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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:39:32 +0200 From: Ars Electronica Center <announce@aec.at> ----------------------------------------- Ars Electronica 99 LifeScience September 4-9, 1999 Linz, Austria http://www.aec.at/lifescience ----------------------------------------- Ars Electronica 99 - 4th Announcement CONTENTS ................................... 1.1 LifeScience .................................... 1.2 LifeScience Symposium .................................... 1.3 Publication I: Ars Electronica 99 - LifeScience ................................... 1.4 Ars Electronica 79-99 .................................... 1.5 Publication II: Ars Electronica Facing the Future. A Survey of Two Decades .................................... 1.6 Publication III: Ars Electronica 79-99 20 years of the Festival for Art, Technology und Society .................................... 1.7 Cyberarts 99 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition .................................... 1.8 Publication IV: Cyberarts 99 - International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica .................................... 1.9 General information .................................... Next update: September 1st, 1999 .................................... You're reading the fourth issue of the Ars Electronica newsletter, focusing on main issues of Ars Electronica 99: LifeScience Symposium, the 20th anniversary of Ars Electronica, Cyberarts 99 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition and Ars Electronica 99 publications. Complete program information, short bios of the artists and scientists, and a detailed description of the exhibitions and installations can be found at http://www.aec.at/lifescience/program.html Deutsche Version dieser Ankuendigung // German version of this announcement: http://www.aec.at/lifescience/service.html 1.1 LifeScience .................................... With this year's festival, Ars Electronica establishes a new point of thematic emphasis which will be with us for years to come. Focusing on biotechnology and genetic engineering is indeed a reorientation, but it also carries on a practice with a long tradition-namely, turning attention to zones of conflict at the nexus of society and technology. Life science, a term denoting a wide range of areas in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering and connoting a "science of life", very clearly expresses fundamental associations with cultural and philosophical questions and issues. Along with the symposium which constitutes the core of Ars Electronica 99, a diverse array of artists and their works will also confront and deal with this theme. 1.2 LifeScience Symposium .................................... Information technology - long the leading edge technology which has pointed the way to the future - has become the decisive tool with which biology can forge ahead into uncharted territory that is both brimming with hope and fraught with controversy. The public discourse surrounding them is characterized by emotions stoked by the mass media and all too often remains at the level of ill - defined buzzwords. Against this background, the festival will also show new ways of dealing with this subject. In a series of speeches and discussions, prominent experts will confront a set of highly controversial views on the complex of issues related to life science. Speakers: Sun 5.9. 10.00 - 13.30 Gerfried Stocker // Daniel J. Kevles // Robert P. Lanza Klaus Ammann // Dean H. Hamer // Zhangliang Chen 15.00 - 18.15 Kari Stefansson // Lori B. Andrews // Jeremy Rifkin Mon 6.9. 10.00 - 13.30 Dorothy Nelkin // Bruno Latour // R. V. Anuradha // Herbert Gottweis 15.00 - 18.15 Eduardo Kac // Gunther von Hagens George Gessert // Charles T. Mudede // Birgit Richard Moderator: Manuel De Landa The LifeScience Symposium is being held in cooperation with: Novartis - New Skills in the Science of Life. For detailed information on the symposium and the participants, go to http://www.aec.at/lifescience/program.html 1.3 Publication I: Ars Electronica 99 - LifeScience .................................... With this catalog dedicated to the emerging Biotech Revolution, Ars Electronica carries on its critical confrontation with the key technologies of the future and its efforts to come to terms with their significance for art and society. A combined theoretical treatise and project documentation, the catalog is a collection of the conceptual elaborations of the speakers at the LifeScience symposium. Its thematic spectrum ranges from the consequences of the life sciences in medicine and agriculture, their manifestations and reflections in popular culture, considerations of the life sciences' ethical and social implications, and the reception that has been accorded to these new challenges in the areas of politics and culture. The catalog's art section features detailed and comprehensive texts profusely illustrated with photography, screenshots and graphics, documenting not only the current state-of-the-art of media art but also its first operative encounter with the life sciences. Ars Electronica 99 LifeScience Springer Vienna-New York (ISBN 3-211-83368-4) ATS 350 (festival price, in Austrian Schillings) ATS 550 (retail price) Paperback, 450 pages Lavishly illustrated, most in color Text: German/English 1.4 Ars Electronica 79-99 .................................... Continually since 1979, Ars Electronica has been reflecting and analyzing the process of sociocultural transformation triggered by digital technologies. Ars Electronica's 20th anniversary is an appropriate occasion to carry out an archeological examination of the artistic and technical development of digital media, following two decades that have witnessed the emergence of a global Information Society that has long since become the determinative circumstance of our culture. Ars Electronica 79-99 Sat, 4.9. Brucknerhaus 13.30 - 17.00 Speeches by and discussions with theoreticians and artists who have made essential contributions to the development of the idea of Ars Electronica, as well as leading representatives of media art: Roy Ascott // Edouard Bannwart // Karel Dudesek // Herbert W. Franke // Walter Haupt // Gottfried Hattinger // Siegbert Janko // Joichi Ito // Machiko Kusahara // Wolfgang Lehner // Hannes Leopoldseder // Wolfgang Modera // Otto Piene // Ulli A. Rtzel // Itsuo Sakane // Christine Schpf // Raimund Schumacher // Christa Sommerer // Gerfried Stocker // Martin Sturm // Chris Wedge // Peter Weibel // Wolfgang Winkler Moderators: Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder, Dr. Christine Schpf "And what is it that makes it art?" ... and other party-killers from 20 years of Ars Electronica Thur, 9.9. Brucknerhaus 13.00 - 18.00 Pioneers and early adopters, as well as representatives of a generation of artists young enough to have grown up with computers will present their works and positions and join in the discussion. This program feature takes an entertaining look at the rules of the game of a form of art that arose by means of information theory and media technology, and which engenders both a new understanding of art as well as a new picture of the role of those producing it. Participants: Alex Adriaansen // Bob Adrian // Roy Ascott // association.creation // Sam Auinger // Rachel Baker // Beusch/Cassani // Heath Bunting // Douglas Davies // Tim Druckrey // Christoph Ebener // Karl Heinz Essl // etoy.ZAI // Franz Fischnaller // Heidi Grundmann // Helmut Gsllpointner // Daniel Haaksman // Eduardo Kac // Myron Krueger // Machiko Kusahara // Just Merrit // Olia Lialina // Heimo Ranzenbacher // Birgit Richard // Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner // Rasa Smitis // Peter Weibel Design: Beusch/Cassani (TNC Network) with: Sabine Wahrmann, Marco Repetto, Stefan Biabiany, Diego Bontognali, Simon Piniel 1.5 Publication II: Ars Electronica Facing the Future. A Survey of Two Decades .................................... Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, an anthology published by the prestigious scholarly publishing house MIT Press, takes a retrospective look at two decades of future perspectives. Timothy Druckrey has gone through all previous Ars Electronica catalogs to select groundbreaking texts and essays that have pointed the way forward, and recompiled them for Ars Electronica Facing the Future. A Survey of Two Decades. The 450-page volume is divided into three sections: history, theory and practice. What it amounts to is Ars Electronica's Greatest Hits, a collection of the best essays and symposium contributions by authors such as Herbert W. Franke, Roy Ascott, Bruce Sterling, Kristine Stiles and Richard Dawkins, Nick Herbert, Heidi Grundmann, Vilm Flusser, Derrick de Kerckhove and Paul Virilio, Sadie Plant, Keigo Yamamoto, Marvin Minsky, Manuel DeLanda and Birgit Richard, Gene Youngblood, Stelarc, Gerfried Stocker, Jrgen Claus and Robert Adrian X. A total of 88 authors are represented by 76 texts. As a distillation of the essence of Ars Electronica's 20-year history, Ars Electronica: Facing the Future traces the decisive processes of theory construction, and the scientific, social and cultural consequences of the Digital Revolution. Ars Electronica: Facing the Future A Survey of Two Decades Edited by Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London (ISBN 0-262-04176-6) ATS 350 (festival price) Available only in English. Paperback, 450 pages 1.6 Publication III: Ars Electronica 79-99 20 years of the Festival for Art, Technology und Society .................................... Ars Electronica 79-99 deals with the origins and the historical trajectory of the festival for art, technology and society from the first Ars Electronica in 1979 through its institutionalization in the form of the Ars Electronica Center opened in 1996, through a collection of anecdotes and photos assembled over this 20-year span, Ars Electronica 79-99 offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the "Linz cyberart circle." An array of testimonials affirm both the position of the Ars Electronica Center as an exemplary facility for authoritative expertise and technical innovation, as well as that of the Ars Electronica Festival, an event whose unique concept continues to make it one-of-a-kind. An index of more than 70 pages lists all projects, installations and presentations staged from 1979 to 1999, as well as all artists and speakers who participated in those festivals-another feature that makes Ars Electronica 79-99 an indispensable reference work. The documentary comprising TV and video material from 20 years of digital media art was produced by the ORF Upper Austrian Regional Studio, a co-organizer of Ars Electronica, and is available in both VHS and DVD formats. Ars Electronica 79-99 Book + Video Documentation ATS 400 (festival price) Book ATS 180 (festival price) Paperback, 210 pages Video: VHS (PAL, NTSC) + DVD ATS 250 (festival price) Text: German/English 1.7 Cyberarts 99 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition .................................... 4.-9.9. O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst 10.00-24.00 An impressive exhibition gathers together the best works of interactive art that have been singled out for recognition by the Prix Ars Electronica. Cyberarts 99 is being presented in the O.K Center for Contemporary Art and, in a completely unique way, provides a close-up look at the current state of the digital media arts. Works by: Lynn Hershman // Luc Courchesne // Perry Hoberman // Eric Paulos // Christoph Ebener, Franz Fietzek, Uli Winters // Daniel Rozin // Russet Lederman // Joachim Blank, Karl Heinz Jeron // Bill Keys, Ron MacNeil // Beate Garmer // Canon ARTLAB: Kouichirou Eto // Simon Penny // Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau 1.8 Publication IV: Cyberarts 99 - International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica .................................... As in previous years, a separate publication is dedicated to the internationally renowned prize for cyberarts. The Prix Ars Electronica brings together those forces that have constituted the basis of digital transformation, have translated it artistically and made it accessible to the general public. The Cyberarts 99 compendium documents the submissions singled out to receive Golden Nica prizes, runner-up awards and honorable mention in the interactive art, .net, computer animation, visual effects, and digital musics categories, as well as in the cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing competition for young artists. A comprehensive documentation of media-based artistic practice is juxtaposed to essays and brief compositions written by jurors who, as outstanding theoreticians and renowned connoisseurs, provide fascinating insights into the leading edge of digital media art. Cyberarts 99 International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica Springer Vienna-New York (ISBN 3-211-83367-6) ATS 350 (festival price) ATS 420 (retail price) Hard-bound, 240 pages Lavishly illustrated, most in color Text: German/English 1.9 General information .................................... The Ars Electronica Festival staff offers comprehensive visitors' services for festival guests. At our online service page, you'll find answers to your questions concerning: * ticket prices and booking information, * a city map with a detailed description of festival venues, and * contact addresses. Go to http://www.aec.at/lifescience/service.html Next update: September 1st 1999 Content: Ars Electronica 99 - Last call .................................... Ars Electronica 99 - Highlights, Events & Night Life .................................... Ars Electronica 99: Organization: Ars Electronica Center Linz and ORF - Upper Austrian Regional Studio Co-organizers: Brucknerhaus Linz, O.K - Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst Sponsors and Partners: Creditanstalt, Digital/Compaq, Gericom, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Oesterreichische Brauunion, Oracle, Quelle, SGI, Siemens AG, Telekom Austria AG, Novartis .................................... -------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this message. 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