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Music Monday

(Deutsch) Am letzten Festivaltag lädt das Ars Electronica Festival 2014 zur sinnlichen wie auch intellektuellen Begegnung mit elektronischer und experimenteller Musik, mit dem Hörraum Stadt und mit der akustischen Ebene verschiedener Audiovisionen im Festivalprogramm ein. Continue reading

Symposium III / Oliviero Toscani (IT)

Oliviero Toscani is a photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000. Continue reading

Symposium III / Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerkove, long-time director of the Marshall McLuhan Center, author of many books and professor at the University of Toronto. Continue reading

Symposium III / Panashe Chigumadzi (ZW)

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. Continue reading

Innovators Wrap Up

The Future Innovators Summit closes on Sunday evening at Central Linz with a final discussion of all participants from the groups A to F. Continue reading

Lunchbox 4 / Mentor Session: Oliviero Toscani

Experienced professionals meet young innovators, answer questions, give suggestions and feedback as well as insights into their own work. On Sunday, it’s the turn of ace photographer Oliviero Toscani (IT). Continue reading

Lunchbox 3 / Mentor Session: Hiroshi Ishii, Joachim Sauter, Golan Levin

Experienced professionals meet young innovators, answer questions, give suggestions and feedback as well as insights into their own work. With Robert Madelin (UK/BE), director general of DG Connect of the European Commission. Continue reading

Symposium II / Zoubida Charrouf

Zoubida Charrouf, a chemist on the faculty of Mohammed V University in Morocco, will report on an initiative to help women cultivate medicinal plants and to produce argan oil as a way to improve their own lives and nurture biodiversity in their region. Continue reading

Symposium II / Sanjit Bunker Roy

A lecture by Sanjit Bunker Roy (IN), the founder of Barefoot College that teaches women in rural India to generate electricity and light with solar energy and to build DIY lamps, kettles, parabolic reflectors and solar elements. Continue reading

Symposium I / K. Bradley Paxton

K. Bradley Paxton (US) will deliver the opening speech on Day 2 of the Future Innovators Summit. As a pioneer of technical developments at Kodak, he’ll give a first-hand account of paths to innovation and what can go wrong along the way. Continue reading