A contribution to FOTO WIEN 2025: dynamic
futures by the Digital Art department and its students
Algorithmic Vertigo is both an exhibition and a
hypothesis. Speculative storytelling becomes a tool for reshaping the present by imagining possible futures. We negotiate
tensions between control and freedom in a world of ubiquitous digital mediation. We recognize exhaustion. We acknowledge that
the relationship between reality and the imagined future is changing. We prompt ourselves to find new ways of experiencing
(digital) existence. New ideas about what could be called truth emerge.
The works also
represent approaches to current artistic research in experimental teaching environments. They were produced or adapted for
FOTO WIEN and critically reflect on the conditions of the post-digital era and its visual representations.
The
exhibition is on display in the PSK cashier hall. The contributions are positioned in architectural interspaces, on thresholds
and non-places, fragmentary and eluding the routines of viewing. They are ephemeral tactical settings, micro-narratives in
a place characterized by representation.
Algorithmic Vertigo shows projects by students from the Digital
Art department and is part of the biennial festival FOTO WIEN, which will take place from October 3 to November
2, 2025, with the main theme dynamic futures. A series of postcards will be published in cooperation with the AIL.
Participating
artists:
Flynn by Malpractice, Ulrike Fritzsche, Hartwin Haselbauer, Anahi Juárez, Zita Kayser, Klára Klimas, Koschka
& Ivy Keye, Rita Kulyk, Element Lee, Bojan Markovic, Rage, Daki Rolex, Ivan Sai, Matthias Sanoll & Lea Gander
digitalekunst.ac.at
ail.angewandte.at
fotowien.at
@digitalekunstklasse
@ail_vienna
