Publications

The Print Archive of Ars Electronica documents publications from 1979 onwards in the fields of Cyber Arts/Prix, Festival and special publications, including audiovisual supplements, museum brochures, updates, and other special editions. All texts and articles are fully searchable and readable. Festival catalogues are available as PDFs in their original layout from 2000 onwards; for earlier years, only the OCR text is preserved, but these are also readable. CyberArts catalogues are complete PDFs, while catalogues prior to 2005 were physically digitized, as the original print data no longer exists.

Since 2024, the archive also contains the estate of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.

Ars Electronica Center

Catalogue: Free Sound

From 1987 onwards, the Brucknerhaus Linz has chosen the main topics for Ars Electronica to focus on - in 1987, this was "Free Sound" in its many different varieties comprising sound-scenes, sound-bodies and sound-images, demonstrating sound-power and arranged as a sound-park with sound-sculptures around the Brucknerhaus where also the Europe Video Stage was established. In 1987, the Autrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF organized the first "Prix Ars Electronica", the international computer art competition endowed with the highest prize-money - namely one million Austrian schillings. The ORF also chose "Art and Artificial Intelligence" as a general topic for the Ars Electronica Days of Computer Culture.

Publisher
LIVA

Language of the document
German

Year
1987

Tags
Ars Electronica, Festival catalog, art, technology, society


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