Our teaching, research and artistic practices engage critically with contemporary social, cultural and technical systems in need of investigation and imagination beyond cycles of hype and doom. Challenging dominant assumptions and employing surprising or unexpected strategies is critical to this endeavour. The artistic and scientific freedom this relies upon is framed by international communities and based on the values of conviviality and the public good enacted in our networks of exchange and collaboration.

Note: This statement positions artistic research within the framework of academic freedom while acknowledging the urgent need to respond to emergent authoritarianism and its consequences for cultural production and knowledge creation.

Signatures

Felix Stalder, Prof. Zurich / University of the Arts

Paul Feigelfeld, Prof. / Mozarteum University Salzburg 

Axel Stockburger, Assoc. Prof. / Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Clemens Apprich, Prof. / University of Applied Arts Vienna

Dani Ploeger, Prof. / University of Music and Theatre Munich

Su Steinmassl, Prof. / Mozarteum University Salzburg

Boris Cuckovic Berger, / Prof. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Hito Steyerl, Prof. / Academy of Visual Arts Munich

Francis Hunger / Academy of Visual Arts Munich

Volker Möllenhoff / Academy of Visual Arts Munich

Constant Dullaart, Prof. / Academy of Visual Arts Nurnberg

Roland Meyer, Prof. / University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts

Christy Westhovens / University of Music and Theatre Munich

Kevin B. Lee / Prof. Università della Svizzera Italiana