[spectre] Ars Electronica 2002 - 4th Announcement

[Ars Electronica Center]

UNPLUGGED
Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts
Ars Electronica 2002
September 7 - 12
Linz, Austria
www.aec.at/unplugged/
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Ars Electronica 2002 - 4th Announcement

CONTENTS
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1. Ars Electronica 2002 - Program online
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2. UNPLUGGED Symposium
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You are reading the fourth issue of the Ars Electronica 2002 newsletter,
focusing on the UNPLUGGED Symposium and the detailed program online.

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1. Ars Electronica 2002 - Program online
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The detailed Ars Electronica 2002 festival program is online now:
www.aec.at/unplugged/

Ars Electronica is providing online updates on an almost daily basis
beginning immediately and continuing until the festival in September:
topical ideas, theme-related essays, background information, relevant links
as well as portraits of artists and symposium speakers.

www.aec.at/unplugged/ functions as a form and invites participants to
submit comments and feedback.


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2. UNPLUGGED Symposium
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Seven Symposium Plug-Ins being presented throughout the festival week will
deal with the assessment of globalization, Africa between emancipation and
cyber-colonialism on its way into Information Society, media as venues and
battle zones of global conflicts, international educational standards in
media art, art as a part of global systems, as well as the evidence for and
the political power of Internet utopias.

Plug-In I: Who is unplugged? (Sept. 8)
Plug-In II: Artistic Aggression (Sept. 8)
Plug-In III: Wiring Africa (Sept. 9)
Plug-In IV: Local Conflicts - Global Media (Sept. 9)
Plug-In V: Coaching the Arts (Sept. 10)
Plug-In VI: Operated by Art (Sept. 11)
Plug-In VII: Global Conflicts - Local Networks (Sept. 12)

Prominent participants in the Ars Electronica 2002 symposia include artists
Peter Fend, Aza El'Hassan, and Mark Napier, leading thinkers in the
globalization debate such as Ignacio Ramonet (Le Monde Diplomatique, the
father of ATTAC), Jeremy Rifkin (The Age of Access), Aminata Traor=C8, a
high-profile member of the African anti-globalization scene, and Paul
Virilio (Kunst des Schreckens), as well as representatives of innovative
African Internet projects like Lisa Goldman-Carney (Joko / Senegal), Keith
Goddard (Tonga.Online from Zimbabwe) and fashion designer Oumou Sy
(Metissacana / Senegal).



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Ars Electronica 2002
Organization:
Ars Electronica Center Linz and ORF - Austrian Broadcasting
Corporation, Upper Austrian Regional Studio
Co-organizers: Brucknerhaus Linz, O.K - Center for Contemporary Art

Concept & Artistic Direction:	Gerfried Stocker, Christine Sch=96pf
Curatorial Team: Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Andreas Hirsch, Davis O. Nejo,
Jay Rutledge
The Theme of Ars Electronica 2002 is based on an idea of Oliviero Toscani.


Contact:
Ars Electronica Center
Hauptstrasse 2
A-4040 Linz, Austria
info@aec.at
www.aec.at/unplugged/


Sponsors of Ars Electronica 2002:
Compaq Oesterreich GesmbH, Gericom, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Mobilkom
Austria, Oesterreichische Brauunion, Oracle, Quelle, SAP AG, SGI, Siemens
AG, Sony DADC, Telekom Austria

Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Spring, Opel Guenther

Sponsors of Prix Ars Electronica 2002:
The Prix Ars Electronica 2002 is sponsored by Telekom Austria.
Supported by Telekom Austria, voestalpine, P.S.K. (Austrian Postal
Banking), Sony DADC, the City of Linz, the Province of Upper Austria

Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Casinos Austria, City-Hotel Linz, Courtyard
by Marriott, Poestlingberg Schloessl, Oesterreichischer Kulturservice