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Ars Electronica 2008: A New Cultural Economy
(Vienna, August 21, 2008) The age of copyright and intellectual property has reached its expiration date. With this provocative formulation, Ars Electronica is placing one of the core issues of modern knowledge-based society at the focal point of this year's festival program. What’s at stake:
the value of intellectual property, freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society that seeks to build its new economy on the basis of creativity and innovation. The program of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival focuses on these new models, ideas and visions; it creates a platform on which culture and economy can meet and engage in a process of exchange. In this spirit, the two-day theme symposium featuring speakers from Europe, America and Asia will be complemented not only by artistic contributions and interventions this year but also by an economic forum focusing on this complex of issues. Particularly in the case of projects staged in public spaces, the point is also to make it clear that these issues aren’t just topics for discussions by experts. Instead, this is everyone’s business,matters that go right to the heart of our individual and collective conceptions of morality and our value systems.
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