I am just back from a two-day workshop in Vienna. I am intellectually energized, as these small-scale workshops are the most productive academic sessions. It was an official meeting of the EASA Media Anthropology Network. It was great to catch up with some of the members I already knew and meet new academics. You can find the workshop program here. The event was supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which is located in a historical building: the PSK Building. I presented on Local Knowledge and the Cultural Contexts of AI, which I am pursuing as part of my intellectual and research agenda nowadays.
I have visited Vienna several times, so I wasn’t into sightseeing. The weather was fantastic, and walking around the city was beautiful. Still, I could “unsave” in my Google Maps to places in my Atlas Obscura list! Josephinum (Old-school medical museum with more than 1,000 wax anatomical models created in the 18th century) and Pathological-anatomical collection in the Narrenturm (wikipedia entry) (Striking former mental hospital from the 1700s, now home to exhibitions on anatomy, illness & death.).
No photos allowed above, but you can see some here.
Wax models in Josephinum.
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