Viola Rühse

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.

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Belvedere Summer School

Duration: 03/06/2024–31/10/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Viola Rühse
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)

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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)

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Tool Development for Image Data Literacy: Understanding Digital Art with complex data analysis – (ImDaLi)

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)

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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

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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

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