Opening Event & Keynotes Creative Days Vienna 2025

Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture. She is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction, Terraform, and co-editor of the accompanying anthology Terraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022). Her history of women in computing, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Penguin, 2018) has been translated into six languages and was named one of the Top 10 Best Nonfiction Tech Books of All Time in 2023. Her writing has appeared in MIT Technology Review, WIRED, The Verge, and The Guardian among others.

Curator and creative lead for 180 Studios, 180 the Strand, collaborating with artists to create original exhibitions and art commissions, including The Vinyl Factory: Reverb (2024), UVA - Synchronicity (2023), Gabriel Moses - Regina (2023), Jon Rafman - Minor Daemon Vol.1 (2023), Richard Mosse - Broken Spectre (2022) amongst others. Editor and creative director for Fact, a bi-annual large format publication, online platform and curatorial body focusing on the intersection of electronic music and audio visual art. Creative Director for arts and music enterprise The Vinyl Factory, working with artists and musicians on record releases and publishing.

Kyra Caruso is an Austrian-Mexican DJ, as well as midwife residing in Brooklyn, NY. Growing up in a musical household in Vienna, Austria, she never wanted to be pigeonholed and made it her priority to continuously embark into new genres of music. Her musical influences range from 60s/70s/80s soul, boogie, funk, house music and classic rock, to her love for Prince and Stevie, 90s/00s Hip Hop/R&B, and new Electronica. She has been playing parties throughout the US, Mexico and Europe over many years.

Severin Matusek is a writer, strategist and founder of co–matter. He works with clients in the tech & creative industries such as Apple, Samsung, Adobe, Google, Lomography and Colette; and the cultural sector such as Serpentine, International Center of Photography and C/O Berlin. Severin is a mentor at NEW INC, a jury member of The Supporting Act Foundation and the host of The Culture & Technology Podcast. He holds a M.A. in philosophy from the University of Vienna and has taught and lectured widely on internet culture, community building and the future of the social web.