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> From: Ars Electronica Center <announce@evil.aec.at>
> Date: July 27, 2004 9:21:34 AM EDT
> Subject: Ars Electronica 2004 - TIMESHIFT Symposium
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> Timeshift - The World in Twenty-Five Years
> Ars Electronica 2004
> Linz, Do 2. - Di 7. September
> www.aec.at/timeshift
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>>>> 3rd Announcement: TIMESHIFT Symposium (Conferences II)
> You are reading the third 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 Symposium
> This year's Ars Electronica Symposium features four panels around the
> theme of "TIMESHIFT-The World in 25 Years." These panels,
> guest-curated by Michael Naimark, will proceed along a dramatic
> succession from the enthusiastic to the critical to the personal to
> the imaginative. In order to combine seasoned experience and fresh
> perspective,each panel will consist of four senior pioneers and one
> young commentator. The pioneers are prominent experts who have made
> significant contributions in fields relating to art, technology, and
> society. The commentators are talented young artists and researchers
> assigned to present a historical overview of the panel's topic,
> drawing from the Ars Electronica's vast 25-year archive of writings,
> images, and videos. The goal is to use the rich history of Ars
> Electronica to stimulate dialogue about the future.
>
>>> TIMESHIFT Symposium I - PROGRESS
> The first panel, PROGRESS, is about the promise of science and
> technology. It is intended to express the dreams, hopes, and desires
> made possible by advances in computer and cognitive science, digital
> media, and bio and nano technologies.
>
>>> TIMESHIFT Symposium II - DISRUPTION
> The second panel, DISRUPTION, is about error, accident, and dissent.
> It is intended to reveal how the value of intent is relative and how
> counter-force candominate in an imperfect world where things don't
> always go as planned.
>
>>> TIMESHIFT Symposium III - SPIRIT
> The third panel, SPIRIT, is about beauty, passion, and inner drive. It
> is intended to refocus our attention from global to self and to
> explore such issues as wellness,pleasure, family, and mortality.
>
>>> TIMESHIFT Symposium IV - TOPIA
> The final panel, TOPIA, is specifically about the world in 25 years.
> It will present scenarios around a wide variety of topics relating to
> art, technology, and society.It is intended to be detailed, inventive,
> and audacious.
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>
>>> Participants
> In light of the multifaceted history of Ars Electronica, the Timeshift
> Symposium will host a dialog on future developments in art, technology
> and society. Attendees will include representatives of different
> generations of theoreticians, scientists, scholars and practitioners
> as well as interested laymen.
> Among the speakers are:
> - Peter Weibel, artist, theoretician, former artistic Director of Ars
> Electronica, currently Director of the ZKM in Karlsruhe
> - Marvin Minsky of the MIT Media Lab, pioneer in robotics and AI
> - Astrophysicist and theoretician Roger Malina
> - Sherry Turkle, a leading thinker in the area of computer-human
> interaction
> - Stewart Brand, pioneer in the field of Web-based communities (e.g.
> The Well)
> - Japanese "star blogger" Joichi Ito
> - Joan Shikegawa of the Rockefeller Foundation
> - Esther Dyson, journalist and former chair of the ICANN Internet
> authority
>
>>>> 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): Language of Networks (Conferences
> I)
> 3rd Announcement (July 2004): TIMESHIFT Symposium (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
>
>
>
> Sponsors of Ars Electronica 2003:
>
> Stadt Linz, Land Oberosterreich, Bundeskanzleramt/Kunstsektion
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> 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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