Hannah Neckel is a Vienna-based transmedia artist and worldbuilder, exploring queer futurity by melting the utopian promise of the internet into reality. Her practice operates through a modality of continuous downloading and uploading; archiving, saving and preserving in tension with creating, sharing and contributing.
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Hannah Neckel
based in Vienna / Online
studied Transmedia Art
at the University of Applied Arts in the class of Brigitte Kowanz / Jakob Lena Knebl and graduated with Honors Master of Fine Art in 2025
She is a member of the interdisciplinary artist-led collective room69
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Working under the networked persona @cybervoid69, she mobilizes this cyclical process as a method of worldbuilding, integrating research, archiving, rendering, sculptural fabrication, and installation into a fluid praxis that collapses consumption and production, reception and transmission.
This recursive logic situates the archive not as a static repository but as a dynamic ecology of queer persistence, wherein the acts of downloading, cataloguing, and preserving are inseparable from the acts of making visible, exchanging, and circulating.
To be chronically online is reclaimed as a generative condition: a mode of resistance against erasure, in which accumulation and circulation converge as strategies of survival and speculative construction.
This recursive logic situates the archive not as a static repository but as a dynamic ecology of queer persistence, wherein the acts of downloading, cataloguing, and preserving are inseparable from the acts of making visible, exchanging, and circulating.
To be chronically online is reclaimed as a generative condition: a mode of resistance against erasure, in which accumulation and circulation converge as strategies of survival and speculative construction.
Within this expanded ecology, the figure of water emerges as both metaphor and operative material. Water embodies the logic of circulation and flow: emotional, affective, and networked; functioning as an analogue for the internet’s liquidity while simultaneously destabilizing categorical boundaries. In Neckel’s installations, digital forms spill outward into sculptural and sensory space, enacting an aqueous ontology in which the lesbian gaze is reconfigured through processes of leakage, overflow, and exchange.
Through this sustained practice of downloading and uploading, Neckel’s work articulates a utopian potential enacted in the present, rather than deferred into futurity. Worldbuilding becomes a lived infrastructure of preservation and sharing, inhabiting the interplane of digital and physical, archival and generative, where queer worlds emerge towards speculative environments that render utopia not as projection but as lived immediacy
Through this sustained practice of downloading and uploading, Neckel’s work articulates a utopian potential enacted in the present, rather than deferred into futurity. Worldbuilding becomes a lived infrastructure of preservation and sharing, inhabiting the interplane of digital and physical, archival and generative, where queer worlds emerge towards speculative environments that render utopia not as projection but as lived immediacy
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contact
instagram @cybervoid69
studio@hannahneckel.com
full portfolio & cv more information
on request
for business inquires please send a message via email
studio@hannahneckel.com
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are by Hannah Neckel
Copyright of all Texts and Photos lies with Hannah Neckel
instagram @cybervoid69
studio@hannahneckel.com
full portfolio & cv more information
on request
for business inquires please send a message via email
studio@hannahneckel.com
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are by Hannah Neckel
Copyright of all Texts and Photos lies with Hannah Neckel