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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:39:32 +0200
From: Ars Electronica Center <announce@aec.at>

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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 - 4th Announcement

CONTENTS
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1.1 LifeScience
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1.2 LifeScience Symposium
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1.3 Publication I: Ars Electronica 99 - LifeScience
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1.4 Ars Electronica 79-99
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1.5 Publication II: Ars Electronica Facing the Future. A Survey of Two
Decades
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1.6 Publication III: Ars Electronica 79-99
20 years of the Festival for Art, Technology und Society
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1.7 Cyberarts 99 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition
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1.8 Publication IV: Cyberarts 99 - International Compendium Prix Ars
Electronica
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1.9 General information
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Next update: September 1st, 1999
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
* 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
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Ars Electronica 99 - Highlights, Events & Night Life

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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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