Contents




Forewords

Urfährwändchöre
"… horrific honorific hommage " for the opening of Ars Electronica

I. Documentary and theoretical contributions

Gottfried Hattinger
"Introduction. A Historical Survey on the Subject"

Peter Weibel
"Art of the Scene – The Inscenation of Art"

Barbara Lesák
"The Union of the Arts in the theatrical visions of the early Modern: from Kandinsky's Synaesthetic Theatre to the Mechanical Show Machinery by El Lissitzky"

Reinhard Oehlschlägel
"Experimental Music in the Limelight"

Brian Henderson
"Cinema and Architecture: Intersections of Illusionism"

Peter Frank
"Postwar Performance: Mixing Means and Metiers"

Symposion
"Philosophies of the New Technology"

Peter Gente/Adelheid Paris
"Invitation"

Hannes Böhringer
"High Technology of Amechania"

Heinz von Foerster
"Perceiving"

Vilém Flusser
"The Memory"

Friedrich A. Kittler
"Fiction and Simulation

Peter Weibel
"Territory and Technology"

Jean Baudrillard
"Video World and Fractal Subject"

II. Program Catalogue
Art of the Scene

Theater der Klänge (Theatre of Sounds)
"The Mechanical Bauhaus-Stage"

Erich Wonder/Heiner Goebbels/Heiner Müller
"Maelstromsüdpol"

Thomas Shannon/Jon Hassell
"XEN. 3-D Movie Concert"

Heiner Goebbels
"Looking upon the Wide Waste of Liquid Ebony"

Ed Emshwiller/Morton Subomick
"Hungers"

Susanne Widl/Valie Export/Patricia Jünger
"Voices from an Innerspace"

Mia Zabelka/Peter A. Egger
"Moving – frozen. Sound and body figures"

Enzo Cosimi/Fabrizio Plessi/Luca Spagnoletti
"Sciame"

Exhibition Academy of Arts, Linz
"Scenes/Spaces"

Ron Kuivila
"Radial Arcs"

Waltraut Cooper
"Scherzophren"

Stadtwerkstatt
"Weather Building"

Video Scenes

John G. Hanhardt
"New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967–1988"

Chris Hill/Peter Weibel/Tony Conrad
"Infermental 7"

Audio Scenes

Sound Park

Henning Christiansen
"Sheep-Music-Concert-Castle"

Joe Jones
"Solar Music Hot House"

Yoshi Wada
"The Appointed Cloud"

Audio Art Symposium

Matthias Osterwold
"Introduction"

Paul Panhuysen
"A New Paragon"

Rolf Langebartels
"Audio Art: Space"

Frans Evers
"The Third Synaesthetic Wave in Modern Art"

Nicolas Collins
"Imaginary Landscape: Electronics in Live Performance, 1989 & 1939"

Llorenç Barber
"Spanish Bells"

Frieder Butzmann/Thomas Kapielski
"Half-medium or full-medium. The limits of De-art-ization"

Nicolas Collins
"100 of the World's Most Beautiful Melodies"

Arnold Dreyblatt
"Die Luftmenschen"

Giardini Pensili
"Separated Worlds – United Worlds"

Hans Peter Kuhn
"When Cursing was Working" / "5 Listening"

Logos-Duo (Moniek Darge/Godfried-Willem Raes)
"HEX"/"Holosound"

Gordon Monahan
"Speaker Swinging"

Paul Panhuysen
"Requiem for an Unknown Soldier"/ "Trattato della Pittura II"

Horst Rickels
"Flip-Flop"

Tibor Szemszö/Peter Forgacs
"Private Hungary"

Vivenza
"Dynamic Integrity of Noise"