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Ars Electronica 2006
Festival für Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft
Festival for Art, Technology and Society

Organization
AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
Museumsgesellschaft mbH

Managing Directors
Gerfried Stocker, Rainer Stadler

Hauptstraße 2, A–4040 Linz, Austria
Tel. +43.732.7272-0
Fax +43.732.7272-77
festival@aec.at
www.aec.at/simplicity

Co-organizers

ORF Oberösterreich
General Director: Helmut Obermayr

LIVA – Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH
CEO: Wolfgang Winkler, Wolfgang Lehner

O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst
Managing Director: Martin Sturm


Directors Ars Electronica
Gerfried Stocker / Ars Electronica Center
Christine Schöpf / ORF Oberösterreich

Production Management
Martin Honzik

Coordination Prix Ars Electronica
Iris Mayr

Production Team
Iris Mayr, Bianca Petscher, Manuela Pfaffenberger,
Gerlinde Pöschko, Elisabeth Sachsenhofer, Karl J. Schmidinger, Carola Unterberger-Probst, Ewald Elmecker,
Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Carmen Lauss, Dieter
Mackinger, Sonja Panholzer, Jutta Schmiederer,
Klemens Schuster

Curatorial Advisors
John Maeda for Simplicity Symposium.
Kati Åberg, Sonja Bettel, David Cuartielles, Dennis
Russell Davies, Andreas Hasch, Andreas Hirsch, Naut Humon, Pascal Maresch, Dietmar Offenhuber, Manuela Pfaffenberger, Christa Sommerer, Ina Zwerger

Marketing & Sponsoring, Public Relations
Ursula Kürmayr, Doris Ruland, Maria Hieslmayr

Press
Wolfgang A. Bednarzek, Robert Bauernhansl

Web Editors
Maria Hieslmayr, Cornelia Sulzbacher

Web Design & Development
Michael Badics, Martin Bruner, Stefan Eibelwimmer, Clemens Häckel, Nicolas Naveau, Dietmar Suoch,
Harald Welser

Architecture
Scott Ritter

Technical Expertise & Know-how
Ars Electronica Futurelab
www.aec.at/futurelab

Ars Electronica Center
Nicoletta Blacher, Renata Aigner, Ellen Fethke,
Michaela Lang


Ars Electronica Center System
Administration & Technical Maintainance
Gerold Hofstadler, Florian Arthofer, Bogdan
Florescu, Ulrike Gollner, Gerhard Grafinger,
Stefan Kaindlstorfer, Alexander Kneidinger,
Faruk Kujundžić, Günter Mayr, Michael Müllegger, Florian Wanninger

Ars Electronica Administrative Team
Elisabeth Kapeller, Olivia Desl, Rita Thaller, Michaela Wimplinger, Ronald Weber

Ars Electronica 2006 Catalog
SIMPLICITY—the art of complexity

Editors: Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker

Editing: Jutta Schmiederer, Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Heimo Ranzenbacher

Copyediting: Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber,
Catherine Lewis, Jutta Schmiederer

Graphic Design and Production:
Gerhard Kirchschläger

Typeface: Thesis Sans

Printed by: Gutenberg-Werbering
Gesellschaft m.b.H., Linz

Paper: Prelude matt, 135 g/m2

Binding: CPI Moravia Books, Korneuburg

© 2006 Ars Electronica
© 2006 for the reproduced works by the artists
or their legal successors

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ISBN-10: 3-7757-1834-6
ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-1834-9
Printed in Austria

Cover illustration: Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Vegetable Weapon: Saury fish ball hot pot / Tokyo, 2001;
Courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo