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Announcing Video Streams
Video streams of the Ars Electronica Gala as well as of the symposia and lectures held during the Ars Electronica 2004 will soon be available online!
This year, for the first time, the Ars Electronica Gala was both the opening event of the Ars Electronica Festival and the award ceremony for the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2004. The best artists from the categories "Computer Animation/Visual Effects", "Digital Musics", "Interactive Art", "Net Vision" and "u19 – freestyle computing" were honoured and their works presented.
The four panels of the "TIMESHIFT Symposium" explored the topic "TIMESHIFT – The World in 25 Years". Renown experts, and young artists and scientists participated in the discussion sessions, and so brought together experience and new viewpoints. In these panels, entitled "PROGRESS", "DISRUPTION", "SPIRIT" and "TOPIA", the participants engaged in dialogues about the future.
The events of the "Prix Forum 2004" were devoted to the categories "Interactive Art", "Digital Musics", "Computer Animation/Visual Effects", "Net Vision" and this year’s new category "Digital Communities", whereby in the latter two, everything revolved around the subject of “commons and communities". With the rediscovery of the Internet as a social space, knowledge networks that are freely accessible to all (digital commons) have increasingly become the focus of attention.
Prof. Itsuo Sakane, who has personally witnessed the development of media art since its beginnings, delivered his second major talk at the Ars Electronica under the title "On the History of Interaction between Art and Technology – Towards the Cultural Evolution of Human Beings". Based on his unparalleled collection of materials, he documented the years between 1950 – 1970.
In the course of the "Re-inventing Radio Symposium", experts discussed the past and present state of artistic communications projects. The central topic of reflection was radio art as an art form that critically examines the medium and the changes it has undergone.
During Ars Electronica 2004, the "Creative Commons Austria" was launched in order to bring the "Creative Commons’" idea to Austrian artists. This Internet platform opens up channels that make creative material available to others, while also attending to copyright issues. "Creative Commons" provides free license agreements that enable artists to grant some of the rights to their works to the public while retaining others.
In the near future video streams of all these interesting events will be available on the web pages of Ars Electronica!
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20.9.2004
Cornelia Sulzbacher
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