Contents




Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker
Preface

Hannes Leopoldseder
Ars Electronica, All Aboard!

Gerfried Stocker
Vector in Open Space

Gerfried Stocker
Memesis

Netsymposium

Geert Lovink
The Memesis Network Discussion

Symposium

Richard Dawkins
Mind Viruses

Francis Heylighen
The Evolution of Memes on the Network

Joshua S. Lateiner
The Memetic Web

Allucquère Rosanne Stone
Media Memory

Rainer P. Born
Prometheus in Hell

Herbert Hrachovec
Memmings

Jon Rose
Improvisation Sport & Evolution

Sadie Plant
Becoming Positive

Douglas Rushkoff
It Ain’t Eugenics. It’s Just Memetics.

Robert Adrian X
Media Culture

Perry Hoberman
Memes and Variations

Tom Sherman
Nature is Perverse Sometimes

John L. Casti
Would-Be Worlds

Heimo Ranzenbacher
The Evolution of Future

Joe Engelberger
Watching Robot Evolution

Douglas Back
The Transformation of Memory to the Desired Form

Karin Spaink
Cyborgs

VNS Matrix
Nothing is Certain [Flesh, the Postbody, and Cyberfeminism]

Simon Penny
Artistic Practice, Body Knowledge and the Engineering World View

Mark Dery
Wild Nature

Konrad Becker
Synreal Systems

Geert Lovink
Media Memory

Albert Lichtblau
Cyberspatial Monuments of Memory

Robert Adrian X, Reinhard Braun, Robert Woelfl
Kunst&Politik

Robert Adrian X, Sam Auinger
Deep Blue

Tjebbe van Tijen
Ars Oblivivendi

Installations

Louis-Philippe Demers, Bill Vorn
No Man’s Land

Don Ritter
The Intersection of Art and Interactivity

Just Merrit
???

Roberto Paci Dalò
NAPOLI

Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau
GENMA

Ken Goldberg
The TeleGarden

Events

Tod Machover
Brain Opera

Michel Redolfi
Liquid Cities

Emergency Broadcast Network

Fadi Dorninger
Sub’tronic

Stadtwerkstatt
Glasfieber

Contained - Rearview Mirror towards Reality
Johannes Domsich
From a Grain of Sand to a Pearl to a Grain of Sand ...

Just Merrit
What’s that supposed to be, what’s programm?

Network

Rivers & Bridges
Heidi Grundmann
Rivers & Bridges

Jocelyn Robert
The Code is in the Translation

János Sugár
Thinking Aloud

Beusch/Cassani
SOS Radio TNC – A Media Fiction

Van Gogh TV
Worlds Within

Winfried Ritsch
SoundLives

Netband
The Egg of the Internet

Oliver Frommel
Textbased VR - Scenarios for Virtual Communities

NL. Design
The Image of the Evolution

Hotwired
Online Publishing

Expo

Peter Assmann
Interactivity

Natalie Jeremijenka
Voice Boxes

Luc Courchesne
Hall of Shadows

Masaki Fujihata
Global Interior Project

Nobuya Suzuki
Three Men Three Legs

Erwin Redl
Parallel Mesmerization of Eleven Blondes and Eleven Brunettes by Two Computers

Harwood
Rehearsal of Memory

Scott Sona Snibbe
Motion Phone

Gerhard Funk
Ruhe RAUM Bewegung

Thecla Schiphorst
Bodymaps – Artifacts of Touch

Nancy Paterson
The Machine in the Garden

Simon Penny, Jamieson Schulte
Sympathetic Sentience

Gudrun Bielz
RAYS (work in progress)

Helmuth Gsöllpointner, Christian Möller
Variable Objects as Micromodels of Possible Architectures

Heimo Ranzenbacher
For Digital Renaissance of Situationism

Biographies