Head: Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Clemens Apprich
Office: Silvia Stocker, B.A.
The Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures is a place for scientific and artistic engagement with digital
media technologies and the transformation processes they induce. Based on the Peter Weibel Archive, it offers a space for
new perspectives and innovative research. It is also a place for public and international discourse on digital cultures, digitality
in general, and the relationship between science and media art in particular. Regular public lectures, discussions, symposia
and publications foster the theoretical and artistic exploration of digital cultures, both within the academic community and
in the discourse of society as a whole.
As a place of intervention, reflection and further development
of digital cultures, the Weibel Institute provides a discursive space of discussion between the sciences and arts. Assuming
its social responsibility, the institute seeks collective forms of expression vis-à-vis cybernetic control systems, machine
learning processes, media-technological infrastructures, as well as newly emerging data worlds. This is done from a historical
perspective to critically question the colonial descent of digital technologies and examine their logics beyond today’s data-positivism.