The Department for Arts and Cultural Studies is dedicated to researching the arts and culture, with a particular focus on the influence of digitalization on preserving tangible and intangible cultural heritage, memory studies, and the use of new technologies in museums and collections. It also investigates the visualization and management of cultural data and opportunities for democratizing cultural constructions of meaning through participatory processes. Within the realm of Digital Humanities, the documentation and archiving of tangible and intangible cultural heritage for research and teaching pose a significant challenge. The department integrates theory and practice by working with the Lower Austrian State Collections and its own music, literature, architecture, and film collections, seeking to bridge the gap between research and application.

Projects

ruth weiss: Complete Published Works Critical Hybrid Edition

Duration: 01/06/2025–31/05/2029
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Thomas Antonic
Funding: FWF

reCLAYm – Re-connecting citizen scientists with material culture research in archaeology

Duration: 01/04/2026–31/03/2029
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Jakob Maurer
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Addressing the Interplay between Gaming Culture Practices and School Education: Didactics, Challenges and Potentials

Duration: 01/03/2026–28/02/2029
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Natalie Denk
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Visualizing Aging Processes of Oil Paintings on Canvas: An Interactive VR Approach

Duration: 01/01/2026–31/12/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Hanna Brinkmann
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

ARTINNOLAB 4.0. Developing tomorrow's competences for responsibility, sustainability, digitalization and societal transformation through Arts

Duration: 01/11/2025–30/10/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: EU

Enhancing Lower Austria’s Rural Industrial Heritage – New Approaches Through Citizen Science

Duration: 01/09/2025–30/08/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Researching - Preserving – Sharing. Establishing a Digital Community of Transnational Memory and Records on Nazi Forced Labour in Lower Austria

Duration: 01/08/2025–31/07/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Edith Blaschitz
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Roman Trails - On the Trail of the Romans in the Weinviertel Region and in South Moravia

Duration: 01/05/2024–30/04/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Raffaela Woller
Funding: EU

Exploring the Roman Legacy: Creation of a theme region and cultural route along the Roman Danube Limes to empower the socio-economic development of shared European heritage

Duration: 01/04/2025–31/03/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Raffaela Woller
Funding: EU

Composing Change. Orchestral Impact in European Societies

Duration: 01/03/2025–29/02/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Olga Kolokytha
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

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Publications

Hechenblaihner, N.; Brait, A. (2026). Freedom and Security. The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004736979, BRILL, Leiden; Boston

Brait, A. (2026). „Antisemitismus“ im österreichischen Geschichtsunterricht der Sekundarstufe II. Einblicke über Geschichtshefte bzw. -mappen. In: Nitsche, M.; Thyroff, J.; Waldis, M., Geschichtslernen in Zeiten der Krise: 233–254, hep, Bern

Brait, A. (2026). Negotiations on Cultural Cooperation at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting. In: Hechenblainer, N.; Brait, A., Freedom and Security. The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989): 70–83, BRILL, Leiden; Boston

Brait, A; Krösche, H. (2026). Quellenarbeit revisited? Entwicklung und Erprobung von Erklärvideos 2.0 für historische Lernprozesse. In: Heuer, C.; Marschnig, G.; Breser, B., KunstGeschichte(n). Über die ästhetische Dimension der Geschichtskultur: 239–256, Wochenschau, Frankfurt am Main

Hechenblaikner, N.; Brait, A. (2026). The Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986–1989). Introduction. In: Hechenblaikner, N.; Brait, A., Freedom and Security. The CSCE and the End of the Cold War (1986–1989): 1–18, BRILL, Leiden; Boston

Belinskaya, Y., Kolokytha, O. (2025). From outlaw art to urban euphoria: Graffiti legitimization processes from within. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 11(2): 171-191

Holst, C., Belinskaya, Y., Kolokytha, O. (2025). Exploring roles in digital co-creation: the case of Twittertheater. Cultural Trends, online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2025.2494632

Kolokytha, O. (2025). Book review- editor picks. Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/27018466251344496

Kolokytha, O. (2025). Classical music and orchestras in a rapidly changing world. Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/27018466251348190

Seewald, A.; Winter, T.; Platzer, M.; Wernbacher, T.; Pfeiffer, A. (2025). Climate-friendly online shopping within the Green eCommerce project: a simple syntactic prompt design heuristic for ChatGPT; using single-language-models as multi-language models. Journal of Decision Systems, 34: https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2025.2552538

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