Clemens Apprich is a professor in media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He is the head of the Department of Media Theory as well as the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, and acts as Vice-president for Research and Digitality. His research deals with digital media and computational cultures, in particular with filter algorithms and their application in data analysis as well as machine learning methods. He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures and co-authored Pattern Discrimination. Currently, he is working on a new book about Animated Intelligence (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming).

Dr. Paul Feigelfeld is a cultural, media and design theorist and curator. He currently holds the professorship for Cultures of Knowledge in the Digital Age at the Institute for Design Research at the Braunschweig University of Art. After studying Cultural Studies and Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and working with Friedrich Kittler, he held various other positions at Humboldt-Universität, the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg, the Art Institute and University of Basel, Strelka Institute Moscow, University of Applied Arts and University of Vienna. His work explores transcultural approaches to the history of media and knowledge (with a focus on China), critical perspectives on technologies such as Machine Learning, surveillance infrastructures and cryptology, and their intersections with art and design. He has advised and worked for art institutions such as Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, HKW Berlin, Vitra Design Museum, or the MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, were he was guest curator of the 2019 Vienna Biennial with "Uncanny Values. Artificial Intelligence & You".

This event is part of our current exhibition:
soft stories :: divine alteration
by Leilei Wu
curated by Aleksandra Skowrońska.