Vienna

Initiatives

Venues

• Brut, production and performance venue for the performative arts, *2007
• Club-U, club
• Depot, platform for art and discussion, *1994
• EXILE, gallery
• Flex, club
• FLUC + Fluc Wanne, club
• Kunsthalle Wien, *1992
• MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, *1864
• Metalab, hackerspace, *2006
• Mz Baltazar's Laboratory, feminist hackerspace, *2009
• Museumsquartier, *2001
• nadaLokal, experimental art space, *2009
• Neue Kunstverein Wien (NKW), interdisciplinary space for exhibitions, artistic interventions and discourse, *2011
• Reaktor, transdisciplinary space for art and music, *2018
• Rhiz, bar modern
• Salon für Kunstbuch, artist's bookshop & exhibition space, *2007
• School, feminist off-space for performative screenings, *2011
• Secession, artist-run institution exhibiting contemporary art, *1897
• Station Rose, *1988
• Tonspur, sound art passage
• WUK, culture centre, *1979/1981

• more: Independent Space Index, Unlike.net/Vienna.
• Past spaces: Boem (cultural centre, 2010-2013), Open Space (later Open Systems, center for art projects, 2008-2013), clubblumen (space for contemporary art, 2008-2012), net culture lab (2007-2013), Das Werk (art and culture centre, 2006-2020), raum35 (space for music, performance & experiment, 2005-2010), Transporter (bar, c.2005-2016), Electric Avenue (*2000), Public Netbase/t0 (1995-2006), UNITn (project space).

Initiatives with no permanent event venue

• adO/Aptive
• Contemporary Matters, *2018
• Eikon, magazine for photography and media art, *1991
• klingt.org
• med-user.net, platform for networked culture, *1998
• Media Art Archive Vienna
• monochrom, art-technology-philosophy group, *1993
• PW-Magazine, online magazine for contemporary culture
• q/depesche, newsletter, *1998
• quintessenz, association for the restoration of civil rights in the information age, *1994
• schnittpunkt. ausstellungstheorie & praxis, network for those interested in the fields related to exhibitions and the museum
• sixpackfilm, independent film sales and distribution company, *1991
• Synema, society for film and media, [1]
• Technopolitics, research platform, *2009
• trafo.K, office for art education and critical knowledge production, *1999

• Past initiatives: HILUS, 5uper.net, Traumawien (publishing, *2010), Talaash (platform for young artists and researchers working on the South Asian region, *2008), Cont3xt.net (2006-2012), line_in:line_out (*2002), Vidok (studio, 2000-2005), Lanolin (video label, 2000-2004), turm4 (mailing list), European Cultural Backbone (1999-c.2003), Mego (record label, 1994-2005), The Thing Vienna (1993-2000).

Events

• Decolonizing Technology, event series, *2022
• Paraflows, festival, *2006
• Parken, music series, *2019
• Sound:Frame, festival for immersive art, *2007
• Technopolitics, *2011
• Tonspur_festival, 2022

Past events

• Phonofemme, festival, 2011
• Reclaim, 2020
• The Future of Demonstration, 2017
• Vienna Open, festival, 2012-2016
• Libre Graphics Meeting, 2012
• Troubling Research, 2010-2011
• Pask Present, exhibition, 2008
• Mobile Music Workshop, 2008
• Next Step Politics 09?!, conference, 2007
• cyber feminism past forward, exhibition, 2007
• ISMIR, conference, 2007
• Shut up and Listen!, festival for radio play, sound art and acousmatic music, 2006-2010
• Dorkbot Vienna, *2006
• Media-Space-Society, conference, 2006
• Networks of Imagination, 2005
• Coded Cultures, 2004, 2009, 2011
• Oekonux Conference, 2004
• Free Bitflows, 2004
• Abstraction Now exhibition, 2003
• Open Cultures, 2003
• Dark Markets, 2002
• Digital Art Generation, 2002
• Interface Explorer, 2001
• (dvision, 2000-2002
• World-Information.Org, 2000
• Re-Play, 2000
• Synworld, 1999
• Translocation new media/art, exhibition and symposium, 1999
• Robotronika, 1998
• Information Terror, 1998
• Recycling The Future, 1997
• Media, Apparats, Art, 1995-1996
• Audio Scene '79, exhibition, 1979
• Ars ex Machina, congress, 1978

Art workers

• Alexander Nikolic
• Amanda Piña
• Andreas Klotz (1983)
• Andreas Trobollowitsch
• Annja Krautgasser (1971)
• Arnold Haberl
• Axel Stockburger
• Bartholomäus_Traubeck
• Bernd Kräftner
• Bernhard Gál (1971)
• Boris Ondreička
• Clemens Apprich
• Daniel Hüttler
• Daniel Zimmermann
• Echelon (1973)
• Elisabeth von Samsonow
• Eva Wohlgemuth (1955)
• Felix Stalder
• Frank Hartmann (1959)
• Gebhard Sengmüller
• Georg Weckwerth (1965)
• Gerald Nestler
• Gordan Savicic
• Hans Bernhard
• Heidi Grundmann
• Hong-Kai Wang (1971)
• Ines Doujak
• Johannes Grenzfurthner
• Johannes Tröndle
• John Barker
• Joseph Knierzinger
• Juliana Herrero
• Klaus Filip (1963)
• Konrad Becker
• Lia
• Lukas Jost Gross
• Machfeld (Sabine Maier, Michael Mastrototaro)
• Maja Osojnik (1976)
• Manu Luksch (1970)
• Martin Siewert (1972)
• Matija Schellander
• Matthias Tarasiewicz
• Michael Aschauer, 1977
• Michael Kargl (Carlos Katastrofsky, 1975)
• Mukul Patel (1971)
• Nataša Sienčnik (1984)
• Nicolaj Kirisits
• Nora Sternfeld
• Paul Böhm
• Peter Kutin
• Philip Leitner (1981)
• Rainer Mandl (1969)
• Robert Adrian X
• Robert Jelinek (1970)
• Sabeth Buchmann
• Sabine Folie
• Salvatore Viviano
• Sepp Deinhofer (1978)
• Stefanie Wuschitz
• Susanna Niedermayr (1972)
• Sylvia Eckermann
• Tamara Wilhelm
• Tim Blechmann
• Tina Frank
• Václav Peloušek (1988)
• Valerie Deifel
• Valie Export (1940)
• Virgil Widrich

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