Florian Wiencek portrait photo

Florian Wiencek

Digital Mediation of Art & Culture
As the founder of Musealisten – Studio for Digital Mediation, he advises museums and cultural institutions on the use of digital media and sound experiences in holistic museum and heritage experiences – bridging analog and digital. At Johannes Kepler University Linz, he works as a project coordinator in the Interreg project “KreATivita&InovaCZe,” teaches at the University for Continuing Education Krems, and regularly publishes on topics related to digital art mediation and sound design in museums.
As a sound artist and composer, he focuses on contemporary and electroacoustic music—often in connection with space and sound scenography. Central to his practice is the use of field recordings as a foundational material and the creation of multilayered sonic and experiential environments. In this context, the approach of forensic aesthetics also plays an important role. At its core, this involves translating stories inscribed in materials or in the world—or embedded in data—into sonic experiences. Data, images, objects, memories, or even places are read as experimental notation and interpreted sonically into music, a universal language that directly speaks to the emotions of listeners. Spatial audio plays a significant role as a spatial dimension of listening and sound localization. Amongst other approaches, he works with Ambisonics, binaural recordings, and site-specific 3D audio systems.