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Fri 4.9.
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

10:30 – 10:45 AM
Welcome by Gerfried Stocker

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
Friedrich Kittler

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Hiroshi Ishiguro

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Talk: Friedrich Kittler, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Derrick de Kerckhove

Friedrich Kittler (DE) Doctorate in 1976 with Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. 1976-1986 research assistant in the German Department, University of Freiburg. 1984 post-doctoral qualification in Modern German Literature, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg/Breisgau. 1987 Chair of Department of Modern German Literature I, Ruhr University Bochum. 1993 Chair of Department of Aesthetics and Media History, Humboldt University Berlin.

Derrick de Kerckhove (CA). Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto; Ordinary Professor at the University of Naples Federico II; holder of the Papamarkou Chair at the Library of Congress in Washington. Among his major publications: The Skin of Culture (Somerville Press, 1995); Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997); Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (Bosch & Keuning, 1991); La civilizzazione video-cristiana (Feltrinelli, 1997); The Architecture of Intelligence (Testo & Immagine, 2001).

Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP). Dr. Eng. Visiting Group Leader of Dept. of Communication Robots, Professor of Osaka University, Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems.

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Fri 4.9.
1:30 PM– 3:00 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Eduardo Kac

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Josef Penninger

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Round Table: Eduardo Kac, Josef Penninger, Jens Hauser

This Human Nature Lecture is part of the Prix Ars Electronica Forum Hybrid Art.

Josef Penninger (AT). Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Eduardo Kac (BR) is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. Kac’s work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art of Valencia, Spain, the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others, and has received many awards.
http://www.ekac.org

Jens Hauser (FR / DE) is a Paris-based art curator, writer, cultural journalist and video maker focusing on the interactions between art and technology, and on transgenre and contextual aesthetics. Hauser has organized “L’Art Biotech” (2003), a show on biotechnological art, and “Still, Living” (2007) at the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, and “Sk-Interfaces” (2008) at FACT. He’s also co-curating the Article Biennale in Stavanger (European Cultural Capital 2008 with Liverpool), and stages sk-interfaces at Casino, the Contemporary Arts Center Luxembourg, in 2009. He is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and has been a guest lecturer internationally.

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Sun 6.9.
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Michael Schmidt-Salomon

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Maja Petrovic-Steger

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Derrick de Kerckhove

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Round Table: Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Maja Petrovic-Steger, Derrick de Kerckhove

Michael Schmidt-Salomon (DE), Dr. phil., freelance philosopher and writer, musician and social scientist, co-founder and spokesman of the board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, which counts many renowned scientists, philosophers and artists among its members. His numerous publications include the novel “Stollbergs Inferno” (“a philosophical dime novel on hell, revolts and the absurd,” 2003), a manifesto of philosophical principles “Manifest des evolutionären Humanismus. Plädoyer für eine zeitgemäße Leitkultur” (2006), the satirical lexicon “Die Kirche im Kopf – Von Ach Herrje! bis Zum Teufel” (2007) and the children’s book “Wo bitte geht’s zu Gott? fragte das kleine Ferkel” (2007).

He is familiar to the wider public among other things through his publicity actions, including the project he initiated for the Catholic “World Youth Day” in Cologne (2005), called “Religionsfreie Zone: Heidenspaß statt Höllenqual!” (“Religious-Free Zone: Pagan Fun, not Hellish Agony!”) as well as through the campaign he spearheaded for the Council of Ex-Muslims (2007): “Wir haben abgeschworen!” (“We have renounced religion!”). Schmidt-Salomon has received many honors (including the Topitsch Award of the Kellmann Foundation for Humanism and Enlightenment). As a naturalistically thinking philosopher, he is often featured in the press, radio and television.

Maja Petrovic-Steger (UK). Dr Maja Petrović-Šteger is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse. She teaches for the Department of Social Anthropology, and directs studies in Archaeology and Anthropology for Peterhouse students at the University of Cambridge (UK). Her research explores various contexts where bodies – whether living; dead, or in the form of medically usable remains – become the sites of economic, legal, political, scientific and artistic attention. In 2007 she started working with etoy. Ever since she acts as an etoy ethnographer and etoy agent.

Derrick de Kerckhove (CA). Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto; Ordinary Professor at the University of Naples Federico II; holder of the Papamarkou Chair at the Library of Congress in Washington.

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Sun 6.9.
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

Moderation: Andy Cameron (UK)

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Bernhard Fink

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Shinsuke Shimojo

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Lawrence Malstaf

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Round Table: Bernhard Fink, Shinsuke Shimojo, Lawrence Malstaf

This Human Nature Lecture is part of the Prix Ars Electronica Forum Interactive Art.

Bernhard Fink (DE). Anthropologist, director of a group of young scientists supported by the German Research Foundation researching the “Evolutionary Psychology of Human Physical Appearance & Body Movement.” His research focuses on understanding human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, in particular the significance of human appearance and its influence on partner selection. After obtaining his doctorate and doing research at the University of Vienna, Fink went on to the University of Göttingen, where he is currently investigating the signals sent by body movement and the appearance of the skin.

Shinsuke Shimojo (JP). Director of the Shimojo Psychophysics Laboratory, the only laboratory of the California Institute of Technology which exclusively concentrates on study of perception, cognition, and action in humans.

Lawrence Malstaf (BE). He designed scenographies for choreographers and directors such as Benoît Lachambre, Meg Stuart and Kirsten Delholm. Soon he developed more into installation and performance art with a strong focus on movement, coincidence, order and chaos. Later he created larger mobile environments dealing with space and orientation, often using the visitor as a co-actor. His projects often involve advanced technology as a point of departure or inspiration but also to activate the installations.

Andy Cameron (UK). Executive Director of Fabrica.

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Sat, 5.9.2009
10:30 AM – 5:50 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

Curatorial Statement by the Guest Curators Isaac Mao (CN) & David Sasaki (US)

For 80 days the world will come to Linz. Inspired by Jules Verne’s epic 19th century journey “Around the World in 80 Days”, we too shall take advantage of the latest technologies of our day in order to explore and experience some of the most remote and fascinating locations on our planet; from the ship-wrecking yards of Gadani, Pakistan to the skyscrapers of Dubai to the bustling markets of Bangladesh, and far beyond.  For 80 days, from June 17th until September 4th, digital artists based around the world will take us on a tour of what our world has become. On September 5th, the 81st day of our voyage, we will chart new maps of where our world is heading.

Jules Verne published his novel at the dawn of industrialised globalisation, when the steam engine and the colonial conquests of Europe made it possible for the first time to circumnavigate the planet in relative comfort, and in less than three months. In the 125 years since, the pace of globalisation has accelerated exponentially. Our cars, clothes, computers, and cupboards all depend on vast international networks of manufacturing, finance, and trade.  This flood of globalisation has carried the economic and environmental crises to almost every corner of the world. Are these crises an inevitable part of human nature? Or is it possible to shape a new connected consciousness to tackle global problems collectively and equitably?

Welcome to the cloud. Welcome to new the social ecology of the 21st century. Welcome to mobile banking from a New York taxi cab direct to rural Kenya. Welcome to the wild wondrous web of blogs, podcasts, mailing lists and streaming video from camera phones the size of credit cards. All instant and all the time. The world has changed. We have changed.

Local solutions must be global in scope. How will we avoid the violent wars and genocide that defined the 20th century? How will we stay objective when our local newspapers go bankrupt? Who owns the limitless depth of online information and knowledge and who is granted access to it? The answers to these questions and thousands like them are being discussed this instant, in real time, on social networks, mailing lists, mobile phones and the ever-expanding blogosphere. The bits and bytes that will dictate our future live in the cloud.

As more and more information and individuals filter into our lives, how will we find the time and the capacity to care? Will new connections lead to unthinkable solutions, or is the avalanche of information, conversations and connections leaving us less satisfied? Will subculture and language become more influential than geographic distance in how we shape society? How will we decide our priorities in the 21st century?

We need new a new type of intelligence; new art to imagine possibilities, new science to evaluate solutions, and new technologies to implement them. Commercial globalisation has led to a marketplace of goods and services, while new technologies such as social networking enable people to share ideas and feelings. The next stage of globalisation, cloud intelligence, will empower us to instantly share new solutions and act on them.

We see the explosive growth of digital communities and digital nomads, social networks and social clusters. Hierarchies are flattening. Any idea can be shared quickly and spread through networks of reputation. Communities that were once marginalised and ignored can now take advantage of new tools to make themselves heard. Traditional media have realised that they must adapt to fit in to the new world order.

People are not only reshaping their social identities, but also strengthening the links of knowledge and their existence. In the cloud of connections, we each become social neurons, mimicking the biological human brain but on a giant scale. The collective knowledge is far beyond anything a single search engine could index and archive. Intelligence is spreading everywhere, every minute, and cloud computing can draw new links across new ideas. We think together but remain independent in our identity. If we could foster co-thinking to reach consensus about new solutions, we may be able to find a new direction for the future. Hope can emerge from new collaborative models based on a new paradigm; science and art will act gracefully to match human nature, and to shape the future of humanity.

We are experiencing a new way of travelling around the world, not in 80+1 days, but in 80+1 minutes. Speed matters. Because crises spread quickly, social intelligence must spread quickly as well. Today, every one of us can use different tools to create and share mountains of information. But how can we manage the rhythm of our lives? How can we keep our digital properties safe and long-lasting? How can we define new rules to maximise creativity in our rapid social evolution?

Such challenges remain unsolved, creating space for new ventures and new opportunities. We are just at the beginning.

Welcome to the new social ecology. Welcome to our shared intelligence, networked anxiety, and collective future. Welcome to the cloud.

Schedule

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
David Sasaki – Introduction to cloud computing and brief mention of cloud intelligence

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Cloud Intelligence “Those enable us and encourage us”

Stephen Downes – Cloud Intelligence (Encouraging collaboration)
Ethan Zuckerman – Cloud Cartography (Mapping the flow of information and interaction)
Anders Sandberg – Distributed superintelligence

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Break

2:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Cloud Activism “What should we do”

Isaac Mao – Introduction to cloud activism
Hamid Tehrani – Review of Iran protests
Xiao Qiang – Activism without organization
Evgeny Morozov (Remote) – Activism, not Slacktivism
Kristen Taylor – The social future of food
Teddy Ruge – Diaspora-based development
Pablo Flores – Enabling cloud education
Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Remote)– Cloud programming for children
Juliana Rotich – Cloud environmentalism in Africa

Round table: Q&A with speakers around “constructing alternatives”
Isaac Mao – Looking toward the future

Biographies

Stephen Downes (CA) works for the National Research Council of Canada where he has served as a Senior Research, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, since 2001. Affiliated with the Learning and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for Information Technology, Downes specializes in the fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and philosophy. Downes is perhaps best known for his daily nesletter, OLDaily. He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0 (2005).

Pablo Flores (UR/IT). International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, working on a research with DESEM Foundation about projects in 1:1 modality (one computer per child) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Universidad de la República – Proyecto Flor de Ceibo.

Juliana Rotich (KE) is a blogger, digital activist and environment editor of Global Voices Online with particular focus on technology, the environment, renewable energy, and digital expression in Africa and the developing world. Juliana is also the Program Director of Ushahidi.com, an innovative non-profit web startup that is creating a tool and mashup for mapping crises. Prior to joining global voices online and Ushahidi, Juliana spent several years as an IT professional working in Kansas City as a Database Administrator then later as a Data Analyst at Hewitt Associates, Chicago. She is also a contributing author on Afrigadget.com where she highlights African ingenuity in everything from children’s toys to wind powered cell phone base stations. Juliana is particularly proud to be one of the TED Fellows and bloggers who covered the first ever African TEDGlobal conference in Arusha June 2007.she holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Information Technology from the University of Missouri Kansas City.

Teddy Ruge (UG) is the co-founder of Project Diaspora – an organisation aimed at connecting the African Diaspora to socially-relevant development projects in Africa. Project Diaspora’s mission is to engage Africa’s 50 million-strong diaspora population and their $40 billion in annual remittances to move Africa from an aid-dependent continent to an investment destination. As a budding social entrepreneur, he’s currently assisting several indigenous farmer organisations in Uganda move from subsistence farming to large-scale commercial farming of aloe vera and moringa. Teddy is also a mobile technology enthusiast and blogs frequently about the African ICT sectors and its effects on development. He has also served on several panel discussions related to Africa, the role of the African diaspora and Africa’s emerging technology space. Teddy is a Ugandan record-holder in the decathlon and pole vault and, formerly, the high jump.

Xiao Qiang (US) is a well-known Chinese human rights activist. He is director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. Xiao is currently teaching on China and human rights, and researching the convergence of information and communication technologies against the backdrop of China’s social and political sea change. He runs the China Digital Times news portal as part of the China Internet Project.

Ethan Zuckerman (US). Co-founder Global Voices

Anders Sandberg (SE) is a researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stockholm University in computational neuroscience, and is currently a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.

Kristen Taylor (US) is a cook, photographer, videographer, and writer unfolding the connective tissue of local food.

Andres Monroy-Hernandez (US) is a PhD student and Bradesco Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. He is interested in understanding how the Web and mobile technologies can empower people and support collaboration, especially among youth and communities in the developing world. His work currently focuses on the design and analysis of social software. Previously, he worked in the software industry and at the Los Alamos National Lab. He finished a MS in Media Technology at MIT as Samsung Fellow, and a BS in Electronics Engineering at Tec de Monterrey. He likes very spicy food.

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Fri 4.9.
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The Award of Distinction winners in the “Hybrid Art” category

Steve Lambert (US) member of Because We Want It – The New York Times Special Edition
David Haines (UK), Joyce Hinterding (AU) – EarthStar

Participants of the Forum

Jens Hauser (DE/FR) – Member of the Jury
Steve Lambert (US)
David Haines (UK), Joyce Hinterding (AU)

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Sun 6.9.
3:30PM – 4:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The Award of Distinction winners in the “Interactive Art” category

Osman Khan, Kim Beck (US) – when laughter trips at the threshold of the divine
Jens Wunderling (DE) – default to public

Participants of the Forum

Andy Cameron (UK) – Member of the Jury
Osman Khan, Kim Beck (US)
Jens Wunderling (DE)

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Mon 7.9.
10:00 AM – 11.30 AM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the “Digital Musics” category

Bill Fontana (US) – Speeds of Time versions 1 and 2 – Golden Nica
Tristan Perich (US) – “Active Field” for ten violins and ten-channel 1-bit music
Antoine Schmitt, Jean-Jacques Birgé (FR) – NABAZ’MOB

Participants of the Forum

Sabine Breitsameter (DE) – Member of the Jury
Bill Fontana (US)
Tristan Perich (US)
Antoine Schmitt, Jean-Jacques Birgé (FR)

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Mon 7.9.
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the “Computer Animation / Film / VFX” category

Iriz Pääbo (CA) / National Film Board of Canada – HA’Aki – Golden Nica

Jeremy Clapin, Jean-François Sarazin (FR) / DARK PRINCE – SKHIZEIN
Glenn Marshall (UK) – The Nest That Sailed The Sky

Participants of the Forum

Jürgen Hagler (AT) – Member of the Jury
Iriz Pääbo (CA)
Jeremy Clapin, Jean-François Sarazin (FR)
Glenn Marshall (UK)

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Mon 7.9.
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

The prize winners in the “Digital Communities” category

HiperBarrio – http://hiperbarrio.org – Golden Nica

WikiLeaks – http://wikileaks.org

Piratbyrån – http://www.piratbyran.org/

Participants of the Forum

David Sasaki (US) – Member of the Jury
Gabriel Jaime Vanegas, Álvaro Ramírez Ospina (CO)
Daniel Berg (DE), Julian Assagne (AU)
Rasmus Fleischer (SE)

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Ars Electronica Center, SkyLoft (Ebene 3)

The prize winners in the “u19 – freestyle computing” category

Robot Control with Mobile Phone Motion – Honorary Mention
Leo Höckner

CityFlow – Urban Climate Simulation – Honorary Mention
Oliver Spies, Andreas Mursch-Radlgruber, Michael Kappel, Stefan Pozar

Buddytown.AT – Honorary Mention
Daniel Stocker

Sound Machines – Distinction
HLW des Schulvereins der Kreuzschwestern

Sat 5.9.
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

80+1 Basecamp, Hauptplatz

Lego Chemie – Merchandise Prize u14
Hauptschule Dr.-Aloys-Weissenbach Telfs

Firesnake – Winner Bugnplay – Schweiz
Sandro Bertozzi
Sven Fässler

marry your pet – Winner MB21 – Deutschland
Caroline von Eichhorn

Moderation: Christine Schöpf

See all History Talks

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Fri 4.9. – Mon 7.9.

Ars Electronica Center

This year’s Pixelspaces, the annual symposium held under the auspices of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, is dedicated to art by new and not-yet-institutionalized bridge-builders, focusing on the novel poetic forms of expression that result. It focuses on the “Do-it-Together!” of art and science before the backdrop of converging technologies. The new Ars Electronica Center provides a setting for a new conference format: a nomadic symposium staged along the topography of the facility’s exhibits and their component installations.

See all projects of Pixelspaces 2009

We 2.9. – Thu 3.9. 2009

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz

Organizer: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research
Concept: Dieter Daniels & Sandra Naumann
www.see-this-sound.at

Overall Director of the Conference: Dieter Daniels and Sandra Naumann
An event in conjunction with SEE THIS SOUND
A cooperation between the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. and the Lentos Art Museum Linz with Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture

See this Sound – Sound-Image Relations in Art, Media and Perception

The project SEE THIS SOUND explores the past and present of the link between image and sound in art, media and perception. The starting point is the fact that our world of experience today is marked by an omnipresence of audiovisual products and structures, in which the cultural production of image and sound is closely intertwined artistically, and in terms of media technology and market strategy. SEE THIS SOUND reacts to this by presenting and discussing different realizations of contemporary art and art studies. The current fields of reference range here from pop culture to the theory of perception and media technology.

The goal of the international symposium is an interdisciplinary exchange among the theoretical and aesthetic thematic fields of the project. At the intersection of different academic disciplines the conference touches, among others, on art and music studies, media and art theory, media archeology, and the history of media technology. Artistic presentations are integrated in the course of the conference to stimulate the dialogue between art and science.

Wed 2.9.  7:30 PM  Starting Performance
Branden W. Joseph in conversation with Tony Conrad, artist / University of Buffalo, Department of Media Study (US), followed by a performance by Tony Conrad

Thu 3.9.
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Introduction
Dieter Daniels, Leiter Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Linz
Sandra Naumann, Academic Staff Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Linz

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Panel 1: Media Art – Visual Art: Divergence or Dialogue?
Chris Salter, Assistant Professor of Digital Media Concordia University, Montreal
Christian Höller, author, curator, editor and co-publisher springerin, Vienna
David Rokeby, Artist, Toronto

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Panel 2: Art, Science and Technology: Instruments or Artworks?
Birgit Schneider, Dilthey Scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, University of Potsdam, Institute  of Arts and Media
Yvonne Spielmann, Chair of New Media, University of the West of Scotland, School of Creative Industries, Glasgow
Golan Levin, Artist / Associate Professor of Electronic Art and Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
“On the creation, experience and research of audiovisual interactive art” a conversation with Katja Kwastek, Vice-Director Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research., Linz,

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Panel 3: Art and Music: Intermediality – Intermodality – Interdisciplinarity?
Branden W. Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University, New York, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Technical University Berlin, Institute of Language and Communication, Department Musicology
Winner Media.Art.Research. Award 2009 for “Eye hEar: Music, Art, Film & the Culture of Synesthesia”:
Simon Shaw-Miller, Senior Lecturer and Head of School, School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media
Birkbeck College, University of London

7:00 PM Closing Performance
Mikomikona (Birgit Schneider & Andreas Eberlein, Berlin)
„Fouriertransformation I + II“ (Fourier Transformation I + II)
Sound-Vision performance with two overhead projectors

Ars Electronica has always made an effort to offer younger festivals, initiatives and media art laboratories diverse platforms on which to present their work to a wider audience. This has given rise in recent years to an important endeavor – diverting the spotlight focused on the Ars Electronica project onto related enterprises and their concerns.

In its 30^th year, Ars Electronica is exerting an even stronger pull thanks to its anniversary’s coincidence with Linz’s year as European Capital of Culture, and through the opening of the new Ars Electronica Center. This constellation provides an opportunity to give what has up to now been somewhat of an informal presentation its own festival format for the first time, thus lending it a higher profile. Not as a program with a defined thematic structure, but rather as an open stage – as *Scenes and Structures*. This will cast a more focused light on what has already been a tradition for several years.

Within the scope of this format, for example, Andreas Broeckmann, artistic director of the ISEA 2010, will present the direction this symposium will take for the Ruhr Valley’s year as European Capital of Culture (D); the artistic and technical ensemble of the Dutch media center V2_ will present their relaunch and new concept; and the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, *Leonardo*, will introduce its recently developed education forum. The Spanish VIDA competition, whose twelfth edition will again focus on artificial-life technologies and the associated disciplines such as robotics and artificial intelligence, is just as much a part of *Scenes and Structures* as the performance of computer animations from Mexico and from the SIGGRAPH milieu, or the presentation of the latest publications by Linz artist Christa Sommerer.

FutureEverything will present The FutureEverything Award and the relaunch of Futuresonic as FutureEverything.

See all projects of Scenes & Structures

Sat 5.9.
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM Uhr Kunstuniversität, Kollegiumgasse 2

At the Crossroads of Media Arts&Science and Technology
Education in the 21st Century-What is to be Done?

http://forum.lefnet.org/hello

Update on the Leonardo Education Forum’s mission and activities. Arts, science, design, technology, computer science and communication studies are key disciplines brought together in contemporary media arts, however relevant technologies develop rapidly and often separately from educational institutions. Consequently, a gap exists between the technological developments and their application in formal education worldwide at academic institutions as well as at middle school level and in hybrid educational scenarios.

Presentation of “Media Design” the new Teacher Training Programme for secondary schools of the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz (www.ufg.ac.at).

Target group / Participants: educators, artists, scientists, policy makers in the field, general public
Invited speakers: Christa Sommerer (AT) & Laurent Mignonneau (FR), Nicoletta Blacher (AT), Mindaugas Gapševičius (D), Patricia Olynyk (US) tbc, Erika Katalina Pasztor (HU), Angelika Plank (AT)
Organisers: Nina Czegledy (HU), Daniela Reimann (D/AT), Lynn Hughes (CA)
Hosts: Ars Electronica Center and Kunstuniversität Linz (Department of Art Education, Department of Interface Cultures)

Foto: with the courtesy of Jean Gabriel Périot

Thu 3.9. – Tue 8.9.
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Brucknerhaus, History Lounge

Organizer: Gabriele Blome (LBI Media. Art. Research.) on behalf of the GAMA consortium

http://www.gama-gateway.eu/

Eight European media art archives and collections are networked within GAMA portal. With it they provide a common online research platform and an improved access to media art. The content in the portal ranges from early net.art in Hungary to documentations of the Ars Electronica Festival, from French and Dutch media art and installations to video art from Slovenia and experimental film from Sweden. In the History Lounge the archives are screening highlights from their collections.

For instance works by Lars Arrhenius, Yael Bartana, Robert Cahen, Gerard Cairaschi, Mounir Fatmi, Toshio Iwai, Ema Kugler, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Cecilia Lundqvist, Vincent Meessen, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Sašo Podgoršek, Semiconductor, Shelly Silver, János Sugár and Gianni Toti will be presented.

PDF of GAMA-Screeninglist

The GAMA-Partners:

Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Cracow (PL), Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna (AT)
Atos Origin s.a.e., Madrid (ES), ARGOS centre for art & media, Brussels (BE), C3 Center for Culture & Communication Foundation, Budapest (HU), CIANT International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Prague (CZ), Filmform Foundation, Stockholm (SE), Heure Exquise! International center for video arts , Mons-en-Baroeul (FR), Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich (CH), Hochschule für Künste Bremen (DE), Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (NL), IN2 Search Interfaces Development Ltd., Bremen (DE), Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, Marseille (FR), Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung., Linz (AT), Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo/Time based Arts, Amsterdam (NL), SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts (SI), Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (DE), Technologie-Zentrum Informatik (TZI), Universität Bremen (DE), Universitat de Barcelona – Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius, Barcelona (ES).

Kunstuniversität, Kollegiumgasse 2

Archives and collections of media art are closely related to the institution’s profile and mandate. Within the workshop experts discuss the significance of the institutional setting with respect to the creation of the repositories and their future perspectives. Additionally, on the basis of recent research activities, experts and artists present new ways of documentation of media art which tend to integrate the user experience into a documentation strategy for media art works – or even into the works themselves. On this occasion the new European online portal, the Gateway to Archives of Media Art (GAMA), is launched and presented.

Speakers:
Annet Dekker (Virtueel Platform, NL), Anna-Karin Larsson (Filmform Foundation, SE), Lioba Reddeker (basis wien, AT) Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica, AT), Matt Adams (Blast Theory, GB), Gabriella Giannachi (University of Exeter, GB), Caitlin Jones (Free curator and media theorist, US), Lizzie Muller (University of Technology Sydney, AU), Eva Kozma (C3 Center for Culture Communication Foundation, HU)
Moderators: Katja Kwastek (Ludwig Boltzmann Medien.Kunst.Forschung., AT), Andreas Spiegl (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, AT);
Concept: Gabriele Blome (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung., AT) and Gaby Wijers (Nederlands Instituut Voor Mediakunst, NL).

Sat, Sun
09:00 AM – 6:30 PM

Mon
09:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Ars Electronica Center, Seminarraum (Level -1)

http://iswc.net/

ISWC’09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC’09 brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing.

Registration desk opening hours
Fri 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Sat, Sun, Mon 08:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Registration Fee
Regular € 875,- / IEEE/OCG members € 695,- / Students € 535

31. 8. – 2. 9. 09
Beginn am 31. 8. 09 um 11 Uhr

Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Wildbergstr. 18, 4040 Linz

Programm unter
www.bruckneruni.at/Die-Universitaet/Internationales-und-Partner/Linz-09/Challenging

Im Symposium werden Herausforderungen und Grenzen der Wechselwirkung von Kunst und elektronischen Medien thematisiert. Künstlerische Innovation und wissenschaftliche Reflexion vertiefen einzelne Bereiche elektronischer Medienkunst in Musik, Tanz und Performance, so etwa die künstlerische Gestaltung von Medienprojekten, Perspektiven der Komposition und Realisierung interaktiver Werke in Konzerten, Performances und Soundscape-Projekten sowie Anwendungsmöglichkeiten neuer Medientechnologien für künstlerische, wissenschaftliche und pädagogische Zielsetzungen.

Eintritt frei!

Videodownload:

31. 8. Eröffnung & Tanzperformance download Video
31. 8. Keynote Lecture 1: Helga de la Motte (Berlin) download Video

Sektion 1 « Challenging the Electronic Media » Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart der Wechselwirkung von Kunst und elektronischen Medien

31. 8. Hartmut Krones (Wien) Elektronische Musik als politische Botschaft in der österreichischen Musik der 60er und 70er Jahre download Video
31. 8. Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer (Ottawa, CAN) Challenging the Electronic Media … R. Murray Schafer’s re-mind-ing nature download Video
31. 8. Andreas Weixler (Linz) Musical Inspiration and Digital Concepts download Video
31. 8. Christopher Salter (Montreal, CAN) Entangled: Real time Sound, Performativity and Embodied Machines download Video
1. 9. Keynote Lecture 2: Norah Zuniga Shaw (Columbus, Ohio, USA) Synchronous Objects: Visualizing Choreographic Information in Digital Mediums download Video

Sektion 2 « Dance, Moving, Bodily Expression and the Electronic Media »

1. 9. Elena Ungeheuer (Berlin) Mediale Artefakte und audiovisuelle Bewegung download Video
1. 9. Johannes Goebel (Troy, NY, USA) Seeing, Moving, Hearing through Space: An Overview of the Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY, USA download Video
1. 9. Henner Drewes (Salzburg) Visualizing the (Derra de Moroda) Dance Archives: The Development of a Software Animation Tool for Dance and Movement Research download Video
1. 9. Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) “Virtuelle Tanzuniversität” download Video
1. 9. Deniz Peters (Graz) De- and Reconstructing Bodily Expression in Sound: The ‘Embodied Generative Music’ Project download Video

Sektion 3 « Medientheoretische und medienästhetische Aspekte »

1. 9. Marie-Luise Angerer (Köln) Framing the Frame – neue Bühnen für Bilder und Zuschauer_innen download Video
1. 9. Söke Dinkla (Duisburg) Urbane Narrationen. Ästhetik der elektronischen Kunst in public spaces download Video
1. 9. Werner Jauk (Graz) Music – a Role Model for a Theory of Media-Arts. The Hedonistic Body and a Virtualized World download Video
1. 9. Söke Dinkla (Duisburg) download Video

Sektion 4 « Performing (New) Media »

2. 9. Barbara Büscher (Leipzig) Performing (New) Media: Hybrid Space, Different Bodies, Similar Problems? download Video
2. 9. Valerian Maly (Bern) Trompe l’o(r)eil(le): Wahrnehmungsprozesse als zentraler Aspekt kunstsynthetischer Aspekte download Video
2. 9. Martin Kürschner (Leipzig) ‚Intermediale Komposition’ – ein ‚Kon-zert’ zwischen Sehen und Hören download Video
2. 9. Bernhard Lang (Wien) Transcribing the Body Version 1.2 download Video