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.”
Performance @ digital days conference, Vienna Museum of Science & Technology
In order to generate data for training artificial intelligence, our actions as humans are tracked. But every day, with every click, every like, or every selfie, artificial intelligence is also…
Podcast on the “Humaneness in times of AI” for the Association of Austrian Psychotherapists with Oliver
Podcast in 2 parts, german language. Host Simone Rannicher in discussion with DDr. Reinhild Strauss MSc and Oliver Schürer. Episode 1: Episode 2:
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…
Robot “Machina” and Puppet “Coppélia” a video study in anthropomorphization
We humans have millennia-old fantasies about other beings. We animate them as humanoid creatures so that they are available to us as references or substitutes. At times, they might be generous…
Performing “Touched by AI?” at the “eBazar” @ PH Vienna
Invited by “PH Vienna” (Foundation for Innovation in Education) Florian and Oliver performed “Touched by AI?” at the conference and exhibit on technology in education. Oliver presented his criticism of…
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, in the context of the european “More Than Human”…