Join the next lecture of the EUniWell Open Lecture Series on 16 June 2026 from 14:30–15:30 Kyiv time and discover how research-led artist and filmmaker Felix Lenz challenges dominant image- and knowledge-making practices through the mixed-media installation Soft Image, Brittle Grounds.
Lecturer: Felix Lenz, research-led artist, filmmaker, and designer
About this lecture:
Through the lens of their latest mixed-media installation Soft Image, Brittle Grounds, research-led artist and filmmaker Felix Lenz interrogates image- and knowledge-making practices as situated and relational forces, challenging their pervasive framing as neutral or merely representational. Drawing on queer-feminist philosophy, quantum physics, Indigenous science, and geology, the lecture traces the entanglements, ethics, and responsibilities inherent in these practices.
From interference patterns of neutrons to data centres and planetary-scale imaging, the lecture reveals the ways in which technological infrastructures and their residues imprint upon the world. Across these scales, Lenz critiques a prevailing logic of “detachment” from the very data produced as central to Western knowledge production and its ongoing extractivist relations. This inquiry extends into their recent research on the colonial history of Silicon Valley, where they expose forms of structural violence beneath dominant narratives of progress by foregrounding the ancestral stories of those who cared for the region prior to its transformation.
About the lecturer:
Mag. Felix Lenz is a Vienna-based research-led artist, filmmaker, and designer exploring geopolitical, ecological, and technological themes through interdisciplinary installations, films, and artistic strategies. Their work has been shown internationally. Among other recognitions, they received the 2024 Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture and an honorable mention from the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. In 2025, Lenz represented Austria at the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition.
They have held lectures and workshops at the Royal College of Art London, University of British Columbia, Humboldt University Berlin, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. They currently teach in the MA Information Design program at Design Academy Eindhoven. More can be found at felixlenz.at.
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