Barbara Lüneburg (Prof. Dr. phil.) is an internationally acknowledged performing artist and artistic researcher working in contemporary classical art music and multimedia art. From 2014 to 2018 she was director and lead artist of TransCoding. Her previous arts-based research deals with collaborations between performers, composers and music promoters, charisma, performer-audience relationships and game-based audiovisual art. Lüneburg is professor for »artistic research« at the Private University in Linz and heads the doctoral programmes.