Klaus Spiess


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Medical University Vienna, College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2023

    Klaus Spiess (AT) is an endocrinologist, psychosomaticist and medical anthropologist who now works as an associate professor in the field of art and science at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria

    ISEA2020

    Klaus Spiess directs the inter-disciplinary Arts and Science program and chairs the LASER Art&Science talks at the Medical University Vienna, Austria, where he is Associate Professor. Together with Lucie Strecker they develop transdisciplinary performances / installations on the subject of biopolitics. They were performing at Budascoop Kortrijk; Tanzquartier Vienna; Belvedere/21er Haus, Vienna; Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Omaha; Click Festival, Helsingør; ISEA, Muffatwerk Munich, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin among others. Their installations have been shown at venues such as the Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, the Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, and at the Prix Ars Electronica Festival. They have published their work in numerous articles in Leonardo, The Journal of Performance Research and The Lancet among others.

    ISEA2017

    Klaus Spiess ist Internist, Psychoanalytiker und Medizinanthropologe . Er entwickelt als assoziierter Professor das Programm Arts in Medicine am Zentrum für Public Health der Medizinischen Universität Wien. amm Arts in Medicine am Zentrum für Public Health der Medizinischen Universität Wien. Er untersucht und erfindet Konzepte an der Schnittstelle von wissenschaftlicher und künstlerischer Performance. Arbeiten wurde an der Tate Modern und im Tanzquartier Wien (gemeinsam mit Lucie Strecker) gezeigt, Preisträger beim FWF und Performing Science Gießen.

     

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  • Vienna, Austria

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