// Current Project

BINARY BONDS

New Media Expressions From Ukraine

Exhibition Opening: Monday, 16 December, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Exhibition Dates: 16 - 22 December 2024 (By appointment only)

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.

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// Upcoming Project

Empowering Creative Futures with AI in Art and Culture

AI (Artificial Intelligence) Education Program

10 March - 18 April 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.

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// Past Projects

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

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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”

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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.

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Dream Speed 

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.

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Parallel Vienna, Project Statement,  Room 16/103

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.

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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

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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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