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): Helmut Neundlinger
Funding: FWF
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)
Duration: 15/06/2025–30/06/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Edith Blaschitz
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
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)
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)
Duration: 01/10/2025–30/09/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Thomas Wernbacher
Funding: FFG
Art Experience in the (Post-) Digital Age - { original | digital | virtual }
Duration: 15/03/2024–13/03/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Hanna Brinkmann
Funding: FWF
Duration: 01/03/2025–28/02/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Duration: 01/03/2024–28/02/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Duration: 01/09/2024–31/08/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Thomas Wernbacher
Funding: FFG
Publications
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
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: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2025.3559769
Baer, M., Emmerig, H. (2025). Die Geschichte der Sammlung am Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien. In: Martin Mulsow, Katharina Martin, Johannes Wienand, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der universitären Münzsammlungen im deutschsprachigen Raum: 437-473, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Wien
Blaschitz, E. (2025). Showing the invisible: Archives, transnational cultures of remembrance and digital collaboration by the example of “historically-charged” sites from the Nazi era. In: Peter, B.; Vogt, G.; Baumann, C.; Illmayer, K.; Rind, A.; Tiefenbacher, S., Digitale Strategien zur Erschließung prekärer Bestände. Über Erzählen, Ausstellen, Partizipieren: 259-270, V&R unipress, Göttingen
Blaschitz, E. (2025). Das Nicht-Sichtbare sichtbar machen: Archive, transnationale Erinnerungskulturen und digitale Kollaboration am Beispiel „belasteter“ Orte der NS-Zeit. In: Peter, B.; Vogt, G.; Baumann, C.; Illmayer, K.; Rind, A.; Tiefenbacher, S., Digitale Strategien zur Erschließung prekärer Bestände. Über Erzählen, Ausstellen, Partizipieren. 245–258, V&R unipress, Göttingen
Neundlinger, H. (2025). "Die Idee des Kommunismus wird überdauern". Die politischen Sozialisationen des Fran Kain. In: Georg Hofer, "Ich bin in Opposition zu meiner Zeit getreten ..." Franz Kain (1922-1997): 103-116, Adalbert-Stifter Institut des Landes Oberösterreich, Linz
Tartler, A.; Mayr, E.; Windhager, F.; Mayer, S. (2025). Digitale Erschließung historischer Bibliotheken: Erkenntnisse und Perspektiven aus dem Projekt Bibliotheca Eugeniana Digital. Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 49(2): https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0074
Brait, A. (2024). „Vergangenheitskunde“ oder Holocaust-Education? Einblicke in den österreichischen Geschichtsunterricht zum Thema „Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust“ über Geschichtshefte bzw. -mappen. zeitgeschichte, 51 (2024), Heft 4: 493–514
Chaidemenaki, L.; Kolokytha, O. (2024). Whose culture is it anyway? Perceptions of accessibility in museums by professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities in Greece. Museum Management and Curatorship, online first: 1-18
