Hanns Holger Rutz is an artist and researcher in sound art and digital art, based in Austria. His works in installation, improvisation and music composition span more than two decades, having extended to other digital and non-digital media. He heads the FWF-funded artistic research project “Simultaneous Arrivals” (2022–2025, Co-PIs: Nayarí Castillo and Franziska Hederer) on novel forms of collaborative artistic processes. Rutz is Professor for Artistic Research at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music (GMPU) Klagenfurt, AT.