About
Me
Catherine Spet lives and works in Vienna. After completing her bachelor's degree in "Media Technology" with the focus on audiovisual media, she studied "Digital Design" in the master class "Experimental Media" (class Markus Wintersberger) at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Afterwards she completed her master studies in "Experimental Game Cultures" (class Margarete Jahrmann) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna after doing an Erasmus Semester in Media Art at HfG Karlsruhe.
She sees her artistic focus in the synthesis of various media-theoretical and techno-philosophical concepts and their influence on societal questions with a special interest in artificial intelligence, AR, XR & game art and building audiovisual experienes. In this context, art should be a means to evoke and explore those questions.
Catherine Spet works as a graphic designer & VJ.
Her works were exhibited at NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Athens Digital Arts Festival, CIVA Festival, Kaleidoskop Kulture Festival Novi Sad, Amaze Festival Berlin, The Wrong Biennale, ASVOFF Paris, ArtSect Gallery London, IAA Mobility Messe München, Re:Publica Berlin, Krahuletz-Museum Eggenburg, SHOT Conference at USC California Los Angeles, MDW Wien, FORWARD Festival
_TALKS & KEYNOTES
November 2025
Podcast episode “Never Went To Business School #111 – The Role of Philosophy And Research In Art And Design With Catherine Spet” by Same Same Studio
November 2025
Panel discussion “Art, Memory and the Public in Virtual Space – K1_ARt.bridges.∆{Vienna↔Sarajevo}” with Kultur 1, Künstlerhaus Vienna
August 2025
Keynote at FORWARD FESTIVAL 2025, Spotlight Your Idea: Do you really want to hurt M(AI)?, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin & Gartenbaukino, Vienna
April – June 2025
Workshop series ARt Explorers – AR Art for Teenagers, funded by OEAD, PTS im Zentrum Burggasse 14–26 & Mittelschule Brüßlgasse
18, Vienna
March 2024
Guest lecture “The Artistic Dialogue With AI”, Karlheinz Essl’s class, MDW Vienna
October 2023
Conference participation at SHOT – Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference 2023, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Paper: “Technology as Pharmakon. Using the example of language-based healthcare apps like Replika AI”
_EXHIBITIONS
November 2025
DELPHI, interactive concert performance with ExMachinisMusicae, SplitArt Gallery, Vienna
October 2025
ECCE HOMO, audiovisual theatre performance with ExMachinisMusicae, WUK Vienna
September 2025
K1_ARt.bridges.∆{Vienna↔Sarajevo} AR exhibition & audiovisual performance, Vijećnica, Sarajevo & Zacherlfabrik, Vienna
June 2025
Do you really want to hurt M(AI)? (Master’s thesis), spatial installation, AR & art game at AAA 2025, Angewandte Festival, Experimental Game Cultures (Award of the Province of Lower Austria 2025)
May 2025
//ONTOLOGICAL_GLITCH://, 3-part AR artwork with Markus Wintersberger & Belma Bešlic-Gal (Kultur 1) at Vienna Digital Cultures 2025, Kunsthalle Wien (curated by Nadim Samman)
May 2025
Delphi – Oracle 0/1, AI & dance performance with ExMachinisMusicae (opening performance), Ludic Territories Festival 2025, Das Lot Vienna (curated by Cagdas Cecen)
November 2024
smART Data Bridge Krahuletz with Markus Wintersberger & Andrea Nagl, Krahuletz Museum Eggenburg (AR, Unity game)
July 2024
Iza Uma video game installation at Slovo Gorcina Festival, Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Ivan Jakaric
May 2024
Re:publica Berlin, “Syndermica” art game with Ivan Jakaric
May 2024
Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), “Game of Hearts” video work
April 2024
Vdonaukanal AR Gallery, Donaukanal Vienna, Kultur 1
November 2023
AR artwork “Sublimia” at Lucid Dreams Festival, Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten (Masterclass Experimental Media, FH St. Pölten)
November 2023
Group exhibition “Digital Daydream”, ArtSect Gallery London, curated by Nina Wong, video work “Game of Hearts”
November 2023
A Shaded View on Fashion (ASVOF) Film Festival Paris, AI video “Transcendent Reverie”
September 2023
AR works “Sublimia” & “Netura” at the Guided XR Tour of IAA Mobility Munich
July 2023
Video work “Transcendent Reverie” at the AI Freedom Challenge of Red Eye Metazines, United Kingdom
June 2023
Angewandte Festival 2023, “SYNDERMICA”, Class Exhibition Experimental Game Cultures “Hybrid Ludic Assemblages”
May 2023
AMAZE Festival Berlin, “AI Oracle”, part of the Class Exhibition Experimental Game Cultures
December 2022
[XR] NOE | Human Nature at the Museum Niederösterreich, St. Pölten
September 2021
“The Great Liman – Matter through Time. Sand, Wood, Stone, Metal in the Age of Digitization”, site-specific exhibition and durational performance, Novi Sad, Kaleidoskop Kulture Festival, 2.9–8/10/2021.
Artwork: Unreal things fly through space – A granular machine memory (Mixed Media & VR installation) with Janine Scheer-Erb
August 2021
“Welcome to Paradise”, nextmuseum.io / NRW Forum Düsseldorf
Curators: Alain Bieber & Vesela Stanoeva
Artwork: AN AI CALLED DIOTIMA (chatbot)
February 2021
CIVA Festival, Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art, sound:frame
Artwork: error 404 – sorry I’m currently not available, I’m dreaming
May 2020
ART WORKS! European Culture of Resistance and Liberation, directed by HASENHERZ: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, wannseeFORUM Berlin: Roman Fröhlich