A piece worth reading... best
Simon On 9 Sep 2013, at 17:27, netbehaviour <netbehavi...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > From Total Recall to Digital Dementia - Ars Electronica 2013. > > By Armin Medosch. > > Year by year Ars Electronica gets larger, greater and more successful. > One visible sign of this success are the blinking lights of the ACE at > night, like an upgraded spaceship out of 'Close Encounter of the Third > Kind'. > > 1The festival now also has a venue, the former tobacco factory 'Die > Tabakfabrik', that can cope with the rising numbers of visitors each > year. Ars Electronica is a success story, no doubt about that. At the > same time the Festival has developed a dynamics of its own, whereby the > size of the program gives the impression that quantity comes before > quality. The festival has defined as its primary objective to ignite a > debate around art, technology and society,. But this debate often seems > to be held in a quite one-sided way. > > http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1472 > > -- > ---> > > A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - > proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) > > Other reviews,articles,interviews > http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php > > Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, > discussing and learning about experimental practices at the > intersections of art, technology and social change. > http://www.furtherfield.org > > Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London). > http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery > > Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. > http://www.netbehaviour.org > > http://identi.ca/furtherfield > http://twitter.com/furtherfield > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/school-of-art/staff/staff?person_id=182&cw_xml=profile.php http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/simon-biggs%285dfcaf34-56b1-4452-9100-aaab96935e31%29.html http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.movingtargets.org.uk/ http://designinaction.com/ MSc by Research in Interdisciplinary Creative Practices http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=656&cw_xml=details.php
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