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10:00Registration
10:30Welcome
Gerald Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Hans-Peter Weiss, CEO BIG
10:45Presentation and introduction
Regina Barta, Team leader BIG ART
Cornelia Offergeld, Chairperson of the BIG ART Advisory Committee
Claudia Büttner, Art historian and freelance curator, Munich

Panel I

11:00Katrina Petter, Head of Public Art Lower Austria
THE RAVAGES OF THE OUTDOORS – QUESTIONS ON CHANGE, DECAY AND CONSERVATION BASED ON EXAMPLES OF ART IN PUBLIC SPACE IN LOWER AUSTRIA
11:30Henrik Orrje, Head of Department for Supervision, Collection and Administration, Public Art Agency Sweden
MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ART WITHIN THE 20TH CENTURY BUILT CULTURAL HERITAGE – AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD
12:00Cathrine Mellander Backman, Senior Adviser at the Departement for Cultural Environment at the Swedish National Heritage Board
BUILDING RELATED PUBLIC ART – METHOD OF VALUATION BASED ON CULTURAL HERITAGE AND AESTHETIC ASPECTS
12:30Uta Hassler, Architect and professor emeritus at the Department of Architecture (ETH Zurich)
A PARADOX OF CONSERVATION – ART FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AS TEMPORARY EPISTEMES?
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13:00Audience discussion with all speakers
Moderation: Claudia Büttner
13:30 – 15:00Lunch break

Panel II

15:00Jakob Helmut Deibl, Assistant Professor for Religion and Aesthetics (University of Vienna)
FIGURATIONS OF REMAINING. PRESERVING AND LETTING GO AS MODES OF ART(WORKS)
15:30Linus Neumann, Hacker, Spokesman of the Chaos Computer Club
IS THAT /DEV/RANDOM OR CAN IT GO IN /DEV/NULL? ON THE WORTH AND WORTHLESSNESS OF CULTURE AND CREATIVE WORK
16:00Audience discussion with all speakers
Moderation: Claudia Büttner and Cornelia Offergeld
16:30 – 17:00Coffee break

Panel III

17:00Hans Ulrich Reck, Philosopher and art historian, Professor emeritus and Rector (Academy of Media Arts Cologne)
FROM HISTORICAL CRITICISM TO CONTINGENCY AND IDIOSYNCRASY
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17:30Panel
Anna Artaker, Artist and Elise-Richter-Research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, Architect and founder of “the next ENTERprise Architects”, Professor of Design and Building Theory at the Institute of Architecture at Kassel University, BIG ART Advisory Committee
Gabriela Krist, Restorer and art historian, Head of the Institute of Conservation and Restoration at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 1999. UNESCO Chairholder for international projects and work on world cultural heritage
Hans-Ulrich Reck, Philosopher and art historian
Moderation: Claudia Büttner and Klaus-Jürgen Bauer
18:30Presentation and exhibition
Introduction
Paul Petritsch, Professor, Head of the Department of Site-Specific Art (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
On the projects:
Georgia Holz and Jeanette Pacher, Curators, lecturers at the Department of Site-Specific Art
Projects developed by students within the framework of the courses “Sammlungen und Archive – vom Umgang mit den Dingen” (lecturer: Georgia Holz) and “Urban Explorations” (lecturer: Jeanette Pacher) at the Department of Site-Specific Art (head: Paul Petritsch).
With contributions by:
Rosa Andraschek, Christian Christiansen, Gregory Desneux, Oskar Enetjärn, Lara Erel, Kim Gubbini, Natalia Gurova, Konstanze Horak, Bart Houwers, Yu Isogawa, Elizaveta Kapustina, Emma Kaufmann-LaDuc, Ana Mumladze, Miki Okamura, Michael Plessl, Felix Schwentner, Julian Siffert, Sissi Petutschnig, Ilena Sophia Trump, Mariya Tsaneva, Anna-Sophia Unterstab, Tsai-Ju Wu
19:00Get-Together