Sound of Insight
An exhibition at Foto Wien 2025 that turns research from MDW Vienna's institutes into something you can see and hear.
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AI in Science Futures
A two-hour workshop at VISTA where visitors used roleplay and craft to talk through what AI is doing to science.
Snapdragon
A film about the wonder researchers feel at the frontier of science, made so a broad audience can feel it too.
AI the Scientist
An interactive exhibit for VISTA that makes AI-driven protein research tangible, built from talks with the scientists.
Vienna Design Week 2025
The wayfinding system for Vienna Design Week 2025, Austria's largest design festival, guiding around 50,000 visitors.
Valhelmland
Visual identity for Valhelm, a summer residency of ten Viennese designers at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg.
Valley of the Hearts Delight
Set design, glass structures and media control for a three-channel video work by Felix Lenz at Triennale Milano 2025.
Liminal Cycles
Sensors and sound that let Crafting Plastics' sculptural steering wheels respond to visitors at Miami Art Week 2024.
Blockchain Unchained
A playful exhibition at the MAK Vienna that lets visitors try out DAOs and blockchain as tools for democracy.
Large Language Writer
How will we write with language models? Honest interfaces for creative writing that show what the AI is doing.
Stromkilometer
A graduation gift in an edition of 90 for the Schulschiff on the Danube, about the class that ends when school does.
Design with a Purpose
Exhibition design for over 20 circular design projects at Vienna Design Week, part of the first Vienna Climate Biennale.
Serpentine
Bent aluminum lamps made with local fabricators in Vienna and Lower Austria, from open files anyone can modify.
Reality Goggles
A 3D-printed headset that shows AI-generated images of the city above you while you ride the Vienna subway.
Hümme
An AI music video for CeKo & Freunde's song Hümme, setting Wienerlied melancholy against a flood of generated images.
Tiny Art Run
Our stretch of the Tiny Art Run in 2023: a closed box where a passing RC car plays sounds elsewhere in the building.
KEB Branding
Identity and website for the Kaisermühlen Electric Band, a Vienna band named after their corner of the 22nd district.
VLF Antenna
A hand-wound antenna that makes very low frequencies like lightning audible, built for an installation by Felix Lenz.
Die Letzten ihrer Art
Animations on endangered professions for the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, including 500 kinds of bread set by script.
Navigational Superpowers
A headset that guides you through the city by sound, borrowing from the way bats find their way. No screen needed.
Heating Habits
Prototypes that use zeolite and salt solutions as small, local heat sources, bringing some ritual back to heating.
Renunciation Rebellion
Costumes, props and a portable altar for the performance of a made-up religion that worships giving things up.
Wood-e Videos
Videos for Cartbrothers' solar-powered wooden vehicle, including one where it runs a toaster off its own battery.
Talking House
An audio installation in Glarus where you turn a dial to hear a place as it sounds today or as it once did.
Centaur Design
In 2021, children designed their own toys together with text-to-image AI. An early try at sharing design with machines.
Kite Like Display 21
Short films for dform's Kite Like Display 21, a wooden trade show stand that goes up and comes down without tools.
Norbert Kure
Business cards for Norbert Kure, a Viennese furniture restorer, in DIN green with drawings of old everyday objects.
Soul Sweeper
A fake teleshopping film and a working light brush, made to understand how pseudoscience sells itself in a crisis.
Political Atmosphere
Live flight data for an installation by Felix Lenz: the more planes in the sky, the more often the siren goes off.
Zoetrope
A motorized zoetrope with a synced strobe that brings small 3D scenes to life, built for the studio Maresch & Sturm.
Schienenwagen
A Euro pallet on wheels for Vienna's tram tracks at night: a soapbox for the rail network once the last tram has gone.
Overcoming Disgust
La Nourriture du Futur, an over-the-top show kitchen that cooks insects with liquid nitrogen to get past the disgust.
Retropia
A video of Retropia at the Volkskundemuseum Wien, an exhibition on the images that shape how we see the countryside.
Democrazy
We tried to take one idea from a Viennese coffee house to local politicians. This brochure shows how that went.
Credit Criminals
Austria, 2030. A speculative video essay about a social credit system that scores every citizen on sustainability.
Turbine Wings
A Grasshopper script that turns freeform turbine wings into laser-cut plywood ribs you can assemble in two hours.
Ruhmeshalle-VR
Filming dform's VR installation that brings the Ruhmeshalle frescoes up close at the Military History Museum Vienna.
Subtext: Typedesign
A short film on Subtext, an exhibition of over 50 type designers with ties to Austria, scored with a sampled typewriter.
The best is yet to come
A 15-minute animated film built from Viennese people's ideas about the future, collected in schools and parks.