Positions and Perspectives Symposium at the Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd Street, NYC, NY 10022 The two days symposium will focus on issues that pertain specifically to the kind of art works featured at Ars Electronica over the course of the last 25 years. Whereas one could say more traditional forms of art-making actually focus mostly on a finished product, work produced at the confluence of art, science, and technology is usually the result of a process closer to the one of scientific research than to the more introspective one usually associated with "fine arts". As technology changes, informed by genuine improvements and the economic need for newer, faster, etc. the formal resolution of those works evolves. This poses a number of challenges, with regards to the definition of a work, as well as its conservation. Formal instability does indeed call for a rethinking of what is considered the work of art. Related issues of authorship and interpretation become core, as one attempts to collect and present those works. The group of pioneering artists, most of whose work is presented at either the American Museum of the Moving Image or at Eyebeam will discuss those issues, and their work in relation to the field, in an attempt to further the ongoing debate that informs the sphere of art and science in general, and the Ars Electronica in particular. Benjamin WeilSymposium: Interaction, Immersion and the Illusion of Control Symposium: Interaction, Immersion and the Illusion of Control Friday, May 21st 11 A.M. - 11:30 Registration, Welcome Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 Welcome Addresses by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Austrian Cultural Forum), Hannes Leopoldseder and Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria) 12:30 - 1:00 Introduction: Christine Schöpf (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), Benjamin Weil (Eyebeam) 1:00 - 1:30 Jeffrey Shaw (incl. 10 min. discussions) more 1:30 - 1:50 Lynn Hershman more 1:50 - 2:10 Paul Sermon more 2:10 - 2:30 Discussions 2:30 - 3:00 Break and sandwiches 3:00 - 3:20 Maurice Benayoun more 3:20 - 3:40 John Gerrard more 3:40 - 4:00 Luc Courchesne more 4:00 - 4:20 Perry Hoberman more 4:20 - 4:40 Jim Campbell more 4:40 - 5:00 Discussions Moderator: Benjamin Weil (F) more Symposium: Broader Contexts: Art, Technology and Society Saturday, May 22nd 12 Noon Welcome Coffee 1:00 - 1:10 Introduction: Carl Goodman (American Museum of the Moving Image), Michael Naimark (USA) 1:10 - 1:30 Christa Sommerer (A) and Laurent Mignonneau (F) more 1:30 - 1:50 Kazuhiko Hachiya (J) more 1:50 - 2:10 Zachary Lieberman (USA) more 2:10 - 2:30 David Rokeby (CDN) more 2:30 - 3:00 Discussions 3:00 - 3:30 Break and sandwiches 3:30 - 3:50 IAA - Institute for Applied Autonomy (USA) more 3:50 - 4:10 Justin Manor (USA) more 4:10 - 4:30 Golan Levin (USA) more 4:30 - 4:50 Myron Krueger (USA) more 4:50 - 5:30 Discussions Moderator: Michael Naimark (USA) more Program subject to change.   Supported by: >>