Introduction Meeting mit Alexander Wöran und Marta Beauchamp
6. März. 2024, 16.30 Uhr Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, Lecture Room
Introduction Meeting with new Univ. Assistant Alex Wöran and PhD research collective member Marta Beauchamp, afterwards drinks&snacks
Within this meeting Alexander Wöran will introduce himself and his professional career and give an insight into is work focus.
Alexander Wöran, born in 1987, studied Biomedicine in Graz and Comparative Literature as well as Molecular Biology in Vienna, he currently lives in Linz. After his studies he worked several years for Ars Electronica, where he edited the catalogue for the festival and took part in conceptualizing exhibitions for the Ars Electronica Center. From 2021 to 2023 he was a research associate at the University of Krems (Center for Image Sciences). At Krems he developed tools for digital image collections and researched the topic of media art archiving in the framework of ADA (Archive of Digital Art), a collective online platform to document media art. He also writes prose and experiments with language in various media. Last exhibition: Insel Aichinger, Theatre Nestroyhof, Hamakom, 2021 (with collective Das-Ilse-Aichinger-Haus); last lecture: “Towards Playfulness in Media Art Archiving”, Getty Summer Institute at Belvedere Research center, 2023; last publication (scientific): "Blurriness in Media Art Archiving", in: MAST – Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, #1, 2023; last publication (literary): "Eine Welt Entzweit", in: Die Rampe - Hefte für Literatur, #2, 2022
By focussing on the translation of neuroscience topics into multi-sensory experiences, Marta Beauchamp shapes an interface through which to materially encounter this process. She is interested in the difference between understanding based on keeping-in-mind and understanding through experiencing. Sound and objects allow her to inflate dense scientific topics to room-scale installations which offer more space and dimensions for comprehension.
In her introductory talk to the Interface Cultures department, Marta will shed light on her research questions, presenting examples of past projects and illustrating how she plans to work in the context of her PhD Research Collective scholarship.
Marta Beauchamp (UK/IT, born 1990, based in Vienna) works as an artistic researcher, sound artist and musician.
Her sound installations develop around data drawn from publications about biological rhythms; in her PhD in practice project “Tipping points in transmediation” she investigates her artistic practice of transmediation of data into installations. She is part of the international sound collective “A meeting place for sounds” and social media manager at micro-museum for sound TONSPUR, MQ Wien. She plays cello and bass in the electronica and improvisation duo beauchamp*geissler, with whom she performs internationally. She has released albums on Quadratisch Rekords and Goldgelb Records.
Alexander Wöran
Marta Beauchamp