NODE Media Lab is a Vienna-based non-profit, multidisciplinary creative establishment with a main focus on research and the production of interdisciplinary experiences in new media art, science, and technology.
ORF Funkhaus - Argentinierstraße 30B, 1040, Vienna
// Upcoming Exhibition
"SOFT TERRITORIES" Group Exhibition
Artists: Ms Litto · Felix Lenz with Lily Zlotover · Julian Palacz
Exhibition Opening: 16 December 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
Exhibition Dates: 16 - 21 December 2025
Venue: Funkhaus / 3rd Floor, Argentinierstrasse 30B, 1040 Vienna
The exhibition brings together Ms Litto, Felix Lenz, and Julian Palacz to explore how contemporary territories are continuously rewritten through data, and how those data systems remain entangled with fragile physical grounds. The exhibition approaches space not as a fixed container but as a mutable field: scanned, sensed, leaked into, and reassembled through technological mediation. In this sense, territories are “soft” not because they are immaterial, but because they are perpetually in flux, shaped by invisible signals, computational translations, and the shifting conditions of the environments they inhabit.
Across three practices, space becomes data, data becomes space, and both rest on brittle grounds: unstable architectures, invisible infrastructures, and the material limits of environments under pressure. SOFT TERRITORIES invites viewers to move through these overlapping terrains, from recomputed buildings, to resonant tunnels, to spectral traces and to sense how territory today is always already a negotiation between the physical world and its data shadow.
// Past Projects and Exhibitions
"Deep Skin" Group Exhibition
Featuring works by Chucky Schuster, Maja Smrekar, Patrícia J. Reis, Yasemin Engin
Exhibition Opening: 23 May, 18:00 - 21:00
Exhibition Dates: 23 May - 3 June 2025
Artist Talk & Gathering: 31 May, 17.00-19.00
Venue: ORF-Funkhaus, Argentinierstrasse 30A, 1040 Vienna / Never At Home, 1st Floor
"Deep Skin" invites viewers to explore the intimate relationship between physical form, psychological experience and the permeable boundaries between skin, body, human, and non-human. Through immersive, tactile, and multimedia installations, the works by Chucky Schuster, Maja Smrekar, Patrícia J. Reis, and Yasemin Engin open up new dimensions of bodily and emotional awareness. Each piece reflects on how physical surfaces and unseen forces shape identity, interaction, and connection.
The exhibition showcases a diverse range of works from both emerging and established women artists and creatives. It features AI-driven installations, interactive media, and video art. By bringing together these names from Vienna and various regions, this collaboration fosters intercultural exchange and broadens the horizons of digital expression. It aims to inspire audiences to explore the evolving intersections of creativity and innovation.
Empowering Creative Futures with AI in Art and Culture
AI (Artificial Intelligence) Education Program
8 April - 15 May 2025
Empowering Creative Futures with AI in Art and Culture is a 6-week education program to introduce and explore the growing intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the arts. This program is tailored for diverse participants—including designers, artists, curators, writers, mediators, and employees in arts and cultural institutions—and provides theoretical knowledge and practical skills to integrate AI into creative and cultural practices.
Through modules combining lectures, hands-on workshops, and critical discussions, participants will gain a deep understanding of how AI shapes the contemporary art world and institutional spaces. The program covers a broad spectrum of AI applications, from generating visual art and curating AI-driven exhibitions to experimenting with AI in writing, sound, and performance.
Global Fusion Tour
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, 23 April, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: 23 - 26 April 2025
Curated by The AI Art Magazine
The AI Art Magazine is an independent platform that explores the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and human creativity. With an open call model and an international jury—including an AI-driven jury member—they spotlight a wide spectrum of creative voices shaping the future of art and visual culture.
In each edition, the magazine features exceptional AI-generated works alongside essays, interviews, and experimental formats that explore themes of authorship, identity, and aesthetics in the age of machines. As part of the Global Fusion Tour, the project travels internationally, and a selection of 11 works will be showcased within the context of the "AI in Art and Culture Education Program". From April 23 to 26, selected artworks awarded Golden Tickets from the magazine's international open call will be displayed at Never at Home, ORF-Funkhaus.
Binary Bonds
New Media Expressions From Ukraine
Exhibition Opening: Monday, 16 December, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: 16 - 24 December 2024
Artists: Veronika Cherednychenko, Alevtina Kakhidze, Hanna Trofymova, Yana Gryniv, Svitlana Zhytnia & Joëlle Kehrli
Curated by Yana Gryniv
In collaboration with Art Contact Ukraine, NODE Media Lab presents a special showcase featuring the works of Ukrainian women artists whose practices exist at the intersection of art and technology. This initiative highlights the resilience and creativity of Ukrainian artists in the face of ongoing challenges, offering a platform for their powerful expressions to reach Viennese art audiences.
Curated by Yana Gryniv, the exhibition will feature works by Veronika Cherednichenko, Yana Gryniv, Alevtina Kahidze, Hanna Trofimova, and Svitlana Zhytnia & Joëlle Kehrli. These artists bring unique perspectives, reflecting their experiences and hopes for peace amidst a humanitarian crisis that has profoundly impacted Ukraine and the world. This collaboration underscores the transformative role of art and technology in fostering solidarity, amplifying voices, and creating support networks across borders.
Timeless Treasures: Heritage Documentation In The Digital Age
Digitisation and Workshop Project
14 - 25 October 2024 / Opening: October 14th, 18.00
Amthaus Wieden / Festsaal, Favoritenstraße 18, 1040 Wien
Timeless Treasures is a community-driven project where youth document and celebrate public spaces by scanning and archiving objects like fountains and monuments. The project emphasizes technology education and cultural awareness.
In the first phase, objects from Vienna’s 4th District were scanned in a workshop, with participants using their own devices. In the second phase, the objects were 3D printed. The scanned objects are displayed at Bezirks Wieden Amthaus alongside their original locations and AI-generated names, emphasizing the creative recreation of these public items and how AI reimagines their identities.
The project captures history and the present, documenting the current state of historical objects while empowering youth to appreciate and archive cultural heritage.
Photo Credit: Erol Serbest @erolgalip
NOISE_Media Art Festival
12 - 15 September 2024 / Preview: September 11th
NOISE Media Art brought together galleries, institutions, artists, musicians, collectors, and thinkers of media art at Palais Festetics, one of the historical buildings and the characteristic spaces of 19th-century Viennese architecture, in the 9th District. The media art fair, one of the few events of its sort worldwide, hosted rich content, including interactive installations, digital artworks, and different media art forms. This unique event aims to unite art enthusiasts interested in exploring various facets of media art.
Noise_Media Art features a multifaceted structure, incorporating galleries, exhibitions, music, workshops, and discussion programs. The OI_Focus section hosted media artists from Turkey who met the Vienna audience. OI_Music, an essential element of Noise_Media Art, continued to provide its audience with a comprehensive experience at the intersection of art and music. OI_Talks Vienna, which is based on the combination of technology and art, featured a series of talks titled “Techno-Equality”
Ephemeral Companions
31 May - 19 June 2024 / Opening: May 31st
Exhibition by Anna Lerchbaumer + Rafael Lippuner
Humankind´s journey with technology has been nothing short of transformational. The exhibition seeks to explore and document their relationship, as far back as we can imagine and as close as it has grown since.
Beginning with the birth of rudimentary tools, “Ephemeral Companions” meticulously trace the path of technological marvels that have become an integral part of our daily lives. It explores the cultural, social, and psychological dimensions of our interactions with these tools, analyzing how they both connect and sometimes distance us. It encourages us to reflect on the impact of technology on our relationships, from the intimacy of personal relations to the larger scale of global communities. Both artists ask us to imagine these relationships' future and call for a responsible and mindful use of the tools that shape our world.
Video/VR/Audio Installation
3-17 May 2024 / Opening: May 2nd
Curated by Leo Kuelbs (Concept and Video) and Vadim Schäffler (Concept and VR).
Visual Art by Mohsen Hazrati, Hye Rim Lee, Eva Davidova and MX Oops, Sarah Oh-Mock, Dagmar Schürrer, Vadim Schäffler; Sound by Kris Force.
The exhibition "Dream Speed" explores how human artists and their digital counterparts meet to create and own dreams. It is a multi-artist video, VR, and sound art experience that uses digital components and VR environments to create bridges between different states. The soundtrack manipulates tempo to induce a trance-like state. Viewers can experience the work in physical, auditory, and VR spaces, paralleling levels of consciousness.
5-10 September 2023
Otto Wagner Areal
Presented by HM Communication_Hema Makwana
We had the privilege of being invited to present our project in the Project Statement Section at the 11th edition of Parallel Vienna. The fair was held from September 5 to September 10, and over 6 days, more than 400 visitors had the opportunity to experience our interactive application. Our stand attracted around 750 visitors in total.
Exhibition Dates: 21 June - 4 July 2023
Opening: 20 July 2023
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is an institution of diversity; being one of the first academies that female students were able to study, having 1700 students from 70 countries in 2021.
With this project, we demonstrated the demography of Angewandte in years focusing on the gender and geography of students. It emphasizes the growing diversity inside the community with the method of digitizing the archive and statistics, visualization of the data and turning it into an atlas of the cultural diversity of Angewandte.
Supported by Österreichische Hochschüler_innenschaft
6-13 April 2023
The exhibition introduced a collection of works created employing coding to embrace the intersection of art and forms. 4 artists who come from different disciplines yet use code in their works were brought together in order to accentuate the lyrical relation of body, motion, vitality and transitional forms.
Vesna Petresin’s video work UnFold_Gold aligns how the body and emotions adapt to the passage of time through processes, rhythms and repetitions. In Marhu & A*S*Y*S “Hooked”, energy meets the movements of the body and transpasses through glitches.
While two video shows the obvious Copy Planet Foundation and Ozan Turkkan’s works confronting to observe the abstract. “Coded Feelings” transmutes the inherent complexities of existence into poetic digital forms. Turkkan’s “arura” AV Installation is focusing on transitional forms in nature and the variability of this geometry over time. “arura” and “Coded Feelings” are also presented as VR Installations for an immersive experience.
A workshop was organised as an introduction to how to use code for creative and experimental projects. The exhibition has been curated by NODE Media Lab.
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