TRANSMODULAR
The exhibition TRANSMODULAR
brings together in various modules selected works by students, graduates and alumni of the class for Transmedia Art at the
University of Applied Arts in Vienna, which is currently led by Jakob Lena Knebl, as well as results from the cooperation
with the Fashion class under Craig Green.
The term transmediality refers to phenomena that unfold
across several forms of expression - in other words, that transcend media without being bound to a specific form of expression
or material. In art, transmediality can be made visible on various levels. This refers not only to the interplay of artistic
genres such as painting, photography, film, sound or performance, but also to the interlocking of sensual, conceptual and
cultural dimensions that are articulated across different channels. The decisive factor here is less the mere juxtaposition
(as in the case of multimediality) or merging (as in the case of intermediality), but rather a movement that operates between,
above or beyond individual media - or sets them in motion in the first place.
It is often processes of translation,
quoting or commenting that set such a movement in motion. Transmediality means daring to take a step beyond existing conventions:
on the one hand, to sharpen or anchor a statement by transcending a medium; on the other, to unleash a productive instability
that opens up new questions, perspectives and aesthetic possibilities. Every form of transmedia work therefore contains a
moment of expansion and opening - but also a moment of criticism, irritation and poetic displacement.
The works
shown here do not present themselves as closed in a specific medium, but as operations and aesthetic experiments that circulate
between media. In a transmedia practice, objects, the environment, the body, sexuality - and even one's own thinking - become
materials that are interwoven with the media. The body, for example, can not only be represented visually, but is also performative,
can be experienced sonically (through voice, breath, sound) and is subject to change. It can be technically extended - for
example through prostheses, interfaces or cybernetic components - and is subject to cultural and linguistic codes that can
be shifted and rewritten.
Opening hours: Tuesday + Wednesday, 11:00-14:00; Thursday + Friday 15:00-18:00 &
by appointment
Artists
Cris Anutoiu, Mina Banabak, Linda Bergstötter, Oskar Chodzinski, Finn
Simon Clarke, Leon Cole, Margo Dubovska, Ganaël Dumreicher, Sophia Festini Sughi, Josepha Edbauer, Lea Gander, Benedikt Goetz,
Emil Grall, Luna Maluna Gri, Fiona Ha, Raphael Haider, Johannes Hartmann, Yuto Hatakeyama, Emilie Heintschel, Leonie Holtkamp,
Olha Horiunova, Jooyoung Hwang, Eliška Jahelková, Elias Jocher, Marlena Jonane, Jaiyun Lee, Ida Mariboe Nielsen, Hector May,
Marie Matondo Nsimba, Kashi Meyer, Elias Milcic, Kamiya Moene, Anna Mutschlechner Dean, Hannah Neckel, Kristina Deska Nikolic,
Juliana Nozomi, Brooklyn Pakathi, Jan Pančocha, Liam Pfefferkorn, Maximilian Prag, Angela Proyer, Camilla Ruh, Julia Sadlonova,
Lea-Maraike Sambale, Leon Simonis, Valentino Skarwan, Paul Spendier, Marlene Stahl, Aaron Josi Sternbauer, Zador Szoke, Noah
Tomic, Lorenz Wanker, Iris Writze
Curators
Thomas D. Trummer, Jakob Lena Knebl & Craig
Green 
