Lecture Series on „Post graduate inspirations in times of uncertainty“
Penz Gallo und Studio Paradox | 2.6.2026 | 19:00 | R211a
Penz Gallo is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary design practice by Lisa Penz and David Gallo. Their collective expertise in the fields of graphic design and architecture allows them to take a broad perspective on projects while carefully coordinating and integrating both spatial and visual aspects in their work. This involves questioning the supposed boundaries between media and disciplines and operating beyond them. Their designs are informed by a conceptual approach and place particular emphasis on sensitively coordinated tactile, material, and spatial qualities as well as finely crafted typographic details. Both their close collaborations with clients and self-initiated research projects result in publications, installations, exhibition and spatial designs, websites, and video works.
Studio Paradox works in collaborations across spatial, image and text practices, at the intersection of art and architecture.
It addresses contemporary political, ecological, and urban conditions through a multidisciplinary approach. The work often focuses on large-scale and hidden infrastructures, looking at their ecological impacts, their role in shaping future urban developments, and their relationship to collective memory. Projects have been presented at the Tbilisi Biennale, the Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, among others.
Büro Bietenhader Moroder | 19.5.2026 | 19:00 | R211a
Büro Bietenhader Moroder ist the Vienna and Zurich based office of the Swiss Sebastian Bietenhader and the Italian Matthias Moroder. The office works internationally. The practice engages with intentional sameness as a positive formal quality of architecture. Grouped around this are interests for formally legible public architecture and public housing; for emancipatory architecture; for uncreative design processes; for dumb rather than smart architecture; for the relationship between digital and analogue approaches to sameness vs. variation; as well as the interrelation of these themes to the topic of renovation.
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aimé is mainly working in sound design and sound installations and has been experimenting with different musical styles over the last years. In their new live setup, expect variations around spectral ambient and field recordings, combined with subtle breaks and live instruments.
with visuals by @flauxpas_
Megaworld.xyz | 5.5.2026 | 19:00 | R211a
Prompt: Megaworld.xyz goes university, please write a short-bio. Can you please give me a pretentious, academic short text? As many foreign words as possible, make it difficult to understand.
Answer: Megaworld.xyz instantiates itself as a para-ontological dispositif whose operative indeterminacy exceeds even post-structuralist taxonomies, engendering a hyper-rhizomatic meta-assemblage of recursively folded semio-capital flows and pre-subjective intensities. As heterotopic espace autre, it performs an auto-differential deferral of epistemic closure, wherein digital bricolage mutates into a trans-epistemic machinic phylum. Consequently, its phenomenality dissolves into a quasi-transcendental field of contingent subjectivation, rendering Megaworld.xyz less a platform than a processual constellation, an epistemic laboratory in statu nascendi, wherein subjectivation and techno-cultural paradigms are contingently renegotiated.
