Subject: Ars Electronica 99 - 3rd Announcement
From: Ars Electronica Center (announce@aec.at)
Date: Mon Jun 21 1999 - 10:11:22 CDT
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Ars Electronica 99
LifeScience
September 4-9, 1999
Linz, Austria
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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Ars Electronica 99 - 3rd Announcement
CONTENTS
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1.1 LifeScience Symposium
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1.2 Symposium Ars Electronica 79-99
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1.3 "And what is it that makes it art?" ...
and other party-killers from the 20-year history of Ars
Electronica
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1.4 LifeScience - Installations
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1.5 Events & Performances
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1.6 Cyberarts 99 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition
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1.7 Ongoing Netsymposium
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1.8 You're planning to come to Linz for Ars Electronica '99
General information
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Next update: July 30, 1999
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You're reading the third issue of the Ars Electronica newsletter, focusing
on the program of the Ars Electronica Festival 99, and giving you a brief
overview and summary of what will be taking place during this year's
festival. Complete program information, short bios of all symposium
participants, 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 Symposium
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September 5-6, 1999 Brucknerhaus
10.00-13.00 and 15.00-18.00
The current scenarios of science and business revolving around the gene
will occupy the focal point of attention during this two-day symposium.
The question "Will the Digital Revolution be followed by a Biological
Revolution?" is the point of departure for theoretical and artistic
elaborations. 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.
The LifeScience Symposium discussion will focus on:
* Ideology and Science - Biological Determinism
* Industrial Processing of Life
* Biobusiness
* Agribusiness - Genetically-Modified Foods
* Pharmabusiness - Medicine
* Genetic Fingerprint - The Visible Man
* How Science is Done and Promulgated and the Critique of
Science
Participants:
Manuel De Landa/USA - moderator
Jeremy Rifkin/USA // Daniel J. Kevles/USA // Kari Stefansson/ISL //Bruno
Latour/F // Gunther von Hagens/D // Dorothy Nelkin/USA // R.V.
Anuradha/India // 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
For detailed information on the symposium and the participants, go to
http://www.aec.at/lifescience/program.html
The symposium is being held in cooperation with Novartis, the leading life
science company.
1.2 Symposium Ars Electronica 79-99
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September 4, 1999 Brucknerhaus
13.30-17.00
The Ars Electronica Festival's 20th anniversary is an appropriate
occasion, and a challenge, to carry out an archeological dig through the
developmental strata of digital media art. This rapid technical and
artistic development process, as well as the role of Ars Electronica, will
be the subject of reflection and analysis conducted with a critical
eye-and with tongue in cheek. Two special symposia are being dedicated to
this complex of issues.
Kicking off this analytical recapitulation are 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, including:
Roy Ascott/UK // Herbert W. Franke/D // Hannes Leopoldseder/A // Itsuo
Sakane/J // Peter Weibel/A
1.3 "And what is it that makes it art?" ...
and other party-killers from the 20-year history of Ars
Electronica
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September 9, 1999 Brucknerhaus
10.00-13.00 and 15.00-18.00
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. Here, fronts now seem to
be coalescing which point to more than a mere generational conflict.
Numerous participants - pioneers and representatives of a generation of
artists who have grown up with computers - will present their works and
their positions, and take part in discussions about them. This event,
designed by TNC Network (Beusch/Cassani /F/CH), promises to be a trenchant
and witty celebration of Ars Electronica's 20th anniversary.
1.4 LifeScience - Installations
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The challenge looming on the horizon in the form of the emerging
revolution in genetic engineering is also a challenge to art. Interweaving
theoretical and artistic practices and themes is both the self-imposed
task and the successful concept of Ars Electronica. This year, the
festival presents a series of installations dedicated specifically to this
topic and designed to translate a wide range of highly contentious aspects
of life science into forms of artistic expression, and thus to allow them
to be sensorially perceived. Among these:
Genesis - Eduardo Kac/USA
September 4-9, O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst, 10.00-24.00
Spike - Gail Wight/USA
September 4-9, O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst, 10.00-24.00
The Creative Gene Harvest Archive - Gene Genies Worldwide/USA
September 4-9, Brucknerhaus, 10.00-19.00
Hamster - symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy - Christoph Ebener, Frank
Fietzek, Uli Winters/D
September 4-9, O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst, 10.00-24.00
1.5 Events & Performances
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Between the Ars Electronica Birthday Party on September 4th and the
closing event Recombinant 9.9.99, there's a full line-up of individual
presentations and three exciting Ars Electronica Nights.
Ars Electronica Birthday Party
September 4, Peter Behrens Haus (former tobacco processing plant)
22.30 - open end
Ars Electronica Night 1
September 5, Brucknerhaus, 19.30 - open end
OMV Klangpark
[Multiple_Dwelling] - Fakeshop/USA
[prints] vier aminosuren in folge - Robert Spour/A
Ars Electronica Night 2
September 6, O.K Centrum fuer Gegenwartskunst
20.00 - open end
Electronic Theatre
Sound Drifting - ORF Art Radio
Evening barbecue in the Global Village of cybergeneration - u19
The Michael Nyman Band Concert
September 7, Brucknerhaus, 20.00
It's not only because of his numerous soundtracks that Michael Nyman is
considered one of the most successful contemporary English composers.
Nyman's style-simple melodies, chord sequences, insistent rhythms and
powerful dynamism-is often linked to pop music. But Nyman has also made
strong reference to experimental music, and treats the music of the past
as a resource that can be employed any way the composer desires.
Ars Electronica Night 3
September 8, Ars Electronica Center & Quarter
18.00 - open end
CAVE - Peter Koger, Franz Pomassl/A
Why Sync? - Rupert Huber/A
bugrace99 - the world's fastest bug - Stadtwerkstatt/A
Ars Electronica Last Night
Recombinant 9.9.99
September 9, Posthof + FM4
21.09
One of the last warning indicators of Y2K before the turn of the
millennium is the date 9.9.99. Nine hours long, the concluding event of
Ars Electronica 99 will bear witness to this temporarily destabilized
condition. What's more, the last night of Ars Electronica 99 will make the
multidimensional phenomenon of digital music accessible to the senses.
Recombinant 9.9.99 will especially accentuate the new orientation of the
Prix Ars Electronica category Digital Musics.
With: 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, and others
1.6 Cyberarts 99 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition
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September 4-9, 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. Music rooms and tonal
spaces make available the best works in the category Digital Musics, and
there will be screenings of selected works from the Computer Animation and
Visual Effects categories. A separate exhibition area on the plaza in
front of the O.K-the Arena-is dedicated to cybergeneration - u19, the
category for young people.
1.7 Ongoing Netsymposium
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The LifeScience Netsymposium that has been underway since April 20 has
been dominated from the very outset by the discussion of the relationship
between art and science. It is said that the position of art in society
should be realigned in the face of genetic engineering and biotechnology.
A continually recurring point is the emphasis placed on the special social
responsibility of art in dealing with a biotech industry that is
determined by economic factors, the potential consequences of which cannot
be assessed. In the past, art - which interpreted the world and
hypothetically juxtaposed an alternative world to it - could not intervene
in the world itself, but rather could offer up commentary that might
prompt mankind to reflect on things as they are. Now, this situation could
change. The Netsymposium participants have formulated provocative
questions regarding this issue, for example: When will the first art lover
die while taking in a work of genetic art consisting of
genetically-manipulated viruses? Is art turning deadly; if so, is it still
art? And indeed, art is not that far removed from this scenario if one
considers Jan Fabre's project involving maggots. A particularly heated
discussion has centered on Eduardo Kac's transgenic art project with the
green fluorescent dog. When artists take the step from interpreters of
life to creators of it, they must accept responsibility for their work -
as Kac certainly does want to do. Art involving life science requires
integration into a mode of thought that takes social welfare into account.
Birgit Richard,
moderator - Netsymposium
Contributions to: lifescience@aec.at
1.8 You're planning to come to Linz for Ars Electronica '99
General information
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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,
* hotel reservation service (including moderately-priced youth
hostel accommodations),
* a city map with a detailed description of festival venues, and
* contact addresses.
Go to http://www.aec.at/lifescience/service.html
Next update: July 30th 1999
Content: Ars Electronica 99 - Publications
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The next announcement update will appear on July 30. In it, we'll run down
the publications that will be coming out in conjunction with this year's
festival:
* Ars Electronica 99 LifeScience (Springer Vienna - New York)
* Ars Electronica: Facing the Future. A Survey of Two Decades
(MIT Press, Cambridge MA)
* Cyberarts 99 International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
(Springer Vienna - New York)
* Ars Electronica 79-99 Book and Video Documentation
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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
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