Diagrams for the Imagination

In cooperation with the Angewandte University Library, students of the seminar "How do theory and art practice relate in texts, models and sketches?" present artistic works in the library's display cases. Through models, drawings, objects, texts, and performance, students explore the relationship between art and theory. In doing so, we understand models in the sciences and arts not as mere visualizations in the service of simplified representations of complex abstract relationships, but rather as part of gaining knowledge in the process of thinking and acting. Diagrams can promote these processes and make information accessible and readable that would otherwise not be visible; at the same time, details can be lost in favor of formalized visual languages. With contributions by: Sama Adhami, Paula Bracker, Marianne Cadiz, Lena Feitl, Marie-Claire Gagnon, Sophia Glinka, Felicia Gulda, Ronja Janu, Zenon Hanappi, Maya Kornfeld, Sophie Koschitz, Luca Ladányi, Felix Siegl, Lidiia Martyniuk, Paul Orasch, Laura Oyuela, Benjamin Palme, Melina Papoulia, Ádám Salomvári, Lisa-Maria Schmidt, Wanyuan Liang