(((It's all Jules Verne, all the time, today.)))
(((I once wrote the intro to a Modern Library edition of Verne's
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.)))
http://www.amazon.ca/Around-World-Eighty-Jules-Verne/dp/0812968565
80+1 � A Trip around the World: ARS ELECTRONICA Call for Proposals
Join Ars Electronica, voestalpine and Linz09 on an expedition around the world and into our future. From June 18 to September 6, 2009.
In 1872, author Jules Verne dispatched Phileas Fogg, a gentleman who liked nothing more than an interesting wager, on a trip �Around the World in 80 Days.� In 2009, Ars Electronica, voestalpine and Linz09 will be sending the City of Linz on such a journey. This won�t entail any physical travel though. The mode of conveyance will be the fiber optic cables and satellite hookups of our globalized Information Society. �80+1� will be visiting 20 locations across the face of this planet at which our future is being invented and mastered or thwarted and destroyed. Each of these places is linked to a particular theme. Migration, climate change, energy, resources ...
Join us on this journey into the future! Send us your idea for a tele-operating project.
The deadline: October 31, 2008.
The aim: facilitating fruitful interaction among people at widely separated locations and analyzing it while it�s happening. All the details, topics and background info are online at www.80plus1.org.
Impressum:
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH
Hauptstraße 2
A-4040 Linz
Tel. +43.732.7272.0
Fax +43.732.7272.2
E-Mail: [email protected]
