Creative Days Vienna 2026: Workshops & Tours

Marlène Delrive is a game designer and artist passionate about games that make you feel something. She has experience with the full range of emotion – from award-winning comedy games like WHAT THE GOLF? and WHAT THE CAR?, to emotional games. She’s a co-founder of Autoscopia Interactive, a small studio scattered across three countries, and As Long As You’re Here is their debut title.

Clara Grillmaier is a co-founder of NeverAtHome and a member of the Brand Unit agency. For NeverAtHome, she develops formats at the intersection of art, space, and the public sphere. She is also responsible for project coordination and the strategic direction of the initiative. Through this work, she has acquired specific expertise in the use of vacant spaces and in the conception of site-specific exhibition formats. She has realized exhibitions and projects in the context of the Vienna Festival, the Vienna Climate Biennale, and Foto Wien, among others. In her role as a consultant and project manager at Brand Unit, she brings this knowledge from the cultural landscape to bear on a variety of projects.

Vera Grillmaier is a cultural manager, curator, and ceramic designer who works at the intersection of artistic production and institutional practice. Since 2025, she has served as Managing Director of the cultural initiative NeverAtHome, which has been realizing site-specific programs in architecturally significant vacant spaces since 2021 and addresses issues of temporary use, cultural infrastructure, and urban transformation. She also specializes in developing dialogue formats that focus on interdisciplinary work between art, technology, and science. In parallel, she works as a ceramic designer and completed her master’s examination in 2025.

At the Vienna Business Agency, she works as an expert in the Digital Economy Department, where she develops services, programs and networking formats for Vienna’s AI and data economy. Her focus lies on values-based support for the city’s digital sector in the spirit of digital humanism and on exploring the intersection of ICT and sustainability. Previously, she served as Head of European Projects at the Ars Electronica Festival Linz and, as executive producer, oversaw the redesign of the Ars Electronica Center in 2019. Her research interests concern human-centered, values-driven digital technology development and its sociopolitical and societal implications. She also supports responsible innovation and cooperation in global tech ecosystems.

Klimentina's primary focus is interaction. As a new media artist, curator, and educator, her work ranges from research-driven game novels to audiovisual compositions and workshops. Her artistic practice explores the contradictory relationships between humans and technologies. Throughout her narratives, she observes alternative approaches to immersive experiences while questioning the already known. Her background in media art and pedagogy inspires her to find ways to communicate digital concepts in a playful manner. Her work carries the ability to open conversations. She was part of the core team of major European media art festivals. Such as CIVA Festival Vienna 2022-2023, Digitale Welten 2022 Frankfurt, and Ars Electronica Linz 2017-2019.

Jogi Neufeld is the founder of Subotron – the platform for games culture in Vienna. He teaches at universities, universities of applied sciences and other educational institutions, is a curator at the Technical Museum Vienna, and Game Director of an indie dev studio.

Paloma is a wholehearted explorer who navigates various social, professional, and investigative endeavors connecting people, ideas, and passions. Author of the book “Diversifying Open Source” by Apress, a book that emerges from years of collaborative culture work—building together with great minds toward more kind, socially just, and regenerative ways of working and being together. She focuses on technologies that enable autonomy, equity, and care for humans and the more-than-human world, recognizing that our digital futures are inextricably woven with ecological wellbeing. Currently working at the Sovereign Tech Agency, she is helping define what open digital infrastructure is and how that is shaping the commons we all rely on.

Brooklyn J. Pakathi is a transmedia artist, independent curator, and co-founder of AREA [404]. Within AREA [404], their work focuses on the critical examination of digital infrastructures and the political conditions shaping collective digital existence. Outside the initiative, Pakathi maintains an independent studio practice interrogating the ontology of emotion through affect theory and phenomenology, and a curatorial practice developing decolonial exhibition strategies that embed cultural equity into institutional space.

Ramón Reichert, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for AI, Society, and Critique (CASC) in Berlin and a Senior Researcher in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His research is situated at the intersection of digital culture, media theory, and critical data studies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, algorithmic governance, platform economies, and the cultural implications of datafication. Reichert is actively involved in interdisciplinary research networks and frequently participates in international conferences, advancing critical approaches to AI and digital transformation in contemporary culture.

Georg Russegger is a trained media artist and holds a PhD in Communication Theory. He worked for years as a researcher, artist, and curator in Japan. As Scientific Manager, he developed the Joint-Master program Ludic Interfaces for the University of Arts Linz. He led the Knowledge Transfer Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Austrian Knowledge Transfer Centres responsible for the SSHA and STEAM agenda. Since 2024, he has been Head of the LBG Open Innovation in Science Center.

Dr. Jutta Scheibelberger works as a Project Manager and Expert in areas including multimedia, the art market, and international network projects at the Vienna Business Agency. Since 2009, she has been heading Content Vienna, the competition for digital design.