Just back from Ars Electronica. It was many years i didn’t go there and i found it a little bit scaled down but interesting as usual.
A lot of professionals and a variety of projects and programs. The main exhibition is really well curated and i also remark also the Ecology of the techno mind exhibition, curated by Juij Krpan of the Kapelica Galley in Ljubljana.
Among the performance i appreciated PV868 of TeZ and Ten Thousands Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid by Domnitch&Gelfand.
About the conferences here some citations from the partecipants at the Symposium A New Cultural Economy, curated by Joichi Ito:
Joichi Ito
“the amateur is the next generation of consumers”
“software is a service not a product”
“the problem about artistic production shift from delivery to getting known”
James Boyle
“We don’t except openess to be useful, we’re scared by openess”
“it’s hard to imagine the benefit of open systems, but we’ve to, also if we don’t understand openess”
“the world will have open and closed systems, we’ve to understand where to apply one structure or the other”
David Weinberger
“the model of the thery of information of Shannon-Weaver is abstract and based on the specific metaphor of the battlefield, but not all human communication happens on a battlefield..”
“In this model noise is the enemy of truth”
“Netty truth: the web is really noisy, but in a network theory of truth the value in the noise”
“the truth is in the differences”
“Truthful network:
- linked
- persistent
- open to all
- open to everything
- sympathetic
- never done”
“the truth is in the sympathetic relations and differences of everyone”
