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> From: Ars Electronica Center <announce@evil.aec.at>
> Date: July 8, 2004 9:48:28 AM EDT
> Subject: Ars Electronica 2004 - Ars 25 Specials
> Reply-To: announcement@aec.at
>
> Timeshift - The World in Twenty-Five Years
> Ars Electronica 2004
> Linz, Do 2. - Di 7. September
> www.aec.at/timeshift
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>>>> 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.
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>
>>>> TIMESHIFT
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> "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
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>
>>>> 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.
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> Overview Announcements
>
> 1st Announcement (July 2004): Ars 25 Specials
> 2nd Announcement (July 2004): Conferences I
> 3rd Announcement (July 2004): Conferences II,
> 4th Announcement (July 2004): Conferences III
> 5th Announcement (August 2004): Exhibitions I
> 6th Announcement (August 2004): Exhibitions II
> 7th Announcement (August 2004): Events I
> 8th Announcement (August 2004): Events II
> 9th Announcement (September 2004): Electrolobby
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>
>
> Sponsors of Ars Electronica 2003:
>
> Stadt Linz, Land Oberosterreich, Bundeskanzleramt/Kunstsektion
>
> SAP AG, Telekom Austria, voestalpine, Gericom, Mitsubishi Electric,
> Siemens AG, FESTO, O1, Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, Sony DADC, Casino
> Linz.
>
> Additional Support: 3com, Cancom, Frank&Partner, Lexmark,
> Postlingbergschlossl, VS Fickenscher, BMWA, BMBWK, Innovatives
> Osterreich, M-AUDIO, Jindrak, Kulturkontakt Austria.
>
>
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