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.

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.

The Center for Advances in Digital Entertainment Technologies (CADET) is a joint venture of Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Its objective is to enhance immersion, participation and interaction in digital entertainment and communication. At the 2014 Ars Electronica Festival, this project, now in its fourth and final year, is staging a series of public showcases to spotlight technologies developed in conjunction with CADET.

Playfulness in Public Spaces

Christopher Lindinger will kick things off with an overview of the project’s objectives and results. Next up is Robert Praxmarer with a talk entitled Urban Playfulness about how new interaction technologies and mobile platforms are increasingly making it possible for computer games to take leave of the friendly confines of living rooms and proliferate in the public sphere. Now, urban spaces are serving as gaming zones and pedestrians are the players. The public realm thus becomes a proving ground for new modes of play, fun and social interaction.

Everything’s Moving

Interaction in Motion – New Frontiers of Game Design is the theme of the next speaker, Roland Haring. Possibilities of bringing one’s own body—motions and emotions—to bear in a networked, virtual world significantly alter our understanding of multimedia production and entertainment. The interfaces utilized thereby contribute greatly to this. A key development that’s given rise to new gaming & interaction concepts in recent years is the use of cameras to track players free to move about in a particular space. It remains to be seen what happens when this is taken to the next level—one on which the interaction technologies and interfaces themselves cease to be immutable fixtures and get moving on their own.

Speakers

Christopher Lindinger (AT): Welcome and Introduction
Robert Praxmarer (AT): Urban Playfulness – Playing in and with the Public Space
Roland Haring (AT): Interaction in Motion – New frontiers of Game Design
Plenum and Q&A

CADET is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) within the program „COIN Aufbau“.

Device Art deploys novel materials and techniques to create high-tech appliances featuring sophisticated, cool design. The objects’ inherent convergence of technology, art and design calls into questions conventional paradigms operational in the art world. Meet the artists personally during the Artist Talks within the exhibition Device Art at the Ars Electronica Center.

Device Art – Artist talk on the venue

Meeting point: THU September 4, 2014, 4 PM-5 PM, Ars Electronica Center, level +1
Artist talk with
Hideyuki Ando + Junji Watanabe
Masahiko Inami + Kentarou Yasu
Eric Siu
Scott Hessels
Jaehyuck Bae
Martina Mezak
Anselmo Tumpić
Sašo Sedlaček
Sanela Jahić
Olga Majcen Linn
Sandra Sajovic

Meeting point: FRI September 5, 2014, 3 PM-4 PM, Ars Electronica Center, level -3
Artist talk with
Hiroo Iwata
Novmichi Tosa
Ryota Kuwakubo
Kenji Suzuki + Dushyantha Jayatilake

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At the Sunday breakfast, Future Innovators Summit participants from all Working Groups will meet at the Arkadenhof.

C .. what it takes to change: The Future Innovators Summit closes on Sunday evening at Central Linz with a final discussion of all participants from the groups A to F. What ideas have arisen in the context of this international and multidisciplinary meeting here in Linz? What have we learned? And what’s next?

The innovators in Groups E and F will present the results of their Working Sessions at the Central Linz.