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Independent Media Networks: Plug into Alternative ViewsToni Prug of Indymedia UK speaks about the development and self-understanding of the network of independent media activists. read more  Andreas Hirsch - 20.08.2002 |
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Unplugged: Politics of Power. Observations from the luxury deck The topic UNPLUGGED 'sheds light' – electrically speaking – on the field of energy politics as the scene of global conflicts, and turns a spotlight on a 'plugged' California, where the lights go out and other regions of the world, where they never go on in the first place. read more Andreas Hirsch - 16.08.2002 |
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Weltkarten – Change the Map Ars Electronica exhibits current world map projections in which geography legitimated by the nation-state system is overlaid by the reciprocities and points of rupture in our modern Information Society—cyber-graphies of a world of data and information systems whose meridians are lines of economic, ecological and political power. Artists as cartographers. read more Gabriele Hofer - 11.08.2002 |
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Media Giants in Shake Out Mode Many of the global leaders in the media industry turned recently and with spectacular changes in their top management from expansion into shake out mode. This hardly changes the debate on the globalisation of culture and content. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 09.08.2002 |
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Globalisation, Independent Media and Development in Africa What Africa needs most for its growth and development is a more democratic media system. The current structure of independent and government-owned media cannot usher in a well-informed African continent, says Winters Negbenebor of the 'Nigeria Independent Media Centre'. read more I. Fischer - 05.08.2002 |
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Info Rich or Info Poor Aminata D. Traoré, former minister of cultural affairs and tourism of Mali, is one of the most prominent African opponents of globalization. At the Ars Electronica Festival Symposium, she deals with the question of whether highly touted information and communication technologies really do provide the right answers to bringing Africa out of its isolation. read more Ingrid Fischer - 02.08.2002 |
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In a Cyberworld, Cities of Brick and Mortar Remain the Centers of Power Information and communication are available worldwide. Yet, a small number of global cities plays an ever growing role as centers of influence and have an ever greater impact on decisions and events worldwide. This is not only true for the conventional means to exercise power, notably money and political institutions. It also applies to culture and media that form clusters which are located at largely the same global nodes. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 17.07.2002 |
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Metissacana Closes its Doors One of the pioneers of the Internet in Africa, the Senegalise provider Metissacana, is closing its doors in Senegal: Oumou Sy and Michel Mavros, founders of Metissacana, will explain why during the Ars Electronica Symposium. read more I. Fischer - 10.07.2002 |
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Which Africa? 67 percent of all Africans live in cities like Abidjan, Bamako and Dakar. Urban youth culture in these seemingly remote metropolises is aesthetically and culturally plugged in to the global networks and connected to the contemporary music scene. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 28.06.2002 |
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