Program

Take Away (data to go)

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.

Most of this is data that can easily be found online, but it’s precisely this act of exclusive collection that documents how enormous the Internet’s wealth of freely-available knowledge, information and content really is. This installation is designed above all to counteract the widely-held notion that the act of taking advantage of online resources is generally a matter of piracy and the illegal acquisition of data, a concept that stems from the music industry’s problem with illegal downloading. In addition to the data freely available here, project partners like the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s radio station Ö1 will be giving away “content for free” like, for example, the Ö1 Postcasts.

Opening:
September, 4: 4.40 PM

Project Managment: Susi Windischbauer (Ars Electronica), Elke Kellner (Ö1)
in cooperation with Ö1