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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of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.
Catalogue: SIMPLICITY - the art of complexity
SIMPLICITY—the pipedream of a society dominated by technical revolutions, global networks and inundations of information from mass media? The mantra of a new generation of user-centered information designers? Dogma of technophobic naysayers to progress? Or merely the—as yet unfulfilled—promise of IT companies? There has been hardly a concept of late that has been laid claim to in so many different quarters, and none that delivers such a trenchant reading of the vital signs of our times. So then: just how are we to cope with the increasing degree of complexity in the reality we inhabit? How can we tap and utilize the potential of global communication and realtime-access to information and ideas, to people and markets in an efficient as well as responsible way? How can we develop flexible, adaptable systems, devices and programs that are responsive to our strengths and intuitive capabilities, to support our activities in complex contexts? Which options and features could we possibly do without? And which would we be only too glad to dispense with? SIMPLICITY is not the opposite of complexity; rather, it is its complementary key, the formula that permits us to access and utilize the polyvalencies of virtual realities and global knowledge networks.
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SIMPLICITY—the art of complexity | John Maeda |
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1. Gesetz: Reduzieren | John Maeda |
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Sicherheit als oberstes Ziel - Das Nonplusultra der Einfachheit | John Maeda / Paola Antonelli |
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Weniger ist zunehmend mehr | Sam Hecht |
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Ein Laptop pro Kind | Walter Bender |
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Wenn die Neuen Medien nicht mehr neu sind und jeder etwas im Internet macht | Olga Goriunova |
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Meine Wunderkammer | Jason Kottke |
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Simplexity - Die neue effiziente Klugheit | Peter Wippermann |
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Einfachheit des Raums im Zeitalter der Komplexität | Gary Chang |
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Sehnsucht nach Einfachheit | Wolfgang Blau |
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Re-Defining Public Service | Veronika Leiner / Radio FRO / Alexander Baratsits |
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Vegetable Weapons | Tsuyoshi Ozawa |
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Going to the Country | |
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John Maeda’s Fundamental Idea | Paola Antonelli |
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Einige Gedanken zu John Maeda | Golan Levin |
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Nature | John Maeda |
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Alle Sinne stimulieren | Toshio Iwai |
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Morphovision – Verzerrtes Haus | Toshio Iwai / NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories |
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Kunst wird Technologie | Gerhard Blechinger |
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Innovation ist kein Zufall | Bernd Wiemann |
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Song fuer C | M+M |
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As if we were alone! | empfangshalle |
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Mobile Assassins | Jenny Chowdhury / Ran Tao |
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The Cell Atlantic CellBooth | Jenny Chowdhury |
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Silver Cell | aram Bartholl |
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REGRETS Linz | Jane Mulfinger / Graham Budgett |
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Sledgehammer Keyboard | Taylor Hokanson |
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maschine – mensch | Tobias Zucali / Christopher Rhomberg |
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Wish Visuals - You Pick It, We Play It | Sonja Meller |
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Moon Ride | Assocreation |
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nomadix – interaction on the move! | Hyperwerk |
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Random Screen | aram Bartholl |
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Papierpixel | aram Bartholl |
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The PingPongPixel | Marenka Deenstra / Jonathan den Breejen |
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CabBoots | Martin Frey |
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SemaSpace | Gerhard Dirmoser / Dietmar Offenhuber |
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from dust till dawn | Dietmar Offenhuber / Markus Decker |
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curious implantation | Nicole Knauer |
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Make It Simple | David Cuartielles |
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electrolobby – Make It Simple | David Cuartielles |
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Produktive Interferenzen aus den Grenzbereichen der Medienkunst | Karin Ohlenschläger / Luis Rico |
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The Beta Lounge | Philip Dean |
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Tangible, Audible, Playable, Wearable | Laurent Mignonneau / Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau |
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When Cybernetics meets Aesthetics | Claus Pias / Dieter Daniels |
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The Upgrade! International | |
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Music for the Eyes | Dennis Russell Davies |
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When Music and Computer Programs Grow Together | Maki Namekawa |
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Klangpark 2006 - Musik für eine Landschaft | |
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Musikvisualisierung – das Zusammenspiel von Farbe und Ton | Susanne Scheel |
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Vom Treiben der Flächen, Töne, Pixel und Farben | Ars Electronica Futurelab |
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Vision Mahler | Johannes Deutsch |
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Die Visualisierung von Musik | Wolfgang Winkler |
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Die Visualisierung von Le Sacre du Printemps | Ars Electronica Futurelab |
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Musik – Tanz – Raum | Klaus Obermaier / Dieter Daniels / Andreas Broeckmann |
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Pixelspaces 2006: Goblin City | Ars Electronica Futurelab |
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WikiMap | Ars Electronica Futurelab |
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Theater und Neue Technologien | Ars Electronica Futurelab |
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Ars Electronica Animation Festival | Dietmar Offenhuber / Christine Schöpf |
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Raumeroberungen: Do It Yourself! | nicoletta blacher |
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MOVE | Andrew Hieronymi |
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Digital Marionette | Corebounce Art Collective |
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The Sancho Plan | The Sancho Plan |
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Kobito – Virtual Brownies | Takafumi Aoki |
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Thermoesthesia | PRESTO / JST / Kumiko Kushiyama |
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The Scalable City | Sheldon Brown |
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The Manual Input Station | Zachary Lieberman / Tmema / Golan Levin |
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Smoke Tree | John Gerrard |
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Airacuda | Festo AG & Co. KG |