Menche Lab headed by professor Jörg Menche is an international and interdisciplinary research team at the department of Structural and Computational Biology at University of Vienna. The team has backgrounds in biology, medicine, physics, mathematics, architecture and art. Their research ranges from fundamental organization principles in biology to concrete challenges in medicine with an additional focus on using radically new technologies for exploring complex datasets. https://menchelab.com/
Through learning about Menche Lab’s approaches to map patterns and rules in relation to medical data (e.g. VR models of protein networks) we gained ideas of how to approach the sometimes hidden components of artistic practices as well as to design multi dimensional and non-static mapping approaches. More about the exchange can be found in Laboratory I - Mapping & Networks
Cordula Daus is a writer and artist who works across performance, literary fiction and theory. Her work is concerned with concepts of place, subjectivity, body and language. Often departing from site-specific investigations and self-experiments, Cordula explores the mechanisms of how to de/construct worlds in language. Her work has been presented in the form of artist books, lecture performances, and exhibitions, for example at Research Pavilion #3 in Venice, at Wiener Festwochen, Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Conceptual Poetics Day/Akademie der Künste Berlin. Daus is the author of the novel “Sehr” published at Ritter Verlag and writer and editor of the series Toponymisches Heft. She is also a co-founder of the Special Interest Group for language-based artistic research (SAR) and an Elise Richter PEEK Research Fellow (FWF). https://corduladaus.com/
With Cordula Daus, we explored the potential of language based practices for documenting social relations and situatedness, what we’ve come to call situation writing. More about the exchange can be found in Laboratory II - Situation-Writing
Lens Kühleitner aka Lan Rex (they/them) is a Vienna based non-binary performance artist and musician, working with sound, video and movement in the fields of performance, dance, theatre, and film. In one of our labs Lens Kühleitner shared insights on their work with loops which they understand as a way to resist the ephemerality of sound. We investigated the potentials of embodied as well as recorded loops as means of transmission. More about the exchange can be found in → Laboratory III – Loops and Repetition
Tabea Lurk is head of the Mediathek of HGK FHNW Basel and works on the intersection of art and information sciences. Jürgen Enge is computer scientist and head of ICT at Library Basel University. Together they not only implemented the digital special collections and archives of HGK but also put a strong focus on the archivation of performance art (e.g., with the catalogue for collections performance art Switzerland). More about the exchange can be found in → Laboratory IV – Archival Compatibility