Carmen Hines

Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, lecturer and researcher based at the department of Visual Cultures (TU WIEN). She studies, through research and teaching, the way culture is produced and manifests itself on built and digital environments, and is interested in radical politics, popular culture and design typologies. Her research engages Platform Capitalism, Gender/Sexuality Studies and Theories of Social Reproduction which inform work exploring digital contraception, menstrual tracking apps, dating apps, home automation, A.I, data capitalism, amongst other topics. As assistant curator for Austria’s contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, she supported the realisation of the exhibition ‘Platform Austria’ in digital, palpable and editorial form(s), curating the pavilion’s discursive programming from September – November 2021. Her academic, artistic and curatorial activities have been presented in spaces including: Architekturzentrum Wien (as part of the claiming*spaces collective), Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Institute for Contemporary Art Graz, Austrian Pavilion (Biennale Architettura 2021), University of Bologna, e-flux Screening Room (NY), Index Foundation Stockholm (bookshop series), amongst others. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, and an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London.