Wendy Coones

Wendy Coones, M.Ed

Member of the Academic and Research Staff - Department for Arts and Cultural Studies

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Functions

Director of University Courses

  • Media Arts Cultures, MA - Erasmus Mundus joint master degree
  • Crossmedia Exhibition Development (from 2007-2021 was Exhibition Design and Management)
  • past courses lead / collaborator: MediaArtHistories, MA, Crossmedia Design & Management, MSc, Image Science, MA

Coordination & Development

  • Coordinator: Media Arts Cultures - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Consortium 
  • Curriculum development and coordination: modularized teaching in areas related to the creative & cultural sector and digital transitions.
  • Joint Degrees in Arts & Cultures
  • Collaboration in research and development projects at the Department for Arts & Cultural Studies

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„My work focuses on curriculum development, student support structures, and international academic collaboration across universities and cultural institutions.“

About the person

  • Since 2005: Member of the Academic and Research Staff at the Department for Arts & Cultural Studies
  • Collaboration / coordination of archives: MediaArtHistoriesArchive, Archive of Digital Art, online archive of the Graphic Art Collection Göttweig Abbey
  • Headquarters Director of the World Conference Series for the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.
  • Previously worked as an exhibition developer and manager in various museums and for special exhibitions.
  • Studied Educational Research and Educational Philosophy, Master of Education degree
  • Studied Fine Arts with focus on sculpture and new genres, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree

Wendy Coones is responsible for international academic programme and curriculum development. Her work spans the design and implementation of hybrid, transdisciplinary learning structures, coordination of multi-institutional partnerships, and leadership of student-success initiatives. Since 2014 she has coordinated the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme Media Arts Cultures, supervising programme governance, quality assurance and international exchange across five countries.

Projects (Extract Research Database)

Running projects

Media Arts Cultures 2.0

Duration: 01/09/2018–30/11/2025
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Wendy Coones
Funding: EU
Program: ERASMUS+

Publications (Extract Research Database)

Coones, Wendy; Johannsen, Thies; Philipp, Thorsten (2023). Cooperative Education. In: Thorsten Philipp, Tobias Schmohl (eds.), Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning: pgs 53-62, Transcript-Verlag, Berlin

Coones, W. (2020). Elaborating Mediation Through Media Arts. In: Hava Aldouby, Shifting Interfaces An Anthology of Presence, Empathy, and Agency in 21st-Century Media Arts: 91-110, Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium

Coones W. (2020). Re-Disciplining Museum Work in Post-Gutenberg Times. Networked Knowledge at the Close of the Gutenberg Paretheses. neues museum - Die Österreichische Museumszeitschrift, 20-1/2: 38-41, Museumsbund Osterreich

Grau, O.; Coones, W. (2020). Museum Network for Digital Arts: A Concerted collection, documentation, and conservation strategy. In: ISEA 2020: 689-694, ISEA, Kanada

Grau, O.; Coones, W.; Rühse, V. (2017). Museum and Archive on the Move - Changing Cultural Institutions on the Digital Era. DE GRUYTER, Berlin

Grau, O.; Coones, W.; Rühse, V. (2017). Museum and Archive on the Move: Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era, Introduction. In: Oliver Grau, Wendy Coones, Viola Rühse, Museum and Archive on the Move: Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era: 9-22, DE GRUYTER, Berlin

Lectures (Extract Research Database)

Emerging Futures in Media Arts Research & Experiments

New Media Perspectives: art – design – science - technology, 02/12/2023

Emerging Futures in Media Arts from a Global Perspective

The 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, 15/09/2023

Museum of Damnation Memoraiea: Ragusa 2.0

1st International Conference of Dubrovnik Research Library "Exhibition of the Heritage Items", 28/09/2022

Global Agenda for Contemporary Media Arts Education

Pedagogy of Art and Practice of New Media, 10/12/2021

Innovation in Media Arts Cultures

Digitalisierung in Kunst und Kultur – Wie viel Technologie darf Kunst?, 23/11/2021

Media Art and Digital Objects / Media Art Archives

Searching Digital: Methods, Tools, and Standards of Research in Digital Humanitie (CHASE Training & Development), 16/06/2021

Digital Curation in a Lliving Archive - History and Future of the Archive of Digital Art

International Symposium "Digital Curator"; Masaryk University, 02/12/2020

Resisting A Total Loss Of Digital Heritage. Web 2.0-Archiving & Bridging Thesaurus For Media Art Histories

EVA – Elektronische Medien und Kunst, Kultur, Geschichte, Berlin, Deutschland, 09/11/2018

Visual Competencies through Image Science

Lancaster University, Lancaster UK , 16/10/2018

Dariah Connectivity: Six Decades of Digital Arts & Museum - A New Inftrastructure

The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, 25/11/2017

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