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Zelko Wiener is an artist who has been working in the field of new media with an emphasis on visual forms and electronic networks for more than twenty years. He teaches and carries out research at the Vienna University of Applied Arts.

Ursula Hentschlaeger holds a doctorate in communications. She has been working theoretically in the field of new media and has been developing literature and electronic music. She lives and works in Vienna.

In 1999, mutual interests led to the founding of ZEITGENOSSEN and

www.zeitgenossen.com

as an intermedia platform for research on the World Wide Web.

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When we founded ZEITGENOSSEN (translates in English as ”contemporaries”), we wanted to research the fields of art, literature, science and new media and the actual characteristics of their complementary contents and their crossovers. The questions were, to which extent innovations might actually be capable of triggering cultural changes and which social values could be shaped by art as such?

In order to work between the disciplines, internal hierarchies need to be clarified. Are the sciences more valuable than literature? Should the new media be higher valued than the arts? Aren’t such valuations obsolete anyway? We took as a given that only the sum of different insights can provide additional knowledge. We were merging individual elements without disregarding their respective characteristics. Our interdisciplinary projects are therefor based on division of labour and understood as a work in progress.

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		Biography Zelko Wiener is an artist who has been working in the field of new media with an emphasis on visual forms and electronic networks for more than twenty years. He teaches and carries out research at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. Ursula Hentschlaeger holds a doctorate in communications. She has been working theoretically in the field of new media and has been developing literature and electronic music. She lives and works in Vienna. In 1999, mutual interests led to the founding of ZEITGENOSSEN and www.zeitgenossen.com as an intermedia platform for research on the World Wide Web.
			ZEITGENOSSEN

			AWARDS
When we founded ZEITGENOSSEN (translates in English as ”contemporaries”), we wanted to research the fields of art, literature, science and new media and the actual characteristics of their complementary contents and their crossovers. The questions were, to which extent innovations might actually be capable of triggering cultural changes and which social values could be shaped by art as such? In order to work between the disciplines, internal hierarchies need to be clarified. Are the sciences more valuable than literature? Should the new media be higher valued than the arts? Aren’t such valuations obsolete anyway? We took as a given that only the sum of different insights can provide additional knowledge. We were merging individual elements without disregarding their respective characteristics. Our interdisciplinary projects are therefor based on division of labour and understood as a work in progress.

			EXHIBITIONS

			CONFERENCES

			PRESENTATIONS

			WORKSHOPS

			CURATING


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