Designer, Artist, Researcher & Professor

About the Speaker

Oliver Kartak is a designer, artist and researcher and holds the position of Professor of Design and Narrative Media at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, bringing close to 40 years of experience in brand identity, communication design, photography, and film direction.

At the core of his teaching are deeply human capabilities: empathy, ethical thinking, structural thinking. He understands AI not as a tool for efficiency, but as a catalyst for the question of what creativity actually is.

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For 30 years, websites worked the same way – until now.
Oliver Kartak
University of Applied Arts Vienna

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