18 Studierendenjob Jobs in Oberösterreich

Intimate Triage – Open Call for Medical Students

Intimate Triage © Mayer mit Hut

Open Call: Medical voices for Intimate Triage (Ars Electronica Festival 2026)

Where: JKU MED Campus, Linz When: 9 to 13 September 2026, five half days Compensation: EUR 400 Apply by: 26 July 2026

We are looking for 2 to 4 medical students interested in the negotiation of AI's role in healthcare, to take part in public three-way encounters with a humanoid robot and a visitor during the Ars Electronica Festival at JKU MED Campus.

Each encounter brings three parties into exchange: you as the medical voice (in a partially directed actor’s role), a humanoid robot, and one visitor at a time. Encounters last 5 to 10 minutes, are unscripted and loosely guided, take place seated, and are held in front of other visitors. At stake is who listens, who assesses, and who decides, and what AI's arrival means for personal mental health and for the future responsibilities of those who provide care. All encounters are held in English.

You would take part as a medical voice, speaking from your training and experience, while the robot argues probabilistically. This is an artistic setting, not a clinical consultation. You do not actually diagnose or recommend treatment. A member of the project team is present throughout every encounter, operating the

Intimate Triage – Open Call for Medical Students

robot and able to intervene or stop it at any point. You are never alone with the setup. Encounters may be photographed, filmed, and recorded for documentation.

Intimate Triage was jointly developed with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention and is part of the "Impact Initiative: Transforming Medicine Through AI and Arts ", an initiative conceived and led by the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft - Open Innovation in Science Center, in collaboration with the Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) at Johannes Kepler University Linz and Ars Electronica. A full Intimate Triage project outline is on the next page.

Compensation We can offer a compensation of EUR 400 for 5 half days, plus first-hand experience in a triadic embodied AI setting in a healthcare context, as well as festival access on the days you are working.

Time slots If you are interested please state which 5 half days you are available. Ideally four students take part, with two present per slot alternating between encounters. The half days may be combined into full days if preferred.

• 9 September: 10:00 – 14:30
• 9 September: 14:30 – 19:00

• 10 September: 10:00 – 14:30
• 10 September: 14:30 – 19:00

• 11 September: 10:00 – 14:30
• 11 September: 14:30 – 19:00

• 12 September: 10:00 – 14:30
• 12 September: 14:30 – 19:00

• 13 September: 10:00 – 14:00
• 13 September: 14:00 – 18:00

Useful to bring
• Enjoy interacting with visitors + willingness to take part in an art project
• General background knowledge in mental health (your profession can differ)
• Interest in robotics and AI in healthcare
• Willingness to speak with visitors in front of an audience about AI in

healthcare (as part of a speculative setting)
• Confident spoken English

How to apply If you are interested please send a short email with a few sentences on your motivation, your stage of study, and your availability to emanuel@emanuelgollob.com Deadline: 26 July 2026 - we will get back to you by 30th of July

Intimate Triage – Open Call for Medical Students

Intimate Triage © Mayer mit Hut

Intimate Triage Emanuel Gollob, Jan Smeddinck, Misagh Saboori, Pavithren V S Pakianathan Intimate Triage is an encounter with embodied care. Five minutes to negotiate who listens, who diagnoses, and who decides. One visitor at a time enters a speculative care assembly with a humanoid robot and a human specialist, both attending to them in voice and gesture. The encounter surfaces the frictions that emerge when care relationships suddenly turn triadic. Who holds authority when a machine argues probabilistically, and a human argues from experience? Where does accountability settle when intimacy and reason are distributed across bodies of radically different kinds? Each encounter is unrehearsed, shaped by the three agents in the room. As AI systems move into clinical practice, Intimate Triage does not simulate the future of healthcare; it surfaces the negotiations we are beginning to have about trust, vulnerability, and what we are willing to receive from whom. This project was jointly developed with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention and is part of the "Impact Initiative: Transforming Medicine Through AI and Arts ", an initiative conceived and led by the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft - Open Innovation in Science Center, in collaboration with the Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) at Johannes Kepler University Linz and Ars Electronica. The Impact Initiative is funded by the Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ).