
A unique work of media art awaits you in the planetarium: luminous images and captivating sounds in a huge dome projection with surround sound. "Space Rhythms" is an art that utilises space and time in a special way to create a unique aesthetic experience. Immerse yourself in a world full of colours and sounds that will amaze you and create unforgettable experiences.
As part of "Space Rhythms", Ass.-Prof. Dr Helen Ahner will give a lecture on historical planetarium shows.
In her lecture, she explores the first planetarium performances of the 1920s as spaces of experience that enabled the audience to redesign their relationship to technology, to the world and to themselves. In doing so, she focusses in particular on the aesthetic, physical and emotional facets of the planetarium. Using historical sources, the lecture provides an insight into the euphoria that accompanied the first planetarium shows and examines how people perceived and felt in the planetarium against the backdrop of the historical context.
duration | 30 min. lecture and 60 min. show |
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Genre | Art-music experience in a scientific context |
Language | German |

Helen Ahner is an assistant professor at the Institute of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna. She researches feelings, bodies, things and experiences from a historical and contemporary perspective. In her current research project, she is working on the cultural and gender history of ambition in sport. Her doctoral thesis "Planetariums. Wonders of Technology - Techniques of Wonder" was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and received an Honourable Mention in the Turriano ICOHTEC Prize.
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Helen Ahner