The Anthropological department at the Natural History Museum in Vienna stores a collection of approximately 40,000 human skulls behind glass vitrines. Since the founding of the Department in 1876, various specimens were collected to provide research material for the developing field. A current research on the origins and purpose of the skull collection, lead by...
“Reichel komplex” is a Comunity Web 2.0 Plattform created by Friedemann Derschmidt as a closed weblog for the members of his greater family. On the one hand the purpose of the project is to collect family myths and narratives while on the other it aims to support the collective as itconfronts itself with the sensitive...
A visual-textual tour through Vienna’s “places of memory” by Tal Adler and Karin Schneider We investigate Vienna’s “places of memory”, where history is displayed and taught: Small district museums (Bezirksmuseen), that are not prestigious, hardly included in official guides but rather in elementary schools’ field trips; memorials like “The Exhibition in Vienna’s Otto Wagner...
Israeli poet Ilana Shmueli is researching memory. She is investigating her own memory of a story that happened, as she puts it, “at the margins of the Holocaust”; and she has some astonishing findings. Liane Schindler (Ilana Shmueli) was born in 1924 in Czernowitz (then in Romania). In October 1941 all Jews were required...
The project researches the way Austria was (and still is) dealing with its history by looking at policies and practices regarding landscape and memory. The project is based on a series of landscape photographs from all over Austria, shot through a spirit level (bubble level). The selection of the landscapes in this series is...
Marcel Roubicek is a blind old man living in an old-age home in Prague. In 8 x Roubicek he tells his life’s story in eight interviews. The interviews are conducted by alternating male and female interviewers in Czech, German, Hebrew and Arabic: the languages though which he lived his unlikely tale. The final result...
- A project about civil society in Austria by Tal Adler The project “Voluntary Participation” creates a conceptual bridge between groups of Austrian Civil Society during Nazi time, and the same groups of contemporary Austria 2012. Civil Society is understood as relationships, groups, organizations and institutions “outside of the family, the state, and the...
MemeArchive as subproject extends the MemScreen research framework with perspectives driven by information sciences and media pedagogic dealing with phenomena of so called “commemoration” contextualized in interdisziplinary holocaust research. In the first stage of MemeArchive development, until the end of 2011 some exceptionaly memorial excursions in Israel, Germany, Eastern Europe and Austria are scheduled. They...
Pilot study of the media archaeology of cultural transference techniques (Attila Kosa, Mode2Research – NPO/Austria) To support the whole MemScreen project in all archive dimensions like process documentation, content archiving and content representation, we will apply and evaluate an innovative e-learning environment which was developed at the Institute for Communication Engineering, Johannes Kepler University...
In the context of “MemScreen – An Art-Based Archive of Translation and Narration” at the research lab film and media (Friedemann Derschmidt, Tal Adler, Attila Kosa, Karin Schneider). Mediator of the lectures: Mag. Karin Schneider The series of lectures “shapes of memory” researches on different levels how history can be transformed in narrations, memories and...
