ARS ELECTRONICA

Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Linz Thu 4 - Tue 9 September 2008

Under the banner of “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property” the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival aims to co-author the preamble to a new knowledge-based society. What’s at stake: the interplay of freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society. And this is also a matter of practical, workable regulations governing this new reality, rules whose formulation ought not to be left up to lawyers and MBAs alone.

Ars Electronica invites artists, network nomads, theoreticians, technologists and legal scholars from all over the world to convene in Linz September 4-9, 2008. Their artistic and scholarly investigations in the form of symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions will transcend the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and pervade the entire city.

Ars Electronica 2008 Opening Performances

All Inclusive »

Sept 4 | 7:38 PM to midnight

Pöstlingberg

All Inclusive A tempting trip will kick off “A New Cultural Economy,” the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival. This ALL INCLUSIVE event invites festivalgoers to take an excursion up Pöstlingberg, one of Linz’s most beloved daytrip destinations and tourist attraction par excellence.

Conferences

A New Cultural Economy Symposium »

Sept 5 to Sept 6

Brucknerhaus

A New Cultural Economy Symposium The 2008 Ars Electronica Symposium is curated by Joichi Ito (J) - Activist, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist. Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization which provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily ...