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Gerfried Stocker
Ars Electronica
www.aec.at


Lecture:
CODE - The Language of Our Time
CODE=Law, CODE=Art, CODE=Life

Software and digital codes will be the centerpiece of this year's Ars
Electronica entitled "CODE - the Language of our Time." Software as the law
code prevailing in cyberspace, digital codes as basic elements of media art,
and the convergence of information technology and biotech are the three
thematic focal points that crystallize into the formula Code=Law, Code=Art
and Code=Life.

CODE - the Language of our Time
Is the language of the computers becoming the lingua franca of the global
Information Society?
Software is omnipresent; digital codes are the materia prima of our modern,
global Information Society. And it is precisely its unlimited capacity to be
programmed that turns the computing machine into the unique medium that has
so successfully and so mightily pervaded all aspects of our life-one that
can simultaneously function as an implement of war, economic instrument and
artistic tool.

Ars Electronica, one of the world's most highly acclaimed festivals at the
interface of art, technology and society, has been presented annualy since
1979. Once a year Linz is the centre of computer and cyber culture. The Ars
Electronica has been established to provide an open meeting place for
artists and researches. Each year at the festival there are winning awards
Golden Nica in following categories:
Computer animation/Visual efects; Interactive art; Net Vision/Net Excellence
(Internet art), Digital Music, Cybergeneration U19 - freestyle Computing

Since 1995 Gerfried Stocker is managing director of the Ars Electronica
Center and artistic director of the Ars Electronica Festival. He is Media
artist and musician and is a graduate of the Institute for Telecommunication
Engineering and Electronics in Graz. Since 1990, he has been working as an
independent artist. In 1991, he founded x-space, a team for the realization


of interdisciplinary projects. In this framework numerous installations and
performance projects have been carried out in the field of interaction,
robotics and telecommunication.

Projects and Installations have been shown among others at:
EXPO '92 Sevilla; Kunsthalle Bonn '92; Biennale Venedig '93; ISEA '93
Minneapolis; Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles '94; Digital World
Conference Los Angeles '94; SIGGRAPH '94 Orlando; ISEA '94 Helsinki; Dutch
Electronic Art Festival '94 Rotterdam; steirischer herbst '94, '95; Ars
Electronica '95; SIGGRAPH '95, Los Angeles; ISEA '95 Montréal; Frankfurter
Buchmesse '95; New York Digital Salon '95; Biennale Venedig '97, Millennium
Dome London 2000.


Lecture is organized with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum
Belgrade



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