Theme: UNTOLD

UNTOLD is a conference about ideas that leave us speechless.

Some ideas tell the same tale, others tell a different story. A few might just help us tell things apart. But truth be told, only time will tell which ones do. This year's event will tell you a thing or two about UNTOLD ideas that need to be shared.

2 half-day chapters of peeking through the keyhole to discover the hidden gems from the UNTOLD worlds of Science, Technology, Ethics, Design and Human Connection; from powerful secrets to utterly unimaginable scientific discoveries.

Volkstheater Vienna
Neustiftgasse 1
Vienna, Wien, 1070
Austria

Adrian Raine

Psychologist

Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the causes and cures of criminal and psychopathic behavior in children and adults. He has published over 450 publications and given over 400 invited presentations in 29 countries. His life’s work is outlined in the book “The Anatomy of Violence”.

Andi Schmied

Visual Artist

Andi Schmied is a visual artist and architect dealing with anomalies found in our contemporary cityscapes and problematic dead-ends of urban planning. In her most recent book, ‘Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan’, she uncovers the domestic spaces of the New York elite.

Basse Stittgen

Artist & Designer

The work of Basse Stittgen is positioned at the intersection of design, art and material research. It stems from a fascination for material, how it can be created, applied, used / re-used and questioned. This approach might lead to investigations into production cycles, or become a tool to unfold hidden narratives and potentials embedded in matter.

Christie Watson

Professor of Medical and Health Humanities & Writer

Christie Watson is a writer and Professor of Medical and Health Humanities. She is Patron of the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. Her book Tiny Sunbirds Far Away won the Costa First Novel Award and along with her second novel, Where Women Are Kings, was widely translated and achieved international critical acclaim. The Language of Kindness, published in 2018, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and Book of the Year in the Evening Standard, Guardian, New Statesman, the Sunday Times and The Times. It has been translated into 23 languages, and adapted for theatre, with a UK tour beginning in 2021.

CIRCle Circus Collective

Circus Collective

CIRCle is a small circus collective with focus on aerial acrobatics, partner acrobatics and multimedia art. The collective creates and performs contemporary circus pieces.

Daniel Lumbreras

Artist

Daniel Lumbreras music is difficult to classify, it has echoes of African, Celtic, Brazilian or even Sufi or Raï music, but always based on a rich and lyrical western-style pop folk. The artists’ greatest peculiarity is that he sings improvising phonemes. His voice is used as another instrument and focuses on all the expressiveness and musicality of each sound. Herein lies the universality of his proposal and the vocation to cross borders. He doesn't sing in any language, but everyone can understand him. In spring 2017, Daniel released “La Vila”, the album won the renowned Spanish magazine Mondosonoros ‘Best album of the Year’ award. Since then, Daniel has been touring Spain and European festivals.

David M. Howard

Electronic engineer & audio scientist

David Howard is a speech scientist and electronic engineer working on human voice production and perception with a special focus on the human singing voice. Voice pitch is a fascination, whether as intonation in speech or tuning in choral singing. Together with his colleagues Schofield, J., Fletcher, J., Baxter, K., Iball, G.R., and Buckley, S.A. they created a vocal sound from the 3,000 year-old Egyptian mummy Nesyamun in early 2020 using his Vocal Tract Organ. David directs choirs and is a church organist.

English Lovers

Impro Theatre

Founded in 1997, the ENGLISH LOVERS are Austria’s premiere improvisational theatre company.Originally producing staged readings of new and established English language works, the LOVERS’ repertoire soon grew to include scripted comedy, as well as their trademark improvised performances. Supported by musicians versed in all musical styles, the ENGLISH LOVERS soon developed their unique brand of international humour, winning the Austrian Championships for improvised theatre more often than all other competitors combined. Now, 25 seasons later, the group continues to develop new techniques, formats and performance pieces, and to fully embrace new platforms, mediums and technologies.

Gato de Salto

Samba Dancer

Samba Life Show, created and choreographed by Gato de Salto, is a Brazilian Samba Performance Groupe based in Vienna, Austria. Their vision is to spread the Brazilian culture and dance and their mission is to do it through diversity and inclusion.

Irati Alonso Calafell

Quantum Researcher

Irati Alonso always had a clear fascination for science and technology and inspired by her physics teacher, she started her studies in physics at the Basque Country University in Bilbao. During her bachelor’s degree, she received an Erasmus scholarship, which grant her the opportunity to carry out her bachelor’s thesis at the Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.Fascinated by the quantum world and its applications, the Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computation group at the University of Vienna could not offer a better program to continue her formation and carry out a PhD.

Jasmin Hagendorfer

Artist & Creative Director

Jasmin Hagendorfer is a Vienna-based artist, writer, curator, and producer. Her main artistic focus lies on installation, performance and film. As the Creative Director of the Porn Film Festival Vienna and transition international queer & minorities film festival, she deals with post-porn politics and questions of gender identity; topics that she also frequently lectures on. Her latest work as a film producer is the feature drama Masking Threshold.

Layla F. Saad

Author & Antiracism Educator

Layla F. Saad is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, anti-racism educator, international speaker, and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. She is the author of the groundbreaking antiracism book, Me and White Supremacy.

Marc Teyssier

Designer & Researcher

Marc Teyssier is a Designer, Researcher and Associate Professor at De Vinci Research Center. Trained both as a Designer from l’Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantic (Nantes, France) and Engineer in Virtual Reality at Arts et Métiers ParisTech (Laval, France), he obtained a PhD in Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Paris in Human-Computer Interaction at Télécom Paris. Marc was a visiting Researcher at MIT Media Lab (Boston, US), Bristol University, (Bristol, UK) and Saarland University (Saarland, UK), where he pursued international collaboration while teaching theory and practice in Design, Research and Digital Fabrication. His research is focused on Critical Design, and how technology impacts human interactions. Marc is now Principal Investigator of the “Resilient Futures” group at the DeVinci Innovation Center, where his works propose an alternative to technology by exploring sustainable innovations, from low-Tech devices to bio-fabrication

Mathieu Morlighem

Professor of Earth System Science

Dr. Morlighem received his PhD from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2011 in partnership with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is today a Professor of Earth System Science at the University of California Irvine. His research is focused on predicting how much Greenland and Antarctica will contribute to sea level over the next centuries. Dr. Morlighem received several awards, including the 2014 NASA Cryospheric Sciences Most Valuable Player award.

Mike Merrill

Publicly Traded Person

K. Mike Merrill has been a publicly traded person for thirteen years. Each day he wakes up and checks the price of his shares which trade every day, giving him a somewhat warped sense of his "value" at all times. He'll tell you this motivates him to stay productive but the truth is hurts more when the stock is down than feels good when it goes up. His shareholders also take a more active role by voting on his life choices. This has mostly worked out great except for the time they had him try polyphasic sleeping and register as a member of a different political party.

Naomi Jacobs

Author & Teacher

Naomi is an author and teacher of Psychology and Mental Health and Well-being. She enjoys writing, horse-riding, swimming and running and is an passionate advocate for how therapeutic mediation can be when releasing the pain of past trauma. Naomi works to encourage and inspire young people to talk and write of their own experiences to help change the narrative of their lives for the better.

Nicholas J. Leeper

Professor and Chief of Vascular Medicine

Dr. Leeper is a Professor of Surgery and the Chief of Vascular Medicine at Stanford University. He is a practicing cardiologist and co-founder of two biotechnology companies, 47 Inc. and Bitterroot Bio, which aim to prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease. His research studies the intersection of multiple scientific disciplines including human genetics, immunology and vascular biology, and is focused on developing new therapies for the world’s leading killers.

Nora Sophie

Poet & Patient Advocate

Nora Sophie is a word-lover and inclusion-advocate for chronically ill/ disabled people, as she got a painful rare disease over night that caused a longterm voice loss. Without being able to speak, she became the voice for many patients suffering in silence. Accidentally she discovered the magic of writing and encourages others in a poetic way.

Ordinary Things

Satirist

Ordinary Things is an anonymous satirist, writer and documentarian. He makes videos about the surprising and sinister stories behind everyday things for over 600,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Rhizomatic Circus

Circus Collective

The Rhizomatic Circus Collective is an interdisciplinary, fluid and contemporary circus and performance collective based in Vienna. The collective has created various crossgenre productions since 2016 and is also involved in various artistic and sociopolitical projects of other groups and associations.

Ron Haviv

Visual Journalist

Ron Haviv is an award-winning photojournalist, filmmaker dedicated to documenting conflict & raising awareness about human rights. His work in the Balkans was used as evidence to indict & convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President George H.W. Bush cited Haviv’s photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.

Sally MacNamara Ivey

Diary Researcher

Sally MacNamara Ivey has been collecting and researching diaries since 1987. Since then she has had the privilege of reading over 10,000 original vintage diaries. Sally began her own diary at the age of 10 and was later given her great-grandmothers diary. Sally's life changing journey soon began and all because of the precious handwritten words and untold stories of those who have gone before her. Her extensive collection spans from 1792 to 2010.

Stacey Steinberg

Children's rights attorney

Stacey Steinberg is the supervising attorney for the Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic. She also serves as Director for the Center on Children and Families. Her research explores the intersection of a parent’s right to share online and a child’s interest in privacy. She is an internationally sought after expert on children’s privacy and sharenting. he has presented her children’s privacy/sharenting research to a variety of audiences, including to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to joining the law faculty, Stacey served as a felony prosecutor and child welfare attorney handling crimes involving child abuse, child pornography, domestic violence, and rape. She has served as lead counsel in hundreds of contested hearings. As a practitioner, Stacey routinely provided training to lawyers, police officers, and social workers on matters relating to child abuse, neglect, and trial procedure.