PHD COLLOQUIUM

19. bis 20. Mai 2026 Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, 4020 Linz (Audimax)

The PhD Colloquium takes place once per semester and represents a central hub in the PhD programme of the University of Arts Linz. PhD candidates are given the opportunity to present their work in a public forum among colleagues. The Colloquium is also an important format for academic and social exchange. It offers the opportunity to get to know other PhDs, colleagues from the institution and to talk about research-related, professional, and personal matters. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Attendance is expected from all PhD candidates. 

Programm

May 19: PhD Poster Presentation
Domgasse 1, Audimax, 4020 Linz

16.00 - 17.30: Join us for some drinks and discussions!

Following projects will be featured:
 
Doris Gall-Schuhmann: Urbane Geometrien – über das künstlerische Potenzial von menschengemachten anonymen Formenästhetiken im öffentlichen Raum

Chiara Gargiuli: Politics of Projecting. Human/Non-Human Relations in Contemporary Visual Culture 

Silke Grabinger: DANCE & ROBOTICS – Exploring choreography as an intangible interface between bodies

Lorenzo Iannantuoni: Popular prototyping. Site-specific mechanisms, choreographies, and narratives of (and from) public spaces.

Mateusz Kowalczyk: Neurodiverse Social Sculpture. Intermedial Spaces of Performativity and Emotion

Smirna Kulenovic: Recipes of Resilience: Metabolizing Grief through Plant-Centered Ritual Ecologies in Post-War Mediterranean Landscapes

Claudia Larcher: Spatial Configurations – AI as an artistic instrument of post-patriarchal utopias

Lina Morawetz: Erzählungen aus dem unbewohnten Gedächtnis

Sifan Pan: Los! Los! Los! – Empowerment von Deutsch-Chinesinnen mit Zeitangst mittels partizipativer Kunstvermittlung

Caroline Salfinger: Spaces of Solitude and Spells of Withdrawal. Von Laboratorien und subversiven Taktiken

18.30: PhD Research Collective after Dark
Kepler Salon

May 20: PhD Colloquium
Domgasse 1, Audimax, 4020 Linz

10.00 - 10.15: Welcome

10.15 - 11.00 Tanja Schwarz: Theorie der kleinen Rettung

11.00 - 11.45 Victoria Wolfersberger: Paradigmenwechsel in der Hochschullehre: Medienpädagogik und die Bedeutung von AI Literacy
 
11.45 - 12.00 Coffee Break
 
12.00 - 12.45 Petz Haselmayer: Artistic-research-educational Praxes to critique and transform colonial, white and anthropocentric Supremacy - Engagings with kids and non-humans
 
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch Break
 
13.45 - 14.30 Rasa Weber: SYMBIOCEAN

14.30 - 15.15 Yann Martins: Whose Intelligence is Artificial Intelligence (Working title) 
 
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee Break
  
15.30 - 16.15 Quinn Latimer: Sun With Teeth: A Report, a Thesis – and a Novel
 
17.00: Get-Together
Salonschiff Fräulein Florentine

PhD candidates of the University of Arts Linz can apply for partial funding of their travel and accommodation costs. Please contact the ÖH student representation: oeh.stv-phd@kunstuni-linz.at