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of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.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 Festival

Catalogue: TOTAL RECALL - The Evolution of Memory

At the center of Ars Electronica 2013 is one of science’s greatest secrets, and one of the greatest technical challenges: memory and its storage. What is memory, how is memory created, and how is it lost—in nature, in technology, in the future? Since time immemorial, each new generation has speculated about what the ensuing one will one day think about them. Yet which factors ultimately decide what and how we remember? What role does memory play for each of us, for our families, our society, or even for the human race as a whole? And what is memory, anyway? Total Recall sets out on a search for the perfect memory, asking brain researchers, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers about their approaches, latest insights and interpretations, and about their plans and visions for a future in which we will be able to store everything.

Publisher
Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker

Language of the document
English

Year
2013


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