Master projects | summer semester 2024

Exams: Wednesday, 19 June 2024 (public)
09:00–11:00

Works will be exhibited during Angewandte Festival and in the frame of AAA-Angewandte Abschlussarbeiten

(details below).

09:00 | Claus Lam | Metamaterial

2024, Seriegraphies
Material: C.I. Pigment Blue 15, corn starch, cotton, cardboard, compost

Expositur Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7
5th Floor, wall before Library

Exhibition: 26–29 June, 11:00–18:00

Metamaterial is an artistic exploration of representations and their material being. At its core are serigraphic prints that depict molecular formulas and micrographs of pigments, rendered using those very same pigments. This collapse of the signifier and signified confronts us with ongoing materializations of meaning and exposes scientific representations as a co-constitutive practice, not objective truth production. Crucially, the manufactured objects were developed and tested to be compostable, highlighting temporal, material-discursive loops spanning biospheres, geospheres, and atmospheres. These objects alone cannot fully encompass their complex genealogies and are supplemented in the thesis by detailed descriptions of their production practices in an attempt to render them as transparent and reproducible as possible.

09:30 | Inés Peláez | Shopping for a Blue Whale

2024, Scenography - Performance

Expositur Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7
3rd Floor, Room B14

Exhibition: 26–28  June, 11:00–14:00; 29 June, 12:00–18:00

What happens when you turn to science to explain your feelings?

I created this piece in an attempt to answer that question. “Shopping for a Blue Whale” is a scenography constructed upon a fictionalized memory from my childhood. In this piece, I fish across timespace for the memory of a blue whale through the lens of Einstein’s theory of relativity, gracefully complemented by Adele Thomas’ musical composition.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
—Albert Einstein

inespelaez.com

10:00 | Catalina Escalona | Epistemic Ghosts

2024, Installation

Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Hochparterre, Art & Science Editing Room, 037

Exhibition: 26–29 June, 14:00–19:00

Where does knowledge come from? How do we know what we know? And how do we know what we don’t know?

Through a modern reinterpretation of a nineteenth-century illusion technique called a Pepper’s Ghost, I attempt to create an experience that represents the process of coming to know. Importantly, in coming to know something, we must encounter a liminal space between knowing and not-knowing—a space inhabited by epistemic ghosts. What happens when we catch a glimpse of these ghosts? How do we behave, and what do we learn when we reach this frontier?

catesc.com

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All works supervised by Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich

Commission

Univ.-Prof. Julienne Lorz
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Ernst Strouhal
Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich
Sen.Art. Mag.art. Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva