Dr.phil. Viola Rühse, M.A.
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viola.ruehse@donau-uni.ac.at
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+43 2732 893-2570
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Campus Krems, Tract M, 2nd Floor, 2.47
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Platform for Sustainable Development (SDGs)
- Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
- 3500 Krems
- Austria
About the person
Viola Rühse works as course director at the University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria. She studied History of Art and German Language and Literature at the universities of Hamburg and Vienna and obtained her PhD with a dissertation on Siegfried Kracauer’s film writings. Her current main topics of research – in addition to film theory – are modern and contemporary art, science images, and critical theory. She also works as an artist/photographer and curator. One of her critical essays received the Bazon Brock Essay Award.
Projects (Extract Research Database)
Completed projects
Duration: 03/06/2024–31/10/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Viola Rühse
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)
Infrastructures for Digital Arts Teaching and Research in Higher Education
Duration: 01/03/2020–29/02/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Viola Rühse
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)
Duration: 01/12/2021–31/12/2023
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Viola Rühse
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Publications (Extract Research Database)
Rühse, V. (2025). Participatory Media Art Documentation: The Relaunch of the Archive of Digital Art (ADA). In: Anthony L. Brooks, Domna Banakou, Slavica Ceperkovic, ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation, Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference 2024: 58-65, Springer International Publishing, Basel
Rühse, V. (2025). Venetian Art Prints from Their Beginnings to Today’s Sustainability Initiatives. In: Christina Hainzl, Cristina Baldacci, Adrian Praschl-Bichler, Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies: 139-153, transcript, Bielefeld
Rühse, V.; Horvath, A.-S. (2025). Fungi Matters: A comparison of contemporary fungi imagery between art, design, and architecture. In: Guzmán Olmos, A.-M., Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond, Aachen 2024 (POM 2024). Conference Proceedings: 8 pages, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, London
Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A.; Rühse, V. (2025). Foreword. In: Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A.; Rühse, V., Fractures: 6-7, Fotohof > Edition, Salzburg
Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A; Rühse, V. (2025). Fractures. Fotohof >Edition, Salzburg
Rühse, V. (2025). In Search of Beauty Despite All Adversities. Reflections on Tanya Traboulsi's Photos of Beirut in Her Series "Ich Schreibe Dir später". In: Hainzl, C.; Praschl-Bichler, A.; Rühse, V., Fractures: 66-91, Fotohof, Salzburg
Rühse, V., Smuc, M., Windhager, F. (2025). Diagramme und Tänze von Leben und Tod: Biographische Datenvisualisierungen und -physikalisierungen im Vergleich. In: Reiter, N., Haider, T. Kababgi, D., Buschmeier, H., DHd 2025: Under Construction, 11. Jahrestagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V. 130-134, Zenodo, Genf
Böhm, K., Blaschitz, E., Rühse, V. (2024). Nothing Left to See? Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf – A Topographic Survey. Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Böhm, K.; Blaschitz, E.; Rühse, V. (2024). Nichts zu sehen? Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf – eine topografische Vermessung. Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Rühse, V. (2024). Über das Bild-Text-Mosaik zum Stalag XVII B von Karin Böhm und Edith Blaschitz. In: Nichts zu sehen? Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf – eine topografische Vermessung. 126 - 132, Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Rühse, V. (2024). Richard Linklater`s Before Sunrise and film tourism in Vienna. In: Tourism, arts & territories. Impacts réciproques à travers des études de cas: 291 - 311, P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A, Frankreich
Rühse, V. (2024). Wolfgang Petzet’s pamphlet Verbotene Filme [Banned films] and the censorship debate at the end of the Weimar Republic. In: University of Exeter Press, The Screen Censorship Companion: Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media: 101 - 120, Exeter, England
Rühse, V. (2024). Concerning the Visual-Textual Mosaic on Stalag XVII B by Karin Böhm and Edith Blaschitz. In: Nothing Left to See? Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf – A Topographic Survey. 126 - 132, Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra
Ettel L.; Wöran A. (2023). Perspektiven Digitaler Archivierung -- Das Archive of Digital Art und die Graphische Sammlung Stift Göttweig Online im Kontext des Kulturerbes Niederösterreich. Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur (mit Geographie), 4/2023: 28-44
Ettel Laura, Wöran Alexander, Iskra Isabella (2023). Blurriness in Media Art Archiving – Where Theory Encounters Practice, the Archive of Digital Art (ADA). MAST – The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Vol.4/No.1, 2023: 136
Rühse Viola; Hoffman Carl Phillipp (2023). Lehr- und Forschungsinfrastruktur für Digitale Künste an Hochschulen (LeFo): Die Initiative "Connecting New Media Art Archives ". Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung Jg. 18, Sonderheft November: 163
Rühse Viola, Anca-Simona Horvath (2023). The presence of the absence: sensory aesthetics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Silvia Casini, Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology: 66-68, The MIT Press, Aberdeen
Rühse Viola; Anca-Simona Horvath (2023). Visualizing Sound Waves – Complex Media Art and Chladni Patterns. Comité International de l'Histoire de l'Art, MOTION: MIGRATIONS -- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 35TH WORLD CONGRESS OF ART HISTORY: 533-550, Sao Paulo
Windhager, F.; Rühse, V.; Smuc, M. (2023). Monster in a Snow Globe: Biographies as Data Physicalizations. IEEE VISAP 2023, IEEE VISAP 2023 – Perpetual Presence: 28-29, IEEE VISAP, Melbourne
Rühse, V.; Windhager, F. (2023). Prolegomena zu der geplanten digitalen Edition des Radierten Tagebuchs von Herwig Zens. In: Herwig Zens. Keine Zeit: 14-29, Verlag für moderne Kunst 2023,, Wien
Lectures (Extract Research Database)
GöttwAIg: An AI co-created 21st-century reinterpretation of the cabinet of curiosities of Göttweig Abbey in Austria
EAI ArtsIT 2025? 7-9 November, 2025, 08/11/2025
Buchpräsentation "Fractures"
"Fractures – Contemporary Approaches from the Arab Region" - Buchpräsentation im Rahmen der FOTO Wien, 10/10/2025
Buchpräsentation "Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies"
International Conference: "Fluid Geographies. Reconsidering the Notion of Border in Contemporary Art", 19/06/2025
The Berlin Wall in the art of Dan Perjovschi
Fluid Geographies. Reconsidering the Notion of Border in Contemporary Art, 18/06/2025
Participatory Media Art Documentation: The Relaunch of the Archive of Digital Art (ADA)
13th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, 13/11/2024
Beirut in Tanya Traboulsi’s fine art photography
Conflict and visualisation: Lebanon, 17/10/2024
Zens digital - skulptural - generativ
Zens digital -Spezialabend, 03/10/2024
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and its filming locations, Keynote
Workshop A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) and Brutalism, SF(a)_Society. Film. Architecture – season 3, 05/07/2024
Analyse der Filme Die Hüter des Unrats (R: Susann Maria Hempel, DE 2022) sowie A Ballad About Green Wood (R: Jirí Barta, CS 1983) sowie Gespräch mit der Autorin Franziska Füchsl, grotesk!
Festival für Literatur und Film, 08/06/2024
Nichts zu sehen
Publikumsgespräch mit Edith Blaschitz und Karin Böhm, 23/05/2024