Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at Vienna University of Technology, and Research Fellow in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he initiated the Networked Cultures project, a platform for global research on collaborative art practices (www.networkedcultures.org). His research focuses on urban social movements, informal economies and the visual culture of resource ecologies.
Helge Mooshammer is director of the international research projects Relational Architecture and Other Markets (www.othermarkets.org), Senior Researcher at Vienna University of Technology, and Research Fellow in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research is concerned with changing forms of urban cultures, processes of transnationalisation, and newly emerging regimes of governance.
Together, they have authored and edited numerous books, including, amongst others, Visuelle Kultur (2003), Cruising: Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures (2005), Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space (2008), Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt (2010), Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (2011), Occupy: Räume des Protests (2012) and the forthcoming two-volume publication Informal Market Worlds (2014). Their essays on contemporary art, bottom-up urbanism, and collaborative forms of spatial production have been published in international journals such as Grey Room, Architectural Research Quarterly, Kunstforum International, and Third Text.
Their research and curatorial work has been presented at the Whitechapel Gallery London; the Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Proekt Fabrika, Moscow; Santral, Istanbul; Gasworks, London; Architekturzentrum, Vienna; Israeli Center for Digital Art; Trafo Gallery, Budapest; Toronto Free Gallery; Venice Architecture Biennales 2000, 2002, and 2008.
