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A Look Back at Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica has successfully launched its next 25 years with a splendid festival that attracted countless artists, scientists and journalists to Linz from all over the world!
34 000 visitors from every continent were registered by this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. The performances "Apparition" and "L`Espace Temporel" were sold out completely and the artists enthusiastically applauded. The installation "Linz schreibt Zukunft" at the Main Square as well as the two open-air events “An Evening in the Gardens" and "Vita Pulsante" aroused especially keen interest.
In 2004 more cultural institutions were affiliated with the festival than ever before. The many exhibitions – at the Brucknerhaus, the O.K Center for Contemporary Art, the Ars Electronica Center, the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Lentos Art Museum and the Architecture Forum Upper Austria – proved to be major attractions. Audiences also showed lively interest in the symposia, conferences and lectures focusing on the future in its diverse variations, the Prix Ars Electronica, digital communities and digital commons, communications and media art.
A total of 555 artists and scientists from 28 nations participated in Ars Electronica 2004. 587 accredited journalists from 33 countries reported on this prestigious festival for media technology and art. Ars Electronica’s website attracted a sensational 4 425 279 hits during the festival week.
The first highlights of the 26th Ars Electronica are already in preparation. In early 2005, Prix Ars Electronica, internationally the most significant prize for cyberarts, will once again announce its call for entries. And from March 26 to May 31, 2005, Ars Electronica will present the exhibition "Digital Avant-Garde" at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
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10.9.2004
Cornelia Sulzbacher
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