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of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.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: Volume 2 - Virtual Worlds

"In the beginning was not the word, in the beginning were the numbers" Bernhard Mitterauer The attempt to understand the world with the help of numbers has a long tradition. Ars Electronica '90 chose Kepler's numeric cosmology as a point of departure and built a bridge to the latest digital dreams by applying mathematical methods of composition, adaptations of fractal theory, digitalization of sound images, intermedial performing... During various symposia, topics such as "Neural Networks and Expert Systems", "Virtual Worlds, Artificial Realities", "Hypermatons - Cyberpunks", "Cyberspace -Virtual Visions" were discussed in an international setting.

Producer/Organizer
Brucknerhaus, Ars Electronica

Publisher
Gottfried Hattinger, Peter Weibel

Language of the document
German

Year
1990

Tags
Ars Electronica, Festivalkatalog, art, technology, society, digital art


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