About me

My “.. Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”
– Elaine Scarry

Emanuel Gollob (AT) (b. 1991) is an artist and researcher investigating today’s relationships between humans, artificial intelligence & robots with the goal of making alternative ones bodily experienceable. In parallel, his work traces the change in human perception in connection to digitalization. Gollob graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna with a diploma in Design Investigation (2019). From 2020 to 2021, he was an artist in residence at MindSpaces, an EU research project in the STARTS initiative framework. Since 2020, he has been a PhD candidate and researcher at the University of Arts Linz with a particular focus on the performativity in human-robot encounters. In 2023, he was a guest artist at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and the European Media Art Platform (EMAP).

Gollob’s work has recently been exhibited at various international institutions, including the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, Washington DC (2021); Science Gallery Melbourne (2021); Art Science Museum Singapore (2022); and HEK Basel (2023).

Emanuel Gollob, *1991 in Austria

since 2020 | PhD candidate and researcher at the University of Arts Linz

2017-2019 | Master of Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, mentored by Anab Jain

2016-2017 | Research assistant at the “Robotic Woodcraft” research program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

2012-2017 | Bachelor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, mentored by Paolo Piva

2016 | La Biennale Summerschool, organized by Architectural Biennial Venice, V&A London, and University of Applied Arts Vienna

2014-2015 | Man & Activity at the Designacademy Eindhoven (NL)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 | LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES)

2024 | Basel Social Club, Basel (CHE)

2024 | Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana (SI)

2023 | Francisco Carolinum, Linz (AT)

2023 | Basel Social Club, Basel (CHE)

2022 | MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing – Art Science Museum, Singapore (SGP)

2022 | MENTAL – Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne (AUS)

2021 | FUTURES – Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, Washington DC (USA)

2020 | Cuando las mariposas del alma baten sus alas – LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES)

2019 | New Technology Art Award 2019, finalist exhibition Ghent (BE)

2019 | Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)

2018 | Ars Electronica exhibition “Error – the art of imperfection” in Berlin (GER).

2018 | Vienna Design Week AR & VR, Vienna (AT)

2017 | ARS Electronica Festival, Linz (AT)

2017 | Austrian EXPO Pavilion, Astana (KZ)

2014 | Vienna Wind Crochet Machine exhibited at the Museum of Vienna and the Viennese Artist House (AT)

2014 | Craft LAB exhibited 3 months interactive at the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, (SLO)

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023 | HEK Basel (CH), Doing Nothing with AI 1.0

2022 | BC Gallery Basel (CH), 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴

2019 | Kunstfabrik Gross-Siegharts (AT),  Nichts Tun, Luftmaschen und Baumeln lassen

 

Residencies

2023 | WRO Art Center, Wrocław (PL)

2023 | ZEISS Innovation Hub at KIT, Karlsruhe (DE)

2023 | ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (DE)

2020-2022 | MindSpaces, EU research project in the STARTS initiative framework

 

Art Collections

2019 | Vaste, Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Gent (BE)

 

Grants and Prizes

2023 | European Media Art Plattform (EMAP) Project grant

2019 | Start stipendium, Scholarship, BKA Austria

2018 | Creative Project Funding, Project grant, Vienna Business Agency

2015 | Fred Adlmüller-Stipendium, Scholarship

 

Talks & Workshops

2024 | Performativity in human-robot encounters, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES)

2023 | Alphabetic Pleasure when signs mate, ISEA 2023, Paris (FR),

2022 | Language as Biomedial and Ecosemiotic Intervention, LASER, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Vienna (AT),

2019 | LASER (Leonardo Art&Science Evening Rendevouz) Talk, Medical University of Vienna (AT),

2019 | Deep Learning Meetup, Vienna (AT), presentation Using EEG and GAN to train robotic movements

2018 | Vienna Design Week Talk (AT)

2018 | subNet Talk, Center of Human-Computer Interaction Salzburg (AT)

2017 | Robotic Post-Fabrication Workshop at Yaşar University of Izmir, (TR)

2016 | Panel discussion and presentation of „A Wiener, halal!“ at the MAK – Museum for applied Art Vienna (AT)