“In 1979, long before anyone started speaking about a ‘digital revolution,’ in the unlikely setting of the small industrial town of Linz in Upper Austria, close to the Iron Curtain, three men—the director of a television station, a musician, and a scientist, who also wrote science fiction—launched a visionary festival for art, technology and society, giving it the Latin name ‘Ars Electronica.’” From: Andreas J. Hirsch, Creating the Future — A Brief History of Ars Electronica 1979–2019, Ars Electronica, Linz / Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2019 “Creating the Future – A Brief History of Ars Electronica” follows the history of Ars Electronica from the pioneering days of its inception through the turbulent times at the advent of the digital revolution up […]
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