programme

VISAP Paper Session

  • Thursday, November 6, 2025, 09:30 - 10:45
    Austria Center Vienna

Psychomare: A Psychoanalytic and XR-Based Artistic Exploration into Nightmare Visualization
Jiayang Huang, Joshua Nijiati Alimujiang, Kang Zhang, David Yip

You Only Have Seven Seconds: From Intimate Whispers to Shared Worlds in Participatory Data-Driven Cinematic Art
Weidi Zhang, Lijiaozi Cheng, Paul Taro Schmidt, Jieliang Luo

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembrance
Lingyu Peng, Xiao Hu, Chang Ge, Pengda Lu, Liying Long, Qingchuan Li, Xin Li, Jiangyue Wu

Simulacra Naturae: Generative Ecosystem Driven by Agent-Based Simulations and Brain Organoid Collective Intelligence
Nefeli Manoudaki, Mert Toka, Iason Paterakis, Diarmid Flatley

The Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in the Arnold Arboretum
Johan Malmstedt, Giacomo Nanni, Dario Rodighiero

The Knowledge Cosmos: An Immersive Platform for Interdisciplinary Research Discovery
Alec McGail, Rifaa Tajani, Nikita Sridhar, Jiabao Li

 

VISAP Pictorial Session

  • Thursday, November 6, 2025, 11:15 - 12:30
    Austria Center Vienna

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman, Amy Stevermer, Becca Hatheway, Dillon Amaya, Eddie Goldstein, Wayne A Seltzer, Mark D Gross, Kris Karnauskas, Daniel Leithinger, Ellen Yi-Luen Do

The Fire We Share: From Scars to Seeds — Reimagining Fire Data as Interactive Memory
Chen Wang, Mengtan Lin

Balaton Borders: Data Ceramics for Ecological Reflection
Hajnal Gyeviki, Mihály Minkó, Mary Karyda, Damla Çay

Kaleidoscope of Thoughts: Experimental Visualization of Cognitive Turbulence
Megha Sachdeva, Cambelle Gregory

AI-Generated Images for Representing Individuals: Navigating the Thin Line Between Care and Bias
Julia C. Ahrend, Björn Döge, Tom M Duscher, Dario Rodighiero

Rejecting Colonial Practices in Data Storytelling
Pei Ying Loh, Nabilah Said, Griselda Gabriele, Munirah Mansoor, Zafirah Zein, Amanda Teo

 

VISAP Opening and Keynote

  • Thursday, November 6, 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
    Atrium – University of Applied Arts Vienna

Welcome Remarks

Care – Control – Computation On the Politics and Poetics of Digital Systems

Keynote by Kim Albrecht

Kim Albrecht conducts research at the intersection of data visualization, technology, and culture. He is a professor of information design at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, a principal at metaLAB at Harvard and Berlin and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Albrecht is known for his exploration of the aesthetic properties of data, and his work spans teaching, research, and application. In 2025, he published his first book, Insight by de–sign, which presents a media-theoretical framework for data visualization.