Topic: ART - on August 9, 2008 at 4:20:00 PM CEST
Ars Electronica 2008
Under the banner of “A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY – The Limits of Intellectual Property” the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival aims to co-author the preamble to a new knowledge-based society. What’s at stake: the interplay of freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society. And this is also a matter of practical, workable regulations governing this new reality, rules whose formulation ought not to be left up to lawyers and MBAs alone.
Ars Electronica invites artists, network nomads, theoreticians, technologists and legal scholars from all over the world to convene in Linz September 4-9, 2008. Their artistic and scholarly investigations in the form of symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions will transcend the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and pervade the entire city.
Festival for Art, Technology and Society Linz Thu 4 - Tue 9 September 2008
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Topic: ART - on August 9, 2008 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Riefenstahl 2.0 - Die Ästhetik der olympischen Eröffnungsfeier
Bei allen (berechtigten) politischen Fragen, die die Olympischen Spiele in China aufwerfen, muss man doch mal eines grade festhalten: optisch ist die Eröffnungsfeier der reinste Wahnsinn, pyrotechnisch sowieso.
google bigpicture flickr.com flickr.com 2 Riefenstahl [wiki]
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Topic: ART - on August 9, 2008 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
VJ Olympics? Addictive TV Remixing Sports for Adidas and Austria
With the Olympics opening ceremony coming up, I’m sure there are some visualists right now in Beijing preparing for one of the biggest performances of their lives. Since 2004 generative video and projection mapping has come a long way, so I’m expecting we might see something completely bonkers in the next 12 or so hours.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 9, 2008 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Beijing Olympics visitors to come under widespread surveillance
The government has installed about 300,000 cameras in Beijing and set up a network to spy on its citizens and foreigners.
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