Michaela Konrad
@michaelakonrad.bsky.social
I am an artist based in Vienna (Austria).
Pencil drawings, ink, screenprinting, flat painting, augmented reality art, Artivive, multimedia art, midcentury Comic style, science fiction and non-fiction (no AI)
Visit my website: https://michaelakonrad.com
Pencil drawings, ink, screenprinting, flat painting, augmented reality art, Artivive, multimedia art, midcentury Comic style, science fiction and non-fiction (no AI)
Visit my website: https://michaelakonrad.com
EMBRACE THE FUTURE is a fictional advertising campaign that celebrates renouncing consumption as a hedonistic, sensual and fulfilling lifestyle.
The book is aimed at people in the Global North whose consumption-oriented lifestyles are mainly responsible for the climate crisis.
www.luftschacht.com
The book is aimed at people in the Global North whose consumption-oriented lifestyles are mainly responsible for the climate crisis.
www.luftschacht.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
EMBRACE THE FUTURE is a fictional advertising campaign that celebrates renouncing consumption as a hedonistic, sensual and fulfilling lifestyle.
The book is aimed at people in the Global North whose consumption-oriented lifestyles are mainly responsible for the climate crisis.
www.luftschacht.com
The book is aimed at people in the Global North whose consumption-oriented lifestyles are mainly responsible for the climate crisis.
www.luftschacht.com
Luftschacht Verlag will publish my graphic book EMBRACE THE FUTURE – We Celebrate Renunciation on November 17, 2025.
www.luftschacht.com/produkt/mich...
www.luftschacht.com/produkt/mich...
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Luftschacht Verlag will publish my graphic book EMBRACE THE FUTURE – We Celebrate Renunciation on November 17, 2025.
www.luftschacht.com/produkt/mich...
www.luftschacht.com/produkt/mich...
JUST ART!
I am proud of being part of this exhibition in the wonderful ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY in Graz, Austria.
more information:
artelier-contemporary.at
I am proud of being part of this exhibition in the wonderful ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY in Graz, Austria.
more information:
artelier-contemporary.at
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
JUST ART!
I am proud of being part of this exhibition in the wonderful ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY in Graz, Austria.
more information:
artelier-contemporary.at
I am proud of being part of this exhibition in the wonderful ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY in Graz, Austria.
more information:
artelier-contemporary.at
PARALLEL VIENNA 2025
Michaela Konrad
Gallery statement of Lisi Hämmerle
Pavillion 7, 1 st. floor, room 4
LAST DAY
Michaela Konrad
Gallery statement of Lisi Hämmerle
Pavillion 7, 1 st. floor, room 4
LAST DAY
September 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
PARALLEL VIENNA 2025
Michaela Konrad
Gallery statement of Lisi Hämmerle
Pavillion 7, 1 st. floor, room 4
LAST DAY
Michaela Konrad
Gallery statement of Lisi Hämmerle
Pavillion 7, 1 st. floor, room 4
LAST DAY
Parallel Vienna - Preview und opening heute!
13.00-17.00, 17.00-22.00
www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
PROGRESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY?
Gallery Statement LISI HÄMMERLE - Michaela Konrad
Otto Wagner Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
Pavillion 7, 1.Stock, Raum 4
13.00-17.00, 17.00-22.00
www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
PROGRESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY?
Gallery Statement LISI HÄMMERLE - Michaela Konrad
Otto Wagner Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
Pavillion 7, 1.Stock, Raum 4
September 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Parallel Vienna - Preview und opening heute!
13.00-17.00, 17.00-22.00
www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
PROGRESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY?
Gallery Statement LISI HÄMMERLE - Michaela Konrad
Otto Wagner Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
Pavillion 7, 1.Stock, Raum 4
13.00-17.00, 17.00-22.00
www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
PROGRESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY?
Gallery Statement LISI HÄMMERLE - Michaela Konrad
Otto Wagner Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
Pavillion 7, 1.Stock, Raum 4
I am happy that my art will be presented at the Parallel Vienna 2025. My project "Progress through Technology?" will be a Gallery statement of Galerie Lisi Hämmerle.
More Information: www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
Will technology solve the problems it has caused?
More Information: www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
Will technology solve the problems it has caused?
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I am happy that my art will be presented at the Parallel Vienna 2025. My project "Progress through Technology?" will be a Gallery statement of Galerie Lisi Hämmerle.
More Information: www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
Will technology solve the problems it has caused?
More Information: www.galerie-lisihaemmerle.at/parallel-vie...
Will technology solve the problems it has caused?
I am proud and happy that the wonderful Luftschacht Verlag will publish my third comic-art-catalogue in october 2025.
EMBRACE THE FUTURE-OR BUSINESS AS USUAL.
This book can be experienced in augmented reality with the Artivive App.
EMBRACE THE FUTURE-OR BUSINESS AS USUAL.
This book can be experienced in augmented reality with the Artivive App.
May 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am proud and happy that the wonderful Luftschacht Verlag will publish my third comic-art-catalogue in october 2025.
EMBRACE THE FUTURE-OR BUSINESS AS USUAL.
This book can be experienced in augmented reality with the Artivive App.
EMBRACE THE FUTURE-OR BUSINESS AS USUAL.
This book can be experienced in augmented reality with the Artivive App.
Today is the international day of the bee. Remember that we depend on them, they do not depend on us. Hopefully my dystopian vision of robotic bees will never have to become true.
May 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Today is the international day of the bee. Remember that we depend on them, they do not depend on us. Hopefully my dystopian vision of robotic bees will never have to become true.
My painting INSECTA, which is an ironic "Future Retro Ad".
You can experience it in Augmented Reality: get the Artivive App and scan the image.
The Preliminary drawing for this painting is part of the collection of the Albertina museum in Vienna:
sammlungenonline.albertina.at?query=search...
You can experience it in Augmented Reality: get the Artivive App and scan the image.
The Preliminary drawing for this painting is part of the collection of the Albertina museum in Vienna:
sammlungenonline.albertina.at?query=search...
May 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My painting INSECTA, which is an ironic "Future Retro Ad".
You can experience it in Augmented Reality: get the Artivive App and scan the image.
The Preliminary drawing for this painting is part of the collection of the Albertina museum in Vienna:
sammlungenonline.albertina.at?query=search...
You can experience it in Augmented Reality: get the Artivive App and scan the image.
The Preliminary drawing for this painting is part of the collection of the Albertina museum in Vienna:
sammlungenonline.albertina.at?query=search...
HAPPY May 1st.
What will the future of work look like?
What will the future of work look like?
May 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
HAPPY May 1st.
What will the future of work look like?
What will the future of work look like?
In my art project CAN THIS BE TOMORROW?, I created a series of fictional comic book covers in the style of the American Golden Age comics. Inspired by fantasists
like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Phillip K. Dick, the artworks illustrate a bygone vision of
current events.
like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Phillip K. Dick, the artworks illustrate a bygone vision of
current events.
April 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In my art project CAN THIS BE TOMORROW?, I created a series of fictional comic book covers in the style of the American Golden Age comics. Inspired by fantasists
like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Phillip K. Dick, the artworks illustrate a bygone vision of
current events.
like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Phillip K. Dick, the artworks illustrate a bygone vision of
current events.
My art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE propagates a system change that aims for a circular economy. Economic growth, emissions and resource consumption have not yet been decoupled from each other. And the window of time we have left to avoid irreversible tipping points is getting smaller and smaller.
March 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE propagates a system change that aims for a circular economy. Economic growth, emissions and resource consumption have not yet been decoupled from each other. And the window of time we have left to avoid irreversible tipping points is getting smaller and smaller.
"Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized."
Aldous Huxley, 1958
Aldous Huxley, 1958
March 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized."
Aldous Huxley, 1958
Aldous Huxley, 1958
Sad but true: at the moment we are heading towards a future which we know from science fiction CYBERPUNK scenarios created by Phillip K. Dick and co. This means: High tech - low life. A handful billionaires rule over the empoverished crowd.
For Peter Thiel and friends this dystopia is an utopia.
For Peter Thiel and friends this dystopia is an utopia.
March 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sad but true: at the moment we are heading towards a future which we know from science fiction CYBERPUNK scenarios created by Phillip K. Dick and co. This means: High tech - low life. A handful billionaires rule over the empoverished crowd.
For Peter Thiel and friends this dystopia is an utopia.
For Peter Thiel and friends this dystopia is an utopia.
IMPORTANT!
Schafft ihr es morgen nicht um 13 Uhr zum Start des March for #Science in #Wien?
Dann vielleicht um 15 Uhr zur Abschlusskundgebung📢 (Votivpark) - wir haben fantastische Redner*innen, inkl. #Wissenschaftlerin des Jahres Sigrid Stagl!
at.scientists4future.org/2025/02/24/7...
#standupforscience2025
Dann vielleicht um 15 Uhr zur Abschlusskundgebung📢 (Votivpark) - wir haben fantastische Redner*innen, inkl. #Wissenschaftlerin des Jahres Sigrid Stagl!
at.scientists4future.org/2025/02/24/7...
#standupforscience2025
March 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
IMPORTANT!
CAN YOU DO WITHOUT IT?
This is a limited edition screen print from my art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE.
It fits perfectly to today's economic blackout.
And: LESS SHOPPING MEANS LESS EMISSIONS!
This is a limited edition screen print from my art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE.
It fits perfectly to today's economic blackout.
And: LESS SHOPPING MEANS LESS EMISSIONS!
February 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
CAN YOU DO WITHOUT IT?
This is a limited edition screen print from my art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE.
It fits perfectly to today's economic blackout.
And: LESS SHOPPING MEANS LESS EMISSIONS!
This is a limited edition screen print from my art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE.
It fits perfectly to today's economic blackout.
And: LESS SHOPPING MEANS LESS EMISSIONS!
Reposted by Michaela Konrad
Reposted by Michaela Konrad
What will happen to our democracy at a time when algorithms of largely unregulated companies such as X, Meta and Google, are getting to know us better and better? Who will pay for the damage to society? Governments are handing over more and more responsibilities to undemocratic private companies.
January 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What will happen to our democracy at a time when algorithms of largely unregulated companies such as X, Meta and Google, are getting to know us better and better? Who will pay for the damage to society? Governments are handing over more and more responsibilities to undemocratic private companies.
I reject the use of AI systems that generate "art". On the one hand, because they disregard the rights of the authors of the works with which they were trained. On the other hand, I don't want the depth and complexity of my creative working process to be manipulated by the use of AI applications.
February 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I reject the use of AI systems that generate "art". On the one hand, because they disregard the rights of the authors of the works with which they were trained. On the other hand, I don't want the depth and complexity of my creative working process to be manipulated by the use of AI applications.
Reposted by Michaela Konrad
Sehr interessant: Wie die AfD und Alice Weidel auf X davon profitieren, dass Elon Musk ihnen so viel Aufmerksamkeit schenkt
Eine Analyse von @olivermmarsh.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social, die hier die @washingtonpost.com beschreibt
Eine Analyse von @olivermmarsh.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social, die hier die @washingtonpost.com beschreibt
How Elon Musk used X to amplify Germany’s far right ahead of election
Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in Germany was limited, data shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Sehr interessant: Wie die AfD und Alice Weidel auf X davon profitieren, dass Elon Musk ihnen so viel Aufmerksamkeit schenkt
Eine Analyse von @olivermmarsh.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social, die hier die @washingtonpost.com beschreibt
Eine Analyse von @olivermmarsh.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social, die hier die @washingtonpost.com beschreibt
We stand at the dawn of a new global order. A multipolar international system is emerging, and a new global arms race is on the horizon. However, for the financing of many of the great achievements of civilization, it is necessary to keep military expenditure as low as possible. Call it a dilemma.
February 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We stand at the dawn of a new global order. A multipolar international system is emerging, and a new global arms race is on the horizon. However, for the financing of many of the great achievements of civilization, it is necessary to keep military expenditure as low as possible. Call it a dilemma.
Reposted by Michaela Konrad
I made this picture in 2020 for my dystopian art project PICTURES OF TOMORROW.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
February 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I made this picture in 2020 for my dystopian art project PICTURES OF TOMORROW.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
I made this picture in 2020 for my dystopian art project PICTURES OF TOMORROW.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
February 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I made this picture in 2020 for my dystopian art project PICTURES OF TOMORROW.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.
Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.