Wendy Coones

Wendy Coones, M.Ed

Member of the Academic Staff - Head of Academic Development & Cooperation - Department for Arts and Cultural Studies

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Functions

  • Head of Academic Development & Cooperation, Department for Arts and Cultural Studies
  • Academic Director and Head of Consortium, Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Program Media Arts Cultures (2013–2025)
  • Head of the program Crossmedia Exhibition Development (since 2007)
  • Head of the program MediaArtHistories
  • Headquarters Director of the conference series "Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology" (since 2004)
  • Curriculum development and coordination of modular continuing-education offerings (Krems Culture Stacks)

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„Wendy Coones is Head of Academic Development & Cooperation at the University for Continuing Education Krems (UWK), Austria, leading academic structural development and international cooperation for the Department for Arts and Cultural Studies. She previously served as Head of International Cooperations & Partnerships (2022–2025), and before led the team that built the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's program Media Arts Cultures, taking on the role of Academic Director and Head of Consortium. Running from 2013 to 2025, the program spanned five partner universities in Europe and Asia, sustained two consecutive Erasmus+ funding cycles, and reached a 98% graduation rate. She also co-founded and coordinates the international conference series Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, and stewards related archive and publication work. Her work centers on curriculum design, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity, alongside flexible and hybrid learning models and multi-institutional partnerships. Before moving into academic administration, she spent over a decade developing exhibitions and educational programs at museums and research institutions in the United States and Germany. She holds an M.Ed. in Educational Research (with thesis work in educational philosophy) from Texas Christian University and a BFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute.“

About the person

  • 1994–2005 Exhibition development and educational programs at museums and research institutions in the United States and Germany (including Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Chabot Space & Science Center, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
  • Since 2005 Academic staff member at DUK/UWK
  • 2005–2011 Department/Center for Image Science, Danube University Krems
  • 2011–2013 Head of the Center for Image Science, Department for Art & Culture
  • 2013–2022 Associate Department Head, Department for Arts and Cultural Studies
  • 2013–2025 Contributed to and later led the Consortium, Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Program Media Arts Cultures
  • 2022–2025 Head of International Cooperations & Partnerships
  • 2026–present Head of Academic Development & Cooperation

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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