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Humans are “visual animals”

From visuals forming part of club culture and analogous large-format projections to the latest invention “video mapping” – there is practically nothing that has not filled the screens or walls of Vienna thanks to its vibrant scene of visualists … more...

Culture for a new urban quarter

A new cultural centre has now been officially opened in Vienna’s 12th district: Palais Kabelwerk. The new ‘urban laboratory’ for art and culture wants to encourage local residents as well as established institutions and independent groups more...

Culture for children in the MQ

In the MuseumsQuartier, the emphasis is not just on modern art and Jugendstil, but also on culture for children and young people. Both the ZOOM Children’s Museum and the Dschungel Wien more...

Vienna’s Aktionsradius celebrates its birthday

The independent cultural society boasting the somewhat awkward name ‘Aktionsradius Augarten’ is celebrating an important birthday this autumn. Its 20th anniversary is being celebrated with a week-long festival
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Vienna as a centre of net and media art

Vienna’s media scene can look forward to a colourful, varied autumn. ‘Upgrade’, an international meeting of net and media artists, the 2009 ‘paraflows’ festival and the Japan Media Arts Festival all promise exciting events and interesting insights. more...

Medienwerkstatt Wien: video art for your home

Video.Edition.Austria – release 02 completes the collection of Austrian video art that was launched by Medienwerkstatt Wien in 1994. Established in 1978 as a non-commercial video studio, Medienwerkstatt Wien…
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Vienna highlight in June

The “Wir sind Wien” (We are Vienna) district festival kicks off in style in the historic atmosphere of the Karlsplatz “art square” on 31 May with the Tschuschenkapelle band and the singers Willi Resetarits and Tini Kainrath more...

When work becomes an artistic project

It is precisely in “times like these”, as people so often like to say, that the topic of work takes on great significance once again. ‘To work or not to work’ is the motto of this year’s intercultural art festival ‘Soho in Ottakring’...
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Life Ball 2009 – Let Love Flow

Vienna’s most glamourous ball takes place at the Town Hall on 16 May. Governed by the motto “Let Love Flow” this year’s Life Ball is devoted to the element of water, to be followed by earth and air in the next two years more...

International festival of VJ culture in Vienna

International visualists will be remixing the past at sound:frame, the Vienna festival for the visualization of electronic music, until the end of April. This year’s motto is: “Evolution remixed!” more...