Andrea Nagl
Andrea Nagl (1975, Vienna) – dancer, choreographer, somatic researcher, and dance educator. She explores body, geology, and digital space, investigating the embodiment of stone, data, and memory. In the collective nagl~wintersberger, she crafts hybrid VR/performance worlds. Collaborates with Markus Wintersberger and Karlheinz Essl. 2024 „soil“ grant (City of Vienna).
Antonio Labuhar
Antonio Labuhar, born 1996 in Austria, is a Croatian artist based in Vienna. His transmedial practice spans sustainable wool-based textile and sculptural works as well as purely digital creations. He explores materiality, space, and emotion-shifting between physical presence and virtual, immaterial forms of expression.
Belma Bešlić-Gál
Belma Bešlić-Gál (1978, Tuzla; based in Vienna) is a composer, curator and intermedia artist. Describing herself as “a transient frequency between sound and silence,” she composes at the threshold where music expands into space, image and technology. Her practice integrates sound, light, silence, time, code and architecture as equal elements of a compositional grammar, unfolding in concert works, AR/VR environments and large-scale intermedia performances in public space.
Catherine Spet
Catherine Spet (*1998) is an Austrian interdisciplinary artist. Her work centers on combining media-theoretical and technophilosophical ideas to explore societal issues, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, the metaverse and game art. With Kultur 1, she explores ways of embedding art into everyday life – accessible, visible, and in dialogue with the city.
Dagmar Schürrer
Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian digital artist who works in the field of augmented animation and extended reality (XR) technologies. In her hybrid works, she combines (neuro)science, XR, and artificial intelligence, digital world-building, and poetic interpretations of human consciousness and its interconnections with the environment to create complex and contemplative animations and spatial multimedia installations. Significant international presentations of her work include the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the Louvre Auditorium Paris, the Eunam Museum South Korea, Ars Electronica Linz, Tate Modern London, and Supernova Denver.
Ivan Jakarić
Ivan is a Vienna-based bio−9∞ ludic9 artist, planetary gardener, and architect whose transdisciplinary work blends biodesign, experimental game cultures, architecture, and immersive environments to imagine multispecies, post-anthropocentric futures.
Markus Passecker
Creative Technologist, PhD candidate and lecturer based in Vienna. His artistic focus lies in developing immersive experiences through body-reactive installations and performances as well as the artistic use of large cultural heritage archives. In his work, he explores the connection between body, digital technologies and historical datasets. Through collaborations with artists from various disciplines, he creates works that merge physical, virtual and archival realities
Markus Wintersberger
Markus Wintersberger, born in 1968 in Krems, is a media artist and professor at UAS St. Pölten, heading the Master Class in Experimental Media. His work merges performance, dance, digital media, AI, and spatial installation. He collaborates internationally, notably with Andrea Nagl, and has received numerous awards for his work.
Sanja Lasić
Sanja Lasić (Sarajevo, 1987) is a visual artist that explores cultural identity, memory, and trauma from a female perspective. Through painting, collage, video, performance, and music, she channels personal and family histories, migration, and multicultural experiences into visually and sensorially impactful works. Humor and self-irony are central to her approach to themes of displacement and healing, driven by a quest for personal independence.
Zlatan Filipović
Zlatan Filipović is an artist, designer, and educator whose practice spans film, video, animation, and interactive media. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, with highlights including Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt, Almine Rech Gallery in Paris, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, and Siemens Art Lab in Vienna. In the United States, his projects have been shown at the Art Museum of the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), while regionally his work has been presented at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), the Biennale of Contemporary Arts in Thessaloniki (Greece), and in the UAE at the Maraya Art Center and Sharjah Art Museum. Alongside his artistic career, Filipović engages in cultural heritage and interactive storytelling projects that bridge contemporary design with historical narratives.