Innovative, intercultural summer course for young people and children at Raabs an der Thaya Castle.
25 July 2025, 7:00 PM, Festsaal S1AEG01, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Wien
Entry
Free
Contact
Johannes Kretz
Further information: www.ikultlab.at
Choreographic Composition an auto-theoretical cultivation of relations
Date: June 27, 2025, 4:30 PM
Location: Bankettsaal (AW SEG23, Building S), mdw, Anton‐von‐Webern‐Platz 1, 1030 Vienna
This lecture performance aims to retrace the intertwined artistic and reflective paths of Birgitta Flick’s doctoral artistic research project in which she explored the multiplicity of entangled activities in which a musical composition is involved within her practice as a composer and saxophonist-improviser—thus examining some of the manifold transformations and relations that unfold between all participants of creating through their interacting.
feat. James Banner (bass)
Commission Members: Henrik Frisk, Monika Herzig, Maria Gstättner
Supervision: Tasos Zembylas, Samuel Grillusz, Annegret Huber, Fredrik Hedelin
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:00
Location: mdw-Bankettsaal (AW SEG 23), Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
The mdw Artistic Research Center invites you to the defense of the artistic dissertation Performing Reflection: Improvisation in Word, Thought, and Action by Ivar Roban Križić.
Commission Members:
Lucia D’Errico, Professor for Artistic Research, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Theodore Parker, Lecturer in Artistic Research, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Maria Gstättner, Bassonist, Composer and Artistic Researcher, mdw
Supervision:
Burkhard Stangl, Peter Herbert, Tasos Zembylas, and Thomas Grill
Date: 13–14 June 2025, starting at 19:00 each day
Location: mdw – Future Art Lab, Klangtheater, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
As the public closing event of the Artistic Research Lab in the artistic doctoral program, sixteen mdw students will present audiovisual contributions from their current artistic research projects. The spectrum ranges from new and sometimes transcultural forms of composition and interpretation to experimental approaches to creation, curating, media art, film and theatre to historically informed performance practice.
Applications for the Artistic Doctorate for the upcoming academic year 2025 are now possible – until 29.04.2025.
Further information: www.mdw.ac.at/ar_center/doctor-artium-program
Date: 7–9 May 2025
Location: i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society, University of Porto, Portugal
The 16th International Conference on Artistic Research, with the theme of Resonance, invites engagement with the transformative character of artistic research as a unifying element that elicits a response and renders our experiences meaningful. Registration and further information: https://sar2025.i2ads.up.pt/
At the conference, Thomas Grill will give a lecture performance on Dirty Spaces, a series of performative works developed in the framework of Spirits in Complexity—Making Kin with Experimental Music Systems.
More info about the project: https://www.mdw.ac.at/spirits-in-complexity
Our doctoral student Ettore Biagi will be presenting the results of his research under the title “Phædrus – ecological actions of resonance through uncharted music” at this conference.
Date: 3–5 April 2025
Location: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia
This is an important platform for artistic research in higher music education, where artistic practice is central as the subject and source of research. Tian Fu, one of our candidates in the Dr. Artium program, will present his research on The Mutual Permeation of Rap Music and Contemporary Art Music.
Registration and further information: https://aec-music.eu/event/european-platform-for-artistic-research-in-music-eparm-2025/
This composition lab serves as a platform for creation, interpretation, reflection, and analysis and (1) provides a platform for compositional experimentation with audio scores and their interpretation, (2) provides a space for interrogation into the methods and concepts underlying these audio scores, and (3) offers a forum for analysis and debate around the concept of mimesis as it applies to the perspectives of composers and performers. The aim of the composition lab is to experimentally explore and further develop the generation of audio scores.
For further information please visit: Sound as Score
Date: 27 March 2025, 18:00
Location: mdw Banquet Hall (AW SEG 23), Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna
Thomas Grill and the team will present the new book “Fragments of Rotting Sounds“ with Mark Pezinger Publishing on 27 March at 18:00 in the mdw Banquet Hall.
This marks the final culmination of the Rotting Sounds research project (FWF PEEK AR445). Presentations and artistic contributions will illustrate the project and the elaborate book production.
Trailer: https://rottingsounds.org/public/media/Fragments_of_Rotting_Sounds.mp4
The interdisciplinary teaching process, initiated by Christos Marantos (lecturer for piano in the ike mdw and artistic doctorate candidate in ARC mdw) between mdw and TU Wien, which discusses the topic of encouraging haptic design experiences in the digital age was selected to be exhibited, as an innovative education project, in the Austrian pavilion at the Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
Under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, the Austrian Paivilion aims to communicate its ideas for ‘Composing the Future’ at the international Expo in 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Therefore, 140 innovative products and projects from Austrian companies, institutions and universities were submitted in the “Call for Innovations” organized by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich).
Within this framework, Christos’ project was selected to be presented in the category of ‘Research and Education’ pushing towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ‘High quality education’. From April to October 2025, a total of over 28 million visitors, 161 participating countries and 9 international organizations are expected to attend the Expo, where the discussed education project will be presenting, in the form of a video, the teaching process of the ‘Artistic project K: From Space to Wearables’, which took place in the summer semester 2024.
In the interdisciplinary context of synergizing artistic and scientific processes and within the framework of the artistic research project ‘Trans-bodied Knowledge’ funded by the FWF and led by Efilena Baseta, the above teaching was a collaboration between TU Wien/ Institute of Art and Design/ Research Unit of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)/ Department of Composition Studies and Music production.
This interdisciplinary teaching has been possible through a diverse teaching team:
