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A stellar lineup of artists and scientists from around the world will be attending the Ars Electronica Festival to discuss fascinating issues at this year’s series of conferences and speeches.
The Hybrid Symposium will be dealing with hybridization across the entire spectrum of its manifestations in culture, politics, the economy and human identities. What brings about hybridization? What interrelationships exist between it and globalization? What effects is hybridization having upon our lives? Prominent scholars will address these and other questions during the four sessions of the Hybrid Symposium.
Derrick de Kerckhove will deliver an address on Marshall McLuhan and his work. McLuhan’s theories about media became less influential following his death, but they experienced a renaissance with the emergence of the Internet. De Kerckhove will provide a comprehensive overview of McLuhan’s oeuvre and the subsequent development of his ideas.
The Prix Ars Electronica Forum will showcase the winners of the Golden Nicas and the Awards of Distinction in the individual Prix categories. There will also be two Artist Lectures by Theo Jansen and Ulf Langheinrich, the artists whose works are being featured at this year’s Ars Electronica. Under the overarching theme “Commons & Communities,” participants will scrutinize social life in the Digital Age, the emergence of digital communities and factors hindering their formation.
The World Culture Forum will thematicize cultural memory and diversity, as well as problems of cultural sustainability and human development in connection with a globalized Information Society. Internationally renowned experts will discuss the role of media literacy in sustainable development and the cultural aspects of the Digital Divide.
In conjunction with “Man and Computer,” a scientific conference being hosted by the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, the “Design for Digital Communities” panel will be held in the Brucknerhaus. Keynote addresses by top-name scholars will deal with interface design as a social challenge. During this event, the Staging Prize will be awarded to W. Bradford Paley, Jefferson Y. Han and Peter K. Kennard, the principals of the “TraceEncounters” project.
Pixelspaces 2005, the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s annual conference, is entitled “Hertzblut – Techno-emotional interactive spaces.” Protagonists of media art will be discussing the interrelationships among the artificial worlds produced by computer technology and the emotional processing of reality. Plus, a speech and an exhibition of interactive installations will present the work being done at medialabmadrid.
Technical and legal aspects of free access to information and the search for alternative approaches to licensing for the non-commercial use of intellectual property in free media will occupy the focal point of attention at the Radio FRO Conference entitled “DIY Databasing!”
Three Linz institutions, the Ars Electronica Center, the University of Art and the Lentos Museum of Art, are collaborating with the Ludwig Boltzmann Society to launch one of the world’s largest research projects on archiving digital media art. The basis of this effort is the Ars Electronica Archive. As the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science prepares to start its work, experts from all over the world will convene at the Digital Archive Conference to discuss the issues it is facing.
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