News + Events
2024
JUNE 18 | VIENNA (AUT)
LoPh Sweeps Austrian Blockchain Award
De.RtB (Decentralized Right to Breathe), wins in Sustainability, Smart Technology, and Overall categories, underscoring LoPh’s commitment to leveraging blockchain for social innovation and environmental advocacy. more
MARCH 8-16 | AUSTIN (USA)
LoPh @ SXSW
As part of the selected Austrian delegation at this famed Texan festival, LoPh joined a global community of digital creatives in exploring the cutting-edge of tech, science, media, & social justice.
FEBRUARY 8 - APRIL 11 | LONDON (GBR)
'Emerging Normativities' with University of Westminster
LoPh collaborates with Westminster Law School for the 2024 Public Lecture Series in Law, Governance, and Digital Technologies. more
2023
NOV 9 | VIENNA (AUT)
LoPh wins Content Vienna Prize (again:-)
“CiSci” by Logische Phantasie Lab is one of the prize-winning projects of this year's Content Vienna competition, for its transdisciplinary, and community-centered approach.
JUNE 23-24 | LONDON (GBR)
‘Aerocommoning in the Digital Age’ Workshop with University of Westminster
Over two days, a cross-disciplinary group of scholars, artists, and journalists convened around the topic of the future of breathing rights in the digital age.
JUNE 7 | BERLIN (DEU)
de.RtB at re:publica‘23 in Berlin
At Europe’s largest annual festival on digital society, LoPh presented on the potential for web3 and SocialTech to empower marginalized communities suffering from breathing injustices.
FEBRUARY 28 | LONDON (GBR)
Matter/Breath Workshop
Together with the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, LoPh was honored to co-host THE SLASHERS, a theory workshop group connecting different ideas/ disciplines/ practices together (“slash”).
APRIL 25 | LONDON (GBR)
Origin/Difference
Together with the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, LoPh was honored to co-host THE SLASHERS, a theory workshop group connecting different ideas/ disciplines/ practices together (“slash”).
JUNE 20 | VIENNA (AUT)
de.RtB featured at Österreichischer Exporttag
LoPh’s NFT project, “A Thousand Breaths” was chosen to be presented at Austria’s largest event for the export industry (Austrian Export Day).
JUNE 14 | VIENNA (AUT)
‘Narrative Waters’ screening at Austrian Parliament
Upon invitation from UniNetz, LoPh screens ‘Narrative Waters’ & presents research on groundwater at the SDG6 event in the Austrian Parliament.
MARCH 10-19 | AUSTIN (USA)
LoPh @ SXSW
As part of the selected Austrian delegation at this famed Texan festival, LoPh joined a global community of digital creatives in exploring the cutting-edge of tech, science, media, & social justice.
JANUARY 16 | ONLINE
‘Science Meets Science Fiction’ Lecture
Der Standard’s head of science department Tanja Traxler delivers LoPh’s inaugural lecture on the intriguing and mysterious frontiers of space, time travel, black holes, and space-time singularities.
APRIL 4 | LONDON (GBR)
Matter/Slashing Workshop
Together with the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, LoPh was honored to co-host THE SLASHERS, a theory workshop group connecting different ideas/ disciplines/ practices together (“slash”).
MARCH 14 | LONDON (GBR)
Matter/Commoning Workshop
Together with the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, LoPh was honored to co-host THE SLASHERS, a theory workshop group connecting different ideas/ disciplines/ practices together (“slash”).
MAY 16 | LONDON (GBR)
Power/Optics
Together with the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, LoPh was honored to co-host THE SLASHERS, a theory workshop group connecting different ideas/ disciplines/ practices together (“slash”).
2022
LoPh wins Content Vienna Prize
NOVEMBER 17 | VIENNA (AUT)
“A Thousand Breaths” by Logische Phantasie Lab is one of the prize-winning projects of this year's Content Vienna competition. The project convinced the jury with its innovative way of combining digital aesthetics and technology as well as addressing legal issues to raise public awareness of air quality.
MAY 20 | AMSTERDAM (NLD)
Theory Hack @ De Ceuvel
Under the prompt “Radical Contracting: How to Create Value Metabolims?" cutting-edge thinkers and technologists collaborated over months, convening in Amsterdam in May. Co-organized with Dr. Marie Petersmann & Dr. Andrea Leiter.
SEPTEMBER 22 | BOSTON (USA)
Summer School on Science Journalism
Physicist, Head Science Editor at Der Standard, and LoPh co-director Tanja Traxler heads LoPh Summer School, which hands-on training, instructive feedback, and an overview of the challenges and potential of science journalism in times of climate change and new digital technologies.
OCTOBER 21 | VIENNA (AUT)
Go Green! Climate Change
LoPh Co-Director Daniela Gandorfer in an interview with Trending Topics on law and justice in times of climate crisis.
MAY 10 | ONLINE
'A Thousand Breaths' NFT Launched
What is the value of a breath? The site-specific NFT collection “Breath for Sale,“ a LoPh collaboration with crypto-artist collective Code-X-Diagrams, exposes the logic and power of blockchain-based tokenization.
MAY 10 | VIENNA (AUT)
Applied Human Rights @ di:Angewandte
Co-directors present LoPh to post-graduate students.
SEPTEMBER 22 | BOSTON (USA)
Infinitude: Ad Coelum and Beyond
Radcliffe Fellow and LoPh co-director Patricia J. Williams convenes an Exploratory Seminar at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute with fellow co-directors and invited guests from across disciplines to discuss, among other urgent topics, ‘Gas Exchanges & the Right to Breathe.’
JUNE 1-2 | VIENNA (AUT)
Creative Days @ Vienna UP 22
LoPh delivers keynote at Vienna Creative Days, a multi-day event featuring leading curators, artists, cultural experts, and researchers to explore how technology is shaping the future and sparking new opportunities in the process.
JUNE 2 | PRINCETON (USA)
Flash Grant from Princeton University
Presented by the Humanities Council at Princeton University.