Art & Science
Art & Science with Andreas Leikauf & Mirta Galesic: “How it started:”
“All those photos in the newspapers…
Things that happened.
Things that should not happen?
Iconic moments/random people.
I had to paint it and add a comment.
Who´s next?”
Andreas Leikauf (*1966) is a Vienna- based artist who studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Markus Prachensky / Bruno Gironcoli).
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“Though his work takes him down the highway of history, Leikauf prefers not to use the passing lane. Instead, he typically blends motifs from the 1950s with stylistic elements from the 60s, then infuses a shot of 80s spirit into the finished “loops” to place them smack dab in the 21st century. It’s past, present and future fused into one, with each taking the whole in a different direction.
In his loops, Leikauf retells cultural-industrial myths in a new light and against the grain, be they stories about loneliness, boredom, adaptation, commercialism or injustice, or about anger over the prevailing state of affairs, comical subversions, music or the revolt against whatever.”
(Karl Baier)
The scientist – Mirta Galesic
Mirta Galesic is co-leader of the research group Collective Minds at the Complexity Science Hub since 2023. She researches how cognitive mechanisms and social environments shape complex social phenomena, focusing on computational models of social judgments, learning, collective problem solving, and opinion dynamics.
After earning a PhD in Psychology from the University of Zagreb, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute.