The culmination of the under [my] control market day at Arkade is an oversized round-table at which 20 experts in various disciplines will gather for an alfresco public discussion. Their topic: whether there are technologies that can protect us from excessive media consumption, or whether other strategies are needed to deal with changed media usage patterns.

Sober Assessment

In going about this, there’s place neither for panicky scaremongering nor glorification of high-tech possibilities. What this calls for are dispassionate scrutiny and an objective appraisal of whether a danger even exists. If that’s indeed the case, then this panel will deliver practical solutions for use in everyday life—for instance, an app that enables families to see how much time a youngster is actually spending online as a step towards establishing mutually agreed-upon limits.

Panelists: Jörg Hofstätter (Ovos / AT), Clemens Kaltenberger (Red Cross / AT), Dominik Koller (u19 / AT), Dominik Landwehr (cultural event producer – pop and new media / CH), Markus Luger (Otelo / AT), Gerhard Nussbaum (Kompetenznetzwerk KI-I/ AT), Michael Seemann (author / DE), Daniel Seitz (mediale pfade / DE), David Witzeneder (Neront / AT), et al.

The video installation “Realm of Reverberation” by Chieh-Jen Chen (TW) is part of the exhibition “Buddha on the Beach“: The elderly, the sick, the disabled, the poor and the unemployed are the primary victims of urban development devised by experts, politicians and financiers. But dignity remains intact on the victims’ side. A tour with the curators through the exhibition at the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz.

Audiovisual Environment inspired by the myth of Orpheus, his descent into the underworld and the attempted rescue of his wife Eurydice. Collaged from material of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claudio Monteverdi, Daniel Matej, Gregor Göttfert, Igor Strawinsky, Ingeborg Bachmann, Jacques Offenbach, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Haydn, Julian Finnur Karlsson, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer.

Video installation

As is evident from the title, this symphony was composed as a homage to Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki.
Gorecki’s 3rd symphony adds a soprano voice to slow orchestral music while my slow symphony removes a soprano voice from my song cycle I sonetti lussuriosi for soprano and orchestra (2007) and redisposes the vocal part orchestrally.
The texts were taken from a collection of erotic poetry by Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) and I found it curious that Gorecki was happy to have his music, even the ‘sacred’ 3rd symphony, used as film scores – as long as it was not used in sex scenes. As a film composer myself, working with Peter Greenaway, Patrice Leconte, Neil Jordan and Jane Campion, amongst others, it was always a certainty that my music would ONLY be used in sex scenes!
I first met Gorecki at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1985, after he heard the Arditti Quartet perform my String Quartet No.1. I gave him a copy of my most recently-released album – The Kiss and Other Movements – and some weeks later he wrote asking me to send him the score of The Kiss. What he did with it I do not know but in the 38 years I have been writing music, he is the only composer who has ever had the curiosity to want to look at my scores.
My film The Art of Fugue which consists of a single 28 minute sequence shot in May 2012 in Plaza Luis Cabrera, a square near my house in Colonia Roma, Mexico City, will be screened simultaneously with the symphony.

Michael Nyman

Planets is a participatory performance that explores relationships between people, places and objects through a fusion of dance and interactive art practice. Each performance features a cluster of illuminated spheres as the catalyst, leading to a public spectacle of light that transforms and ripples across urban landscapes.

Stars with a personality

A cluster of interactive orbs named stars act as anchors, connecting the participants and performer. Each star has a unique personality and responds to participants through touch and light interaction. Throughout the performance an unspoken dialogue begins to unfold as the stars, participants and dancer connect to transform the space around them.

The only spectacle still possible seems to be the military destruction of the world.
Buddha on the Beach

Kayo Otaka started her career at Hakuhodo in 1990 as marketing strategy planner, mainly took part in projects pertaining to new product development and business development. Foreseeing that co-creation will become the marketing trend of the future, she established β–ban, the pilot company of Voice Vision in 2011. After expanding her portfolio, including projects with major corporations and government offices, Kayo proposed the business plan of Voice Vision to the Hakuhodo board members and successfully established Voice Vision in July 2013. She currently serves as CEO of Voice Vision, which provides co-creation open community services to clients of Hakuhodo.

Oliviero Toscani is a photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000. After obtaining his diploma at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, he started working with different magazines, including Elle, Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. In 1982 he started working as Art Director for the Benetton Group. In the early 1990s, Toscani co-founded the magazine Colors (also owned by Benetton). In 2005, he sparked controversy again with his photographs for an advertising campaign for the men’s clothing brand Ra-Re. In September 2007, a new campaign against anorexia was again controversial due to his shocking photography of an emaciated woman. A long-term Tuscany resident, in 2003 he created in collaboration with Regione Toscana a new research facility for modern communication called La Sterpaia.

Another speaker of the Sunday lecture in the idyllic courtyard of the Bischofsitz: Derrick de Kerkove, long-time director of the Marshall McLuhan Center, author of many books and professor at the University of Toronto.

Panashe Chigumadzi is a young author and visionary from Zimbabwe. She’s convinced that new stories and ways of telling them are precisely what are needed in order to overcome still-prevailing colonialist clichés and perspectives and to go beyond them to construct a new African identity. She’ll give an account of her work, experiences and successes in the Sunday lecture in the idyllic courtyard of the Bischofsitz.