[Reverberated]

Following the Movement of Memory

Presented by the master’s degree program Art & Science of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Memory is not a stable record of the past. Rather than functioning as a static archive, it unfolds as a dynamic process in which traces are continuously reshaped by perception, narration, and material conditions.

[REVERBERATED] explores notions of memory as the annual exhibition of the master’s program Art & Science. The exhibition approaches this process through the metaphor of reverberation. Reverberation describes the reflection of sound from multiple surfaces, producing many overlapping echoes at once. Just as sound continues to resonate within a space, memories reverberate through bodies, media, and environments long after the events that created them.

Taking this physical phenomenon as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

With contributions by: Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil

Detailed workshop information

#1 Dream Screen by Dina Karaman
18 June 2026, 3 pm

The workshop is built around collaborative work with visual and sonic imagination. Is it necessary to watch a film to have a cinematic experience?

In the inner theatre of the mind, we can observe visual scenes, listen to sounds, and follow inner speech. This inner cinema, much like dreams, remains hidden from an outside observer. There is only one mediator between it and the external world – ourselves. The collective practice will focus on how to stimulate the emergence of mental images and inner sounds, how to hold our attention on them, and, most importantly, how to verbally convey this elusive inner poetry in the form of storytelling.
This workshop will be held in English.

Registration:

For participation, please write to: artscience.exhibition@uni-ak.ac.at (please state the name of the workshop in the e-mail subject)

Duration: 2 hours.

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#2 Reading Group – Practices of Memory

25 June 2026, 4:30 pm

Organised by Tal Horesh / in English and German. Open Call for texts untill 7 June 2026

An hour-long reading session of 3 to 4 writers and poets. Who these writers/poets will be, will be decided through the open call below or direct request. Texts will be either in German or English.

The aim is to not only show the multitude of memories, but also of practices of memory: How stories are told, how we keep close to what we saw, smelled, and felt.

OPEN CALL

We are looking for voices for a live reading to create a polyphonic tapestry of memories.

Send us your texts, fragments, experiments, speculative essays, lectures, or performatively tossed word salad!

How long? Max. 15 minutes reading time
Language? German or English
What? Anything that has hands, feet, and letters.

HOW TO APPLY:

Send your text along with a short bio to opencall.reverberated@proton.me

Deadline: 7 June 2026

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#3 Lumen Prints: Photographing with the Sun by Agustina Belén Agüero
2 July 2026

In this workshop, visitors will get the opportunity to experiment with lumen printing, a technique that emerged in the 19th century as a way of photographing without a camera. Lumen Prints are images created by pressing objects on top of photographic paper and exposing them to the sun. We will discover how light and time can hold the traces and reminiscences of something, creating the image of an object but in an unstable and changing way.

Duration: approx. 90 min.

This workshop will be held in English.

Registration:

Please note: Registration required due to spacial limitations. For participation, please write to: artscience.exhibition@uni-ak.ac.at (please state the name of the workshop in the e-mail subject)

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