Peter-Weibel-Research Institute for Digital Cultures


Head: Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Clemens Apprich
Office: Silvia Stocker, B.A.

The Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures is a place for scientific and artistic engagement with digital media technologies and the transformation processes they induce. Based on the Peter Weibel Archive, it offers a space for new perspectives and innovative research. It is also a place for public and international discourse on digital cultures, digitality in general, and the relationship between science and media art in particular. Regular public lectures, discussions, symposia and publications foster the theoretical and artistic exploration of digital cultures, both within the academic community and in the discourse of society as a whole.
 
As a place of intervention, reflection and further development of digital cultures, the Weibel Institute provides a discursive space of discussion between the sciences and arts. Assuming its social responsibility, the institute seeks collective forms of expression vis-à-vis cybernetic control systems, machine learning processes, media-technological infrastructures, as well as newly emerging data worlds. This is done from a historical perspective to critically question the colonial descent of digital technologies and examine their logics beyond today’s data-positivism.
 
Contact

Location
Raised ground floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Room: 009

Opening times
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am-2pm
and by request