
(c) 2023, Design: Francesco Dipierro
Master projects | winter semester 2023/24
Exams: 24 January; Exhibition period: various days
Master's Project Exams: 24 January 2024
09:00–14:00 | various locations at Angewandte
VORDERE ZOLLAMTSSTRASSE 7 (VZA)
VZA 4. OG | B13 
09:00 | Els van Houtert | I give the door a nod – Oh porous membranes...
2023, Skulptur, Installation
Exhibition: 25 – 31 Jan, 10:00–18:00
Performance times: 26 Jan (18:00), 27 Jan (12:00)
A flexible ritual, a mundane encounter.What you see is a timestamp in an ongoing (re)search for everyday relationships with ‘things’. By phenomenologically studying how I encounter the mundane, material world around me—switching a light-switch, taking a sip of tea, sitting against a wall—I look for a sense of rootedness in everyday life.
When I go ino water, we work together and exchange. We melt at some places.
My body is my main medium. The ‘things’ I encounter are my research-partners. Or should I say, sometimes we become one and the same thing?
I am not capable with my mind to recognize or describe what is exchanged, or changed. But I sense it with my body. I know that we share, for this moment, more than usually. I trust that marks are left, memories are activated, remade.
www.elsvanhoutert.nl
VZA 2. OG | Flux 2 
09:30 | Irene Zluwa | Wiener Papierblüten
2023, Kunstbuch und Installation
Exhibition: 25 – 31 Jan, 10:00–18:00
Das Buch Wiener Papierblüten führt mittels handgeschöpfter Papierbögen durch die Standorte von Pflanzen in einer Stadt. Jeder Bogen repräsentiert dabei
einen Typ von grüner Infrastruktur im urbanen Raum.Die einzelnen Stationen des Rundgangs werden von erläuternden Texten begleitet, die Informationen zu den (Lebens-)Räumen, den verwendeten Pflanzen und dem Herstellungsprozess der Papiere bereitstellen. Zusätzlich ist jedem Kapitel ein assoziativer Gastbeitrag zugeordnet, der zum weiteren Nachdenken und Träumen über das Thema „Pflanzen in der Stadt“ anregen soll.
Im Ausstellungsraum zum Buch bewegt man sich durch einen Blätterwald, der zum Begreifen der Papiere einlädt.
VZA 1. OG | Brücke 
10:00 | Eugénie Desmedt | Shake it gently. Vier Erfahrungen der Zufälligkeit
2023, Kunstbuch und Installation
Exhibition: 25–31 Jan, during opening hours of University
Can I ask you a random question?Kann ich schreiben, ohne zu ordnen? Shake it gently. Vier Erfahrungen der Zufälligkeit erkundet den Zufall durch eine Flut von Lärm, Information und Möglichkeiten bis hin zu Orten zwischen Vertigo und Euphorie. Ich lasse mich aus der Reserve locken, lasse das Fallen zu.
It makes you nervous when you can’t control it.
eugenie.at
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA PLATZ 2 - SCHWANZER TRAKT (OKPS)
OKPS 4. OG | B2 
11:00 | Lindsey Nicholson | Something won, something lost
2023, Installation
Exhibition: 25–31 Jan, during opening hours of University
Liminal disorder creeps across the lattice and breaklines entangle –building and destroying collective memory as a continuous selfsculpture.
Becoming and also being no more.
OKPS 3. OG | B3 
11:30 | Ruben Gutzat | Do rubber trees dream of the rainforest?
2023, Videoprojektion, Installation
Exhibition: 26–27 Jan, 11:00–19:00
What is it like to be a rubber tree?I measure each leaf of Betty and Bossi and observe their growth. I touch their slightly wooden stems and the large mid-vein of Bossi‘s youngest, somewhat succulent leaf. Betty‘s leaves display subtle hues of white and pink; one leaf bears a scar, burnt from unfiltered sunlight after having grown up in a greenhouse.
Is there an ultrasonic outcry from Betty when a leaf is removed?
I use my two vegetal companions, Betty and Bossi, as models to investigate an otherworldly consciousness.
In doing so, this work examines scientific practices and the moral and ethical considerations of keeping houseplants. It documents a reconnection with natural realms from which we are constantly alienating ourselves.
rubengutzat.com
OKPS 3. OG | STAR 5 
12:00 | Naoki Matsuyama | Stuck: The Deep Inertias of Large Language Models and How to Digress
2023, Installation
Exhibition: 26–27 Jan, 11:00–19:00
Due to ideological, infrastructural and commercial entanglements, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT suffer from deep
inertias resulting from problematic histories, which they obediently reflect and enact. Moreover, LLMs make it more difficult
to engage with such issues because they act as engines of ahistoricity, muddling situational specificities with a generalised
use of language, while they get lodged into an ever-expanding loop. The exhibited work invites digression—meaning “to veer
away from the appointed course”—from this loop. It follows the operational procedures of LLMs, but in a different way, reorientating
the goals of LLMs to predict the next word in a sentence towards a form of divination directed at a specific person. The work
thus enables visitors to transform the generalized clichés of LLMs into language that helps them navigate and negotiate their
realities.GEORG-COCH-PLATZ 2 (GCP)
GCP 1. OG | SR 31
12:30 | Lucie Belle Blanche David | Empty Memory
2023, Mixed-Media-Installation
Exhibition: 26–27 Jan, 11:00–19:00
This work combines historical science with artistic methods to explore the intertwined realms of memory, history and narrative
construction; highlighting the bizarre complexity of the subject of history as a science. By exploring the narrative of creating
ceramic vessels as a research methodology, the author analyses the non-linear, fragmented nature of the resulting research.
This personal narrative resonates throughout the work. This work also compares the science of history to the water that moulds
the vessels and weaves the feelers through the concepts of memory, perspectives of historiography and the role of silence
in remembrance. By sculpting the vessels, this interdisciplinary research offers a perspective on the shaping and experiencing
of historiography. It presents the inclusion of artistic practice by introducing a sculptural space of memory containers in
which (alien) beings come to life and wait to be filled with new memories.lbbdavid.com
All times after the first are "ca." times.
All works supervised by Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich
Commission
Univ.-Prof. Jakob Lena Knebl
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Ernst Strouhal
Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich
Sen.Art. Mag.art. Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva
Master projects | winter semester 2023/24
January 24, 2024, 9:00h
Location
several locations at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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Students
- Lucie Belle Blanche David (Master Project Presentation)
- Eugénie Desmedt (Master Project Presentation)
- Ruben Gutzat (Master Project Presentation)
- Naoki Matsuyama (Master Project Presentation)
- Lindsey Nicholson (Master Project Presentation)
- Els van Houtert (Master Project Presentation)
- Irene Zluwa (Master Project Presentation)