Next week the ARS Electronica 2010 Festival starts in Austria. The Festival started in 1979 and since then it has been one the world’s foremost media art festivals. You must definitely check it out or at least stay updated on their activities. But if Austria is a bit too far for you, you can of course always visit our upcoming media art festival, Matrix City: 13-17 Oct, Utrecht. REPAIR ready to pull the lifeline Ars Electronica 2010 Festival for Art, Technology and Society Linz Austria, Thu. 2. -- Sat. 11. September 2010 http://new.aec.at/repair/en
There’s no time left for warnings. We’re in it up to our necks right now—in the climate crisis, Surveillance Society, the bankruptcy of the financial sector … We’ve passed the points of no return. The dramatic consequences are looming on the horizon today. And there’s no excuse for our lethargy since we already possess ideas, tools and techniques to initiate a change of course. We just have to take action! Roll up our sleeves and get to work on a job that can no longer be avoided. We have to mend our ways and get things moving in the right direction.
In search of ways out of this mess we’ve gotten into, the 2010 Festival for Art, Technology and Society turns to the pioneers of our age. Not the adventurers who’ve sailed forth because they wanted to find out what awaits them on the other side, but rather the visionaries who are bringing expertise as well as a great deal of creativity and idealism to bear in their work on an alternative future. Repair is the title of a festival designed to pursue the paths opened up by these trailblazers and to show why it’s imperative for us to follow their lead.
