3. - 5. 9. CONTAINED Area, VOEST 7/9 p.m. - midnight		Concept: Just Meritt/A Exhibition curator: Claudia Hutterer/A Programme director: Todd Blair/USA
"Objects may be closer than they appear".		In an over-zealousness approaching religious fervor, we hope that a new age has actually dawned. One that enables us to link proximity and distance and to experience reality in a never-ending simultaneity. But the newness of the simultaneity remains, in our heads as in our formulas, vague and immature. So we flee to definitions and metaphors of transition ­ creating a "liquid age". Wistfully, we gaze into the rearview mirror at our own material make-up, our traditional, historically coherent context and search without any orientation for an actuality we believe we have lost.
Part I ­ 3. 9. 9 p.m. "Quality of home technology in a liquid quiet village"		A Tiki evening in a different style, from chamber musik to irritainment for starters with a faint crumbling in the nethermost regions of the stomach.
Part II ­ 4. 9. 9 p.m. "Rogue mechanics facilitating the beauty of high fidelity"		The Wildcats of machine-wrecking fame in a concertante duet with philharmonically conceived mechanical dogs and other sabre-rattlers.
Part III ­ 5. 9. 9 p.m. "Traditional ceremony on the day of the first bolt"		Nuts and bolts, the nation's meaning-makers in a play of forces of wind music and the crane parade.
Videoseries daily "Rearview mirror on Technology"		Leslie A. Gladsjø, Tatiana Didenko, Kathrin Wilkes Our relationship to technology is changing. Heavy machinery, which epitomised progress back in the industrial age, now seems headed the way of the dinosaurs. As we speed towards an unknown future, this program of films looks back at previous forms of industrial culture. In addition to historical perspectives, the program includes glimpses of new paradigms offered by artists and other visionaries experimenting with possible forms that this relationship may take in the future.
Discussion 4. 9. 7 p.m. "Small fry on a corporate silver platter ­ appetiser or digestive?"		Denise Caruso, Tatiana Didenko, Kathy Rae Huffman, Suzanne Stephanac The clever guys among our friends will be asking each other and us how we can continue to rack our brains or whose we can smash as banana republicans in the United Fruit Digital Supermarket.
Aff Electronica Symposium 5. 9. 7 p.m.		Funesis ­ The Pestilence of Funism is the subject of this year¹s Aff Electronica ("Aff" meaning "ape" in German). The symposium will focus on the moment in the "anti-funist revolution" at which fun is transformed into politics. In this context participants will present the results of their scientific research into the historical phenomena generally subsumed under the heading "fun pestilence". Speakers AntiFunFaction, Thomas Edlinger, Alois Huber, Oliver Marchart, Fritz Ostermayer, Markus Wailand, Doris Weichselbaumer etc. The symposium closes with the announcement of this year¹s winners of the Prix Aff Electronica.
Installations and performances by:		Hermann Atzlinger ... Tina Auer ... Sam Auinger ... Nick Baginsky ... Franz Best ... Todd Blair ... Tim Boykett ... Die Romantiker ... John Duncan ... Chip Flynn ... Brett Goldstone ... Matt Heckert ... Rudi Heidebrecht ... Eric Hobijn ... Kammerensemble Harmonices Mundi ... Laura Kikauka ... Josephine M. ... Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works ... David Moises ... Gordon Monahan ... Marc 9 ... Linda Nilsson ... Martin Reiter ... Josef Sabaini ... Herbert Schager ... Leo Schatzl ... Scheißleiten Musi ... Manuel Schilcher ... VOEST Werkskapelle ... Gordon W. ... Jim Whiting ... Liz Young ... Erwin Zeppezauer ... Berthold Zettelmeier ... Alex Zulvevic
CONTAINED TV		Tina Auer ... Tatiana Didenko ... Mathias Moser ... Kathrin Wilkes
CONTAINED Radio		Thomas Edlinger ... Fritz Ostermayer
Mediation programme: Perspektiva Kulturservice		Rückspiegel zur Realität is supported by Federal Ministry for Science, Transport and the Arts, Land Oberösterreich, Stadt Linz, VA-Stahl, ACE Auto & SCRAP, S.F.