKP

I'm reaching out to request your cooperation in sharing the news that the call for contributions for the upcoming Work in Context Symposium in Budapest has been extended until midnight on 16 November.

Please inform the media, photography, and theory departments in your institution of this opportunity! We are seeking contributions from art professionals, artists, educators, and theoreticians dealing with photography.

Event: 4th Work in Context International Symposium of Central European Photography
Theme: PERIPHERAL PRIORITIES :/
Call for contributions and entry form
Deadline: 16 November 2025
Event date: 28-29 January 2026
Previous editions: Work in Context website
Contact person: Mrs Tímea Fábry / fabry.timea[at]mome.hu

Thank you for your help and support!


My very best regards,

Kudász Gábor Arion DLA
Egyetemi docens / Associate professor
Fotográfia Tudásközpont vezető / Head of Centre for Photography

Apply now to the open call___ PERIPHERAL PRIORITIES :/
4th WORK IN CONTEXT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Call ends on 16 November 2025


kudasz[at]g.mome.hu
+36703373058inter

Herzliche Einladung!

Vortragsreihe Kunst – Forschung – Geschlecht

05. November 2025, 18:00
Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7, Auditorium, 1030 Wien

Digital Blackface*, memetischer Faschismus und Geschlecht

Katrin Köppert spricht zum Verhältnis von Digital Blackface und Geschlecht in der memetischen Medienkultur des digitalen Faschismus. In den partiellen Öffentlichkeiten des Internets kristallisieren sich Mikrofaschismen** als memetische Kleinstdramen heraus, die kein großes Metanarrativ brauchen, um ihre rassistischen, sexistischen und weltzerstörenden Mini-Tribunale aufzuführen. Mikrologische Onlinekulturen, die ebenso aneignend wie bastelnd mit Diskursen, Rhetoriken und Stilen umgehen, sind dabei Labore für neue Faschismen.

Anti-Gender und Digitale Autoritarismen
Die Vortragsreihe befasst sich im Studienjahr 2025/26 mit geschlechterfeindlicher Politik in Kunst, Kultur und Gesellschaft im digitalen Raum. Sie gibt Einblicke, wie reaktionäre Akteure Konzepte von Gleichheit, Gerechtigkeit und sexuellen/reproduktiven Rechten bedrängen, insbesondere in und durch digitale Medien. Darüber hinaus werden künstlerische Praktiken und gesellschaftliche Allianzen beleuchtet, die diese Mediennarrative stören und Gegennarrative zu den antiliberalen, autoritären, diskriminierenden, rassistischen und extremistischen Ideologien generieren.

Alle Termine der Vortragsreihe

22.10.2025 - Veronika Kracher: Misogynie als Meme?
05.11.2025 - Katrin Köppert: Digital Blackface, memetischer Faschismus und Geschlecht
19.11.2025 - Rime Abd Al Majeed: Werbung und Weltanschauung: Affekt & Faschismus
03.12.2025 - Charlotte Reuß & Sophie Publig: Becoming Girl Online
14.01.2026 - Jo O'Brien and Simone Stergioula: GenderFail


INFOS zur Vortragsreihe
https://www.angewandte.at/aktuell/aktuell_detail?artikel_id=1760496136573

Künstlerisch-wissenschaftlicher Beirat / Artistic-Scientific Advisory Board: Sofia Bempeza, Maria Bussmann, Edith Futscher, Barbara Graf, Nanna Heidenreich, Anita Hosseini, Stefanie Kitzberger, Annette Krauss, Doris Löffler, Kristina Pia Hofer, Anna Spohn, Julia Sprenger, Jenni Tischer.


Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_11_05_13_46_KFG_WiSE_2025.png

JOIN us!

GATHERING – Against the authoritarian shift

An open meeting for students and staff about the growing threats to freedom of art and research and the freedom of expression

04.11.2025 | 5 - 7 pm | Flux2 (VZA, 2.OG)

The Personal as Political: Ways of being in community and caring for one another - to build a support structure and fight rising authoritarian shifts within and beyond our institution.

Bring one topic of discussion, food to share and at least one friend!

The November meeting is organised by Anousheh Kehar, Dunia Sahir, Noah Desiree, Pascal, Stefan Wirnsperger


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Locations and dates for the upcoming gatherings in Winter term 2025/26:

02.12.2025 | 5 - 7 pm | Flux2 (VZA, 2.OG)
13.01.2026 | 5 - 7 pm | Seminarraum 24 (VZA, EG)

The Gathering was initiated in June 2025 on the occasion of the FPÖ parliamentary request attacking the Angewandte. It is a space for debate where everyone is welcome to join, but also encouraged to actively contribute to shaping and organizing this space - at every session the topic, focus and the organizing group of the next one will be decided amongst the participants.

contact: gathering[at]uni-ak.ac.at

Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_11_04_11_56_Poster_Gathering_against_the_Autoritarian_Shift_2nd_meeting_1.jpeg

Department of Textiles warmly invites you to:

Jot Fau – Artist Talk
Thursday 6 November 2025, 5 PM
SR20, 5th floor, Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

Jot Fau (1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who often employs stitching in her work. She creates objects, sculptures, installations and assemblages, as well as clothing and costumes for art and dance performances, employing a sculptural approach. Jot Fau’s practice questions the concept of identity and explores acts of making and becoming, searching and setting out on expeditions, remaining and renewal — departures without the guarantee of arrival.

The talk is part of the seminar "Subversive Stitches, Narrating Needles?" by Ebba Fransén Waldhör.

Hope to see you there!


Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_11_03_18_41_25_Artist_talk_Jot_Fau_DINA3_Poster.pdf

Liebe Studierende,

morgen, am 04. November 2025, findet das diesjährige Open House statt. Im Anhang findet ihr das Programm des künstlerischen Lehramts.



Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_11_03_12_59_OH_2025_Programm.png

Liebe Lehramtsstudierende,

beim Open House am 4.11.2025 könnt ihr euch informieren zum Masterstudium Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es handelt sich dabei um ein interdisziplinäres, geisteswissenschaftliches Studium, dass großteils am IKK.K situiert ist. Dieser Studiengang kann für jene unter euch interessant sein, die eher eine wissenschaftliche Karriere anstreben. Bitte beachtet, dass es sich nicht um ein konsekutives MA-Studium handelt für euch: Das heißt, ihr müsst euch aktiv während der Zulassungsprüfung im Jänner bewerben. Näheres siehe unten.

Ich bin am 4.11., 10-18 Uhr, im MA-KuWi-Projektraum anzutreffen (4. OG, VZA7, Zi. 410) und um 15 Uhr mache ich einen Online-Infotermin: https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/69591339832 Meeting-ID: 695 9133 9832

Liebe Grüße,
Barbara Praher


Masterstudium Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (4 Semester)
Bewerbungsfrist: 8.1.-22.1.2026 (13:00 Uhr)

Im Mittelpunkt des MA Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften stehen projektbezogene Seminare und regelmäßige Kolloquien, die intensive und kritische Diskussionen der eigenen Arbeiten vom ersten Semester an ermöglichen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt in den kunst- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fächern (Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte, Kunsttheorie, Medientheorie, Philosophie, Transkulturelle Studien). Die Grundlage bildet dabei ein gesellschaftsbezogener Begriff von Kunst und Kultur sowie die Erarbeitung machtkritischer Strategien und partizipatorischer Ansätze.

Der Studiengang bietet mehrere Besonderheiten: Die Freiheit der wissenschaftlich-interdisziplinären Studiengestaltung; die unmittelbare Nähe zu den künstlerischen Klassen und damit die Möglichkeit der Verschränkung von wissenschaftlichen, künstlerischen und handwerklich-technischen Fächern sowie das konkrete und materialbezogene Arbeiten in Kollektiven. Innerhalb der Wahlfächer kann zudem das gesamte Studienangebot der Angewandten genützt werden.

Bewerbungsfrist: 8.1.-22.1.2026 (13:00 Uhr)
via www.dieangewandte.at/eintritt

Einzureichende Unterlagen: Lebenslauf, wissenschaftliche und ggf. künstlerische Arbeitsproben,
Exposé eines möglichen Forschungsprojektes (insgesamt max. 50MB)
Details siehe Infoblatt: www.dieangewandte.at/kuwi > Downloads

Studienbeginn: WiSe2026 – WiSe2027

Kontakt und Informationen zum Studium: kuwi[at]uni-ak.ac.at
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ma_kuwi/


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Barbara Praher BA MA (she/her)
Koordination MA Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften

Universität für angewandte Kunst
VZA 7, 4.OG, Zi. 459
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien

https://www.dieangewandte.at/KuWi
https://www.instagram.com/ma_kuwi/
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JOIN US

for a special edition of Movie Nights
within the framework of Palestine Cinema Days around the World 2025

November 2nd, 19:00, Angewandte Auditorium, VZA7


MOVIE NIGHTS is a screening series for a transdisciplinary exchange, that was initiated to oppose the persistent silence about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Starting each time from one film we open the space for conversations about the relations between production of images and their conditions, involving modes of narration, authorship, history, politics and effects on society. We watch fiction, documentaries, movies and television productions focusing on filmmakers with antizionist and liberatory practices.

MOVIE NIGHTS _ Hosted and organized by Applied Photography, Klasse für Alle, Art and Communication Practices, Transcultural Studies, and students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.




Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_10_31_13_52_movie_nights_2_11_2025.jpg

Department of Textiles warmly invites you to:

Jot Fau – Artist Talk
Thursday 6 November 2025, 5 PM
SR20, 5th floor, Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

Jot Fau (1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who often employs stitching in her work. She creates objects, sculptures, installations and assemblages, as well as clothing and costumes for art and dance performances, employing a sculptural approach. Jot Fau’s practice questions the concept of identity and explores acts of making and becoming, searching and setting out on expeditions, remaining and renewal — departures without the guarantee of arrival.

The talk is part of the seminar "Subversive Stitches, Narrating Needles?" by Ebba Fransén Waldhör.

Hope to see you there!

https://www.instagram.com/textil_angewandte?igsh=MWJ3ZWpubjg1bG1uaA%3D%3D
Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_10_30_15_36_25_Artist_talk_Jot_Fau.jpg

12.50-13.00.Welcome and Opening Remarks-Ramón Reichert (Vienna)

13.00-14.00. Federica Frabetti (University of Roehampton, London):Conjunctural AI: Performativity, Authoritarianism, and the Crisis of Algorithmic Control
I argue that contemporary AI must be understood through a conjunctural analysis, rooted in Stuart Hall's work, which addresses the current geopolitical crisis as a moment of both intense peril and opportunity. I propose that AI's expansion is mutually constituted with rising authoritarianism and the erosion of democratic norms.
My methodology uses a feminist performativity framework, which I developed with Eleanor Drage, asserting that algorithmic systems are active, constitutive forces that produce and enact structural inequalities.
I draw on our published case studies of predictive governance: 1) AI-powered Event Detection in policing, where systems performatively create a racialized protest; and 2) Biometric Bordering Technologies, which function as 'copies without an original' to actively generate categories of exclusion.
By analysing performativity within this unstable conjuncture, I illuminate how AI is a powerful enactor of political control. I conclude by arguing that only a conjunctural analysis can fully capture the profound destabilization of power currently underway, offering a necessary, urgent direction for Critical AI studies.

14.00-15.00. Neda Atanasoski (University of Maryland, Baltimore):Artificial General Intelligence and the Reproduction of Power: Feminist Interventions in the Politics of Life
This talk examines seemingly opposed perspectives surrounding Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): its framing as a "New Manhattan Project" driven by geopolitical competition and fears of annihilation, and its reinterpretation by some as an expansion of the definition of life itself. The presentation argues that both narratives, despite their apparent opposition, are deeply intertwined with and perpetuate gendered, racial capitalist and colonial relations. The talk suggests that the push for AGI, whether for global supremacy or a redefinition of life, obscures ongoing exploitation and reinforces existing power structures, underscoring the need for feminist understandings of life and living.

15.00-15.15. Coffee Break

15.15-16.45. Iyo Bisseck (Dreaming Beyond AI, Paris) & Segal Hussein (University of Applied Science,Vienna):Technoaffection Against Control: Abolitionist Futures Beyond TESCREAL (Workshop)
In this workshop, we explore how contemporary visions of artificial intelligence are haunted by colonial logics of knowledge, extraction, and control. Drawing from theTESCREAL¹constellation that interlinked ideologies including Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism, we examine how these ideological frameworks reproduce hierarchies of intelligence and value under the guise of neutrality and progress.
Through the lens of Big Siblings and Dreaming Beyond AI, we propose "technoaffection"²as a practice of relational design that centers situated knowledge and embodied accountability.
We ask how designers can intervene critically and affectionately to reimagine tools, systems, and infrastructures beyond domination.
By weaving theory and practice, this session invites designers to rethink their complicity and potential in shaping technological futures, opening space for affect, resistance, and collective reconfiguration.
¹:The termTESCREALwas coined by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres and is an acronym for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalists, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. They describe these ideologies as an interconnected movement prevalent in Silicon Valley that uses the specter of human extinction to justify costly or harmful AI-related projects.
² The concept Technoaffection draws from Tecnoafecciones, a project co-developed by Paola Ricaurte Quijano with the feminist digital rights organization Sursiendo in Mexico. It emphasizes the relational and affective nature of technology, showing that technological artifacts are deeply intertwined with human emotions, social relationships, and lived experiences.

16.45-17.45. Leonie Bossert (University of Vienna):Speciesist bias in AI – How AI impacts human-animal relations and what to do about it
Massive efforts are made to reduce biases in both data and algorithms in order to render AI applications fair. However, the AI fairness field, as well as the AI4Good discussion, still succumbs to a blind spot, namely, its insensitivity to discrimination against animals. This presentation critically discusses how AI technologies substantially impact both individual animals and the human-animal relation; a discussion that is still somewhat neglected in AI ethics.
The talk will first delve into the premises behind the claim that animals matter morally and that discriminating against them a) is happening and b) is unethical. After that, it will highlight the various AI applications that impact nonhuman animals, providing examples for direct and indirect, intended and unintended impacts, both at the individual and societal levels, and for farmed, companion, and wild animals. Amongst them, speciesist biases will be discussed. Speciesist biases are solidified by many mainstream AI applications, especially in the fields of computer vision as well as natural language processing.
Therefore, AI technologies currently play a significant role in perpetuating and normalizing an ethically problematic treatment of animals. Arguments are made to demonstrate that these problematic treatments are linked to power structures, and conflicts with attempts to use AI in a truly just manner, or truly “for good”. At the end, the talk provides thoughts on and arguments for how AI technologies can be used to benefit animals, and to create (more) respectful human-animal relations.

17.45-18.00: Coffee Break

18.00-19.30: Mira Reisinger (Leiwand.AI, Vienna) &Janine Vallaster (University of Vienna):Algorithmic Bias: Why "AI" is not for everyone(Workshop)
What does unwanted bias mean in the context of machine learning? In this workshop we will address the challenges of potential discrimination through AI systems from both a technical and a social viewpoint. The aim is to gain a better understanding of what can happen to whom, how and why. We will look at various “points of entry” for bias in the AI system life cycle – including training data, decision-making, and product-team composition.
We will see how inequalities are often already encoded in the training data, how important questions such as “Is AI needed for this?” and “What kind of model makes sense here?” are and we will pay attention to who is included and who is missing (in terms of representation, knowledge and decision-power) in the process of building AI systems. After identifying where things can go wrong together, we will look into actionable strategies for taking countermeasures – providing you some insights into fairness assessment, bias detection and mitigation strategies.


Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2025_10_30_11_51_Konferenz_Poster.pdf