Univ.-Prof. DDr.
Karen Nicole Werner
Karen Werner is an Austrian-based artist and sociologist making experimental radio works and performances for broadcast and narrowcast. She creates living installations and radio stations of various scales and durations, working with interference, voice and conversation as materials. Her artworks have been commissioned by and presented at Bergen Assembly (Norway), Barents Spektakle (Norway), Tsinghua Museum (China),MuseumsQuartier/ Tonspur Kunstverein Wien + Maribor (Austria/ Slovenia), MAG3 (Austria), Kone Foundation (Finland), Kunstradio (Austria), Wave Farm (US), Australian Broadcast Corporation and others.
Werner writes on a range of artistic and sociological topics including re-imagining the radio station, dialogical aesthetics and conversation as co-creation, spiritual activism, radio autoethnography, community economies and artistic research politics and poetics. She is part of developing a university-wide experimental radio station dedicated to art + research co-creation.
Werner holds a PhD in Artistic Research from the Faculty of Fine Art, Design and Music, University of Bergen, Norway, and a PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University, in addition to degrees from Harvard and Brown Universities.