Liebe Kunstfreunde,
die HMH Kunstereignisse freuen sich, ein großartiges, preisgekröntes Projekt zu hosten:
MULONGA.NET STATION + KLANGBRÜCKE
ACROSS THE WATERS / BORDERS / CONTINENTS
LINZ /AUSTRIA - SIACHILABA / ZIMBABWE
The village goes global: über Internet Radio www.emap.fm und die website www.mulonga.net
wird eine interaktive Verbindung zwischen dem MULONGA.NET FESTIVAL im Tonga Gebiet Zimbabwe´s und dem ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL in Linz hergestellt.
Ausstellung / Installation - Eröffnung FR, 3. 9. 2004 - 21:00
4. – 14. 9. 2004 - täglich 15 – 19 Uhr
Die multimediale Installation Mulonga.Net Station in der HMH Kunstereignisse Galerie bildet den Stützpunkt für einen entschleunigten Zugang zu einer African digital community.
Die Klang- und Bildinstallation von Klaus Hollinetz und Werner Puntigam reflektiert deren Begegnungen mit der Tonga Kultur, Michael Pilz dokumentiert mit Einfühlungsvermögen und Langmut das Geschehen Siachilaba backstage und die visuals von Thomas Schneider nehmen Bilder von beiden Seiten auf und transformieren sie in neue Eindrücke.
Das Mulonga.Net Lab betreut Stefan Kuthan, der im Mai die Computerausstattung der beiden Schulen in Siachilaba und Siansundu unterstützt hat. Berater der Ausstellungsgestaltung ist Gernot Sommerfeld.
Klangbrücke 5. 9. 2004 – 20:30 im Donaupark, 22:00 @ HMH Gallerie
Die Klangbrücke über Internetradio emap.fm zwischen dem Dorf Siachilaba und dem Klangpark in Linz steht für den ambitionierten Versuch, den digital divide zu überwinden: Karl Ritter, unterwegs bei den Tonga in Zimbabwe, und Otto Lechner - zuerst vor dem Brucknerhaus und dann in der HMH Kunstereignisse Galerie - spielen als Windhund interkontinental gleichsam die Boten im Cyberspace.
Finissage 14. 9. 2004 – 19:00
Die Windhunde Otto Lechner und Karl Ritter waren schon vor zwei Jahren bei den Tonga auf Besuch und haben seither den Kulturaustausch mit Zimbabwe fortgeführt und sich für Tonga.Online engagiert. Die Finissage führt die beiden zusammen.
Dieses langjährige Projekt wurde beim Prix Ars Electronica 2004 in der Kategorie „Digital Communities“ mit einem „Award of Distinction“ ausgezeichnet.
Mehr Informationen über das Projekt bzw. die HMH KUNSTEREIGNISSE sowie den Standort der Galerie in der Ottensheimerstraße 25 in 4040 Linz / Urfahr erfahren Sie unter: www.rubblemaster.com/kunstereignisse.htm
Bei Fragen stehen wir Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihr / Dein / Euer Kommen.
Andrea Eichelberg
Head of Marketing & PR
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HMH Engineering-Consulting-Trading GmbH Im Südpark 196 4030 Linz / Austria
Hinweise:
Am Freitag, 3.9. findet im Anschluss an die Ars Electronica Gala mit Award Ceremony das VITA PULSANTE im Ars Electronica Quarter statt. Ab 21:30 wechselt das Geschehen in das Areal rund um das Ars Electronica Centre, wo ein dichtes Programm den Abend bis weit in die Nacht hinein bestimmt. Ein Schauplatz ist die HMH Kunstereignisse Galerie in der Ottensheimer Straße 25, die um 21:00 die mulonga.net station eröffnet.
Während der gesamten Festival-Woche ist das Projekt mulonga.net station auch in der electrolobby im Foyer des Brucknerhauses und im O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst ausgestellt.
Auch das Ö1 Radio-Colleg widmet sich den Digital Communities und wird Ende August einen Beitrag u.a. auch über das Projekt mulonga.net ausstrahlen.
lieber peter,
gerade schnapp ich, vor dem schlafengehen, ein paar sätze bei henri
cartier-bresson auf, diesem eben im 95sten jahr verstorbenen und vielleicht
größten fotografen der geschichte, die auch so schön auf across the river
und die darin enthaltene ausdrucksweisen, vor allem auch jene der Tonga,
passen:
(...) Durch ein genaues Zeichen tut sie (die Natur) uns kund, daß unsere
Bestimmung erreicht ist. Dieses Zeichen ist die Freude. Die Freude - nicht
die Lust. Die Lust ist nur ein Kunstgriff, den die Natur ersonnen hat, um
von dem lebenden Wesen die Bewahrung des Lebens zu erreichen; nicht aber
bezeichnet sie die Richtung, die dem Leben gewiesen ist. Die Freude hingegen
zeugt stets dafür, daß das Leben sich durchgesetzt hat, daß es Boden
gewonnen hat: jede große Freude hat einen triumphierenden Klang. Wenn wir
nun diesen Hinweis beachten (...), so finden wir, daß überall, wo Freude
ist, Schöpfung ist und zwar ist die Schöpfung um so reicher, je inniger die
Freude ist." Henri Cartier-Breson, "L'instant décisif".
in diesem sinne wünsche ich euch und den tonga in siachilaba viel freude,
michael
TONGA.ONLINE IM RADIOKOLLEG
Pressetext: Ö1 / Radiokolleg, MO bis DO, 9 Uhr 30
30.8. bis 2.9 2004
Die Digitale Gemeinschaft
Von Fan-Sites bis zu offenen Wissensnetzwerken
Gestaltung: Ina Zwerger
Das Internet ist nicht nur ein Informations- und Kommunikationsmedium sondern auch ein sozialer Raum, in dem Menschen aus aller Welt ihre Interessen, Erfahrungen und Sorgen teilen. Ob in Chatrooms, Weblogs oder Online-Foren - für jedes noch so ausgefallene Hobby, für jede Lebenskrise oder Krankheit, für jedes kulturelle, soziale oder politische Thema finden sich Kommunikationspartner, die online ihr Wissen weitergeben. „Digital Communities“, wie Wikipedia (http:// wikipedia.org) zeigen aber auch einen ganz neuen Trend: das kollektive Schaffen und Teilen von kulturellen Gütern, wie Information, Software oder Musik. File-Sharing ist damit schon längst nicht mehr nur ein technischer Begriff sondern beschreibt eine neue Bewegung, die das traditionelle Wirtschaftssystem in Frage stellt. Der „Prix Ars Electronica“ widmet den „Digital Communities“ heuer erstmals eine eigene „Preis-Kategorie“. Von Fan-Sites bis hin zu entwicklungspolitischen Initiativen, vom Austausch zwischen Gleichgesinnten bis zum Networking mit völlig Unbekannten reicht die Palette der eingereichten Projekte. Was sind die Merkmale dieser neuen Gemeinschaften, was ist ihre soziale und politische Relevanz und wie verändern sie das Zusammenleben? Ina Zwerger berichtet über den „digitalen Gemeinschaftssinn“, seine Wirkung und Nebenwirkungen - online wie offline.
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Ein Interview mit Peter Kuthan über die Tonga als digital community und das Tonga.Online Projekt wird in dieser Reihe voraussichtlich am 2. September gesendet.
Timeshift - The World in 25 Years
25 years of Ars Electronica and digital revolution. And what does the next quarter century have in store? A retrospective and a preview of trends and phenomena at the interface of art, technology and society. Plus two additional days of program features and special events.
Vienna, August 17, 2004. Transformation, upheaval and the future are the programmatic concepts of Ars Electronica 2004. The look back at the past serves as a strategy for shaping the future. The younger generation of artists
and theoreticians meets the trailblazers and visionaries of the pioneer days of digital culture to undertake a joint analysis of Ars Electronica’s approach to work and design principles, and to offer a retrospective and a preview of developments in the impact zone where art, technology and society meet. New features, activities and special events make it possible to extend the program by two days, and running the festival from Thursday to Tuesday provides for a more intensive use of the entire weekend.
The past, present and future of media culture ...
... are the main threads running through the thematic orientation of the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival.“How do we propose to deal with the turbulent dynamics of scientific and technological change and the ethical-moral issues that will accompany it? Do we face them with more confidence now? Over the last 25 years, have we learned to assert ourselves with respect to these phenomena in a more enlightened, emancipated and critical fashion?” asks Gerfried Stocker, the artistic director of Ars Electronica. In each of the four panels of the TIMESHIFT Symposium, guest curated by Michael Naimark, a young practitioner will be getting together with senior pioneers to jointly confront these issues in a way that does not turn into nostalgic reminiscence. The objective is rather to let the experiences of Ars Electronica pass in review of those unencumbered by the past. Young specialists like Peruvian scientist José-Carlos Mariátegui and Columbia University’s Alena Williams will be joining established pioneers like Peter
Weibel, Marvin Minsky, Esther Dyson and Stewart Brand to face questions at the nexus of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Documentations like the Timeline, exhibitions like Digital Avant-Garde in the Lentos Museum of Art, and special historical addresses like the presentation by Itsuo Sakane will provide festivalgoers with an overview of the history of 25 years of digital media culture as reflected by Ars Electronica.
Re-Inventing Radio will be staged within the framework of Ars Electronica and dedicated to the 80th anniversary of radio in Austria; this joint presentation with the Austrian Broadcasting Company’s station Ö1 will feature the Long Night of Radio Art and a special symposium.
The CyberArts 2004 exhibition as well as the Prix Forums and Digital Musics in Concert will showcase works singled out for recognition at the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica and offer insights into the current state of creativity in digital media art. Linz’s University of Art will host Campus, the exhibition of works by young artists studying at the IAMAS. This Japanese institute’s interdisciplinary orientation and the resulting high potential for creativity give rise to expectations of a glimpse into the future of artistic production.
Pulsating events and performances ...
... will immerse all of Linz in a festival atmosphere. The world premiere of Klaus Obermaier’s Apparition will establish a new standard in the fusion of dance and media art. Linz Writes its Future will turn the city’s Main Square into a time machine for local residents and festivalgoers.
An Evening in the Gardens set in an idyllic spot atop the Franz-Joseph-Warte offers a one-of-a-kind blend of nature with media art, sound streams, sound installations and performances high above the rooftops of Linz. The Ars Electronica Quarter will transform itself into a venue for musical events,
performances and sound installations entitled Vita Pulsante. L‘Espace Temporel will be an epic concert evening spanning an arc from orchestral to digital music. The Klangwolke by Peter Wolf promises music and magic.
The focal-point theme of digital commons and digital communities ...
... casts the spotlight of attention on this trend. Digital Communities, the newest Prix Ars Electronica category,was a tremendous success in its very first year. The Prix Ars Electronica Forum featuring experts like Howard Rheingold and practitioners like Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, and a sound-bridge to
Mulonga.net will be two efforts to confront this highly relevant phenomenon. Another special highpoint will be the launch of Creative Commons Austria, which will be attended by Lawrence Lessig, one of the leaders in the Creative Commons movement. The Electrolobby and Electrolobby Kitchen will undertake an intensive encounter with manifestations of digital communities.
Conferences at the nexus of art, technology and society ...
... will be another point of emphasis at the festival. Language of Networks scrutinizes the latest methods of network visualization. In research, as a scientific application, in teaching or as an instrument of artistic production, network visualization techniques are being used in an ever-growing spectrum of fields. Experts from a wide variety of disciplines will elaborate on the causes and effects of this trend and the opportunities it presents. The Pixelspaces conference will be dedicated to the question of whether media art functions as a source of creative impetus for other domains of social life—the economy, for instance. The Radio FRO Conference will deal with the impact of new technologies on free media.
Ars Electronica has been following the digital revolution for 25 years now, analyzing the social and cultural effects of digital media and communications technologies from critical as well as utopian, artistic and scientific points of view, thinking them through and inferring potential developments.
TIMESHIFT builds a bridge from the past to the present and on into the future of the encounter with these issues.
more Information on the Ars Electronica Festival: http://www.aec.at/timeshift
and the Ars Electronica Press Lounge: http://www.aec.at/press
TONGA.ONLINE @ ARS ELECTRONICA + ON AIR !!
If you can make it to attend the ARS ELECTRONICA in Linz this year don´t miss the chance to visit MULONGA.NET STATION at HMH Gallery Kunstereignisse, Ottensheimerstrasse 25 (just opposite Ars Electronica Center) for a relaxed encounter with Tonga culture online and may be an e-mail conversation with Siachilaba folks.
‘Soundbridge’: The digital version
Of course one of the highlights of the festival will be the soundbridge linking up Mulonga.Net Festival in Siachilaba and the Ars Electronica acoustically when Otto Lechner and Karl Ritter will perform as messengers in Cyberspace: Mulonga.Net festival sound files (featuring special guest Karl Ritter and Tonga Ngoma Buntibe music) uploaded to the Internet, and a response by Otto Lechner at the Donaupark in Linz / Austria live streamed via Internet.Radio emap.FM -http://emap.fm
Come to the site of one of the biggest PA systems in the world in front of Brucknerhaus to
listen - or join in via Internet Radio on Sunday 5th September 20h30 CEST (central european summer time) = 18:30 UTC (coordinated universal time)
Live Stream: http://emap.fm/ch2.ram
URL: http://emap.fm
Don´t miss the party afterwards with Otto Lechner and Dorothy Okello at HMH Gallery - till late (live streaming to continue!).
Another chance to listen locally is via Radio FRO - Free Radio Upper Austria and Radio Orange in Vienna !
Tonga.Online will also anchor at two more venues during the festival: as part of the Cyberarts exhibition at OK Centrum for Contemporary Art (with a display of artwork "backstage Siachilaba" from Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber) and in the E-Lobby of the Brucknerhaus.
At all these locations you will find AlphaSmarts expanded keyboards for easy offline communication with the Tonga area - write down your message and hook up to the workstations for transfer to www.mulonga.net, the communication platform.
Watch out, listen, join in !
Tonga.Online im Radiokolleg ueber digital communities am 2.9. !!!
hi from the ok center in linz where the website mulonga.net is presented as well as photos made by sabine bitter and helmut weber and a sample of an alpha-smart. i'll be present here during the festival doing my best to supply the visitors with information about the project. anna
Hello Everyone
Greetings from New York City. I am looking forward to the sound bridge on Sunday.
Here the Republic Convention is taking place and many people are out of the city. But everything is calm.
Thanks
Dominic
Hi Anna, Hi Dominic,
great to read your messages "across the continents" here in remote Binga area on the eve of Mulonga.net Festival! We will keep you posted !
best wishes and luv
Peter
hello
so, everything is running fine. the preparations for the exhibition finished just in time. today is the big opening, and as i sit here at the gallery HMH i'm surrounded by the familiar sound of the nyele horn. we have quite a good number of visitors at the moment, hopefully there will be lots more interested in the tonga culture and our exhibition in the two weeks to come.
today we have been live on air, on radio fro, the local free media radio. klaus holinetz, werner puntigam and me. the radio people were very interested and gave us half an hour of their time. (the interview will be re-played tomorrow at 14:00 on radio FRO 105.0 Mhz)
we will try to phone zimbabwe in a few minutes, so i'll be off now. wish the zimbabwean people all the best at the festival.
for everyone in linz: come to the ottensheimerstr. 25!!
hear you soon
stefan
hello from the HMH gallery in linz where the "mulonga.net station" exibition is up and running and receives a good respond from the visitors. everything is working well on that side..looking forward for the soundbridge on sunday!
hi! I write from the aec festival in linz, and I enjoy the fine soup and listen to the crazy music and want to send greeting to all and everyone in, on and arount mulonga.net. I'm looking forward to the greet soundbridge on sunday..
cu soon,
daniel
Hello! I'm sitting here at HMH galerie, surrounded by images and music from zimbabwe. The great opening party of the exhibition was yesterday and there were quite a few people. It was very nice - watching michael pilz's film and getting some impressions of zimbabwean life, accompanied by traditional musical expressions of zimbabwean people. Especially in the "Freude Raum" ("room of joy"), where the film was shown, the athmosphere was very friendly and calm - it seemed as if people went there to draw back a little and "absorbed" the beautiful pictures and colors - of the film and the room itself (painted in bright, warm orange with "Freude" (joy) a hundred times over it).
well, these are my impressions from the mulonga.net exhibition at the ars electronica in linz - i think it's a great project and i hope you, all the people involved in it, can and will continue this beautiful cooperation between austria and zimbabwe.
greetings to everybody - connected to this project of simply interested in it!
philozoe
you can view some photos of the events taking place at the ars electronica.
more to follow soon.
stefan
Hallo!
Wir wandern in Klangräumen. Zeit, Zeit, Zeit,Dunkelheit, Licht, Wärme, Kälte,Bilder, Bilder, Bilder, Farbe, Farbe, Farbe.
Unseren Vorstellungen sind keine Grenzen gesetzt.
Diese Raumskulptur hat kein Ende, nur wenn wir sie beenden.
Liebe Grüße,Agnes.
Aus den OÖ Nachrichten: (Artikel)
Brücke nach Afrika
"Ich kann Linz und die Donau sehen und Afrika hören", sagte ein "mulonga.net"-Zuhörer begeistert. Das Ars-Electronica-Projekt baute mit Hilfe eines Internet-Radios eine Klangbrücke zwischen Linz und Zimbabwe und vermischte österreichisches Akkordeon (Otto Lechner) mit Ethno-Klängen aus dem schwarzen Kontinent.
Rund 100 Zuhörer kamen am Sonntagabend in den Donaupark um mulonga.net zu hören. Anfangs spießte sich das Zusammenspiel, erst nach einiger Zeit fanden die Rhythmen zusammen und konnten durchaus begeistern. Manchmal hörten die Donaupark-Besucher nur Afrika, dann nur Linz, am besten klangen die beiden allerdings doch gemeinsam.
Der Hintergrund dieses Klangerlebnisses war das ausgezeichnete Projekt smartXtension - die Erweieterung von Tonga. Online, eines Computercenter in einer der abgelegensten Regionen Zimbabwes. Durch neue Technologien konnten die Tonga erstmals wieder mit dem anderen Teil des Stammes, der wegen eines Umsiedelungsprogramms im Nachbarland Sambia lebt, kommunizieren. (je)
Hallo,
die Soundfiles der Klangbrücke, wie auch des anschliessenden Events in der HMH Gallerie vom 5.9. sind direct unter als RealAudio zu hören: emap.fm, klangbrücke
oder weniger kryptisch zu finden:
http://emap.fm -> ondemand -> concerts ...
Morgen ab 19h geht's weiter...
lg an alle
Emil H. Lubej
Emap.FM - Internet Radio for World Wide Ethno Music and Reports
emap.fm
Die Ars Electronica im Rückblick
Mit einem gelungenen Festival, das zahlreiche Künstler, Wissenschafter und Journalisten aus aller Welt nach Linz lockte, startete die Ars Electronica höchst erfolgreich in die nächsten 25 Jahre!
34 000 Besucher aus allen Kontinenten verzeichnete das heurige Festival Ars Electronica. Die Aufführungen von "Apparition" und "L`Espace Temporel" waren komplett ausverkauft und die Künstler wurden mit viel Applaus gefeiert. Auf ein besonders reges Interesse stießen die Installation "Linz schreibt Zukunft" am Linzer Hauptplatz und die beiden Freiluftveranstaltungen "An Evening in the Gardens" und "Vita Pulsante".
2004 wurden soviel Kulturinstitutionen in das Festival mit eingebunden, wie nie zuvor. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen im Brucknerhaus, im O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, im Ars Electronica Center, in der Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz, im Kunstmuseum Lentos und im Architekturforum Oberösterreich erwiesen sich als wahre Publikumsmagneten. Auf großes Interesse stießen auch die Symposien, Konferenzen und Vorträge, die sich mit der Zukunft in ihren verschiedensten Variationen, dem Prix Ars Electronica, Digital Communities und Digital Commons, Kommunikation und Medienkunst beschäftigten.
Insgesamt waren 555 Künstler und Wissenschafter aus 28 Nationen an der Ars Electronica 2004 beteiligt. 587 akkreditierte Journalisten aus 33 Ländern berichteten von diesem seit Jahren renommierten Festival für Medientechnologie und –kunst. Die Website der Ars Electronica verzeichnete während der Festivalwoche die sensationelle Zahl von 4,425.279 Zugriffen.
Für das 26. Jahr der Ars Electronica sind bereits die ersten Highlights geplant. Anfang 2005 beginnt wieder die Ausschreibung für den Prix Ars Electronica, den international bedeutendsten Preis für CyberArts, und von 26. 03. – 31. 05. 2005 präsentiert die Ars Electronica die Ausstellung "Digital Avant-Garde" im National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
hello from ok - center for contemporary art in linz
this is the last day of cyberarts 2004, the prix ars electronica exhibition which features also tonga.online smart x tension as a selected political net project. i am using a laptop besides an alphasmart. there are also some pictures of siachilaba displayed as part of the series done by sabine bitter and helmut weber in 1997. many people around to take chance of this last day of the exhibition and anna busy monitoring them.
hope we´ll make it once again to the ars electronica
best regards
peter / azfa
CyberArts 2004
International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
Hatje Cantz, Euro 49,90 (DVD and CD included)
ISBN 3-7757-1493-6
CyberArts 2004 compiles text and graphic documentation of the prizewinning works singled out for recognition by juries of international experts in the Computer Animation / Visual Effects, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Net Vision, Digital Communities categories - featuring also Tonga.Online X tension - , the u19-freestyle computing competition for young Austrian artists as well as the art and technology grant [the next idea]. This comprehensive volume is accompanied by a DVD with excerpts from the best works of Computer Animation / Visual Effects as well as a CD featuring selected cuts from the Digital Musics category.
Prix Ars Electronica 2005 is Good to Go!
World’s largest CyberArts competition – Six Golden Nicas and € 110,000 in prize money – Entries commence January 10th.
Creatives across the entire spectrum of media art and technology may begin submitting their work to the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica on January 10th. The categories range from [the next idea] and u19 competitions for young people to the classic Ars Electronica disciplines—Digital Musics, Net Vision, Computer Animation and Interactive Art—all the way to Digital Communities with its programmatic commitment to sociopolitical innovation. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2005.
The Prix Ars Electronica is being held for the 19th time this year. This cyberarts competition is conceived as an open platform for works representing a broad spectrum of disciplines in the digital media field at the interface of art, technology and society. Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is the most important and most successful international showcase of the best of digital media art.
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2006: SIMPLICITY - the art of complexity
Our world’s increasing complexity and its tension-filled interplay with our own growing need for a comprehensive, comprehensible overview of the world will occupy the focal point of attention at Ars Electronica this year. A feature-packed lineup of events, conferences, symposia, exhibitions and performances will provide a detailed and comprehensive view of the state of the art of global media culture.
Vienna, August 18, 2006 (Ars Electronica). The program that’s been lined up for Ars Electronica 2006 is a wide-ranging encounter with possibilities and strategies designed to help us effectively manage the increasingly multi-layered complexity of our reality.
“If we succeed in dealing with complexity in a constructive way and taking advantage of it, then this phenomenon that is increasingly dominating all aspects of our life opens up tremendous prospects for our future,” stated Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker.
“Coming up with intelligent, easy-to-use solutions for complicated, multidimensional tasks is currently the most pressing task that we face. That goes for information technology just as much as it applies to art and other facets of life in our society,” Christine Schöpf pointed out in stressing the importance of this year's festival theme. Christine Schöpf and Gerfried Stocker are artistic co-directors of Ars Electronica.
Implementing new technologies, digital ones included, always entails social consequences that have to be taken into consideration. Among the pressing questions we face: How can computer programs be designed so as to minimize the obstacles that prevent individuals from accessing them? How can we more accurately grasp the concrete social impact of new technologies? What qualities must hardware possess in order to provide everyone—and not just the technocratic elite—with access to it? How can we take optimal advantage of the opportunities that complexity presents in order to identify that which is essential for us in the flood of information with which we are deluged? And what role does art play in its function as avant-garde domain and field of experimentation amidst constantly multiplying data, more and more options, and permanent change?
A richly varied program and an 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 them to engage in interaction, discussion and dialog. From August 31 to September 5, all of Linz becomes a stage set for media installations, screenings, sound sculptures and enthralling experiences for highly diversified audiences.
The complete program is available online at www.aec.at/simplicity.
"Digital Press Kit" and Pictures in Printing Quality for Download on http://www.aec.at/presskit