At CDS — after working with the BA students in the Application Lab in the past — Adnan Balcinovic currently focuses on courses about the role of artistic strategies such as reproduction, copying, repetition, and appropriation in cross-disciplinary practices. He supports BA students in creating and continuously working on a study journal. This is a tool that textually and visually documents the skills acquired, projects carried out, but also failures and dreams. He also supports BA finalists in setting up a common ground for the presentation/installation/exhibition of the practical application of their BA thesis.

Adnan Balcinovic is an artist. In his artistic practice, he deals with serial production in relation to moving images. Adnan works mainly with found materials and searches for concepts, structures, and patterns. Important terms for his artistic practice are repetition, reproduction, and presentation. As part of his artistic research and work, he is currently looking a lot at clouds, and depiction of clouds.

Website: https://www.adnanbalcinovic.eu

Yona Catrina Schreyer is an architect by training. Through her research and spatial practice she explores the relation between society, the design of the built environment, and political programmes with a focus on the social and ethical implications for design(ers) in addressing current trends and global phenomena. At CDS she teaches the CDC Application Lab and the seminar “Global Changes – An Atlas For Upending The World” that investigates spatially explicit probabilities and predictions for so-called “hotspot cities” – the main drivers of global change as fastest growing cities in critical biological areas – across cartography and mapping.

At CDS, Lisa Stuckey co-leads the Application Lab with the research focus “Forecast” (2025) and “Witnessing” (2025/26). Furthermore, she offers the Program Related Reflection and supervises Bachelor theses in the context of the Finalist Lab.

Lisa Stuckey is an art and cultural studies researcher. Her interests revolve around contemporary visual cultures, forensic art practices, the moving image, media aesthetics, and tribunalization phenomena. Before joining CDS, she has been working at Angewandte since 2021 (Media Theory, Cultural Studies, Applied Human Rights, Zentrum Fokus Forschung). In 2024, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Lisa Stuckey pursued her doctorate in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with a junior fellowship from the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies. For her dissertation Law on Trial on “Investigative Aesthetics,” Stuckey received the Austrian State Prize “Award of Excellence 2021.”

Selected Publications:

• Lisa Stuckey: Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten: Forensic Architecture und andere Fallanalysen, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732887 (De Gruyter, 2022)
• Anna Polze and Lisa Stuckey: “Media Aesthetics of Collaborative Witnessing,” www.thirdtext.org/stuckey-polze-threedoors (Third Text Online, 2022)
• Lisa Stuckey: “COMPENSATORY INFRASTRUCTURES: Agencies and Think Tanks as Sites of Knowledge Production and Judgment Recommendation” (Studio Art & Research, University of Cologne, 2023)
• Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch (eds.): Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies: Transforming Understanding—Understanding Transformation (Springer, 2025), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4.
• Lisa Stuckey: “ANNOUNCING: Introduction to Uncertain Curiosity,” in: Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies, eds. Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch (Springer, 2025), 1–9, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4_1.
• Lisa Stuckey: “REMEDYING: Philosophical, Legal, and Future Heritage Perspectives on Transformative Remedies—Remedial Transformation,” in: Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies, eds. Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch (Springer, 2025), 127–138, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4_12.

Website: https://www.lisastuckey.net/

Tanja Traxler’s cross-disciplinary work bridges science, philosophy, the arts, and society. Trained as a theoretical quantum physicist, her research, writing, and teaching have expanded from foundational explorations in quantum physics to broader inquiries in science and technology studies. Her work addresses gender issues, intercultural perspectives, and historical contexts. Tanja’s research and teaching, rooted in quantum physics, reach beyond disciplinary boundaries, engaging with themes such as the nature of space and time, ethical challenges arising from scientific advances, and the philosophical foundations of science. Central to her approach is a dedication to cross-disciplinary research that combines the sciences, philosophy, and the arts.

At CDS, Gudrun Ratzinger co-leads the Application Lab, focusing on the themes of “Forecast” (2024/25) and “Witnessing” (2025/26). She also teaches the Program Related Reflection course, supervises bachelor’s theses within the framework of the Finalist Lab, and guides a transdisciplinary student project as part of the Sustainability Challenge.

Gudrun Ratzinger is a cultural scientist and curator. She studied art history at the University of Vienna and cultural studies at the University of Arts Linz. Her doctoral thesis examined the potential of installation- and object-based representations of history in contemporary art. Prior to joining CDS, she worked at Kunsthalle Wien, the Generali Foundation, the Wien Museum and the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology. Her independent curatorial projects lie at the intersection of contemporary art, everyday culture, and cultural studies.

 Selected Publications and Exhibitions:

• Gudrun Ratzinger and Franz Thalmair (eds.), Host – Kunstraum Lakeside, Verlag für moderne Kunst: Vienna, 2024.
• Gudrun Ratzinger and Jochen Hennig together with the curatorial team (cur.), Knowledge. Action! Permanent exhibition at Technical Museum Vienna, 2024.
• Gudrun Ratzinger, Geschichte in den Raum stellen. Museographische Reflexionen im Werk von Marcel Broodthaers, Walid Raad und Mariana Castillo Deball, PhD diss., University of Arts Linz, 2023.
• Gudrun Ratzinger and Edith Payer (cur.), Between Things. Artistic Perspectives on Contemporary Material Culture. Volkskundemuseum Wien, 2021.
• Gudrun Ratzinger and Franz Thalmair (eds.), exhibit! Ausstellen als künstlerische Praxis, KUNSTFORUM International (Bd. 270), 2020.


• Gudrun Ratzinger (cur.), Plan B. How Women Changed Vienna. Brennpunkt° – Museum der Heizkultur Wien, Vienna 2020.
• Gudrun Ratzinger (ed.), Depot NEU. Die Sammlung des Wien Museums zieht um, Wien Museum, Vienna 2015.

  Website: https://betweenthings.net