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of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.

Ars Electronica Festival

Catalogue: repair - ready to pull the lifeline

There’s no time left for warnings. We’re in it up to our necks right now—in the climate crisis, surveillance society, the bankruptcy of the financial sector … We’ve passed the points of no return. The dramatic consequences are looming on the horizon today. And there’s no excuse for our lethargy since we already possess ideas, tools and techniques to initiate a change of course. We just have to take action! Roll up our sleeves and get to work on a job that can no longer be avoided. We have to mend our ways and get things moving in the right direction. In this spirit, the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology, and Society aims to find ways out of the predicament we’re in by turning to the pioneers of our age—to artists, designers, engineers and scientists. These people aren’t just adventurers who’ve set sail for strange and distant shores; they’re visionaries who are bringing expertise as well as a great deal of creativity and idealism to bear in their work on an alternative future. This catalog documents the diverse approaches taken by REPAIR, the theme of a festival designed to pursue the paths opened up by these trailblazers and to show why it’s imperative for us to follow their lead.

Publisher
Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker

Language of the document
German

Year
2010


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