The Robopsychology Lab uses music to promote knowledge about AI: In a collab with singer-songwriter Blonder Engel, they released A Liadl, ans üwa KI. Together with rappers Yasmo and Flip, a hiphop track about environmental impacts of AI was produced.
Moreover, they teamed up with Dominika Meindl on a series of Gstanzl (an old form of sung rants) about gender inequalities in AI. In this event, the three pieces are performed, some as live world premieres, and contextualized through expert talks.
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Bios
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Photo: Volker WeihboldBlonder Engel
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Blonder Engel stands for contemplative music with sophisticated lyrics, excellent guitar skills, mischievous self-irony and an unstoppable talent for improvisation. A bare chest, golden leggings, angel wings and a bass voice that would make any Hollywood villain jealous are the trademarks of this award-winning artist from Linz. Between his cheeky songs, he often drifts off into stories whose endings are sometimes unknown even to him. Of course, the audience also gets to call the shots from time to time. The main thing is that everyone’s laughing when the fastest mouth in the Garden of Eden fires off in the finest Upper Austrian dialect. An artist where anything can happen on stage. Heavenly!
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Photo: Zoe GoldsteinDominika Meindl
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Dominika Meindl, born 1978 in Linz, is the “President of the Republic of Austria”. As a writer, presenter, journalist and literary event organizer, she divides her time between Upper Austria and the Totes Gebirge. She is the director of “Original Linzer Worte”, Austria’s longest-running reading stage, and curates the “experiment literatur” series in Wels. She is the regional spokesperson for the Grazer Autorenversammlung (GAV) in Upper Austria. Her debut novel Selbe Stadt, anderer Planet has just been published by Picus Verlag.
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Photo: Wolfgang ZajcDoris Schmidauer
Initiative Digitalisierung Chancengerecht
Doris Schmidauer is a passionate manager, consultant and motivator. As the founder of the initiative Digitalisierung Chancengerecht (IDC), she is committed to ensuring that the digital transformation is humane, democratic, social and ecological.
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Photo: Zoe GoldsteinFlip
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Flip is a producer, label head (Tonträger Records), rapper, and visionary, as well as a member of Texta since 1993. In 2023, the Linz-based band celebrated its 30th anniversary, and alongside that, they released another album with the TTR ALLSTARS, titled In unsam Haus, which proves that even veteran rappers can still rock the mic.
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Photo: AttwengerHP Falkner
Hans Peter Falkner, born in 1967 in Linz, Upper Austria, is a musician and producer. In 1990, he co-founded the highly successful and innovative band Attwenger with Markus Binder, as well as the acoustic side project die goas. Attwenger combines folk music with punk rock, hip-hop, techno, house, dub, and rockabilly. Since the beginning of his career, Falkner has released 12 albums and played over 1,000 concerts in 25 countries. In 1996, the first part of his Gstanzl books was published—a series that has since grown to three volumes. Falkner has also released numerous solo albums as a musician (accordion, vocals) and produced CDs for other artists under his label Fischrecords.
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Photo: Luiza PuiuIvona Brandic
Professorin für High Performance Computing Systems, TU Wien
Ivona Brandić is a computer scientist and university professor at the Vienna University of Technology. For over 15 years, she has been focused on sustainable computing systems. Her work also includes topics such as cloud computing, high performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and hybrid classical-quantum systems.
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Photo: KneidingerPhotographyJulia Zukrigl
Communicating complex AI and data topics in a simple and accessible way for everyone: Dr. Julia Zukrigl supports AI experts across Europe in this endeavor. She is also the co-founder of Women in AI Austria.
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Photo: Lisa SonnleithnerKathrin Meyer
Senior Scientist LIT Robopsychology Lab
Kathrin Meyer is senior scientist at the LIT Robopsychology Lab, where she plays a key role in various research projects and science communication. She has extensive professional experience in project management, consulting, knowledge communication, training and user experience in technology-related fields.
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LIT Robopsychology Lab
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The LIT Robopsychology Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz combines theories and methods from psychology with current issues in human interaction with AI and robotics. Under the direction of Martina Mara, research topics include public understanding of AI, anthropomorphism, trust in automation, and the psychological effects of exoskeletons. Emphasizing transdisciplinarity, science communication, and art-science collaborations, the lab aims to advance participatory approaches to academic research.
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Photo: Paul KranzlerMartina Mara
Leitung LIT Robopsychology Lab
Martina Mara is a professor and head of the Robopsychology Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at Johannes Kepler University. Her work focuses on the psychological conditions for human-centered technology development and interdisciplinary research strategies.
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Photo: Luiza PuiuSabine Köszegi
Professorin für Arbeitswissenschaft und Organisation, TU Wien / IDC-Mitglied
Sabine Köszegi is Professor for Labor Science and Organization at TU Wien and a member of IDC. She has over twenty years of experience in interdisciplinary research at the intersections of technology, work and organization, and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. Together with her team, she develops technological support for conflict resolution and negotiation, analyzes aspects of the new world of work, and studies the impacts of robotics and AI on work environments, sociotechnical systems, and society at large.
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Photo: Meinrad HoferSilke Grabinger
Silke Grabinger’s works and concepts combine urban and contemporary dance with performative art and robotics. Her focus is on the critical examination of social phenomena, artistic paradigms and the function and role of the audience.
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Photo: Sabine KlimptUlrike Domany-Funtan
Generalsekretärin fit4internet (Verein zur Steigerung digitaler Kompetenzen in Österreich)
Ulrike Domany-Funtan has been the Secretary General of fit4internet since late 2018. This association, initiated by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs and supported by the business sector, is dedicated to enhancing digital skills in Austria.
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Photo: Carina AntlYasmo
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Yasmo is a Vienna-based rapper and poet. She has been taking the stage by storm since 2007, and in 2009 she became the first Austrian to win the German-speaking U20 Poetry Slam. In 2013, she made history again as the first woman to win the Austrian Poetry Slam. Yasmo tours the world with her lyrics. In 2023 she released her fifth studio album Laut & Lost with her band “Yasmo & die Klangkantine”. The album earned her another nomination for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award and a spectacular live performance that caused a sensation. She is also co-curator of Popfest Wien 2019 and Kultursommer 2021 & 2022.
Credits
LIT Robopsychology Lab: Martina Mara, Kathrin Meyer, Sebastian Lang
In cooperation with Initiative Digitalisierung Chancengerecht (IDC).
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