Contents




Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf
UNPLUGGED—Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts

Who is Unplugged?

Saskia Sassen
The Global City

Aminata D. Traoré
Africa: A “Have” or a “Have-not” in the Information Society?

Jeremy Rifkin
The Age of Access

A. Hirsch / P. Rantasa
Collateral Damage or Emancipation

Artistic Aggression

Iba Ndiaye Djiadji
What will Remain of Africa?

Oumou Sy
My Way

Jay Rutlege
Unplugged Urban Africa

Davis O. Nejo / Andreas Hirsch
Connected to the Umbilical of the World

Wiring Africa

Mike Jensen
Wiring Africa

Keith Goddard
Mulonga —The Tonga.Online Project

Michel Mavros
Metissacana

Birama Diallo
The Timbuktu Multipurpose Community Telecentre

Lisa Goldman-Carney
The Joko Experience

Local Conflicts—Global Media

Jennifer Sibanda
The Problem of “Unpluggedness” of Women in Africa

Winters Negbenebor
Globalization, Independent Media and Development in Africa

Danny Schechter
The Media War at a Time of Terror

Rüdiger Wischenbart
The Paradoxes of Culture as a Market

Paul Virilio
The Speed of Terror

Deborah Shaffer
From the Ashes

Global Conflicts—Local Networks

Joichi Ito
Identity and Privacy in a Globalized Community

Uri Dotan
Severed Connections

Sharif Waked
Iconic Panopticon

Derrick de Kerckhove
Text, Context and Hypertext

O. Tremetzberger / A. Baratsits
Creating Interfaces

Operated by Art

Azza El-Hassan
Art and War

Philippe Quéau
The Whale, the Cockroach and the Rabbit

Peter Fend / Ocean Earth
Art of the State

Hou Hanru
An Event City, A Pandora’s Box

Pixelspaces

H. Hörtner / H. Ranzenbacher / P. Maresch
Pixelspaces 2002

Marie-Luise Angerer
The Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

Michael Shamiyeh
Embrace the Swarm

Pascal Maresch / Futurelab
Public Source

Johannes Deutsch
Gesichtsraum—CAVE

Weltkarten—Change the Map

Weltkarten—An Introduction

Alexander R. Galloway / RSG
How We Made Our Own “Carnivore”

Mark Napier
Net.Flag

M. Aschauer / J. Deinhofer / M. Gusberti / N. Thönen
./logicaland

Josh On
From They Rule to We Rule

Social Impact / Harald Schmutzhard
border rescue

Thomas Feuerstein
Internet-Metrik: Biophily*

W. Jauk / H. Ranzenbacher
Klimakonverter

Electrolobby—TransIT Room

Electrolobby—TransIT Room

Marcus Neustetter
SEARCH

S. L. Cheang / A. Medosch / Y. Shikata
Kingdom of Piracy

African Art Screen

Prix Ars Electronica 2002

Ars Electronica Center Exhibition

Hidden Worlds

Leading Edge Design Corp.
Cyclops

Simon Schießl
Digital Cubes

S. Auinger / B. Odland
BOX 30/70

T. Blaine / C. Forlines
Jam-O-Drum: Circle Maze

Joachim Smetschka
onScreen

Events & Performances

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Body Movies

Radiotopia Community
radiotopia—open air

Jaroslaw Kujda
Gameboyzz Orchestra

K. Obermaier / C. Haring
Vivisector

Bettina Henkel
Community Interpreting

Detlef Heusinger
Sintflut

66b/cell
Test Patches

Biographies