Creative Days at the Austrian Film Museum

Michael Loebenstein is the Director of the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna). He has worked as a curator, researcher and author in the field of film archiving, history, memory and digital culture since the late 1990s. He was the founder of the Film Museum’s Research & Education department which he headed from 2004–2011 when he left for Australia to lead the National Film & Sound Archive (2011–2016). He is a published author and was involved in a number of publications dealing with film, archives and museums, and history. He served as Secretary-General of FIAF – International Federation of Film Archives (2013-2023) and is a board member of maa – Medienarchive Austria.

Eva commissions artists working with advanced technologies, and is a collaborator in conceptualising novel approaches, workflows, and philosophies of emerging tech. At Serpentine she has worked with artists such as Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Hito Steyerl, Suzanne Treister, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, amongst others. Eva is researcher and writer for the annual Future Art Ecosystems briefing, and Co-Investigator of the Creative AI Lab (Serpentine and King’s College London). Eva also has an independent design practice that investigates applications of emerging computation, information, analysis, and predictive technologies, in order to better understand how they form our belief systems.

Claudia Larcher is an artist and filmmaker who also works as a teacher. Since 2021, she has been focussing on the role of AI in art, using this technology as an experimental tool to explore the intersection between artistic and machine intelligence. Her artistic work includes film, site-specific video animation, collage, photography and installations. Larcher lives and works in Vienna and has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad. She has received numerous awards, including the Kunsthalle Wien Prize, the Outstanding Artist Award and the Austrian Art Prize.

Ursula Winterauer aka Gischt’s eclectic soundscapes deliver differentiated interpretations of the genres industrial, techno and ambient, which are reflected by means of bass guitar, synthesizer and electro-smog clouds. She is the bassist of the doom pop band Eaeres and is part of the duo The Answer is No with Maja Osojnik. Winterauer works as a sound designer and composer for film and develops compositions for contemporary dance, is co-founder and label boss of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and curator of New Salt – Festival for sonic exploration & digital art.

Anna Högner graduated in Film and Media Studies. She worked as an exhibition coordinator and curator at Filmarchiv Austria (2015–2020) where she (co-)curated several exhibition projects. She was a staff member at the research project “The Wien-Film. A Comprehensive Analysis of the Studio 1938–1945” (2018–2021) at the Austrian Academy of Science. In 2020 she joined the Austrian Film Museum team and the EU Horizon 2020 project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” as a research associate. Since 2024 she oversees the collection information at the Austrian Film Museum.