ARS ELECTRONICA 2004: Timeshift - The World in 25 Years

ARS ELECTRONICA 2004
Timeshift - The World in 25 Years

The 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Festival of Art, Technology and Society
"TIMESHIFT - The World in 25 Years" is the title of the 2004 festival; transformation, upheaval and
the future are its programmatic concepts. The point of departure is reflection upon the past 25 years;
the aim is to identify the developments that promise to be the driving forces in art, technology and
society over the next quarter century. The younger generation of media artists and theoreticians will
meet Ars Electronica's founding generation and, together with an audience of wide-ranging backgrounds
and diverse interests, confront the past and the future of phenomena at the interface of
art, technology and society.

Ars Electronica 2004: A New Format
Ars Electronica has gotten a bit of a makeover this year. From now on, the festival will begin on
Thursday and run until Tuesday; this makes it possible to intensively utilize an entire weekend, which
is now positioned right in the middle of the line-up of events. The Prix Ars Electronica Gala will move
from the ORF's studio to the impressive ambience of the Brucknerhaus' Main Concert Hall. And Ars
Electronica is adding a new venue-the Lentos Museum of Art, where the "Digital Avant-Garde"
anniversary exhibition will be on display.

Timeshift will manifest itself in various formats and an array of venues: at symposia and talks with
artists, in discussion forums and workshops, at exhibitions, installations and interventions in urban
spaces, as well as at performances and concerts. Special events and guest presentations will significantly
expand this year's festival program.

Detailed information at www.aec.at/timeshift

Ars Electronica 2004
Organization:
Ars Electronica Center Linz and ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Upper Austria Regional Studio
Co-organizers: Brucknerhaus Linz, O.K - Center for Contemporary Art, Kunstuniversitat Linz
Concept & Artistic Direction: Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schoepf

Contact:
Ars Electronica Center
Hauptstrasse 2
4040 Linz, Austria
[email protected]
www.aec.at/timeshift

Sponsors of Ars Electronica 2004 and Prix Ars Electronica 2004:
City of Linz, Province of Upper Austria, Republic of Austria

SAP AG, Telekom Austria, voestalpine
Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Quelle AG, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Oesterreichische Brauunion, FESTO, Mitsubishi Electric, Sony DADC, Siemens AG, KLM, Spring

Additional support provided by Casinos Austria, Poestlingberg Schloessl, OKS Oesterreichischer Kulturservice, Lexmark, 3com