Currently on parental leave.

Adnan Balcinovic is an artist. At CDS, he develops and runs the Cross-Disciplinary Capabilities Lab for BA students in collaboration with the CDS faculty. The CDCLab is a safe space for experimentation and critical cross-generational theoretical as well as practical exchange. Here, the knowledge acquired in the various courses of CDS is applied. Adnan also offers courses on artistic strategies as well as on reflective writing and portfolio development.
His artistic practice is concerned with serial production in relation to the moving image. Adnan works mainly with found materials and searches for concepts, structures and patterns. Important terms for his artistic practice are repetition, reproduction, presentation.

Currently on educational leave

Aurianne Chevandier is an artist and researcher coming from the fields of History and Photography. At CDS she teaches topics bridging History, Memory and Archive to artistic practices. Her artistic focus is on the connections between visual arts and methodologies in History and Anthropology, as well as on gestures and methodologies of making in art. Her scientific focus is on Historiography, History of Science and Techniques and History of Photography.

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.

Gudrun Ratzinger studied art history at the University of Vienna and cultural studies at the University of Art and Design Linz. Her dissertation focussed on the possibilities of installation and object-based depictions of history in contemporary art. She has worked at the Kunsthalle Wien, the Generali Foundation and the Wien Museum, among others. From mid-2020 to March 2024, she was head of the permanent exhibition project “Climate. Knowledge. Action!” at Technisches Museum Wien. Her independent curatorial projects are located at the interface of art, everyday culture and cultural studies. Since 2021 she has been curator of the Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt, which she has also been running since January 2024.