Monika Halkort

Monika Halkort is a faculty member of the Art x Science School for Transformation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The school combines artistic and scientific approaches and methods with the aim of understanding and accompanying current transformation processes and developing alternative solutions together with social actors.

She completed her doctorate in 2013 as part of the interdisciplinary research project ‚Conflict in Cities‘, at Queens University in Belfast, UK. During her studies, she moved to Beirut, where she taught and researched the politics of digital infrastructures and the historical entanglements of colonialism, technology and knowledge production at the Lebanese American University from 2013 - 2020.

Her current scientific work investigates whether and how these entanglements can be overcome with experimental, speculative approaches.