Dr. Claudia Schnugg is a prominent curator of art and science collaboration and a scholar researching the intersections of art and aesthetics with science, technology, and organizations. As social and economic scientist with an additional background in cultural science, her recent work is focused on intertwining artists and art projects with new technologies and scientific research. She has explored effects of artistic interventions on social settings, especially framing artistic interventions and art programs in organizations. 2019 Springer/Palgrave MacMillan published her book Creating ArtScience Collaboration.

Claudia curates art-science collaborations, artist-in-residence programs, media art projects as well as various projects intertwining art, science, technology, and innovation in business, industry, scientific and cultural organizations. She also mentors art-science processes, and artists, scientists, researchers and facilitators, runs research projects, and gives talks about developments on the intersection of art, science, technology, and business. Her work has resulted in more than 30 major projects at locations all over the world, with significant exhibition, publication, residency, research and art production outcomes. Over 80 artworks have been realized in projects which Claudia curated, co-developed, and consulted (some of them are currently being realized in 2024/2025). Since 2023 she is serving as Founding Curator of the Universe Pavilion in Venice which will be premiered in 2025. Previously, she was principle investigator of the DIGI-Sense project at Johannes Kepler University Linz (2022-2023), held the position of the Creative Director at the Science Gallery Venice 2018-2019. She was also visiting scientist at UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab,at the European Southern Observatory and at Copenhagen Business School. She worked with institutions like Pro Helvetia,  Science Gallery International, The Dock at Accenture,  providing support in developing research proposals and artscience research opportunities. She curates residency programs, including at acib Vienna, European Space Agency/ESTEC, at Helmholtz Center München, at the EC funded ITN network RepliFate, and Resonances IV at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission. Other partners include: BIFOLD (TU Berlin), Marginal, Quo Artis, STARTS, and EPFL Pavilion.

Most recent exhibitions are NaturArchy (iMAL, Brussels, 2024), The Mutability of Memories and Fates (Alte Saline, Hallein, 2024), The Chronicles of in-between 495-570nm (Goethe Pavilion, Bucharest, 2024), CORALS (TU Berlin, Berlin, 2023), Intersecting Realities (Palatul Stefania, part of Cultural Capital, Timisoara, 2023), Cosmic Elements: Star-Pacing Songs (Times Art Museum, Beijing, 2023, China Resources Tower, Shenzhen 2023, Times Art Museum, Chengdu 2024), Cosmological Elements (Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, 2022). Before, she was head of the Ars Electronica Residency Network at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in 2014-2016, where she developed the residency program and curated, mentored, and produced artistic residency projects at numerous scientific institutions.

In her academic research on and with artscience collaborations, she focuses on questions of why art is an important partner for science, technology, and industry, how impact is created and where. She held academic research positions (e.g., Assistant Professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, 2010-2014, Visiting Researcher at Copenhagen Business School, 2013, Visiting Scholar at UCLA Art|Sci Center & Lab 2017, Visitng Scientist at European Southern Observatory 2015-2017, Principal Investigator/Senior Researcher at Johannes Kepler University Linz 2022-2023) and realizes projects as independent researcher (e.g., book project Creating ArtScience Collaboration, research projects for The Dock at Accenture, Science Gallery International, pro helvetia). She develops and leads reserach projects (like the DIGI-Sense project) that actively integrate artistic and scientific research, and research methodologies to investigate the impact of artscience collaboration. Based on her extensive experience in this field, she also mentors scientists in the field and creates workshops for scientists who plan to research artscience collaboration or aim to integrate work with artists and artistic research in their discipline (e.g. for EURAC Research, Institute of Advanced Studies in Bolzano).

Claudia is a regular member of international juries for art prices, residency projects, and scientific boards for artscience projects.

Claudia serves as ArtScience expert for the SciArt Project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center in Ispra, as ArtScience expert for the European Commission, she regularly serves as expert and consultant for the Swiss funding organization pro helvetia, is member of the conference Advisory Board of Media Art History 2023 in Venice, member of the scientific committee of NOEMA media & publishing, member of the Advisory Board of Unbore, the Curators‘ Council of Kunsthalle Košice and co-founder and board member of the CORPORATE BODIES filmfest on organization and film. The first edition of the film fest took place in The Hague, NL, in February 2016.