9.30 to 10 am
Check-in with coffee

10 to 10.15 am
Welcome & Introduction
 

10.15 to 10.45 am
Lecture: Goodbye Tech Frustration – Mothers, Daughters, and Museum in Dialogue
We present the experiences and learnings from courses with our first focus group: mothers and daughters whose first language is not German and who have a migration background. Including insights full of opportunities and challenges, as well as content and pedagogical developments: from computer literacy and media competence to prompt engineering.
With Benedikt Hochwartner, Curator for AI and Learning Systems at mumok
 

10.45 to 11.15 am
Lecture: Career Booster – Getting Ready for Digital Collection and Research Projects
We present insights from our collaboration with the second focus group: female students in the humanities. In addition, we will introduce our publication FemArtTech – Art, Code, and Empowerment. The session explores entry points into digital expertise in collection and mediation for modern requirements in the museum context. We outline our semester structure focused on critical digital literacy, learning text-based and object-oriented programming, the importance of female role models, and, above all, a data-driven deep dive into collection practices. We will examine digital collection workflows and explain how our FemArtTech students creatively engaged with artworks using complex algorithms and programming principles.
With Marie-Therese Hochwartner, Head of Collection & Art Education at mumok

11.15 to 11.30 am
Break including coffee

11.30 am to 12.15 pm
Workshop: Live Visualization through Creative Coding
Now put your theoretical knowledge into practice: Discover the exciting connection between art and programming in this workshop! Learn how a collection piece becomes a creative coding project. After an introduction to the artwork, you will work on an interactive task that challenges and strengthens both your creative and analytical skills. The coding project reflects the workshops of the LEA program.
With Lena Arends, Head of Art Education & Knowledge Management at mumok
Benedikt Hochwartner

12.15 to 12.30 pm 
Voices from the Project and Certificate Ceremony I
We invite our FemArtTech participants (mothers, daughters, and students) to the stage for a festive certificate presentation. We also hand them the microphone and look forward to hearing their impressions and learnings from the project.
 

12.30 to 1.30 pm
Lunch break including cold buffet & individual exhibition tour

1.30 to 2 pm
Lecture: What Works? – Fields of Innovation and Evidence for Successful Digital Participation
We position FemArtTech among international examples committed to digital empowerment for women and girls, discuss what works, and conclude with a look ahead at future measures for museum settings.
With Benedikt Hochwartner
 

2 to 2.30 pm
Panel Talk: Collection Work in the Digital Age
Our first panel talk brings concentrated expertise on digital collection work, research data, digital curation, authority data, databases, and collection visualization such as graph visualizations—and how working with data, combined with digital technologies, contributes to fostering participatory collection research in museums.
With Marie-Therese Hochwartner
Claudia Freiberger, Head of Art Education & Knowledge Management at mumok
Nora Linser, Head of Registration at mumok

2.30 to 2.45 pm
Break including coffee
 

2.45 to 3.15 pm
Panel Talk: Building Successful Bridges for Successful Learning
Join an engaging panel discussion with integration expert Ayten Pacariz, Chief Operating Officer of the association NACHBARINNEN in Vienna. Together with two social assistants from her team, she brings extensive expertise in successful integration and shares how they empower the families they support—especially the mothers—and, in our case, how they empower them digitally. Also on the panel: Lena Arends, Head of Art Education & Knowledge Management, and Benedikt Hochwartner, our Curator for AI and Learning Systems. Together, they highlight the central importance of relationship-building as a key pillar for cultural participation and discuss—sure to be lively—what happened at FemArtTech when mothers and daughters suddenly started learning together. We will also address language-sensitive mediation, which was crucial for the project’s implementation, and openly share our learnings, including how the “teach-the-teacher” principle strengthened the digital skills of both NACHBARINNEN and our Creative Learning team.
With Ayten Pacariz, COO of NACHBARINNEN Vienna
Lena Arends
Benedikt Hochwartner

3.15 to 3.45 pm
Panel Talk: Role Models at the Intersection of Art, Culture, and Programming
Digital strategies thrive on the people who anchor them within institutions. From course participants to instructors to team leaders, mumok staff share new career paths in the art and culture sector.
With Lena Arends
Marie-Theres Gamauf, Art Educator at mumok
Sarah Hübler, Team Assistant, Art Education & Knowledge Management at mumok
Anna Kudla, Collections Department, Registration & Photo Studio at mumok
Katarina Savora, Research Data Management at mumok

3.45 to 4 pm
Break including coffee

4 to 4.45 pm
Workshop: Experiencing AI Creatively
Now we open our laptops and let one of our collection artworks inspire us as we explore the question: “How does a computer recognize a face?”
In our AI workshop using the Scratch programming language, we illustrate how methods from computer science, mathematics, and art can be creatively combined. During face sensing, the screen becomes an experimental space for distance and coordinates, and the self-designed digital artwork responds to active users with color and sound.
With Lena Arends
Benedikt Hochwartner
Creative Learning Team

4.45 to 5 pm
Voices from the Project and Certificate Ceremony II
We invite our FemArtTech participants (mothers, daughters, and students) to the stage for a festive certificate presentation. We also hand them the microphone and look forward to hearing their impressions and learnings from the project.

5 to 5.15 pm
Break including coffee
 

5.15 to 6 pm
Exhibition Tour
Finally, join a guided tour through our collection exhibition Never Final! The Museum in Transition to explore the intersection of art history and AI—and how art historical principles can be translated into coding.
With Claudia Freiberger and Benedikt Hochwartner