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

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)

Private libraries as sources for the reception of Austrian literature in the 19th century. Vincenz Seback's book collection in the mirror of its time

Duration: 01/01/2025–31/12/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

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Publications

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

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

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

VanderHart, C.; Weigl, D. M. (2025). Hand in Hand; Strauss’ Kaiser-Walzer as a case study of interdisciplinary collaboration in digital musicology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, DSH 2023 Sonderausgabe: 1-13

VanderHart, C.; Wögerbauer, D.; Weigl, D. M. (2025). Accompaniment in America: A Minimal-Computing Digital Collection for Hybrid Musicological Publication. Digital Libraries for Musicology Conference Proceedings, 12: 124-128

Windhager, F.; Koch, S.; Münster, S.; Mayr, E. (2025). Editorial: Visualizing Big Culture and History Data. Frontiers in Big Data, Volume 8 - 2025: https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2025.1563730

Windhager, F.; Mayr, E.; Glinka, K. (2025). From Exploration to Critique: Catalyzing Critical Inquiry with Cultural Collection Visualizations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 45(4): 45-59

Blaschitz, E.; Krenn, M. (Hrsg.) (2025). Spuren lesbar machen. Das NS-Zwangslager im Granitwerk Roggendorf. Neue Formen der Geschichtsaufarbeitung zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck

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