PROGRAM
6 p.m. Welcome by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director, MAK, and Head of the VIENNA BIENNALE

Introduction to the exhibition concept of UNCANNY VALUES. Artificial Intelligence & You by the curators Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection, and Paul Feigelfeld, Media Theorist

6.30 p.m. Video Screening and Presentation by Martin Grödl and Moritz Resl, Process Studio

7 p.m. Keynotes of the artists Tega Brain and Jonas Lund

8 p.m. Panel Discussion with the artists Tega Brain, Jonas Lund and the curators Paul Feigelfeld and Marlies Wirth

This event will be held in English.

PROCESS STUDIO (Martin Grödl, Moritz Resl) is an experimental design studio based in Vienna that focuses on generative and interactive design and works in the areas of branding, web, installation and print. In addition to classical design solutions, Process designs and develops specific software, which is used as an independent tool, and develops conceptual generative design using the latest technologies such as artificial intelligence or GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks).

TEGA BRAIN is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer whose eccentric engineering intersects art, ecology & engineering. Her work takes the form of dysfunctional devices, eccentric infrastructures and experimental information systems. She has recently exhibited at the Guangzhou Triennial, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the New Museum, NYC and the Science Gallery in Dublin. Tega is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media, New York University. She has been a fellow at Data & Society and the Processing Foundation. She lives and works in New York and Sydney.

JONAS LUND is a Swedish conceptual artist who creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures. Through his works, Lund investigates the issues generated by the increasing digitalization of contemporary society like authorship, participation and authority. Lund earned an MA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2013) and a BFA at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2009). His work has been exhibited, i.a. at The Photographers’ Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, New Museum, New York, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Witte De With, Rotterdam, and the Stedelijk.