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Ars Electronica 2004
Festival für Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft
Festival for Art, Technology and Society

TIMESHIFT
The World in Twenty-Five Years
Die Welt in 25 Jahren

Organization
AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
Museumsgesellschaft mbH
Managing Directors
Gerfried Stocker, Rainer Stadler
Hauptstraße 2, A–4040 Linz, Austria
festival@aec.at
www.aec.at/timeshift

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

Coordination & Production
Katrin Emler – Festival
Iris Mayr – Prix

Production Team
Nicoletta Blacher, Ellen Fethke, Ingrid Fischer-
Schreiber, Magnus Hofmüller, Verena Kain,
Carmen Lauss, Barbara Leopoldseder, Dieter
Mackinger, Sonja Panholzer, Manuela Pfaffenberger,
Clara Picot, Gerlinde Pöschko, Susanne
Posegga, Klemens Schuster, André Zogholy

Curatorial Advisors
Sonja Bettel, Dennis Russell Davies, Karel
Dudesek, Fadi Dorninger, Heidi Grundmann,
Andreas Hirsch, Naut Humon, Monika Leisch-
Kiesl, Michael Naimark, Christa Sommerer,
Tadashi Yokoyama, Benjamin Weil, Elisabeth
Zimmermann, Ina Zwerger

Press / Public Relations
Wolfgang A. Bednarzek / Ulrike Ritter

Marketing & Sponsoring
Ursula Kürmayr, Doris Peinbauer, Barbara Egger

Web Editor and Design
Stefan Eibelwimmer, Volker Haider, Günter Kolar,
Ulrike Ritter, Cornelia Sulzbacher

Ars Electronica Center System
Administration & Technical Maintenance
Gerold Hofstadler, Karl Schmidinger, Rudolf
Handl, Thomas Steindl, Alexander Kneidinger,
Gerhard Grafinger

Ars Electronica Futurelab
Florian Berger, Reinhold Bidner, Peter Brandl,
Helmut Höllerl, Horst Hörtner, Martin Honzig,
Andreas Jalsovec, Christopher Lindinger, Stefan
Mittlböck, Dietmar Offenhuber, Nina Wenhart

Exhibition Architecture
Scott Ritter

Ars Electronica Center Info- and Visitor Service
Herbert Gattringer, Renata Aigner, Michaela Lang

Ars Electronica Administrative Team
Elisabeth Kapeller, Rita Thaller, Michaela
Wimplinger, Birgit Wasmeyer, René Aichinger,
Thomas Mauhart

Catalog Ars Electronica 2004
Timeshift—The World in Twenty-Five Years

Editors
Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf

Editing
Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber

English Proofreading
Aileen Derieg, Henry Mason, Jean Mason,
Giles Tilling, David Wilson

Graphic Design
Gerhard Kirchschläger

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

The Timeshift Logo is based on a design by
Stefan Eibelwimmer.

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Cooperation Partners / Kooperationspartner
Kunstuniversität Linz
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Posthof Linz

Organization / Veranstalter
The Ars Electronica Center Linz is an institution of the municipality of Linz.

Das Ars Electronica Center Linz ist eine Einrichtung der Stadt Linz.

Ars Electronica Center Linz & Festival Ars Electronica are supported by:
Stadt Linz
Land Oberösterreich
Bundeskanzleramt/Kunstsektion