Future
Foreigners – How to Alienate Yourself from the World TodayIn all possible futures to come, we are all foreigners
although we are the ones who make the futures – whether we want to or not and through action as well as non-action. What does
it mean when foreignness is frightening and exciting? When foreignness is uncanny? When only learning to be alienated and
become foreign in the present makes it possible to see the radically new? In the symposium, we will explore how the new in
the arts and the new in scientific disciplines is realised through being foreign in the first place. Instead of the fear of
the foreign, the question then arises: How to become a future foreigner, a foreigner in the experience of the present, to
make other futures? The symposium consists of interventions in the present of the Biennale by the students of Transmedia Art
at the Angewandte and a discussion about foreignness as the starting point for the new in the future.
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Lena Knebl lives and works in Vienna. In 2022, she exhibited together with Ashley Hans Scheirl in the Austrian pavilion
at the Venice Biennale. The two artists had a solo show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2023 and are exhibiting at the Deichtorhallen/Sammlung
Falckenberg in Hamburg this year. She heads the Transmedia Art department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Martina Menegon is an artist, curator, and educator living and working between Vienna and the cyberspace.
In her artistic practice, she creates intimate and complex assemblages of virtual and interactive elements that explore the
contemporary self and its hybrid corporeality. She is Senior Artist and Lecturer in the Transmedia Art department at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna and Head of Extended Reality and Curator for the “Area for Virtual Art” on behalf of sound:frame.
Petra Schaper Rinkel is Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She was previously Professor
of Science and Technology Studies and Vice-Rector of the University of Graz. The focus of her research is on politics, modes
of anticipation, and practices of future-making. Her latest book explores the expectations of future utopias (Fünf Prinzipien
für die Utopien von Morgen, Wien 2020).
Dorothee Frank is an artist and former radio broadcaster.
She has participated in international exhibitions and projects mainly as part of the artist duo TIME GATES. Until 2020, she
created programmes on artistic and socio-political topics for the national public radio station Ö1.
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