Moderation: Barbara Imhof, Co-Corporeality co-project lead introductory words: Alexander Damianisch, head of Zentrum Fokus Forschung Daniela Mitterberger, Tiziano Derme, Co-Corporeality co-project lead RAY LC / Joanne Ting-Yu Hsu, designer/artist team Margarete Jahrmann, ludic games artist, professor for artistic research, Angewandte Lucie Strecker, artist, performance lab, Angewandte Jens Hauser, curator, theorist Alien Life: between brains, bacteria and matter is part of the FWF's artistic research project "Co-Corporeality" under the direction of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in cooperation with Austrian research partners. University of Applied Arts Barbara Imhof, Daniela Mitterberger, Tiziano Derme, Waltraut Hoheneder, Damjan Minovski, Kyle Koops, Patricia Tibu Project partners Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) Martin Gasser, Robert Trappl Polymer and Composites Engineering (PaCE) Group, University of Vienna Alexander Bismarck, Andreas Mautner, Neptun Yousefi, Kathrin Weiland, Teresa Gutierrez