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of Hannes Leopoldseder, one of the founders of Ars Electronica, which comprises a significant collection of digitized historical documents.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

At any time or place, we are capable of switching into telematic action, of reaching anyone and being accessed by all. With the help of our avatars, blogs, and taggings, we assume digital form and adopt more or less imaginative second identities. But it is not merely technology, information, and communication that have become omnipresent. To a much greater extent, we have: traceable at all times and anywhere via our cellular phone’s digital signature, what makes it possible to pinpoint our location to within a few meters; classifiable via the detailed and comprehensive personality profiles that we unwittingly leave behind, the traces of all our outings in digital domains. In this companion volume to the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival, artists, theoreticians, and experienced network-nomads elaborate on our everyday culture and these late-breaking phenomena that are being played out between angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest, with which we stage our public personae with digital media.

Publisher
Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker

Language of the document
English

Year
2007


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