Ars Electronica 2006
Simplicity - the art of complexity
Thu 31 August - Tue 5 September
Linz, Austria
SIMPLICITY is a complex topic that has no single, simple answer. We live in an increasingly complex technological world where nothing works like it is supposed to, and at the end of the day makes all of us hunger for simplicity to some degree. Yet ironically when given the choice of more or less, we are programmed at the genetic level to want more. “Would you like the big cookie or the smaller cookie?” or “Would you like the computer with ten processors or just one?” The choice is simple really, or is it?
For the Ars Electronica Symposium on SIMPLICITY we think together about what simplicity (and complexity) means in politics, life, art, and technology. Expect more than you can ever imagine, and less. (John Maeda, curator of the Simplicity Symposium)
A richly varied program and an eminently incomparable atmosphere are the defining features of the Ars Electronica Festival. In addition to symposia, conferences, concerts and exhibitions, a profusion of art projects installed in public spaces invites those partaking of it to engage in interaction, discussion and dialog. From August 31 to September 5, all of Linz, and for the first time the Augustinian monastery St. Florian, become a stage set for media installations, screenings and sound
sculptures—a most enthralling experience for highly diversified audiences.
A detailed, comprehensive rundown of the program is available online at
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/program/all_day_preview.asp.
program blog:
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/blog/index.asp
booking and ticketing:
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2006/service/hotels.asp
AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
Museumsgesellschaft mbH
Hauptstrasse 2
4040 Linz
Austria
tickethotline: 0043-732-7272-55
fax: 0043-732-7272-655
