As Head of the Support Art and Research Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Alexander Damianisch plays a pivotal role in advancing artistic and interdisciplinary project development, managing funding strategies, and overseeing the University's Doctoral School. He advocates for practitioner-led exploration that shapes, rather than follows, change. Additionally, also as a member of the AIL executive board, he fosters a diverse, inclusive research ecosystem through his collaborative leadership.

With an international profile as a mediator for art as a catalyst for action, he serves as a teacher, moderator, writer, and consultant. He is a member of the ELIA Careers In the Arts | CCI’s working group and has initiated Special Interest Groups within the Society for Artistic Research, including one dedicated to language- based artistic research, and played a crucial role in high-level funding agency meetings during his tenure on the SAR executive board.

Damianisch was the inaugural director of Zentrum Fokus Forschung, where he coordinated the Artistic Research PhD program. His earlier leadership of Austria's artistic research funding program (PEEK), which he designed, and the 'Art, Science, and Business' residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude reflect his commitment to integrating artistic and research across fields. Alexander Damianisch has supported among many students and colleagues the work of Grace Wallace Bonner, Fiona Raby and earlier of Peter Weibel, and participated in projects presented at renowned institutions such as the Venice Biennale, MoMA (New York) and MAXXI (Rome). He also co- curated exhibitions at MAK (Vienna), Tokyo University of the Arts (GEIDAI), Building Bridges Art Exchange (Los Angeles), the School of Creative Media (Hong Kong), NTU School of Art, Design and Media (Singapore), UMPRUM (Prague) and the Tongji University (Shanghai).

He hosted prominent artistic figures such as William Kentridge, Efva Lilja, David Chisolm and Nikolaus Gansterer in various events and performances, like his event series Understanding Practice,"