Ars Electronica: Facing The Future, A Survey Of Two Decades; Editor: Druckrey, Timothy; Editor: Ars Electronica; Hardback; Book

Editor: Druckrey, Timothy; Editor: Ars Electronica
Electronic Culture--History, Theory, Practice; Hardback; Book; 90 Illustrations
458 pages
Published: September 1999
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262041766

For the past two decades the Austrian-based Ars Electronica, Festival for Art, Technology, and Society has played a pivotal role in the development of electronic media. Linking artistic practice and critical theory, the annual festival and symposium bring together scientists, philosophers, sociologists, and artists in an ongoing discourse on the effects of digital media on creativity--and on culture itself.Since Ars Electronica's inception, the evolution of the artistic, historical, and theoretical works presented has been documented in a series of publications that remain crucial to any understanding of media art. Drawing on the abundant and inventive resources of those publications and on Ars Electronica's archives, this anthology collects the essential works that form the coreAn anthology documenting the projects and writings of a group that helped lay the foundations for electronic culture and the new media. For the past two decades the Austrian-based Ars Electronica has played a pivotal role in the development of electronic media. Using Ars Electronica's archives as a resource, this text examines the effects of digital media on creativity, and on culture itself.