Oliver Schürer
Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.,
is researcher, curator, editor and author as well as Senior Scientist and Deputy head at the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, Vienna University of Technology. He has given numerous international lectures and did many publications mainly on technology and media in architecture. He has curated a variety of small and large conferences as well as series of events. Since 2008 he conducts experimental projects in the arts, as he develops theory by interlinking architecture, art, engineering and humanities intensely. In 2014 he founded the transdisciplinary group H.A.U.S., researching “Humanoid robots in Architecture and Urban Spaces.”
Newspaper “Der Standard” on H.A.U.S. research, spring 2025
Newspaper “Der Standard”, print 4.6.2025, “Mit Robotern tanzen” in “Forschung Spezial”. Newspaper “Der Standard”, online 10.6.2025 “Wenn die KI besser Schlagzeug spielt und singt als ein Profi” in “Forschung Spezial…
Ningyō and Automata – Oliver invited to lecture at the Autrian Cultural Forum Warsaw
Oliver shared observations on the development of artificial agents by means of an intercultural narration on the replica of human beings, entiteled: Ningyō and Automata. Starting the discussion with some…
Protected: (post in progress) Robot “Machina” and Puppet “Coppélia” a video study in anthropomorphization
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“This AI invites you to dance” a Presentation/discussion of our research method and the youAI book @ Pandora | Homo Digitalis
(german language event) am 15.01.2025 ab 19h c.t. im Kulturcafé Max, Mariengasse 1, 1170 Wien. Pandora announces: „Eine KI bittet zum Tanz – Menschen und Roboter improvisieren“. Wir begrüßen diesmal…
Performing “just-because AI” at the “Innovationsdialog” @ ankerfabrik
Invited by the “Innovationsstiftung für Bildung” (Foundation for Innovation in Education) Florian and Oliver performed “just-because AI” at the fondations event on technology in education. Oliver lectured aspects of digital…
Oliver, interviewed by ARD radio: Frankenstein – on the myth of the human-like that is human-made.
Creature or thing? Many people develop their personal understanding of robotics and AI through the human-like nature of these technologies. How will the myth of Frankenstein, and the monster without…