Timeshift - The World in Twenty-Five Years
Ars Electronica 2004
Linz, Do 2. - Di 7. September
www.aec.at/timeshift
1st Announcement: Ars 25 - Specials
You are reading the first issue of the Ars Electronica 2004 newsletter, providing information about the program of this year's festival, TIMESHIFT - The World in 25 years.
TIMESHIFT
"I'll throw the damned rearview mirror out of the damned window because I don't want to know where I've come from, but where I'm going," Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, is reputed to have said once in the '30s of the 20th century, and indeed he did actually break off the car's rearview mirror and throw it out of the window. A brilliant anecdote. But that was before the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Vietnam, before the first flight to the moon, before Chernobyl, before 9/11 and the Iraq War, before the discovery of the DNA double helix, Dolly the cloned sheep, and the deciphering and patenting of the entire genome, before the development of the transistor, the age of digital simulations, the development of the Internet and the triumphal advance of cell phones and computer games... That's quite a lot of future reflecting in our rearview mirror. But what lies ahead of us?
Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schoepf, Directors Ars Electronica
Ars 25 Specials
Ars Electronica is 25, and to celebrate the occasion, several events and theme presentations are being added to the Festival lineup. Even before Ars Electronica 2004 opens, the "Language of Networks" conference will be offering a glimpse of the state of the art in network theory and visualization. The Media Art Forum is the lead-in to another Festival highlight: the "Digital Avant-Garde / Prix Selection" exhibition at the Lentos showcases milestones of interactive art from the historyof the Prix Ars Electronica.
Ars 25 - Special: Digital Avant-Garde / Prix Selection >
Ars Electronica's 25th anniversary is a suitable occasion for a retrospective of media art. "Digital Avant-Garde / Prix Selection" showcases an array of works from past Ars Electronica prize competitions. This exhibition will run in New York from May to July and in Linz during the Festival.
Ars 25 - Special: Media Art Forum - Digital Avant-Garde >
The artists represented in the "Digital Avant-Garde / Prix Selection" exhibition present their works and discuss concepts of working with interactive media.
Ars 25 - Special: Language of Networks >
An interdisciplinary conference focusing on social networks and information visualization. A symposium and workshops featuring international experts elaborating on theory, techniques, methods and applications of network analysis.
Ars 25 - Special: Ars Electronica - Network of Media Art >
Gerhard Dirmoser (A) has been systematically observing and analyzing Ars Electronica for 25 years. The results: a detailed and comprehensive study and highly expressive visualizations that he will present on three evenings.
Ars 25 - Special: Itsuo Sakane - Lecture >
Prof. Itsuo Sakane, a contemporary eyewitness to the history of media art since its earliest days, delivers his second major address at Ars Electronica-this time documenting the '50s and '60s on the basis of his incomparable collection of material.
Ars 25 - Special: Re-inventing Radio >
Live: on air - on line - on site
80 years of radio in Austria, 25 years of Ars Electronica and 15 years of the Long Night of Radio Art. An international network of artists refers live to radio-art reaching beyond Ars Acustica and the traditional broadcast medium.
Detailed Festival Program online
The detailed Ars Electronica 2004 festival program is online now.
The website www.aec.at/timeshift is providing regular and detailed updates on the festival theme, program details, news and background features as well as information about artists, speakers and performances until the festival in September.
