ARS ELECTRONICA
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In the context of the Internet, the generally accepted definition of what is “public,” a concept commonly understood in connection with such things as knowledge, content, source code, etc., is, broadly speaking, material voluntarily made available at the discretion of the private sector and is not comparable to publicly accessible material that is maintained and administered by organizations elected and authorized by society in accordance with a sociopolitical understanding of private and community property. Something like the virtual counterpart to the reality and the availability of a city’s parks or main square basically doesn’t exist. Nevertheless, things that fundamentally differ become comparable in a phase in which prices for content production and distribution approach zero while increases in prices for basic foodstuffs bring the real needs of the body into play.Take Away (data go go) takes on this issue at two public sites in downtown Linz by staging installations dealing with the digital and the analog. The primary elements are a container on the Main Square and a “Circle of Wagons” on Pfarrplatz.
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Die Form der Unruhe: rebell.tv »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
How is communications behavior being transformed under the impact of digitization? What changes when it’s no longer letterpress printing—a linear-causal sequential array of trains of thought—that characterizes the exchange of ideas among human beings, but rather hyperlinks, connections, relations, conversations?
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Ethics Disco - NEW! »
08.09. | 18:00-19:00
Pfarrplatz
After his first appearance on the Ars Foyer Stage on Saturday, 6.9. Kalle Laar is bringing his temporary sound museum on the Pfarrplatz Stage once again!
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Fallen Fruit »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
Fallen Fruit is an artists’ collaboration that investigates urban space, ideas of neighbourhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. All of these interrogations are done through the lens of fruit, which interests us for its simplicity, cultural and social value, and its persistence over centuries of representational art. Fruit is democratic, trans-cultural and valued across all social classes.
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Former Farmland »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
Former Farmland is an act of field research meant to make people aware of knowledge, traditions and (hi)stories that are being lost.
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Hybrid Playground »
04.09. - 09.09. | 15:30-18:00
Pfarrplatz
Hybrid Playground reflects upon the fact that all kids have video games and brings those to a playground, transforming it into a collaborative game.
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KODOU »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
KODOU is a kind of stethoscope which detects sounds of internal organs and amplifies them into the place.
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Mobile Ö1 Atelier »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Hauptplatz
As counterpart to the “Circle of Wagons” on Pfarrplatz, the container on the Main Square fulfills the function of a hard disc from which files from the Internet can be downloaded with a free license.
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MobileLab »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
With their collaborative performance tool MobileLab, three students at the KHM–Academy of Media Arts Cologne will be conducting a “research performance” that investigates what takes place at the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival in the interactive zone where prediction, coincidence and experience meet.
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OVERTURES a north-south expedition dealing with water »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
This year’s 3rd OVERTURES project is coming up with new prospects for the way mankind deals with water.
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Pfarrplatz-FM4-Studio »
05.09. - 07.09. | 10:00-19:00
Pfarrplatz
Ars Electronica on the air! From 5. to 7.9. FM4 will be broadcasting live from Linz.
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Public Business Ethics Workshop »
07.09. | 14:00-16:00
Kunstuniversität Linz / K2
THE WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED
This workshop is part of the Overtures project.
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Public Fruit Jam »
07.09. | 13:00-16:00
Pfarrplatz
Take part in a Public Fruit Jam! Bring in fruit you´ve cultivated yourself or found "growing wild." Then we´ll all make marmalade together.
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Vernichtungsaktion »
06.09. | 10:00-18:00
Hauptplatz
This undertaking will target first and foremost the aspect of brand value and imitation. What this campaign will be destroying are knock-offs of brand-name merchandise, although the real value of an original apparently no longer bears even the slightest relation to the value that the brand claims for that item.
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Wagenburg »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
With a Circle of Wagons, Ars Electronica demonstratively takes temporary possession of this public place, a city square designed to be a real-world setting for experimenting with and testing a culture of sharing.
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we guide you - you guide us »
04.09. - 09.09. | 10:00-21:00
Pfarrplatz
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers leave those kids alone.