I have collaborated in some
electronic art projects some years ago, and I think that art
sometimes, not always lead the advance of society or at least
reflect it in some way. The new type of art called Electric Art
include hi-tech in art and there are many artists in this field that
are top researchers of new technologies, if you check out the names
involved in this type of art you will find people that have lead
theoretically or practically the introduction of new topics like
virtual reality and many others.
Feb-03
Ars Electronica Festival
1979 - 2004
Ars Electronica was opened on September 18th,
1979 being unique in the world; a festival for art, technology and
society in the city of Linz (Austria), until now Its developing
an essential and pioneer role in the international communication
to the public and specialized people, the diffusion of the new digital
culture and among other aspects in the recognition of the artists
and its collaborators of this new revolution in the concept of Digital
Art, Electronic Art, technology and evolution and the interaction
width this society.
The Festivals from 1979 to 2004:
1979
Open in the first Cloud of Sound
Relevant people in the festival:
Pierre Barbaud, Klaus Basset, Dipl.-Ing. Oskar Beckmann, Prof. Otto
Beckmann, Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Vladimir Bonacic, Werner Burkhardt,
Christian Cavadia, Jean-François Colonna, Oskar Drechsler,
Dr. Helmut von Falser, Dr. phil. Herbert W. Franke, Ernst Grissemann,
Prof. Pietro Grossi, Prof. Dr. Rul Gunzenhäuser, Kai Harster,
Walter Haupt, Dr. Paul Jenewein, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Jungk, Werner
Kaegi, Manfred P. Kage, Univ.-Professor Dr. med. Fritz Mundinger,
Barrington Nevitt, Willi Plöchl, Ludwig Rehberg, Dr. Theo Schäfer,
Mario Scheuermann, Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, Eberhard Schoener, Winfrid
Trenkler, Tamás Ungváry, Alexandre Vitkine, Peter
Vogel, Henning Vosskamp.
1980
In 1980 it was established as a biennial festival
Relevant people in the festival:
Friedrich Achleitner, Prof. Otto Beckmann, Wendy Carlos, Lowell
Cross, Norbert Dömling, John Driscoll, Frank Elstner, Helmut
W. Erdmann, Prof. Dr. Klaus Fellbaum, Klemens Figlhuber, Dr. phil.
Herbert W. Franke (München/Wien), Frederic A. Friedel, Otto
Frühling, Adolf Gabriel, Erika Gangl, Heidulf Gerngroß
(Wien), Prof. Dr. Rul Gunzenhäuser, Theodor Guschlbauer, Ludwig
Harig, Dolf Hartmann, Klaus Hashagen, Walter Haupt, Hans G. Helms,
Dr. rer. pol., Ferdinand Hieslmair, Heinrich Hock (dr.),Norbert
Dömling (el. b.), Paul Konrad Hoenich, Hans Martin Ihme, Ernst
Jandl, Jean-Michel Jarre (Frankreich), Ralph Jones, Michael Jüllich,
Mauricio Kagel, Reinhard Karwatky, Univ.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. DDr. Werner
Koenne, Kriwet, Isabella Marian, Charlie Mariano, Friederike Mayröcker,
Franz Mon, Dr. Robert A. Moog (USA) , Klaus Netzle, Walter Obermühlner,
Hans Otte, Alfred Peschek, Otto Piene, o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst
Rudolf Reichl, Alain Robbe-Grillet (Nancy/Paris), Gerhard Rühm,
Dr. Wolfgang Sandner, Jürgen Schmitz, Dieter Schnebel, Conrad
Schnitzler, Klaus Schulze, Klaus Schulze, Erich Slavik, Bruno Spoerri,
Ing. Leopold Steinkellner, Prof. Gerhard Stradner, Franz Stütz,
Ulrike Trüstedt, David Tudor, Helmuth Wagner, Prof. Joseph
Weizenbaum, Ingo Werner, Prof. Dr. Gernot Wersig, Ror Wolf, Paul
Wühr, Otto Zich.
1982
focused on the topic of "Sky Art".
Relevant people in the festival:
Rolf Schraft, Christoph W. Burckhardt, Winfried Schenk, Ichiro Kato,
Taizo Ueda, Alfred Dallinger, Hans-Jürgen Warnecke, Josef Wohinz,
Franz Wojda, Mike Cooley, Eberhard Ulich , Leitung, Herbert W.Franke
& David di Francesco, Alvy Ray Smith, Michael Weisser, Jean-Pierre
Dionnet, Werner Krützfeld, Charlotte Moormann / Otto Piene,Tal
Streeler, Howard Woody, Dale Eldred, Vera Simons, Anders Holmquist,
Steve Poleskie, Jose Maria Yturralde, Tom Van Sant, Lisa Van Sant,
Serge Blenner, Joel Chadabe, Hans Deyssenroth, Benjamin Heidersberger,
Peter Kohlrusch, Uwe Hüter, Ivan Tcherepnin, Martin Wichtl,
Paul Earls, Giorgio Battistelli, Robert Adrian X, Bernhard Leitner,
Isao Tomita, Ron Hays, Hubert Bognermayr, Harald Zuschrader.
1984
The year of George Orwell, 2019 was defined as the year in which
the Orwell-generation will have taken over the responsibility for
the society of the future.
Relevant people in the festival:
Mike Hentz, Robert Moog, Gene Youngblood, Peter Weibel, Sherry McKenna,
Eric Gidney, Walter Kroy, Jürgen Claus, Isao Tomita, James
Dashow, Klaus Buhlert, Mike Beecher, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Leo
Küpper, Jörg Mühlbacher, Otto Folberth, Johann Löhn
und Hans Leopold, Gerhart Bruckmann, Franz Seitelberger, Franz Kreuzer,
Manfred Wagner, Peter Kampits, Ernst Gehmacher, Hubert Feichtlbauer,
Helmut Kramer, Ewald Nowotny, Mathias Dorcsi, Thomas Kenner, Hans
Strotzka, Georg Wick, Gertraud Czerwenka-Wenkstetten, Anneliese
Fuchs, Roland Rainer, Helmut Detter, Robert Jungk, Peter Menke-Glückert,
Roman Sexl, Peter Weiser, Friedrich Achleitner, Herbert W. Franke,
Arnulf Rainer, Rolf Schwendter, Viktor E. Frankl, Leopold Ungar,
Klaus Zapotoczky, Heinz Zemanek, Martin Hurni, Walter Schröder-Limmer,
Hans-Werner Schwarz, Manfred Seifert, Dorothy Stone, LEO KÜPPER,
Peter Weibel, Thomas Pernes, Tobias Zapfel
1986
In 1986, Ars Electronica was re-designed. And set as annual event.
Relevant people in the festival:
Gene Youngblood, Larry Cuba, Gene Youngblood, Adolf Adamli, Peter
Weibel, Peter Russelli, Kenneth E. Boulding, Magda McHale, Manfred
Schmutzer, Juergen Claus, Jean Hubert Martin, G.J. Lischka, Bazon
Brock, Wolfgang Händler, Friedrich Ohmann, Albrecht Blaser,
Peter Mertens, Heinrich Reinermann, Norbert Rozsenich, Leo Nefiodow,
Herbert Wilhelmi, Pina Izzi, Giancarlo Canteruccio, Peter Frank,
Diamanda Galas, Cabaret Voltaire, Mark Helias, Cyndi Lee, Mary Perillo,
John Sanborn, Mary Ellen Strom, Pierce Turner, Bernhard Müller,
LucFrancois Granier, Dieter Sellin, Richard Kriesche , Gottfried
Bechtold, Dominik Steiger, Oswald Wiener, Emmett Williams, Peter
Greenaway, Robert Ashley, Bernd Kracke
1987 - "Free
Sound"
In 1987, the Autrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF organized the
first "Prix Ars Electronica", the international computer
art competition endowed with the highest prize-money - namely one
million Austrian schillings.
Relevant people in the festival:
Peter Weibel, Daniel Charles, Soun-Gui Kim, Reinhard Oehlschlägel,
Douglas Kahn, Kevin Concannon, Hugh Davies, Kaja Silverman, Gerlinde
Beck, Bill and Mary Buchen, Waltraut Cooper, Gerhard Eduard Winkler,
Julius, Edmund Kieselbach, Christina Kubisch, Ronald Kuivila, Richard
Lerman, Bruce Odland, Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart, Liz Phillips,
Thomas Rother, Franz Xaver, Earl Howard, David Hykes, Beverly Emmons,
Rhys Chatham, Jeanette Yanikian, Kees Koeman, Harry de Wit, Michel
Waisvisz, Karin den Boeft, Alvin Curren, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Pas
Paravant, Karl Kowanz, Renate Kowanz-Kocer, Wolfgang Poor, Romana
Scheffknecht, Rupert Putz, Miles Anderson, David Felder, Henry Jesionka,
Monochrome Bleu, Veruschka Bódy, Ilse Gassinger, Gudrun Bielz,
Julean Simon, Manfred Neuwirth, Rainer Ganahl, Chris Althaler, Anna
Steininger, Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Ruth Schnell, Robert Wölfl,
Lydia Lindner, Ursula Pürrer[A]ngela Hans Scheirl, Helmut Stadlmann,
Inge Graf, Walter Eberl, Rupert Putz, Dieter Daniels, Volker Anding,
Klaus Vom Bruch, Egon Bunne, Ingo Günther, Jean-François
Guiton, Dieter Kiessling, Axel Klepsch, Norbert Meissner, Maria
Vedder/Bettina Gruber, Rinaldo Bianda, Alexander Hahn, Dieter Meier,
Claudio Prati, Carlo Somaini, Lorenzo Bianda, Francesco Mariotti,
Franziska Megert, René Pulfer, Eric Lanz, Marie-José
Bürki, Hanspeter Ammann, Tom van Vliet, Gert de Graaff, Frits
Maats, Albert Wulffers, Jose Ramon Da Cruz, Antonio Segade, Raul
Rodriguez, Javier Vadillo, Xavier Vilaverde, Javier Colis, Antonio
Cano, Pedro Garhel, Lola Bonora, Giuseppe Baresi, Maurizio Bonora,
Giorgio Cattani, Theo Eshetu, Biliana Tomic, Dalibor Martinis, Sanja
Ivekovic, Stephen Littman, Peter Kotauczek, Piero Bordin.
1988 - "The Art of
the Scene"
Relevant people in the festival:
Vilem Flusser, Friedrich Kittler, Jean Baudrillard, Hannes Böhringer,
Heinz von Foerster, Toni Verita, Douglas Kay, Jean Francois Colonna,
Alexander Stein, Felix Andreev, Heiner Müller, Erich Wonder,
Thomas Shannon, Jon Hassel, Ed Emshwiller, Morton Subotnick, Valie
Export, Patricia Jünger, Susanne Widl, Mia Zabelka, Enzo Cosimi,
Fabrizio Plessi, Henning Christiansen, Hubert Bognermayr, Gottfried
Hattinger, Peter Weibel, El Lissitzky Barbara Lesack, Reinhard Oehlschlägel,
Brian Henderson, Peter Frank, Peter Gente, Hannes Böhringer,
Heinz von Foerster, Vilém Flusser, Friedrich Kittler, Jean
Baudrillard, Erich Wonder, Heiner Goebbels, Heiner Müller,
Thomas Shannon, Jon Hassell,Heiner Goebbels, Ed Emshwiller, Morton
Subotnick, Susanne Widl, Valie Export, Patricia Jünger,Mia
Zabelka, Peter A. Egger, Enzo Cosimi, Fabrizio Plessi, Luca Spagnoletti,
Waltraud Cooper, Michael Bielicki, John G. Hanhardt, Chris Hill,
Tony Conrad, Henning Christiansen, Joe Jones, Yoshi Wada, Matthias
Osterwold, Paul Panhuysen, Rolf Langebartels, Frans Evers, Nicolas
Collins,Llorenç Barber, Frieder Butzmann, Thomas Kapielski,
Arnold Dreyblatt, Giardini Pensili, Hans Peter Kuhn, Logos-Duo,
Gordon Monahan, Paul Panhuysen, Horst Rickels, Tibor Szemzö,
Péter Forgács, Vivenza.
1989 - "In the Network
of Systems"
In its 10th year, the Festival concentrated on telecommunication,
interaction and computer culture.
Relevant people in the festival:
Roy Ascott, Eva Meyer, Mario Perniola, Laszlo Beke, Shuhei Hosokawa,
Paul Virilio, Annetta Pedretti, Maryanne Amacher, Robert F. Mulder,
Kristi Allik, William Buxton, Dirk Baecker, Radio Subcom, Lynn Hershman,
Ruth Schnell, Jeffrey Shaw, Lucas Cejpek, Maurice Agis, Jon Rose,
Max Eastley, David Dunn, Maryanne Amacher, Sussan Deihim, Richard
Horowitz, Konrad Becker,Waltraud Cooper, Joan Brassil, Warren Burt,
Chris Mann, Peter Callas, Lucas Cejpek, Lynn Hershmann, John Manning,
Friederike Pezold, Alan Rath, Rick Rue, Jim Denley, Ruth Schnell,
Jeffrey Shaw, George K.Shortess, Telcom, Udo Wid, Stephen Wilson
1990 - "DIGITAL DREAMS
- VIRTUAL WORLDS"
"In the beginning was not the word, in the beginning were the
numbers"
Bernhard Mitterauer
During various symposia, topics such as "Neural Networks and
Expert Systems", "Virtual Worlds, Artificial Realities",
"Hypermatons - Cyberpunks", "Cyberspace -Virtual
Visions" were discussed in an international setting.
Relevant people in the festival:
Jaron Lanier, Morgan Russell, William Gibson, Marvin Minsky, Bernhard
Mitterauer, Georg Dorffner, Georg Schwarz ,Robert Cummins, Paul
Smolensky, Warren Robinett, Robert Trappl, Chuck Blanchard, Ron
Reisman, Derrick de Kerckhove, Rudolf Kapellner, Ernst Graf, David
Dunn, Woody Vasulka, Bruce Sterling, Wildes Grenzland, Carl Tollander,
Chris Allis, Doro Franck, Mark Pauline, Andrea Juno, Terence McKenna,
Scott Fisher, Arthur Kroker, Brenda Laurel, Timothy Leary, Giorgio
Battistelli, Iannis Xenakis, Richard Teitelbaum, Serge Dutrieux,
Heiko Idensen, Matthias Krohn, Bruce Odland, Sam Auinger, Alan Ayckbourn,
Franz Josef Czernin, Ferdinand Schmatz, David Dunn, Woody Vasulka,
Rudolf Kapellner, Willem de Ridder, Elizabeth Wenzel,Vincent John
Vincent, Bryan Hughes, Friederike Pezold.
1991 - "Out of Control"
Ars Electronica '91 picked out the consequences of technological
progress, the aspect of the dangers implicated in the increasing
mechanization of life and the getting-out-of-control of technological
systems as its central themes.
Relevant people in the festival:
Jean Baudrillard, Hans Moravec, Kristine Stiles, Jim Whiting, Stadtwerkstatt,
Roman Signer, Cumulus, Paul Demarinis, Laetitia Sonami, Melissa
Gould, Alvin Curran, Leo Schatzl, Flatz, Gottfried Meyer-Kress,
Nicolas Anatol Baginsky, Krueppelschlag, Mark Pauline, Bernd-Roger
Bienert, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Elfriede Jelinek, Zbigniew Karkowski,
John Duncan, Zibniew Karkowsky, Liz Phillips, Margot Pilz, Roland
Scheidl, Ingo Günther, Peter Zegveld, Arthur Elsenaar, Erik
Samakh.
1992 - ENDO AND NANO
"Endo(physics) & Nano(technology)", two new, radical
changes of our world-view, were the centre of attention during a
three-day symposium.
Relevant people in the festival:
Peter Weibel, Florian Rötzer, Gerhard Rot, Otto E. Rössler,
Gordon Pask, Lars Löfgren, Georg Kampis, David D. Hoffman,
John L.Casti, David Finkelstein, Karl Svozil, Ichiro Tsuda, Humberto
Maturana, Edward Fredkin, Harald Atmanspacher, Michael Conrad, Michael
Conrad, Jürgen Parisi, Robert Shaw,
Simson Garfinkel, K.Eric Drexler, Jane Frommer, Simon Garfinkel,
Stelarc, H.J. Günterroth, Kristi Allik, Robert Mulder, Agnes
Hegedüs, STELARC, PoMo CoMo, Günter Held, Manfred Hausler,
Woody & Steina Vasulka, Akke Wagenaar, Michael Bieliecki, Dan
Graham, Klaus Obermaier, Robert Spour, Agnes Hegedus, Jeffrey Shaw,
Bob O´Kane, Timothy Binkley, Jean-Louis Boissier, Huemer,
Jelinek, Christian Möller, Peter Szelezcki, Claire Roudenko.
1993 - GENETIC ART - ARTIFICIAL
LIFE
Ars Electronica 93 dealt with the science of artificial life, with
the origins of life and with the question of how life was able to
come into being, how it developed and what forms it might possibly
take in the future.
Relevant people in the festival:
Karl Sims, Kevin Kelly, Larry Yeager, Peter Weibel, John L.Casti,
Christopher Langton, Ken Karakotsios, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz,
Steen Rasmussen, Tom Ray, Karl Sims, Johannes Voggenhuber, Florian
Rötzer, Michael Ausserwinkler, Christian Brünner, Reinhard
Löw, Lothar Müller, Helmut Ruis, Horst Seidler, Johannes
Voggenhuber, Ernst Wagner, Klaus Madzia, Gerhard J.Lischka, Pattie
Maes, Reimara Rössler, Mathias Wabl, Larry Yeager, Louis Bec,
Mark Tilden, Colin Angle, Joseph Bates, Rodney A. Brooks, Pattie
Maes, Tamiko Thiel, Edek Bartz, Birgit Flos, Ulrike Gabriel, Konrad
Becker, Wolfgang Hilbert, Leopold Larcher, rich.art SCHNEIDER, Peter
Sandbichler, Stefan Schemat, Gebhard Sengmüller, Katrin Stockhammer,
Alexander Popper, Obermaier, Laetitia Sonami, Tassilo Blittersdorf,
Stanislav Divis, Thomas Feuerstein, Klaus Strickner, Sabine Hiebler,
Gerhard Ertl, David Kremers, Dan Peterman, Dieter Roth, Franz Xaver,
Peter Kogler, Louis Bec, Daizaburo Harada, Naoko Tosa, Ulrike Gabriel,
Valie Export, Thomas Grünfeld, Bruce Nauman, Alexis Rockman,
Meyer Vaisman, Thomas Locher, Mario Merz, Christa Sommerer, Laurent
Mignonneau, Ross Harley, Wolfgang Hilbert, Gideon May, Akke Wagenaar.
1994 - INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT
As a central topic, the new term "Intelligent Ambience"
(Architecture and Electronic Media, Computer City, Intelligent Products,
Life in the Net) and the challenge of the electronic paradigm defining
reality in the context of media and simulation.
Cyber Art - the examples of artificial model worlds, cyberspace
and virtual reality installations and multi-media networks.
Relevant people in the festival:
Katharina Gsöllpointner, Peter Eisenman, Toyo Ito, Masaki Fujihata,
Kei'ichi Irie, Jaron Lanier, Edouard Bannwart, Zaha M. Hadid, Toyo
Ito, Carole Ann Klonarides, Selim Koder, Rüder Rainer, Wolf
Prix, Ken Sakamura, Michael Sorkin, Manuel DeLanda, Kay Friedrichs,
Rich Gold, Dave Warner, Howard Rheingold, Hans Hübner, Toshio
Iwai, Jeet Singh, Keigo Yamamoto, Akira Asada, Karin Hazelwander,
Mark Trayle, Sandbichler, Ruhm, Kathy Rae Huffman, Carole Ann Klonarides,
Charly Steiger, Robert Jelinek, Fürst, Thaler, Jelinek, Hüngsberg,
Franz, Alba d´Urbano, Perry Hoberman, Christian Möller,
Armaly, Hermen Maat, Ron Miltenburg, Monique Mulder, Dirk Lüsebrink,
Gideon May, Michael Klein, Martin Kusch, Michael Bieliecky, Jeffrey
Shaw, Woody Vasulka, Christian Möller, Joachim Sauter, Loren
& Rachel Carpenter, Alles Spiel, Elliot Sharp, Soldier String
Quatet, Ken Valitzky, Günther Rabl, Christian Möller,
Stephen Galloway, Friedrich Gulda and his Paradise Band.
1995 - WELCOME TO THE WIRED WORLD
Ars Electronica ´95 started from the premise that information
is highly valued in our society. The exchange of data via networks
and cables has become a central part of our lives and creates new
forms of interaction and communication in our society.
Relevant people in the festival:
Roland Alton-Scheidl, Sam Auinger, John Perry Barlow, Ed Bezem,
Michael Bielicky, Ecke Bonk, Ecke Bonk, Ingrid Burgbacher-Krupka,
Critical Art Ensemble, Tatjana Didenko, Gerd Döben-Henisch,
Wolfgang Dorninger, Thomas Dreher, Timothy Druckrey, Curd Duca,
Fred Forest, Karl Gerbel, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Granular
Synthesis, Eva Grubinger, Agnes Hegedüs, Barbara Aselmeier,
Joachim Blank, Armin Haase, Karl Heinz Jeron, Thomas Kaulmann, Frank
Kunkel, Gereon Schmitz, Pieter Jongelie, Eduardo Kac, Orhan Kipcak,
Kunstlabor, Les Levidov, Les Levidov, Geert Lovink, Antonio Muntadas,
Norbert Nowotsch, Nur Schrec, Nur Schrec, Mark Olson, Lev Manovich,
Lev Manovich, Florian Rötzer, Saskia Sassen, Richard M. Satava,
Lisa Schmitz, Lucien Sfez, Stacey Spiegel, Wolfgang Staehle, Luc
Steels, Saburo Teshigawara, The Thing, Reinhard Urban, Reinhard
Urban, Akke Wagenaar, Mckenzie Wark, Peter Weibel, Melita Zajc.
1996 - MEMESIS - THE FUTURE
OF EVOLUTION
Memesis stands as a synonym for the current speed and density of
cultural and technological development vectors up to a not yet describable
state of our mass-media surroundings.
Relevant people in the festival:
Geert Lovink, Richard Dawkins, Herbert Hrachovec, Sadie Plant, Perry
Hoberman, Tom Sherman, Francis Heylighen, Joshua S. Lateiner, Allucquère
Rosanne Stone, Rainer P. Born, Jon Rose, Douglas Rushkoff, Robert
Adrian, John L. Casti, Heimo Ranzenbacher, Joe Engelberger, Douglas
Back, Karin Spaink, VNS Matrix, Simon Penny, Mark Dery, Konrad Becker,
Robert Adrian X, Sam Auinger, Geert Lovink, Albert Lichtblau, Robert
Adrian X, Reinhard Braun, Robert Woelfl, Tjebbe van Tijen, Louis-Philippe
Demers, Bill Vorn, Don Ritter, Just Merrit, Roberto Paci Dalò,
Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Ken Goldberg, Tod Machover,
Michel Redolfi, Fadi Dorninger, Johannes Domsich, Just Merrit, Heidi
Grundmann, Jocelyn Robert, János Sugár, Beusch/Cassani,
Winfried Ritsch, Netband, Oliver Frommel, NL. Design, Hotwired,
Natalie Jeremijenka, Luc Courchesne, Masaki Fujihata, Nobuya Suzuki,
Erwin Redl, Harwood, Scott Sona Snibbe, Gerhard Funk, Thecla Schiphorst,
Nancy Paterson, Simon Penny, Jamieson Schulte, Gudrun Bielz, Helmuth
Gsöllpointner, Christian Möller, Heimo Ranzenbacher.
1997 - FLESHFACTOR - INFORMATIONSMASCHINE
MENSCH
Are human beings machines?
Neuroscience, biology and experimental psychology are coming up
with findings suited to answering that question in the affermative.
Relevant people in the festival:
Donna Haraway [USA], Neal Stephenson [USA], Daniel Dennett [USA] (Videokonferenz),
Robert R. Birge [USA], Patricia Smith Churchland [USA], Huge Harry[NL],
Paul Garrin [USA], Guillermo Gòmez-Peña/Mexico + Roberto
Sifuentes [USA], Peter Fleissner[A], Peter Fromherz[D], Hiroshi Ishii [USA],
Agentur Bilwet[A]dilkno[NL], Pattie Maes [USA], Steve Mann [USA], Max
More [USA], Stelarc[AUS], Victoria Vesna [USA], Mark Weiser [USA], Rachel
de Boer[NL], Isabella Bordoni[I], Markus Brandt[A], Gordon W./Scharfness
Institute[CDN], Huge Harry[NL], Rafael Lozano-Hemmer[CDN], Mieskuoro
Huutajat/SF, Pepi Öttl[A], César Martìnez Silva/Mex,
Adrianne Wortzel [USA], DJ Riot, DJ Willi, Airlock, FON, Melinda Janssen,
Daniel Kousbroek, Lilith, Boris van der Meijden, Thomas Schneider,
The K., Ubique, u.v.a, Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf.
1998 - INFOWAR - information.macht.krieg
INFOWAR sheds light on the strategies and possibilities of computer-supported
conflict ranging from the Gulf War to the activities of cyberguerillas,
as well as assessing the internal logic of the Information Society
in connection with war as the "father of all things".
Relevant people in the festival:
Peter Arnett [USA], Michael Wilson/GB, Lucky Green [USA], Friedrich
Kittler[D], Paul Virilio[F], Kunda Dixit/Nepal, Shen Weiguang/RCH,
Igor N. Panarin/RU, George J. Stein [USA], J. Doyne Farmer [USA], Ute
Bernhardt[D], Birgit Richard[D], Michael Geyer [USA], Ingo Günther[D] [USA],
Joichi Ito[J], RTMark [USA], Douglas Rushkoff [USA], Georg Schöfbänker[A],
Tim Druckrey [USA], Manuel De Landa/MEX [USA], Robin Bargar/GB, Marko
Peljhan/SLO, Cãlin Dan/RO, Paul Garrin/US, David Rokeby[CDN],
Liang-Yuan Wang [USA], Robert Legato[D]igital Domain [USA], Maurice Benayoun[J]ean-Baptiste
Barrìere[F], Peter Bosch/Simone Simons[NL], Florian Nehonsky/Michael
Mossburger/Valerian Wurzer[A].
1999 - LIFE SCIENCE
Modern genetic engineering and biotechnology - subsumed by the term
life science - have taken center stage by molecular biologists and
genetic engineers equipped with the tools of information technology.
Relevant people in the festival:
Manuel de Landa [USA], Jeremy Rifkin [USA], Daniel J. Kevles [USA], Kari
Stefansson[I]SL, Bruno Latour[F], Gunther von Hagens[D], Dorothy Nelkin [USA],
R.V. Anuradha[I]ndien, Zhangliang Chen/China, Charles Tonderai Mudede/Zimbabwe [USA],
Klaus Ammann/CH, Lori B. Andrews [USA], George Gessert [USA], Herbert
Gottweis[A], Dean H. Hamer [USA], Eduardo Kac [USA], Roy Ascott/UK, Herbert
W. Franke[D], Hannes Leopoldseder[A], Itsuo Sakane[J], Peter Weibel[A],
Eduardo Kac [USA], Gail Wight [USA], Robert Spour[A], Michael Nyman Band,
Peter Koger, Franz Pomassl[A], Rupert Huber[A], Sound Traffic Control [USA],
Mix Master Mike [USA], Powerbook Orchestra (Mego)[A], Otomo Yoshihide[J],
Barry Schwartz [USA], Scratch Perverts/GB, DJ Craze [USA], Ikue Mori [USA],
Richie Hawtin[CDN], Pole[D], [The User][CDN], Scot Jenerick/GB, Granular
Synthesis[A], Chris Wedge [USA], Digital Domain [USA], Richard James
(Aphex Twin), Chris Cunningham/UK, Lynn Hershman [USA], Linus Torvalds/SF,
2000 - NEXT SEX
Sex in the Age of its Procreative Superfluousness
Relevant people in the festival:
Robin Baker/UK, Nobuya Unno[J], Jens Reich[D], Bruce Bagemihl [USA],
Carl Djerassi [USA], Randy Thornhill [USA], Joe Davis, Katie Egan [USA],
Natacha Merritt [USA], Monika Treut[D] [USA], Marie Luise Angerer[A],
Joanne Finkelstein[AUS], Xin Mao/PRCH/UK, Veena Gowda[I]ndien, Oron
Catts, Ionat Zurr (Australia), Guy Ben-Ary (Israel), Marta Menezes
(USA), Dieter Hubers (A), Kaucyila Brooke (USA), Istvan Kantor (CDN),
Lawine Torrèn, Hubert Lepka (A), Golan Levin (USA), Masaki
Fujihata, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Wolfgang Münch[J], Klaus Obermaier,
Chris Haring (A), Jomasounds (A), Dietmar Offenhuber (A), Carsten
Nicolai (D), Komet[D], Ilpo Vaisanen/SF, Ryoji Ikeda[J], coH/RUS,
Beytone[D], Senking[D], Thomas Brinkmann[D], Scanner/UK, Noto[D], Mika
Vainio/SF, Wolfgang Voigt[D], Elph/UK, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer/MEX[CDN],
Neal Stephenson [USA], Jakub Pistecky[CDN], Christian Volckman[F], Nicolai[D],
Verena Riedl, Michaela Hermann[A], Douglas Edric Stanley [USA], Laurent
Hart, Julien Alma[F], Jim Campbell [USA].
2001 - TAKEOVER
Who's doing the art of tomorrow
Relevant people in the festival:
Jon Ippolito [USA], Dietmar Bruckmayr[A], Ahmad Rafi Mohamed Eshaq/MAL,
Wolfgang Maass[A], Tobias O. Meissner[D], Gerfried Stocker[A], Ruedi
Bauer[F]/CH, Tanja Diezmann[D], Tasuya Matsui[J], Ole Lütjens
und Nico Palermo[D] [USA], Nora Barry [USA], Jérôme Rota
(DivX)[F] [USA], Stuart Maschwitz [USA], Eduardo Kac [USA], SymbioticA
Resaerch Group[AUS], Stuart Bunt[AUS], Natalie Jeremijenko [USA], Hiroaki
Kitano[J], Joe Davies [USA], Oliviero Toscani[I], Michael Shamiyeh[A],
Peter Higgins/UK, Hiroshi Ishii [USA], Rafael Lozano-Hemmer/MEX[CDN],
Gustav Pomberger[A], Horst Hörtner[A], Joachim Sauter[D], Joe
Paradiso [USA], Benjamin Weil [USA], Masaki Fujihata[J], Johannes Deutsch[A],
Elmar Schmidinger[A], Alain Dépocas[CDN], Andreas Hirsch[A],
Birgit Richard[D], Peter Noever[A], Rüdiger Wischenbart[A], Karel
Dudesek[A], David Nahon[F], Paul Rajlich [USA], Dietmar Offenhuber[A],
Dan Sandin [USA], Dan Sandin [USA], Maurice Benayoun[F], Michael Shamiyeh[A],
Ralph Eggleston [USA], Laetitia Gabrielli, Pierre Marteel, Mathieu
Renoux, Max Tourret, Xavier de l'Hermuziere, Philippe Grammaticopoulos[F],
Markus Popp[D], Ryoji Ikeda - David Metcalfe Associates/GB, Carsten
Nicolai, Marco Peljhan [D]/SLO[J], Haruki Nishijima - IAMAS[J], Sebastien
Kochman, Yuki Naja, Neeraj Jhanji, Chris McGrail, Joshua Davis,
Brian McGrath, Martin Leonhartsberger[A], Johannes Schiehsl, Conrad
Tambour, Peter Strobl[A], Markus Triska[A].
2002 - UNPLUGGED
Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts
UNPLUGGED ... means the severed thread, fractured lines of development
that had been thought to move only higher and higher, the abyss
alongside the routes traveled by the caravans of progress ...
Relevant people in the festival:
66b/cell [J], Adrian David Cheok / SGP, Alex Galloway [USA], Aminata
Traoré / Mali, Andreas Hirsch [A], Anthony Moore / UK, Anticon
[USA], Armin Medosch / D, Armin Mohsen Daneshgar [A], Ars Electronica
FutureLab [A], Atau Tanaka [J], Autorenwerkstatt MEET, Azza El'Hassan
/ Palestine, Ben Rubin [USA], Bettina Henkel [A], Birama Diallo
/ Mali, BMG 44 / Senegal, Bruce Odland [USA], Bruce Thomas [A]US,
Carl Michael von Hausswolff / S, Chris Haring [A], Christian Muthspiel
[A], Clifton Forlines [USA], Crispin Jones / UK, Curtis Roads /
USA, Danny Schechter [USA], David Rokeby / CDN, Davis O. Nejo [A]/Nig,
Deborah Shaffer [USA], Derrick de Kerckhove / CDN, Detlef Heusinger
[A], Dominic Muntanga / ZIM, Erich Semlak, Ernest W. Adams / UK,
Friedrich von Borries / D, Gerhard Funk [A], Gunalan Nadarajan /
SGP, Hans Hoffer [A], Heimo Ranzenbacher [A], Hou Hanru / F, Iba
Ndiaye Diadji / Senegal, Ignacio Ramonet / F, Jaroslaw Kujda / PL,
Jay Rutledge / D, Jennifer Sibanda / ZIM, Jeremy Rifkin [USA], Joachim
Smetschka [A], Jochen Gerz / D[F], Johannes Deutsch [A], Joichi
Ito [J], Josef Deinhofer [A], Josh On [USA], Kasper Toeplitz / D,
Keith Goddard / ZIM, Klaus Obermaier [A], Kyoko Kunoh [J], Leading
Edge Design, Lisa Goldman-Carney [USA], Lori Wallach [USA], Luc
Courchesne / CDN, Lucky Kitchen [USA], Maia Gusberti / CH, Marcus
Neustetter / SA, Marie Luise Angerer [A], Mark Napier [USA], Masuyama
[J], Michael Aschauer [A], Michael Jensen / SA, Michael Saup / D,
Michel Mavros / Senegal, Mika Taanila / SF, Motoshi Chikamori [J],
Nik Thoenen / CH, Oumou Sy / Senegal, Paul Virilio / F,Pee Froiss
(Senegal), Peter Fend [USA], Philippe Quéau / F, Radical
Software Group (RSG) [USA], Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / CDN/MEX, Ranjit
Makkuni / India, Reinhard Kannonier, Robin Clark / UK, Rupert Huber
[A], Russell Haswell / UK, Ryota Kuwakubo [J], Sam Auinger [A],
Saskia Sassen [USA], schoenerwissen / D, Sharif Waked / IL, Shu
Lea Cheang [USA], Shukria Kohistani [A]fghanistan, Simon Schießl
/ D, Social Impact [A], sofa 23 [A], Suhair Mohamed Khair Al-Zahabi
/ Qatar, Tetsuya Mizuguchi [J], texta [A], The Synthetic Character
Group [USA], Thomas Feuerstein [A], Tilman Reiff / D, Tina Blaine
[USA], Tom Sherman / CDN, Tonga.Online, Uri Dotan / IL, Volker Morawe
/ D, Werner Jauk [A], Winters Negbenebor / Nig, Yasuhiro Suzuki
[J], Yasunao Tone [J], Young Hay [USA], Yukiko Shikata [J], Zach
Lieberman [USA]
Ars Electronica 2003 CODE - the Language
of our Time
"CODE - the Language of Our Time" is the theme of Ars
Electronica 2003. The festival's three focal points-Code=Law, Code=Art,
Code=Life-will be treated from an artistic as well as a scientific
perspective.
Relevant people
in the festival:
Blast Theory (GB), Mixed Reality Lab (GB), Maywa Denki (J), Margarete
Jahrmann (A),Max Moswitzer (A), Marie Sester (F)(USA), dECOi (F),
Ryota Kuwakubo (J), Henry Newton-Dunn (J), Hiroaki Nakano (J), James
Gibson (J), Scott Sona Snibbe (USA), Agnes Meyer-Brandis (D), Haruo
Ishii (J), Sybille Hauert (CH), Daniel Reichmuth (CH), Volker Böhm,
Ross Cooper (GB), Jussi Ängeslevä (GB), Justin Manor (USA),
George Legrady (CDN)(USA), Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca
(E), Iori Nakai (J), Georg Sochurek (A), Armin Ronacher (A), Nikolaus
Mikschofsky (A), Martin Leonhartsberger (A), Sigrun Astrid Fugger
(A), Dominik Dorn (A), David Hackl (A), Tobias Schererbauer (A),
Sebastian Schreiner (A), Matthäus König (A), Manuel Fallmann
(A), Georg Gruber (A), HS Steinerkirchen (A), Alexandra Voglreiter
(A), Katharina Krummel (A), Anna Obermeier (A), Thomas Hainscho
(A), Borg 3 Wien (A), HBLA für künstl. Gestaltung (A),
Franz Wengler (A), Christoph Haidinger (A), Ami Yoshida (J), Utah
Kawasaki (J), Sachiko M (J), Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (N),
Florian Hecker (A), Yuko Nexus 6 (J), Rechenzentrum (D), Gert-Jan
Prins (NL), Tujiko Noriko (J), Phill Niblock (USA), Mark Wastell
(GB),Toshimura Nakamura (J),Taku Sugimoto (J), Tetuzi Akiyama (J),
Rudolf Eb.er (CH), Kevin Drumm (USA), Whitehouse (GB), Oren Ambarchi
(AUS), Aaron Funk (CDN),Rachael Kozak (CH), Toshiya Tsunoda (J),
Romain Segaud (F), Cristel Pougeoise (F), Carlos Saldanha (USA),
Koji Yamamura (J), Christoph Ammann (CH), Tipppett Studio (USA),
Siri Melchior (DK), H5 (F), Wayne Lytle (USA), Pete Docter (USA),
Roger Gould (USA), Jordi Moragues (E), Satoshi Tomioka (J), Thorsten
Fleisch (D), Luc Froehlicher (F), Eric Armstrong (CDN), Jérôme
Decock (F),Olivier Lanerès (F),Mélina Milcent (F),Cécile
de la Dreve (F), Sulake Labs Oy (SF), Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena
(YV), Yury Gitman (USA), James Tindall (USA), Golan Levin (USA),
Lia (A), David Crawford (S)(USA), FL@33 (GB), Agathe Jacquillat,
Tomi Vollauschek , Han Hoogerbrugge (NL), Wiggle (J), Christophe
Bruno (F), Amit Pitaru (IL), James Paterson (GB), ubermorgen (A)(CH),
Last.Team (D)(A), Jared Tarbell (USA),Lola Brine (USA), LeCielEstBleu
(F), Shinya Yamamoto , LAN (CH), Axel Heide (D),onesandzeros (D),Philip
Pocock (CDN)(D),Gregor Stehle (D), Antoni Abad (E), Gerfried Stocker,
Friedrich Kittler, Cindy Cohn / James Grimmelmann, Peter J. Bentley,
Howard Rheingold, Fred von Lohmann, Radio FRO / Otto Tremetzberger,
Alexander R. Galloway / Eugene Thacker, Marc Canter, Leo Findeisen,
Pierre Lévy, Florian Cramer, Erkki Huhtamo, Christiane Paul,
Richard Kriesche, Richard Kriesche, Roman Verostko, John Madea,
Casey Reas, Benjamin Fry, Steve Sacks, Daniel Rozin, Christiane
Paul, Christa Som merer / Laurent Mignonneau, James McCartney, Fiona
Raby, Oliver Fritz, Jonathan Norton, Horst Hörtner / Heimo
Ranzenbacher, Scott DeLahunta, Jaap Blonk / Joan La Barbara / Tmema,
Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca, Adrian David Cheok / Hirokazu
Kato , Justin Manor,Heimo Ranzenbacher / x-space, Mia Zabelka /
Electric Indigo, Alexej Shulgin, Heimo Ranzenbacher, Gerda Palmetshofer,
Don P. Miller, Naut Humon, Tim Cole, Tim Mark Didymus, agf aka antye
greie, Giaco Schiesser, Cecilia Hausheer, Gruppe FOK, Kunst Raum
Goethestraße / Herman Chong / Isabelle Cornaro / Daniel Kluge,
Norbert Pfaffenbichler / Michael Aschauer / Lotte Schreiber, Marc
Downie, Thomas Lorenz, John Gerrard,Crispin Jones / IDEO, James
Patten / Ben Recht, Kenji Iguchi / Tomoki Saso, Sachiko Kodama /
Minako Takeno, Roland Blach / Petra Gemeinböck / Nicolaj Kirisits,
A. Benjamin Spaeth, Heimo Ranzenbacher
