Contents




Gerfried Stocker / Christine Schöpf
Preface

Christian Seiwald
Novartis—On Working Together with Ars Electronica

Gerfried Stocker
New Images of Mankind

Net Symposium

Birgit Richard
I-Biology and Fake Life Construction

Symposium

Jeremy Rifkin
The Biotech Century

Robert Lanza
Advanced Cell Technology

Michael Specter
Decoding Iceland

Lori B. Andrews
Genetic, Predictions and Social Responses

Daniel J. Kevles
Genes and Justice, Past and Present

Paul Virilio / Derrick de Kerckhove
Man is the End of the World

Herbert Gottweis
Genetic Engineering, Scientific-Industrial Revolution and Democratic Imagination

Bruno Latour
Ecological and Sanitary Crisis or Objectivity Crisis?

R.V. Anuradha
Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering —Certain Issues for Law and Policy

Eugene Thacker
The Thickness of Tissue Engineering: Biopolitics, Biotech, and the Regenerative Body

Manuel DeLanda
Markets, Antimarkets, and the Fate of the Nutrient Cycles

Georg Schöfbänker
Remarks on the Theory of Biological and Asymmetrical Warfare from the Perspective of the US

Vilém Flusser
Curie's Children

George Gessert
A History of Art Involving DANN

Dorothy Nelkin
The Gene as a Cultural Icon

Birgit Richard
Gene_Mixing and Loops of the Self

Charles Tonderai Mudede
Space, Cyberspace, and Species

Eduardo Kac
Transgenic Art

Gunther von Hagens
The Designed Body

Installations

Eduardo Kac
Genesis

Gail Wight
Spike

Christoph Ebener / Frank Fietzek / Uli Winters
Hamster—symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy

Fakeshop
[Multiple_Dwelling]

Anita Gratzer
Timeless

Harwood / Mongrel
Ethnic Bleaching

Gina Czarnecki
Stages Elements Humans

Science Education Team
The Long Road to Comprehensible Science

Gene Genies Worldwide
The Creative Gene Harvest Archive

Robert Spour / Mario Veitl
[prints] • vier aminosäuren in folge

Yasushi Matoba / Hiroshi Matoba
Micro Friendship

Stadtwerkstatt
bugrace99

Rupert Huber
why sync?

Kiyoshi Furukawa / Masaki Fujihata / Wolfgang Münch
Small Fish

Franz Fischnaller / Marco Monzani
Tracking the Net

Hiroo Iwata
Anomalocaris

Anna Anders / Klaus Gasteier
Touchscreen

Emily Weil
Motion Picture

Rebecca Allen
The Bush Soul

Ursula Damm / Michael Hoch
in/outSite

Ars Electronica FutureLab
Telezone

CAVE

Peter Kogler / Franz Pomassl
Cave

Cyberarts 99

Christine Schöpf
Prix Ars Electronica 99

Events & Performances

Naut Humon (Curation)
Recombinant 9.9.99

The Michael Nyman Band
The Michael Nyman Band Concert

Fadi Dorninger
Ridin’ a Train

Jomasounds
Image Manipulation Soundtrack

openX

August Black / TNC NETWORK / Free B92 / C5 / DreamTech / net.radio OZOne/E-LAB/Xchange / RHIZOME / RTMark / Eugene Thacker / Margarete Jahrmann/Max Moswitzer / Radio FRO / Irational / Laura Bellof / Rossi [Gerald] Rossbacher / Olia Lialina
openX

Collin Fallows / Heidi Grundmann (Curation)
Sound Drifting
I Silenzi Parlano tra Loro

Pierre Lévy
Quote: Pierre Lévy

20 of the 20th

Gerfried Stocker
20 of the 20th

Beusch / Cassani
”And What Is It That Makes it Art?”

association.creation
Bump

Myron Krueger / Katrin Hinrichsen
Videoplace

Michael Nyman / Robert Worby / Fadi Dorninger / Robin Rimbaud / aka Scanner / Sam Auinger / Rupert Huber / Gordon Paunovic / Joachim Schnaitter / Markus Decker
OMV Klangpark

Werner Jauk / Heimo Ranzenbacher
Liquid Space

Biographies