LifeScience Even if you can't make it to Linz this year, you can still take part in Ars Electronica 99, LifeScience, via a live RealVideo netcast from Linz to C3 Budapest. In the auditorium of C3 Budapest you can view the netcast projected in high resolution, and even contribute with questions and remarks to the LifeScience symposium held in Brucknerhaus, Linz. The live transmission is made by a high bandwidth direct ATM link between Linz and Budapest. |
A project of ENCART
(European Network of Cyber Arts) Ars Electronica Center,
Linz http://www.aec.at/ |
Programs in Budapest: |
The LifeScience Symposium turns attention to the new potential for dispute and the emerging zones of conflict at the interface of technology and society, focusing on the current scenarios of science and business revolving around the gene.The question "Will the Digital Revolution be followed by a Biological Revolution?" is the point of departure for theoretical and artistic elaborations. In a series of speeches and discussions, prominent experts will confront a set of highly controversial views on the complex of issues related to life science.
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6 p.m., September 4, 1999 | September 5 and 6, 1999 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. |
Bump into Each Other, interactive outdoors installation - opening. Budapest VI., Liszt Ferenc tér A tactile interface to counter the disembodiedness of network worlds: two wooden catwalks in Linz and Budapest, ready for the masses to stage. Every pressure exerted causes resistance that comes through on the other side. There is a knock from underneath, the slats rise – power transmission via network sensations on the move.Duration: 2 weeks, daily: 8:00-23:00 |
LifeScience Symposium Netcast from Brucknerhaus, Linz, to C3, Budapest, with videoconference with V2 Rotterdam, C3 Budapest, questions and answers between the locations Venue: C3 Center for
Culture and Communication, auditorium Budapest I., Országház
u. 9. |
September 7 and 8, 1999 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. | September 9, 1999 10.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. |
Live Science, remote
arts presentations from Linz (AEC), Budapest (C3), and Rotterdam (V2) |
ENCART – open discussion, feed-back circle about MULTICASTING, content transmission via broad-band applications
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Sunday, 5 September 1999 10.00 a.m.- 6.00 p.m.
Monday, 6 September 1999 10.00 a.m.- 6.00 p.m. |
September 7, 1999 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. Participants in
Budapest:
September 8, 1999 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. Remote presentations
from C3, Budapest:
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